A Hollywood CEO Tried to Kill This Movie. Now It’s His Latest Humiliation.
His plan to bury the film blew up in his face like a stick of dynamite.
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Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of “La Junta” Oversight
Juan Carlos Dávila reports from Puerto Rico as the island grapples with a severe water crisis. A record-breaking drought has led to severe shortages and a system of water rationing that residents say could have been prevented by better infrastructure maintenance.
U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don’t Know Under Secretive “Third Country” Deal
As part of its mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration is secretly deporting immigrants to countries that they have no ties to. CNN correspondent Isobel Yeung recently traveled to the Central African Republic, which in recent months has accepted dozens of immigrants who had previously been granted deportation protections because they risk facing torture in their home countries. Despite the fact that the State Department warns U.S.
The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves
The U.S. has struck a deal to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves, nine months after the U.S. military abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a raid on Caracas and two months after The New York Times revealed that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become the de facto viceroy of Venezuela, effectively controlling Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government.
Money Talks: In the Market for a T. rex Skull?
A look at the growing industry of buying and selling dinosaur fossils.
Trump Even Managed to Piss Off Canada
The U.S.-Canada trade talks fell spectacularly apart after Donald Trump made wild demands of our neighbors to the north.
The Big AI Questions Episode
We ask an A.I. consultant all our burning questions, like “Is China winning the A.I.
The Hottest Restaurant Chain in America Has a Pitch Very Different From Others. People Are Absolutely Obsessed.
People will fly 16 hours to try it—and leave true converts.
RFK Jr.’s Health Department leads Trump’s push to add politicals to the federal workforce
Political roles are way up. Career staffing is way down, despite a push to hire after last year’s downsizing.
Shapiro won’t say who died of measles. RFK Jr. is exploiting it.
The Health secretary suggested the Pennsylvania governor is hiding something about the deaths’ cause. Shapiro says he can’t say more.
2 unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
The U.S. has reported more than 2,700 measles cases this year, the highest annual count since 1991.
‘The MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine,’ Mehmet Oz says
The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was asked three times to clarify claims made by President Donald Trump earlier this month.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Will Kevin Warsh Squander a Huge Opportunity?
The new Fed chair will have the spotlight at the central bank’s high-profile conference in Jackson Hole. He should use it.
Vance asks Mainers to vote Republican — as Trump ups the trade war with Canada
Vice President JD Vance’s visit marked his second to Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in four months.
Hegseth’s Pentagon Lurches off the Rails
Making Pete Hegseth the secretary of defense was always a huge gamble. A television host with little background in national-security or defense affairs, who topped out as a major in the National Guard, he was nominated based on the same qualification shared by most of Donald Trump’s other appointees: loyalty. And now the price of that gamble is evident.
Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot
During a White House meeting last week, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll brought his concerns about the future of the Army under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directly to President Trump—a sign of how far tensions between the two Pentagon leaders had escalated, and of the dysfunction inside the building, four people familiar with the conversation told us.
Trump’s Economy Goes to the Polls
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Midterm elections are almost always referendums on the policies of the party in power; President Trump is hoping that Republicans steer into the skid.
Trump’s Hatred of Free Speech Is Intensifying
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Desensitization is one of Donald Trump’s most powerful tools: Through repetition, he acclimates Americans to troubling and dangerous ideas. Occasionally, though, his statements and actions are so outrageous that they can still provide a shock.
White House strikes new drug-pricing deals
The Trump administration is touting deals with nine drugmakers ahead of the midterm elections.
The Women Obsessed With Lindsay Clancy
Photographs by Alexandra Howland
Updated at 7:35 p.m. ET on August 31, 2026
On one of the final days of the trial, dozens of women streamed into the back of a Plymouth, Massachusetts, courtroom, filling two long rows of wooden benches. They stood and watched the judge and jury take their seats.
Adults Everywhere Are Suddenly Trying to Get Their Hands on a 30-Year-Old Children’s Game
It’s inspired robberies, counterfeits, and multimillion-dollar sales.
Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with “9 to 5”
Tributes continue to pour in for Dolly Parton after the iconic country singer, actor and philanthropist’s death on August 25 at age 80. Her former co-star Jane Fonda tells Democracy Now! how they made the classic workplace comedy 9 to 5, for which Parton wrote the accompanying hit song. “She could see through people to their essence,” Fonda says of Parton. “She loved everyone.
“We’re Not Going Back”: Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington
As Gary, Indiana, recovers from flooding and a two-week power outage, we also speak with Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, who discusses the city’s history as a site of Black struggle and organizing. In 1972, the city hosted the National Black Political Convention, which brought together thousands of activists to plan for increasing African American political power.
“Left Behind and Overlooked”: Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks
Thousands of residents recently spent two weeks without power in Gary, Indiana, following a storm that ripped through the majority-Black city. The blackout ground the city to a halt, trapping residents in their apartments, forcing the closure of many businesses and leading to fuel shortages at gas stations. Officials in Indiana estimate the storm might have caused up to $5 billion in damage in Gary and other communities.