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Already fighting dozens of indictments and an ongoing hush-money trial in New York, Donald Trump wants to head back to court over the movie that took Cannes by storm today. "We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,”  the Trump campaign's…

UPDATE: A "suicidal" Michael Cohen said he almost threw himself off a 21-story building on Park Avenue in Manhattan because he saw no other way out after an FBI raid turned him into a federal criminal target, a lawyer testified this afternoon in the hush money trial of Cohen's former boss, Donald…

The Trumps were on the red carpet this evening at the Cannes Film Festival — sort of — as Ali Abbasi's The Apprentice world premiered in competition. The film was greeted with an 11-minute post-screening ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. Sebastian Stan, the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee known for…

CBS News announced the creation of a Medical, Health and Wellness unit, led by Senior Coordinating Producer Sara Kuzmarov. Leigh Ann Winick will be the lead producer and Sandra Temko will be producer. Adrienne Roark, president of content development and integration for CBS News and Stations…

"I'm not afraid to testify at all, I'm just not going to out of fear," said James Austin Johnson 's Donald Trump from the hall of a Manhattan courthouse in the cold open tonight of the final show of SNL's 49th season. Set to pick up with the defense's case on May 20, Trump's hush money trial is never…

The unexpected death of political pundit Alice Stewart has drawn immediate response from her colleagues in the CNN newsroom and beyond. Stewart was found dead outdoors in her Bellevue neighborhood in northern Virginia early Saturday morning. No foul play is suspected, and officers believe a medical…

Jimmy Kimmel will moderate a conversation with President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama at a Hollywood-centric L.A. fundraiser for the 2024 re-election campaign next month. The event, to be held on June 15 in downtown Los Angeles, also will feature George Clooney and Julia Roberts…

Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died at 58. Stewart's body was found outdoors in the Bellevue neighborhood in northern Virginia early Saturday morning. No foul play is suspected, and officers believe a medical emergency…

Forget the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Bill Maher spent the first segment of Friday’s Real Time asking about a cultural battle – the feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. To explain the war of words, Maher brought in Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Vanderbilt University and…

Donald Trump said that his campaign has agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate — but on Fox News. His statement came a day after Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said that Vice President Kamala Harris had accepted CBS News’ invitation for a debate, either on July 23 or Aug. 13. In…

The man convicted of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was sentenced to 20 years in prison today, per the AP. David DePape was found guilty last year on federal charges of kidnapping and assault. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley issued separate 20-year and 30-year…

Cynthia McFadden, longtime senior legal and investigative correspondent at NBC News, said that he is leaving the network. She wrote on Instagram this morning, “It is hard to leave a job you love but this is the right time- I have a list of things I have often said I wanted to do ‘someday.’ Well…