In his latest campaign ad, Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Gavin Newsom seeks to counter the narrative that he would not be where he is without the help of a very wealthy family friend by playing down his privileged past and focusing on his single mom who “worked three jobs” and “waitressed at night to make ends meet.”
Democrat California Assemblyman Matt Dababneh (D-Woodland Hills), 36, announced his resignation on Friday, just days after he was accused of masturbating in front of a lobbyist at a party in Las Vegas.
Former Pussycat Doll Kaya Jones, who was at the Route 91 country music festival near the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas when a gunman opened fire, told Breitbart News she wished she was armed during the devastating attack that left 58 people and scores more injured.
Even before this catastrophic Labor Day weekend is factored in (more on this below), the domestic 2017 box office is in hideous shape. This year is -6.3% behind 2016 and continues to fall behind 2015, 2013, and 2012.
Country music superstar Miranda Lambert says she wants nothing to do with using her platform to promote her personal politics.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) used her speech at a citizenship ceremony for 41 children aboard the U.S.S. Iowa in San Pedro to blast President Donald Trump’s policies on Monday.
California State Treasurer and 2018 gubernatorial candidate John Chiang began his campaign by taking aim at Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who is so far seen as the frontrunner in the Democrat-heavy race.
The country’s relatively peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy inspired great expectations for its future. But now South Africa has entered a deep political and economic crisis for which it seems to have no easy answers.
Actor Josh Duhamel is the latest Hollywood star to open up about why he doesn’t use his celebrity platform to push politics.
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump does not plan on hosting a trilateral summit with Israel and the Palestinian Authority during his trip to Jerusalem next week, senior Trump administration officials told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday.
Former President Barack Obama blamed the polarization present in the current political climate on social media, cable television, and monetary influence from special interests in a speech Monday.
Joining the growing chorus of those hoping sportscasters will stop injecting left-wing politics into their sports announcing, Fox Sports’ Joe Buck recently said that sports announcers need to dump their focus on politics and stick to sports.
Chelsea Clinton has stoked speculation in Democratic circles about her foray into politics.
Pollster and political analyst Pat Caddell joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday to discuss the state of American politics, as well as the newly installed Trump administration and how “the legitimate dissent of the American people” led to his election.
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he plans to stay involved in politics after leaving the White House.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has increased fundraising for his run in the wide-open race for governor of California in 2018, but notes that it’s been a trying task.
Most people know that Christmas is the celebration of Jesus coming to Earth as a human. They also know that we mark Easter to celebrate Jesus’s death and resurrection which conquered death and gives us forgiveness for our sins. And there is so much more good news from his life and work — conquering politics, for one!
My friend and former law professor Jedediah Purdy has published an attack at Politico, “The Anti-Democratic Worldview of Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel,” targeting President-elect Donald Trump’s chief adviser and major tech backer, respectively.
Actor Mark Wahlberg believes his fellow celebrities should stick to entertaining Americans and stop trying to push their politics on the country.
A Hillary Clinton supporter, who describes herself as a “liberal democrat, lawyer, skeptic, feminist, LGBTQ ally, wine-lover [and] comedy geek” has started the #GrabYourWallet movement to boycott Ivanka Trump’s fashion line from major shopping outlets like Nordstrom over her father’s presidential candidacy.
TEL AVIV – Egyptian press has come out against the handshake snub by their country’s judoka, saying the Olympic athlete’s refusal to shake his Israeli opponent’s hand shows Egypt to be a “diseased culture” and only served the “Zionists” who leveraged the incident to portray Egyptians as “extremists and uncultured.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti discussed his views on law enforcement, and his efforts on police reform, during a candid interview with Breitbart California Editor Joel B. Pollak at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.
Odessa, Texas, realtor Michelle Blackwell posted an online advertisement seeking to appeal to #NeverTrump supporters, those who have pledged to leave the country if Donald Trump is elected President of the United States.
The government has backtracked on plans to stop teaching feminism as a “major political philosophy” in A-level politics. Following a typically noisy online campaign, feminism “will now be compulsory” and the number of “female thinkers” on the syllabus will be
TEL AVIV – While recognizing the Jewish state is struggling against radical Islam, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected comments on Muslim immigration made in recent days by Donald Trump.
TEL AVIV – A proper Jewish response to the San Bernardino massacre would be for the American public to “scream bloody murder” against gun violence, argued Jeffrey K. Salkin, a Reform rabbi, in the progressive-leaning Forward newspaper.
Alan Grayson is currently running for the U.S. Senate in Florida and is taking aim at outgoing U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who he hopes to replace.
In an interview on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, actor Will Smith says that he has been surveying the current political landscape and could someday make his own move into politics.
He doesn’t seem to be polling terribly well at the moment, but “transhumanist atheist” Zoltan Istvan is running for President in 2016, and hoping he might be one of the last humans to hold the job. Scott Beauchamp of the Pacific
Never one to not make an outlandish political statement or remark, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s latest remark about mass shootings and killings in the United States has been fact-checked.
Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Christian Tupou, 26, who has bounced around the NFL trying to stick with a team since 2012, after his sterling career at University of Southern Caifornia, has been using his off-season to prepare for life after football, working for a month as an intern with state Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber.
Totalitarianism involves politicizing every corner of life, imbuing even the citizen’s choice of which fast-food chicken sandwich he consumes with political significance. People who would rather not make political statements with their lunch choices are nevertheless forced into the game defensively… because if they don’t play, and play to win, they’re going to wake up one morning and discover they have lost vital freedoms.
On Sunday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Weekends with Alex Witt,” Newsweek’s Matthew Cooper discussed his recent magazine piece examining the role of religion in politics. Host Alex Witt asked Cooper if one could be successful politically without being religious, to which
Kampala (AFP) – A row over a law banning homosexuality in Uganda has been reignited after it emerged that the government paid a US public relations firm to offset negative publicity, a report said Monday.
A recent report by in the Dallas Morning News suggests that the historically strong ties between the State of Texas and Mexico may be under a considerable amount of strain. Despite the region’s powerhouse cross-border economy, recent decisions regarding illegal immigration and border security have left Mexico feeling rebuffed.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) has been making quite a few trips to Florida, leading many to believe that he may focus his potential presidential efforts in the Sunshine State.
Left meets right, or at least establishment right, at the Biltmore in Miami.
After hiring a well-known Romney operative in New Hampshire to “help him on his upcoming book tour,” Senator Marco Rubio is really starting to look like someone who is focused on running for president in 2016.
Marco Rubio’s wife, Jeanette, is said to have “crashed” the senator’s Ford F-150 truck this past weekend on Miami Beach.
California’s Lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom, announced on Monday that he will not be pursuing retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-CA) seat come 2016, clearing his name from the list of potential contenders of Democrats and Republicans.
