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1950s TV Show Had Villain Named Trump Who Promised to Save World by Building a Wall (Video)
“At midnight tonight, without my help and knowledge, every one of you will be dead,” the fictional conman Walter Trump says
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Lady Gaga Apologizes for Past R Kelly Collaboration, Pulls Song From iTunes
“I’m sorry, both for my poor judgment when I was young, and for not speaking out sooner,” singer says
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Colbert Looks at ‘Director’s Cut’ of Trump’s Border Wall Address (Video)
CBS host also dings POTUS for bragging about how “medieval” his proposed border wall is
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‘Green Book’ Writer Deletes Twitter Account After Muslim 9/11 Tweet Surfaces
“100% correct. Muslims in Jersey City cheering when towers went down. I saw it, as you did, possibly on local CBS news,” Nick Vallelonga tweeted in 2015
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Washington Post Reporter Sues Iran for $1 Billion After Being Taken Hostage
Jason Rezaian says he was arrested by Iranian authorities, subjected to a “sham trial” and held hostage for 18 months
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Blame Grandma! Seniors Shared 7 Times More Fake News on Facebook Than Young Adults, Study Says
Americans 65 and older are the most susceptible to bogus articles, researchers from Princeton and NYU find
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Why a CBS and Viacom Merger Is Looking Likely in Early 2019
Viacom CEO Bob Bakish would make the most sense to lead the combined company, according to BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield
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How Instagram Has Given Classic Shows Like ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘The Simpsons’ a Second Life
Major fan accounts act as a 2019 version of re-runs for hundreds of thousands of followers
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Twitter Teams With NBA and Turner to Offer Live Stream Focused on Individual Players
Deal targets fans who would rather follow Steph Curry than Kevin Durant while watching the Warriors on TNT
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Financial Times Won’t Retract ‘Les Moonves’ Interview He Denies Ever Happened
An editor’s note now says the article has been updated to reflect that reporters “spoke to a person who identified himself as Mr. Moonves”
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Amazon Investors Unfazed by Jeff Bezos’ Divorce From His Wife of 25 Years
World’s richest man and novelist wife MacKenzie Bezos both sign a message saying they’ll remain “cherished friends”
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Ex-Fox News Employee Sues Showtime for $750 Million Over Upcoming Roger Ailes Series
Laura Luhn says she was a victim of Roger Ailes’ sexual harassment, not enabler of the late Fox News boss’ abuses
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AP Dinged for ‘Takes Two to Tango’ Tweet Blaming Democrats and Trump for Shutdown
“House and Senate have both passed $1.6 b bills. Trump could just accept them. Terrible tweet,” longtime Hillary Clinton aide Neera Tanden says
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Joe Scarborough Unimpressed by Trump Oval Office Address: ‘He Made Himself Look Even More Inept’
“This was an address that he could have delivered on Fox News primetime and he would have reached his same audience,” the “Morning Joe” host says
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Kevin Hart Rules Out Hosting Oscars: ‘I’m Over It’
“There is no ending to it. If you keep feeding this energy, then it’s going to grow,” Hart says of the attention surrounding his old tweets