Kyle Meredith

What I really liked was how blunt he was about that division of labor. “I’m glad I didn’t have to write Don Draper or Coop, but I love playing them.” We also got into Coop’s movie taste, The Warriors, Bloodsport, Thief, and the buried treasure of Jon Hamm apparently doing Talking Heads karaoke that still hasn’t been fully released into the world.

Brown leads 53% to 45%, a notable number in a state that has trended Republican in recent years and backed Donald Trump three times. The poll also found Trump's standing slipping in Ohio, with 57% of voters now viewing him unfavorably compared to 42% favorable.

The race is drawing national attention because Democrats need four seats to regain control of the Senate. Ohio wasn't supposed to be one of their easier pickup opportunities, but concerns over the economy, rising gas prices, and the Iran conflict appear to be reshaping the map.

For Republicans, Ohio was once considered safe territory. This poll suggests it may be a lot more competitive than expected.

Do you think Ohio is becoming a true swing state again?

Kennedy Center staff have been ordered to remove Trump’s name from email signatures, letterhead, documents, and signage by June 12.

A federal judge ruled that the name change was unlawful because Congress created the Kennedy Center and only Congress has the power to rename it. Rep. Joyce Beatty sued after saying she was muted during the board vote when she tried to object.

Trump’s allies had voted to add his name late last year after he became chair of the center, but the rebrand didn’t even make it six months. The ruling landed on John F. Kennedy’s birthday, which is almost too on the nose for a place literally named after him.

The Prince estate has announced Timeless, a new collection of 10 rare and previously unreleased tracks pulled from the legendary musician’s vault, spanning recordings from 1977 through 2016. The latest preview, "Stone," arrives straight from 1995 and serves up the kind of tight funk groove and falsetto that made Prince impossible to imitate and even harder to replace.

The release arrives on August 28 and coincides with the 10th anniversary of Prince's passing. The vault remains open. The purple reign continues.

The HBO series finale pulled in 8.7 million viewers in its first three days, edging past the Season 3 premiere and helping the final season average 25 million viewers globally — up 17% from Season 2.

Love it or hate it, Euphoria leaves behind one of the most talked-about TV runs of the last decade. And judging by those numbers, plenty of people stuck around to see how Rue’s story ended.

The funding had been tucked inside a larger immigration and border security package, but lawmakers removed it after growing criticism that taxpayers were being asked to help pay for a project Trump had originally promised would be privately funded and completely unneeded.

The ballroom has become even more controversial since Trump revealed the project also includes a massive underground bunker stretching six stories below ground. Even some Republicans questioned the timing, with Pennsylvania Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick saying families worried about paying their bills aren’t interested in hearing about ballrooms and government slush funds.

But ya know, he's still destroyed our country's most important property.

Dokoupil called Pelley “a journalist who valued truth at all costs,” and said Pelley believed freedom of the press was “the right that guaranteed all the others.” That's an interesting statement since Dokoupil got his own Evening News chair under Bari Weiss, the same CBS News editor now at the center of the 60 Minutes shakeup.

Pelley was fired after reportedly telling new executive producer Nick Bilton that he had “slender qualifications” for the job and accusing Weiss of “murdering 60 Minutes.” Steve Kroft has also blasted the changes, calling them “journalistic interference” and asking why anyone would mess with a show whose audience was up 9% last year.

Florida Senate candidate Jake Lang climbed on top of a rented U-Haul this week and tried to burn Pride flags outside an ICE facility in New Jersey.

Multiple attempts fizzled out as Lang sprayed lighter fluid, relit the flags, and watched the flames repeatedly go out. At one point he yelled, “Happy Pride Month,” toward what appeared to be a crowd of exactly two supporters, including one man following the truck while banging a small handheld gong.

Lang used the event to attack LGBTQ people, immigrants, and political opponents while promoting his Senate campaign. This is the same candidate who was pardoned by Trump after serving time related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol and who has previously drawn condemnation for antisemitic and extremist remarks.

The whole thing was apparently meant to look like a show of strength. Instead, it turned into a guy fighting a Pride flag, a lighter, and basic weather conditions.

Featherweight fighter Bryce Mitchell blasted plans for UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn, arguing that government should be focused on protecting citizens, not hosting sporting events. “The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us,” he said during a UFC media day in Las Vegas.

Mitchell’s criticism lands a little differently because he was once one of Trump’s biggest supporters, saying in 2024 that he would “take a bullet and die” for him. Since then, he’s publicly turned on the president, accusing him of misleading supporters and using the UFC event as political theater.