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Kim Kardashian, the reality TV star and business mogul, has condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and defended immigrant communities in her hometown of Los Angeles. "There HAS to be a BETTER way," the 44-year-old wrote in a post to her Instagram story. Newsweek has reached out to a representative for Kardashian outside of regular working hours via email for comment.

Hollywood “super connector” Michael Kives celebrated his 44th birthday on Saturday night in Los Angeles with guests including Bill and Hillary Clinton, David Geffen, Barry Diller, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson — and that was just at one table, we hear. Also at that starry table, sources said, were producers Jason Blum and Brad Falchuk, Blum’s screenwriter wife, Lauren Schuker, fashion designer Misha Nonoo and her oil heir hubby, Mikey Hess, celebrity stylist Jamie Mizrahi and her investor husband, Nico Mizrahi, and Karlie Kloss and Josh Kushner. VIPs mixing at the black-tie party also included Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, celeb...

President Donald Trump on Thursday appointed Alice Marie Johnson, a woman he pardoned during his first term, as "pardon czar." The announcement came during a Black History Month event at the White House. The "pardon czar" will be responsible for making recommendations about who should be granted clemency. Johnson was convicted of nonviolent drug trafficking in Memphis, Tennessee, and after serving 21 years, her life sentence was commuted by Trump. Reality television star Kim Kardashian West met with Trump at the White House a week prior to her release to discuss the great-grandmother's case. While Johnson claims she never "touched,...

Fury against ‘wasteful, entitled’ celebrities grew last night as stars including Kim Kardashian, were accused of squandering vital water resources that could have been used to save homes. Strict water-conserving measures have been in place since 2022, with ‘ordinary’ residents restricted to watering their gardens twice a week for eight minutes at a time. Ms Kardashian, who lives in a $60 million house in The Oaks – an exclusive gated community near the epicentre of one of this week’s fires – was fined by city authorities that year for using 232,000 gallons of water more than her allocation. Other celebrities...

A luxury grocery store frequented by wealthy Californians has been mercilessly mocked online for charging ludicrous prices for the most basic, everyday items. Erewhon Market has eight locations in Los Angeles' most affluent neighborhoods, all with a focus on locally sourced, vegan and organic food catering to niche diets. Products on its shelves include $20 raw milk, a $26 bottle of 'oxygenated' water and hot sauce costing as much as $40. It's also known for selling upmarket prepared foods, like its popular buffalo cauliflower and collard green wrap, which sells for $15.95. The premium grocery store started in Boston in...

Kim Kardashian schooled Hillary Clinton in a test of legal knowledge in an episode of Clinton’s upcoming Apple TV+ documentary series, according to a recent interview with People magazine. The former secretary of state went toe-to-toe with Kardashian, the reality TV star and criminal justice reform advocate, in a pop quiz on criminal law issues like use of deadly force and self-defense. Kardashian, who last year passed the baby bar exam after completing her first year in a law apprenticeship program, beat the Yale Law graduate 11-4. Clinton described the loss as "heartbreaking," in the interview with People. The contest...

Colorado district attorneys warned the governor that he set a "troubling precedent" when he intervened in the Rogel Aguilera-Mederos case. District attorneys warned Gov. Jared Polis that he created “a troubling precedent” in commuting Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ prison sentence while the case was still pending, saying the act weakened public trust in the law. In a letter to Polis, District Attorneys Michael Dougherty and Daniel Rubenstein — a Democrat and a Republican, respectively — agreed that the 110-year sentence in the deadly interstate crash “was too severe.” But they stressed that by commuting the sentence to 10 years before a judge...

Meghan McCain told her co-hosts Friday on ABC’s “TheView” that Dr. Anthony Fauci sought fame like “a Kardashian.” Joy Behar said, “Republicans like Rand Paul are saying I told you so over the emails. What is he saying that he is right about, Rand Paul?”McCain said, “I don’t think people that are uncomfortable with celebrity or don’t want to be a celebrity, pose on the cover of InStyle Magazine in fashion spreads and on the cover of People Magazine. I’m sorry but part of the criticism going forward is he just wanted to be a scientist, he clearly wanted to...

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are over. Multiple sources tell Page Six that “divorce is imminent” for the Hollywood couple, with Kardashian hiring divorce attorney to the stars, Laura Wasser. “They are keeping it low-key but they are done,” says a source. “Kim has hired Laura Wasser and they are in settlement talks.” Kim, 40, hasn’t been seen wearing her wedding ring, and Kanye, 43, remained at his $14 million Wyoming ranch over the holidays instead of spending it with the Kardashian klan, who drew criticism for their extravagant celebrations. “Kim got Kanye to go up there [Wyoming] so they...

Despite attempts by David Letterman to get her to bash President Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian reportedly declined to do so and instead expressed gratitude for the administration’s implementation of criminal justice sentencing reform. Trump foe Letterman interviewed Kardashian, the spouse of presidential candidate Kanye West, on a wide range of topics in the first episode of his Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, which drops on October 21. The content of the show generally consists of liberal Letterman pandering to the egos of various celebrities. Kardashian famously met with Trump in the White House Oval Office in May...

Alas, reality TV juggernaut “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” will end before fans can see Kim Kardashian’s law school graduation, Kanye West’s next prospective presidential run and/or the birth or marriage of another Kardashian-Jenner. Star-turned-beauty mogul Kardashian announced Tuesday that her family’s long-running E! reality series will air its final season in early 2021. The series’ penultimate season, its 19th, premieres Sept. 17 and will be followed by its final season in 2021. “It is with heavy hearts that we’ve made the difficult decision as a family to say goodbye to Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” she wrote to fans...

Shares of Coty plummeted 13 percent on Friday after Forbes magazine kicked Kylie Jenner off it's billionaire's list and accused her of 'inflating the value of her cosmetics business for years.' Forbes published an article based on an examination of financial filings after the beauty mogul sold a majority share in her cosmetics company. Jenner sold a 51 percent stake in her Kylie Cosmetics brand to beauty giant Coty in January for $600 million in a deal that valued the company at $1.2 billion.

Kylie Jenner has been hit by extraordinary claims that she is not a billionaire. Forbes have accused the family of creating a 'web of lies' and say Kylie, 22, has inflated the size of her business and success. The publication accuses her of 'lying about company figures and forging tax returns' to reach the billionaire status.

President Donald Trump aired a campaign ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday featuring Alice Johnson, whose life sentence for nonviolent drug offenses was commuted by Trump in June 2018. In the ad, Trump touted his criminal justice reform record and featured footage from the emotional moments when Johnson was released from prison and reunited with her family.

On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide, which saw approximately 1.5 million Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Following the 405-11 vote, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, 39 — who has proudly embraced her Armenian heritage — praised the government for its decision in a post on her Instagram. “Yesterday was such a huge victory for the Armenian people when the US House Of Representatives acknowledged the Armenian Genocide!” Kim’s ties to Armenia has been especially evident as of late. Earlier this month, her family traveled to...

Another country, another president for Kim Kardashian West to spend time with. Earlier this year, Kim famously spoke at the White House alongside U.S. President Donald Trump...Kim and Trump also worked together to pass the First Step Act, a significant reform to the criminal justice program in the U.S. The mother of four baptized her three youngest children — Psalm, 4 months, Chicago, 20 months, and Saint, 3½ — on Monday morning at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Vagharshapat, Armenia. “Etchmiadzin Cathedral is the mother church of the Armenian Apostolic Church.”

See Kim Kardashian West's full interview on "The View" Friday, Sept. 13. Kim Kardashian West says she wasn't concerned about her "reputation" when she decided to work with President Donald Trump on criminal justice reform because her "issues have always been more about the people." In an interview airing Friday, Sept. 13, on “The View,” the reality show star-turned-activist shared her thoughts about criticism she has received — and might continue to receive — for working with Trump to free Alice Marie Johnson from prison and bipartisanship with him on prison reform. "I definitely was aware [of the potential criticism],...

Still don't think deepfakes will be a problem? The tech is getting so good it's scary. Can you tell the difference in these videos between the fake and the real thing? A horrible version of Trump went viral in Belgium and caused mass outrage. So what happens when the tech is spot on? https://youtu.be/NWhyTk7cZdI

The first couple of reality TV has named their child, wait for it. Psalm West! Psalm was born through a surrogate. He is the second child that Kim and Kanye have had through surrogacy. Kanye had shared the image of their newborn baby sleeping in the cot and nicely tucked and he had written, "Beautiful Mother's day. With the arrival of our fourth child. We are blessed beyond measure. We have everything we need."

She’s keeping up with the Kardashians — and keeping it real, too. Kim’s look was characteristically revealing, with only a few bands of black fabric covering the whole of her gleaming chest and torso. “Sometimes it’s about accepting budgetary constraints…,”