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A federal judge ruled against one of the Trump administration’s efforts to defund NPR.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) had slashed a $36 million contract with NPR after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at cutting funding to the news outlet. After a judge’s ruling, the CPB is renewing the contract after a judge ruled in NPR’s favor, according to the network.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (left), President Donald Trump (right) ******************************************************************** President Trump on Tuesday ended the career of a leftist reporter who attacked him and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, and attempted to tie him to the Epstein sex trafficking ring. ABC’s Mary Bruce started early in the press conference, accusing Trump of a “conflict of interest” with his family business in Saudi Arabia, then took aim at the Crown Prince, stating that Americans “are furious that you are here in the Oval Office” over the killing of a journalist under his rule. Per...

Melissa Gilbert has a new perspective about her “Little House on the Prairie” experience. While clapping back at Megyn Kelly’s recent comments about late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the actress, now 61, reflected on the 8-year age difference between herself and Dean Butler, who played her on-screen love interest in the NBC series. “So, I debated posting this but, I feel compelled to share. After seeing many women’s posts with the hashtags #iwasfifteen #imfifteen #iwasachild, I decided to google search myself at that age and see what came up,” Gilbert wrote on Instagram on Saturday, alongside photos of her...

Rep. Brad Sherman blamed Elon Musk’s X algorithm for serving him saucy pictures amid a potential scandal involving him scrolling through softcore pornography in public. The 71-year-old California Democrat was photographed looking at pictures of lingerie-clad girls on his tablet while on a flight. The pictures of Sherman were posted to X by the Dear White Staffers account, an account made of a “group of Capitol Hill staffers working to expose poor working conditions.” The images were later reposted by Donald Trump Jr.

Megyn Kelly faced backlash during the cold open of Saturday Night Live, as she appeared to defend late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's behavior by implying that he preferred the “barely legal type” and was not a pedophile. After the Trump impersonator addressed another inquiry concerning his association with Epstein, he justified his stance and referenced Kelly's comments: “I thought Megyn Kelly made a terrific point this week, she said Epstein's not a pedophile.” “Terrific thing to just say out of nowhere. Great Job Megyn, we love Megyn, they should put her back on TV. Legalize Megyn!” The audience present in...

Trump’s lawsuit over the BBC’s doctored Jan. 6 clip now threatens to turn the broadcaster’s license-fee crisis into a full-blown reckoning over trust, bias, and billions.It costs £174.50 a year to obtain a BBC license for a color TV. Technological atavists who are bargain-hunting can snag a license for a black and white TV for only £58.50 per year. For the year ending March 2025, the license fee raised £3.8 billion, 65 percent of the Beeb’s total income.There is growing resentment about the fee. “Some people ask,” said one news report, “why they should be forced to pay for the...

"The Lost Bus" is a film directed by Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, United 93, most of the Jason Bourne films) and tells the true story of school bus driver Kevin McKay (played by Matthew McConaughey) who rogered up to go pick up a load of kids to be evacuated from a local school during the devastating 2018 Paradise Fire, the worst in California's history.One of those films that definitely deserved a better reception than a quick, limited theatrical release only to get dumped on Apple TV.Seriously, one of the best, most gripping movies I've seen in a long time and...

Irate Trump supporters have slammed Saturday Night Live for its brazen skit mocking the president's response to being named in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Saturday night's cold open sketch sparked outrage among conservative critics for depicting Donald Trump inadvertently admitting to a damning relationship with the disgraced sex trafficker. 'You people are sick!' one X user reacted to the five-minute satirical segment. 'Hope [Trump] sues the hell out of them,' another chimed in. 'SNL makes fun of Trump. Water is wet. Predictable and boring,' one critic bluntly called out the show. Set at a press conference, Trump, played by James...

The British actress Tilly Norwood began appearing in viral videos and short films across the internet earlier this year. She is young, fresh-faced, with girl-next-door vibes. She will be signed by a major talent agency soon. But Tilly Norwood is not real. She is an artificial-intelligence synthetic. She is not in the real world, not embodied. She is not a person or an actress. She is a digital Frankenstein’s monster of video software and ChatGPT. Tilly was created by Particle6 Productions, an AI studio founded by Dutch comedian and actress Eline Van der Velden. Tilly is her project. Van der...

One of my favorite things to do here at JoBlo is to highlight obscure movies that deserve a lot more love. One of the best movies I’ve ever covered is Peter Hyams’ 1981 movie Outland. A kind of quasi sci-fi remake of High Noon set on Jupiter’s Moon, IO, it stars Sean Connery as a Marshal set to enforce law on a mining colony who finds himself marked for death by the company administering the moon when he discovers a conspiracy. They hire gunmen to take him out, and with no one on the moon willing to help him, he...

Police and federal agents clashed with far-left protestors outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, on Friday. Several protestors were arrested after chaos erupted outside the Broadview facility. The protestors arrived at the Broadview facility on Friday after a radical Biden judge ordered the release of 13 detainees. 21 protestors were arrested. According to Fox 32, two police officers were injured during the violent protest. A CBS reporter claimed protestors were holding offensive signs with curse words. “But there are some signs here that we cannot show on TV because they have curse words,” a CBS reporter said....

Disney is facing substantial financial losses as its carriage dispute with YouTube TV extends into its thirteenth day, leaving millions of viewers without access to ABC, ESPN, and related networks. A Wall Street analysis released this week estimated that the impasse is costing Disney tens of millions of dollars each week. Trump's Sovereign Wealth Fund: What Could It Mean For Your Money? YouTube TV, one of the largest streaming cable replacements in the U.S., dropped Disney-owned channels earlier this month after the companies failed to reach a distribution agreement. The blackout, which began nearly two weeks ago, affects ABC, ESPN,...

In a bizarre and baseless outburst, New Mexico Democrat Rep. Melanie Stansbury is accusing the White House of “covering up” President Donald Trump’s supposed ties to Jeffrey Epstein — even though no credible evidence has ever linked Trump to Epstein’s criminal acts, and years of investigations under Democrat-led agencies have produced nothing to the contrary. Appearing on TMZ Live on Wednesday, Stansbury claimed a newly released batch of Epstein-related emails proved “the White House is trying to cover up Donald Trump’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.” She pointed to one message, allegedly sent to Ghislaine Maxwell, ... From that vague and...

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AI has become inescapable these days, with every app, search engine, and internet browser overloading us with pop-ups of why their new AI enhancement/assistant/plagiarism machine is something we just can't live without. In reality, AI is being shoved down all of our throats because a bunch of billionaire weirdos invested an insane amount of money into it and desperately need to convince us that they didn't bet on a lemon....The force-feeding of AI is an obnoxious intrusion at best, and giving people AI-induced psychosis at worst....Sam Rockwell plays Man From the Future, a man, well, claiming to be from the...

Never mind preserving a cultural treasure like the story of Robin Hood. Never mind entertaining the audience by letting it suspend disbelief. Where moonbats have control, all other objectives are subordinated to the liberal agenda. This prominently includes the progressive eradication of Europeans from not only the future but the past: video on link That there were virtually no blacks in Britain until liberals recently started importing them is a fact currently undergoing erasure.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Showgirls, Vanessa Berkley’s big-screen debut that has gone from unmitigated disaster to cult camp classic. Paul Verhoeven’s risqué provocation starred Berkley as Nomi Malone, a Vegas transplant with nothing in her pocket but dreams of dancing and a wild drive to achieve them. The NC-17 film was roundly panned upon release, mocked across late night and in the press, and bombed hard at the box office. Berkley, who had emerged years earlier as a teen TV star on Saved by the Bell, faced critics’ unrelenting wrath and was promptly dropped by her team...

Some lucky millionaire will be able to own a key piece of the Wicked Witch of the West — for good. That’s because the iconic hat worn by Margaret Hamilton in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz is going up for auction on Dec. 9. Offered by Heritage Auctions — which last year sold a pair of ruby slippers from the film for $28 million — that hat comes up for sale just as Wicked: For Good, which brings to an end a revisionist telling of the witch’s backstory (played by Cynthia Erivo in the Wicked films), hits theaters ahead of...

Heartbroken Jimmy Kimmel has announced the death of his childhood friend and Jimmy Kimmel Live! bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III. Writing on Instagram, Kimmel shared: 'Early this morning, we lost a great friend, father, son, musician and man, my longtime bandleader Cleto Escobedo III.' 'To say that we are heartbroken is an understatement. Cleto and I have been inseparable since I was nine years old,' the late night host said in a statement. 'The fact that we got to work together every day is a dream neither of us could ever have imagined would come true,' Kimmel added. 'Cherish your friends...

If you come for Donald J. Trump, you better not miss.That’s a lesson the BBC just learned the hard way.The Beeb went after Trump, slurring him with vicious lies.It used its flagship current-affairs show to defame him as a fascistic monster who stirred up violence at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.And the result of these outrageous libels has been not the fall of Trump, but the fall of the BBC.The Beeb thought it could drag down the leader of the free world — but ended up dragging its own reputation into the gutter, burying itself in its own...