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A bevy of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities starred in several on-screen campaigns to help build support around the passage of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare. Now, more than seven years after it was signed into law, President Obama’s crowning legislative achievement is likely going to collapse under its own bureaucratic weight.

The stars and producers of ABC’s political drama Scandal are celebrating the show’s centenary episode and sharing their thoughts about how Donald Trump’s election caused anxiety both on and off the screen.

Actor-producer Kerry Washington wore a safety pin to the politically charged 2017 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday “to show solidarity” with the activists protesting President Donald Trump’s executive actions on border security and his temporary suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.

As President Obama delivered his farewell speech to the nation in Chicago Tuesday night, Hollywood stars and celebrities took to social media to express their gratitude and celebrate his achievements one final time.

Like millions of Americans watching at home across the country, Hollywood celebrities were glued to their Twitter accounts Monday night during the first presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump — and emotions ran high during the showdown.

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.

Scandal producers Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers produced a 12-minute biopic of Hillary Clinton’s life that aired live just moments before the Democratic presidential nominee took the stage at the party’s national convention in Philadelphia Thursday night.

More than 100 high-profile celebrities have joined a MoveOn.org campaign called “United Against Hate” in an all-out effort to stop Donald Trump from winning the White House in November.

First Lady Michelle Obama and media mogul Oprah Winfrey will co-host a White House summit in June to celebrate the achievements of women and tackle outstanding gender equality issues — just days after Hillary Clinton clinched the Democrat presidential nomination.

The Obama administration has sent an email containing ready-made pro-immigration talking points to top-level Hollywood influencers in an effort to encourage them to promote the White House’s immigration policies on social media during June’s Immigrant Heritage Month.

Scandal star Kerry Washington and actor-comedian Aziz Ansari sat down to discuss the hot-button issue of diversity both in Hollywood and across other industries as part of the fourth season of Variety and PBS’ “Actors on Actors” series.

ABC drama Scandal continued its sustained attack against Republicans and party presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in Sunday night’s episode, and in the process derided “country people” as “inbred, filthy” “morons” who don’t know how to read.

Kerry Washington, the actress who plays law professor Anita Hill in HBO’s upcoming film about the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991, claims Confirmation is “not a propaganda movie.”

Actor Wendell Pierce, who plays Clarence Thomas in HBO’s Confirmation, says he believes “something happened” between Thomas and then-law professor Anita Hill (Kerry Washington). Hill accused her former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission boss Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, just

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) attended the star-studded premiere of HBO’s upcoming film Confirmation on Thursday night, where she credited one of the film’s main characters, Anita Hill, for getting her elected to the Senate during the so-called Year of the Woman

HBO’s upcoming film about the explosive 1991 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has come under fire from those involved in the proceedings, who have accused the film of being riddled with inaccuracies and anti-Republican bias.

Shonda Rhimes’s hit TV show Scandal often utilizes ripped-from-the-headlines storylines to propel its political drama. An episode earlier in this fifth season explored the undercover Planned Parenthood videos and featured a montage in which the show’s main character, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), undergoes an abortion set to the hymn “Silent Night.”

Television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes joined forces with the leading actresses from her various ABC shows to cut a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

HBO has released an extended trailer for Confirmation, which stars Kerry Washington as Anita Hill.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton visited the cast and crew of ABC’s political thriller Scandal while fundraising in Los Angeles on Monday.

Dozens of celebrities and activists have joined a new campaign aimed at derailing the presidential prospects of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and the “politics of hate and exclusion he represents.”

Actress Kerry Washington hit the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena on Thursday, where she discussed her preparations to play Anita Hill in the upcoming HBO film Confirmation.

How vile is the television industry? They won’t just promote toleration of abortion. They won’t just promote abortion itself. They will sanctify abortion, turn it into a sacred rite of passage.

In Thursday’s episode of the ABC series “Scandal,” the main character Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), wife of the Republican U.S. President, undergoes an abortion while the Christmas hymn “Silent Night” plays in the background.

First Lady Michelle Obama will appear on the May cover of Glamour magazine, alongside actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Kerry Washington for a special feature to support America’s veterans ahead of Memorial Day.

Scandal star Kerry Washington was honored with the Vanguard Award at Saturday night’s GLAAD Media Awards in Beverly Hills, and used her acceptance speech to call for the employment of more LGBT people in the entertainment industry.

Kerry Washington is set to continue her small-screen hot streak in a new film for HBO.

The Scandal actress is set to play Anita Hill in the pay cabler’s upcoming film, Confirmation, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Actress Kerry Washington’s new InStyle cover is receiving a backlash from critics, who say the fashion magazine intentionally edited her image in order to make her appear more “white.”