Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday to relaunch the President’s Committee on The Arts and the Humanities, an advisory group that has been dormant since a highly publicized standoff between its members and Donald Trump.
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Ken Starr, the prosecutor who led the relentless Whitewater investigation into then-President Bill Clinton and whose report on the case revealed intimate details of Clinton’s extramarital sexual relations, died Tuesday in Houston following complications from surgery. He was 76.
His death was announced by his family in a statement.
Nominated by former President Ronald Reagan for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C., circuit, Starr was U.S. solicitor general under President George H.W. Bush. He received his greatest public attention – political opponents might say infamy – as independent counsel during the Clinton Administration. Starr had initially been appointed to investigate the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater real estate investments of Clinton.
The investigation would grow to encompass much more than its initial mission: After Clinton denied having “sexual relations” with former intern Monica Lewinsky, allegations of perjury led to the president’s impeachment. Clinton was subsequently acquitted at a trial before the United States Senate.
After more than four years of investigation, Starr filed the Starr Report, which included lurid details that would become part of the ’90s zeitgeist, including, as evidence, Lewinsky’s blue Gap dress that Starr said had traces of Clinton’s DNA on it, and grist for countless late-night talk show jokes.
In the decades following the Clinton investigation, Starr became a consistent presence on Fox News, appearing on, among others, Outnumbered, Cavuto Live, Hannity, Fox and Friends, Tucker Carlson Tonight and America’s Newsroom.
In the 2021 FX series about the scandal, Impeachment: American Crime Story, Starr was portrayed by actor
Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday to relaunch the President’s Committee on The Arts and the Humanities, an advisory group that has been dormant since a highly publicized standoff between its members and Donald Trump.
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are two of creative leaders honored for Variety’s 2022 Power of Women presented by Lifetime. For more, click here. Hillary Clinton is in an ebullient mood, and for good reason. Clinton, though she remains an avid observer of political trends, is out of the crucible of hunting for votes. And at this latest stop on a tour that has included visits to the Venice and Toronto film festivals, she and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, are seeking something new: your eyeballs. HiddenLight Prods., which the pair launched with Sam Branson (son of Richard Branson, of the Virgin brand), has launched its first series, “Gutsy.” The Apple TV+ documentary is based on the Clintons’ 2019 “Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience,” and in the film, the former secretary of state and the Oxford Ph.D. kibitz with Kim Kardashian and Megan Thee Stallion, as well as feminist icon Gloria Steinem and labor activist Dolores Huerta.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Former President Bill Clinton believes that “democracy is fragile right now,” and he spoke candidly on Saturday at A+E Networks and the History Channel’s History Talks about the issues “tearing us apart.” “What’s more important? Our common humanity or differences?” he mused on stage. “And what works better to build the kind of future we all want? Does cooperation work better, or is everything a zero-sum game?” He answered the rhetorical question by saying, “Life is not a zero-sum game. Football is a zero-sum game — I’ve already watched one game today. I hope it’s not true, but it may be true that saving our democracy is just a zero-sum game because democracy is fragile right now.”
Monica Lewinsky lost her "purpose" following the Bill Clinton sex scandal. The 49-year-old TV personality was involved in a sexual relationship with the former US President between 1995 and 1997, and she admits that her mood became "very, very dark" as she realised the scandal was engulfing her life. Lewinsky - who worked as an intern in the White House - shared: "It's been a challenge.
Kathy Griffin says she has the scoop on who Monica Lewinsky voted for in the 2016 presidential election. The 61-year-old comedian appeared on Tuesday's where she spoke about her high-profile dinner parties where she invites celebrity guests.Griffin said she invited Lewinsky to one of the parties, seating her next to «a bunch of really smart people and journalists.»The veteran jokester called Lewinsky «lovely and really easy going and fun and funny,» and said she asked her whether she voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she ran against Donald Trump. Griffin noted that Lewinsky said no one had ever asked her that question before. «She did [vote for Clinton],» Griffin revealed.
Kathy Griffin says she has the scoop on who Monica Lewinsky voted for in the 2016 presidential election. The 61-year-old comedian appeared on Tuesday's where she spoke about her high-profile dinner parties where she invites celebrity guests.Griffin said she invited Lewinsky to one of the parties, seating her next to «a bunch of really smart people and journalists.»The veteran jokester called Lewinsky «lovely and really easy going and fun and funny,» and said she asked her whether or not she voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she ran against Donald Trump. Griffin noted that Lewinsky said no one had ever asked her that question before. «She did [vote for Clinton],» Griffin revealed.
(CNN)At a time when there is much discussion around politics and women's rights, one of the most famous figures in both of those arenas is celebrating the courage of women.Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton have teamed up with Apple TV+ for the eight-episode docuseries "Gutsy," based on their New York Times bestseller, "The Book of Gutsy Women." The pair talked to CNN this week about the series and heir own gutsy moments."In my private life, as I've said before, staying in my marriage was really gutsy, it was a hard decision," Hillary Clinton said. "It took a lot of prayer and thought and counseling.
Mira Sorvino says she learned the “craft” of acting from her late father Paul Sorvino. The ‘Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion’ star revealed the ‘Goodfellas’ star - who passed away in July 2022 aged 83 - would “ break down” her acting in school productions and it made her into the star she is today. The 54-year-old actress told Closer US’ ‘My Life in 10 Pictures’ featurette that her father would “break down my performance and tear them apart,” before saying “but I learned my craft from him.
An exceptional and, one might venture, unprecedented group of politicians, diplomats, policy wonks, elected officials and veteran Washington insiders expound on the effectiveness of international military intervention—and the lack thereof—in The Corridors of Power. Israeli director Dror Moreh made one of the great political documentaries of recent times in The Gatekeepers (2012), as well as the excellent The Human Factor (2019), and this time he has assembled an all-star cast of more than 30 political heavyweights including Henry Kissinger, Hilary Clinton, George Shultz, Madeleine Albright and Condoleeza Rice, who in deep, original interviews, help to build a picture of how and why the best intentions can come unglued. The film deserves to be seen in any and all venues by audiences interested in the state of the world and clarity about how we got here.
Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, stopped by to talk about their forthcoming docuseries, , but ended up revealing the funny and surprising backstory behind the dress that Hillary wore to marry former President Bill Clinton.The Clintons got married on Oct. 11, 1975, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. With just 15 of their closest friends and family as witnesses, the future political powerhouses got hitched in the living room of their home and held a larger reception in the backyard. While chatting with talk show host Drew Barrymore, Hillary revealed that she finally said yes to marrying Bill on the third time he proposed, noting, «The third time was the charm.» Hillary explained, «Here’s what happened, my husband had asked me to marry him twice, and I said, ‘Not now, no.’ The third time was the charm.
Monica Lewinsky is processing the «complicated feelings» she said arose after learning about Ken Starr's death. Starr, who died Tuesday, served as the independent counsel whose investigation uncovered President Bill Clinton's affair with Lewinsky, and ultimately led to Clinton's impeachment for lying under oath and obstructing justice.
and Baylor University, where he served as president from 2010 to 2016. The Texas native most recently served as one of former president Donald Trump’s personal lawyers during his second impeachment trial in the U.S.
asking her to disclose her support of Democratic candidates, pointing to a tweet Sonn wrote that expressed support for Boebert’s former opponent Diane Mitsch Bush.“This debate is not about me,” Sonn responded, as the crowd booed Boebert for her remarks.The event, which was hosted by Club 20, Colorado Mesa University and the Grand Junction Sentinel, is the first and only debate scheduled between Boebert and her Democratic challenger Adam Frisch prior to the election.Boebert has been under fire in recent months, after comments that President Biden’s student-debt forgiveness funds “Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory” had Twitter trolls coming out of the woodwork.In August, her husband was also the center of controversy when he made threats to neighbors before driving his car into their mailbox in a rage after a dispute.
Late-night TV hosts were among those paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II after she died at age 96 on Thursday.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Hillary Clinton remembered Queen Elizabeth II as “a woman who served with such honor and distinction” on Thursday, just hours after news broke of the longtime monarch’s death. “We lost a woman who served with such honor and distinction from literally the time she was a child, until two days ago when she received the new prime minister,” Clinton told Variety at the New York premiere of “Gutsy,” her and daughter Chelsea Clinton’s new Apple TV+ docuseries. “And I was privileged to meet her and spend time with her. Probably one of the highlights of my time in public service was when I was secretary of state, staying in Buckingham Palace and talking with her about her gardens, which were a great love of hers, and actually walking around the gardens with her gardener and going to a white-tie dinner in the grand dining room. I had many really pleasant and wonderful conversations. She loved to ask questions, she was so lively and she’ll be missed.”
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President Joe Biden today offered America’s “deepest condolences to the Royal Family” on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. The 14th US President of the UK monarch’s 70-year reign, Biden said that Elizabeth was “a stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock Alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States.”