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Michelle Obama says her brother was the person who persuaded her to support her husband, former president Barack Obama , in seeking the presidency. Speaking on the debut episode of her “IMO” podcast released Wednesday, the former first lady credited her co-host and older sibling Craig Robinson with changing her mind after she had initially been against the idea. “You talked me into supporting his run,” Obama said to Robinson on the show. Obama added that her husband had been “smart enough to know” that he would need to sell Robinson on the idea, adding that her own take on the idea of a presidential campaign at the time was: “Nope. No way. This is crazy. We’ve done enough crazy stuff.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday found that removing most grants and most staff from a U.S. federal agency that invests in African small businesses would be legal. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon also refused to extend an order blocking the Trump administration from removing the leaders of the U.S. African Development Foundation, which invests millions of dollars in African small businesses. USADF is an independent agency created by Congress in 1980 and is controlled by board members who must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The case, filed by Ward Brehm, the president of USADF, raised questions about the extent of the president’s authority to remove board members and to reduce the size of the agency, which currently employs around 50 people.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered a Pentagon-wide review of the physical fitness, body composition and grooming standards currently in place in the armed forces. Hegseth’s directive comes after the Biden administration loosened restrictions on various grooming and hairstyle rules for military service members, as well as body fat percentage requirements for new recruits. “High standards are what made the United States military the greatest fighting force on the planet,” Hegseth wrote in a memo to senior Pentagon leaders, commanders of the combatant commands and Department of Defense field activity directors. “The strength of our military is our...

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Way Too Early," to discuss the stop-gap continuing resolution from the GOP-controlled House that could keep the government up and running, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) took time out to say Donald Trump is handing Democrats a golden opportunity. With MSNBC host Ali Vitali linking the budget crisis to Trump infuriating both voters and Wall Street execs with his tariff chaos that has the economy reeling, she asked the Democratic lawmaker, "When you take all of this in tandem, the volatility in the markets over a potential shutdown, over tariffs, over the way that T...

Billy Joel 's health crisis has fans on high alert after he pulled the plug on his huge upcoming gigs. RadarOnline.com can reveal the six-time Grammy winner announced he would be postponing shows for four months due to a "medical condition" on Tuesday – just days after videos of him suffering a terrifying onstage fall swept the internet. Joel , 75, shared a revamped flier to his Instagram with a list of rescheduled tour dates for later this year/early next year, noting he would need time to recover from "recent surgery." The statement read: "Billy Joel’s upcoming concert dates...

Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown has delivered her scathing review of Meghan Markle 's new Netflix show. RadarOnline.com can reveal Brown, a royals expert, said the Duchess of Sussex completely missed the mark with the content of her new kitchen series – slamming Markle as "too damn impatient" and "behind the curve" with her latest efforts. Amidst several harsh reviews, Brown, 71, criticized Markle and her new show on her Substack newsletter, declaring the Duchess has an "unerring instinct for getting it wrong." The journalist suggested the only show Markle, 43, could have pulled off is one where...

Donald Trump alleged Wednesday that Chuck Schumer , the top Democrat in the Senate, is not Jewish. “Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned. You know, he’s become a Palestinian,” the president said in the Oval Office. “He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.” But Schumer is Jewish, both ethnically and religiously, and he is not Palestinian. When he served as Senate majority leader until Jan. 3 this year, he was the highest-ranked Jewish politician in American history—and he is about to publish a memoir titled Antisemitism in America: A Warning . Read more at The Daily Beast.

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It was just another day for former Obama White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen until he discovered via a social media post that he was among the group of prominent government officials and attorneys whose access to classified government information had been terminated. Eisen, who previously helped prosecute President Donald Trump’s impeachment case as special counsel to the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, remained optimistic about what is being interpreted as an act of political retribution carried out by the new administration against the president’s adversaries. “My phone started b...

A court ordered retired NFL star Le'Veon Bell to pay $25 million to a family member who accused him of raping her when she was as young as six years old. The post Ex-NFL Star Le’Veon Bell Ordered to Pay $25 Million to Cousin Who Accused Him of Raping Her When She Was a Child first appeared on Mediaite .