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Netflix Acquires Young Barack Obama Movie ‘Barry’

Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Barry, a movie about a formative year in the life of a young Barack Obama, following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this month.

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Kerry Washington: Voting Trump is ‘Against Our Best Interests as Americans’

Scandal star Kerry Washington lit into Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, during an appearance Friday on HBO’s Real Time, telling host Bill Maher that Democrat Hillary Clinton has the better policies, but that her message has been drowned out while the media chooses to focus its coverage on Trump.

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‘The Guardian’ to Cut 30% of U.S. Staff

British news organization The Guardian announced Thursday it would cut 30% of its U.S. workforce over the next several months, according to reports.

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Jay Z: War on Drugs an ‘Epic Fail’

Rapper and music mogul Jay Z criticized America’s decades-long War on Drugs as an “epic fail” in an animated op-ed video produced for the New York Times and released Thursday.

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Oliver Stone: Intel Experts Tell Me DNC Hack Was ‘Inside Job’

In an interview on CNN Tuesday night, filmmaker Oliver Stone told interviewer Christiane Amanpour that the high-profile hacking attack against the Democratic National Committee earlier this summer was “probably an inside job” and not the work of Russia, as some intelligence services have claimed.

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Bill Maher: ‘I’d Vote for Dead Hillary’ Over Trump

Following up a Donald Trump assassination joke on Saturday, liberal talk show host Bill Maher said Monday that he would rather vote for a “dead” Hillary Clinton over her Republican challenger Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

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‘South Park’ Trolls Kaepernick with ‘Cops are Pigs’ National Anthem

Fresh off of a season that took merciless aim at the absurdity of social justice warriors overly politically correct culture, South Park returns on Wednesday for its 20th season by diving head-first into another controversy — the Colin Kaepernick-inspired protest demonstrations during the National Anthem.

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Pressure Mounts on DiCaprio to Return ‘Ill-Gotten’ Foundation Donations

As Hollywood A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio unveiled his climate change documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, the actor faced increased calls from activists to return donations given to his environmental-focused Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation that have been linked in news reports to funds allegedly misappropriated in the world’s largest embezzlement scheme.

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Bill Maher Jokes About Donald Trump Assassination

The presidential race is getting so tight that someone is going to have to “go out there” and assassinate Donald Trump, liberal comedian and talk show host Bill Maher joked on Saturday.

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Robert Davi’s ‘Deplorable Challenge’ Lights Up Twitter

Conservative actor and talk radio host Robert Davi lit up Twitter on Saturday by urging his hundreds of thousands of social media followers to take the so-called “deplorable challenge” — so named for Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s claim this weekend that millions of supporters of Republican candidate Donald Trump belong in a “basket of deplorables” reserved for racist, sexist, xenophobic bigots.

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Patton Oswalt: Clinton a ‘Badass’ for Campaigning with Pneumonia

Comedian and prolific tweeter Patton Oswalt defended Hillary Clinton over concerns about her health on Sunday, calling it “badass” that the Democratic presidential candidate is campaigning “as hard as she is” after being diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.

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Kate Upton: ‘Horrific’ that NFL Players Would Kneel During Anthem on 9/11

Model-actress Kate Upton ripped into NFL players who demonstrated in protest during the National Anthem ahead of the league’s games on Sunday, the 15th anniversary of 9/11, calling the practice a “disgrace” on any regular day but “even more horrific” on the day Americans remember the terrorist attacks that killed thousands of people and destroyed the Twin Towers.

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‘Sully’ Review: Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks Stick the Landing

After a summer movie season full of horrendous and spectacularly ill-conceived sequels and reboots, along comes Clint Eastwood, on the first weekend of the fall season, to remind Hollywood how it’s done with an old-school, unabashedly feel-good biopic that features Tom Hanks at the top of his game.

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Geraldo Rivera ‘Filled with Regret’ for Defending Roger Ailes

Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera has apologized and says he is “filled with regret” for defending the network’s embattled former chief executive Roger Ailes earlier this summer after the network settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former anchor Gretchen Carlson last week.

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