DONETSK OBLAST, Ukraine — “Myrik,” as his callsign goes, looks about as good as one can expect in his situation. Tired but intact, the Ukrainian commander puffs intently on a cigarette as he takes in his first break in nearly three months. “We were on the zero line almost the entire time,” he says. “Ninety […]
Should every flawed Denzel Washington movie be reborn as a limited series? The question sounds absurd until one considers the streaming services’ appetite for new material. Get me Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria on the phone right now, and I will sell her an eight-episode reimagining of Glory, the 1989 Civil War drama featuring […]
Andy Serkis, the director of Angel Studios’s new Animal Farm adaptation, practically admits that it’s about whatever kind of authoritarianism you want it to be. “The debate is the thing,” he told the crowd at an early screening of the film in Washington, D.C. “Ideally, it would be parents listening or the grandparents listening to […]
The incontrovertible fact that legacy movie studios love making movies about their kindred spirits in the legacy media has survived even the collapse of the legacy media. Gone are the days when newspaper movies had something of the spark and spunk of His Girl Friday, Deadline — U.S.A., or — my personal, albeit arcane, favorite — the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) introduced legislation on Friday to make Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged shooter who targeted President Donald Trump at last month’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, eligible for the death penalty. The Protect the Presidency Act would increase the possible punishment for failed assassination attempts on a president to match […]
Susie Wiles “was going to be an English teacher” and, in her own words, became one of the most powerful women in the world by “happenstance.” Wiles, the first-ever female White House chief of staff, has one of the lowest public profiles within President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. But she was the center of attention at […]
President Donald Trump is showing little sign of becoming a lame duck inside the Republican Party, even as the GOP braces for difficult midterm elections. That dynamic was on full display this week after five Indiana Republican state senators lost primaries to Trump-backed challengers. The lawmakers were targeted for bucking Trump’s push for mid-decade redistricting aimed at […]
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that cuts to hundreds of humanities grants ordered by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency were predicated on “blatant” discrimination and were unconstitutional. DOGE was initially headed by former Trump administration adviser Elon Musk. U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Colleen McMahon said the termination […]
President Donald Trump inspected the progress on the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday evening. In doing so, the presidential motorcade drove across the drained pool’s surface to inspect the new “American flag blue” protective coating being installed. Afterward, the president exited his vehicle and answered questions from the media. He was […]
An undisclosed number of Supreme Court justices are reportedly prepared to testify before Congress later this month about their budget request for the first time since 2019. A few justices will testify in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 20, sources told Punchbowl News on Thursday. As of now, the committee’s calendar does […]
