2020

The Emmys will look extremely different this year. Not only will the television awards show be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but celebrities will also be permitted to skip the usual gowns and suits for the digital red carpet. In a letter to acting nominees, the show’s producers and host Jimmy Kimmel revealed …

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) dismissed President Trump’s suggestion on Thursday to delay the November elections because of possible voter fraud, along with a number of additional high-ranking Republican officials. McConnell said this year’s election would go forward as planned on November 3 in a call to Kentucky’s WNKYTV. The majority leader mentioned …

President Trump on Thursday suggested delaying the 2020 election “until people can properly, securely and safely vote.” In a series of tweets, the president attacked mail-in voting, saying it “is already proving to be a catastrophic disaster” and would cause “the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.” With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, …

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will launch a rocket on Thursday morning to Mars on a mission that will include deploying a rover, a helicopter, and collecting samples that scientists hope may show signs of life on the red planet. “I’m exceptionally excited about what we’re about to do because we’re going to …

No surprise, but the 2020 Emmys are going virtual. Shortly after the nominations were announced yesterday, this year’s Emmy executive producers — including host Jimmy Kimmel — sent a letter to key acting nominees informing them that this year’s ceremony will be virtual, and asking them to prepare to participate from home, or wherever they …

Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) declined to endorse Joe Biden for president in an interview with Newsweek released on Monday, in another sign of progressive dissatisfaction with the more moderate Democratic nominee. “I don’t want to get into a debate with my residents,” Tlaib said when asked why she wouldn’t formally back the former vice …

The 2020 Emmy nominations were announced on Tuesday morning (check out the full list here), and along with them, some surprising snubs. HBO’s “Watchmen” led the pack with a whopping 26 nominations, while “The Mandalorian” on Disney+ racked up an unexpected 15 nods — never underestimate the force of Baby Yoda. But there were also …

Ryan Lochte is happily married with two kids — and he may have his swimming suspensions to thank for it. “I don’t have any regrets, because if that didn’t happen then I don’t know where I’d be, like I probably wouldn’t be married and I probably wouldn’t have kids,” the Olympian told Page Six. “So …

Instant analysis is a slippery slope, but let’s face it: This year’s Primetime Emmy nominations offered few surprises. This year’s menu of nominees — announced Tuesday morning by a raucous, overly enthusiastic Leslie Jones and presenters Josh Gad, Laverne Cox and Tatiana Maslany — includes an overabundance of “I’ll have the usual” nods. (Note to …

Peter Strzok, the former FBI counterintelligence agent who was fired by the agency for sending anti-Trump text messages during the 2016 campaign, is releasing a book detailing his lingering concerns that the president could be compromised. The book, “Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump,” due out two months before the November election, …