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Via Business Insider and NBC comes this look at how they change sets so quickly in between skits on Saturday Night Live. This is how they went from the Trump and Putin based cold open to the monologue, all in about 2 and a half minutes.
President-elect Donald Trump has re-opened the debate over nuclear proliferation, calling for the United States to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability" until the rest of the world "comes to its senses" regarding nuclear weapons. His comments Thursday on Twitter came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said strengthening his country's nuclear capabilities should be a chief military objective in the coming year.
A sharp drop in cable news ratings following a presidential election is as inevitable as snow in Buffalo. Yet in the Age of Trump, so far Fox News Channel is defying that trend.
According to Rachael Bade , even ultra-conservative Republicans are afraid to challenge our president-elect for fear of reprisal. It's true that during the campaign, Trump was known for brow-beating anyone in the GOP who spoke out against him.
The founder of a pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook site is defending her decision to write a book after attracting widespread criticism from fellow group members. Libby Chamberlain has a deal with Flatiron Books for a compilation based on postings on Pantsuit Nation, a private site on which members share personal stories about sexism and other kinds of intolerance.
Donald Trump's tagline on The Apprentice , the NBC reality show that helped maintain the real estate magnate's profile as he entered the political arena, was a natural fit. It was the sort of thing that sounded authentic coming from Trump.
Director/creator David Lynch returns as FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole and eats a donut - and that's all - in a new teaser for the Showtime reboot of Twin Peaks coming this year. The most recent teaser featured a bunch of returning cast members talking about their excitement at being involved with the show again.
Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend to reprise his role as Donald Trump, taking jabs at the president-elect's relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, his cabinet picks, his misspelled tweets, and the refusal by some musicians to perform at his inauguration. But also notable about the episode is the return of cast member Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton in a sketch later in the show, inspired by the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually .
On Dec. 18, 1916, during World War I, the 10-month Battle of Verdun ended with French troops succeeding in repulsing a major German offensive. In 1863, in a speech to the Prussian Parliament, Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck declared, "Politics is not an exact science."
Ivanka Trump visits with women members of Congress at the Republican National Committee headquarters in September to promote her father's proposals on child care. She was a key player in her father's winning campaign, and people are closely watching the next moves by president-elect Donald Trump's 35-year-old daughter.
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First lady Michelle Obama 'winks' and gestures to guests after after speaking following the screening for the movie 'Hidden Figures,' Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. less First lady Michelle Obama 'winks' and gestures to guests after after speaking following the screening for the movie 'Hidden Figures,' Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower ... more WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama says the White House needs a "grown-up" and the nation will come to appreciate President Barack Obama.
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Team Hillary at the start of 2016 vs. Team Hillary at the end: Glum Clinton hosts holiday party for fundraisers at the Plaza - while once beaming celebrity donors, like Anna Wintour, dodge the cameras New photos show Voice star Christina Grimmie's deranged killer at her Orlando concert moments before he shot her dead - and the foil-covered bedroom where he plotted her murder Obama vows to retaliate against Russia over hacking scandal as White House insider claims he ignored the issue during the election because he thought Clinton would win 'Frail and thin Shelly Miscavige has been spotted twice near Scientology compound' after not being seen publicly for nearly 10 years 60-year-old daughter of famed 60 Minutes broadcaster Harry Reasoner commits suicide in the parking garage of a Connecticut hospital Pictured together for the first time: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle go to the theater in ... (more)
"I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action." "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action," Obama said in an interview with NPR, to be broadcast Friday .
US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday again rejected the CIA's conclusion that Russia manipulated the US election, as the hacking scandal expanded into a hefty foreign policy challenge just five weeks before he takes office. Even as NBC News reported that US intelligence has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a direct hand in the hacking plot, Trump took to Twitter to dismiss the issue, which has been roiling since before he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton on November 8. "If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House waite [sic] so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?" he tweeted.
In this June 15, 2012, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson shake hands at a signing ceremony of an agreement between state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft and ExxonMobil at the Black Sea port of Tuapse, southern Russia.
The Sundance Film Festival will open in January with a new climate-change movie from Al Gore - and the timing, unfortunately, could not be better. Paramount Pictures and Participant Media announced on Saturday that the follow-up to the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth - in which film-maker Davis Guggenheim documented Gore's travelling slideshow on global warming - will follow the former vice-president as he travels around the world exploring advances and challenges in the fight against climate change.
US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the notion that Israel is entering an "anti-American bloc" in a high-stakes interview Sunday night with Lesley Stahl of CBS's 60 Minutes : Lesley Stahl: "You have a friendship with Mr. Putin, and a friendship with China.