Variety reports: “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost — currently in Tahiti covering surfing (and injuring his toes) for NBC’s Summer Olympics coverage — has another new job: Host of “Pop Culture Jeopardy!” The “Jeopardy!” spin-off, announced in May, will run on Amazon’s Prime Video and start production in August, presumably once Jost gets back from the islands. …

The Daily Beast reports: Former President Donald Trump, who ended his appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago early and questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ race in a series of now-viral remarks, took to Truth Social on Wednesday to announce that he “crushed it” during the interview. “The questions were Rude and Nasty, often in the …

Florida Politics reports: U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds said Donald Trump faced a hostile environment at a National Association of Black Journalists conference. The speech gained instant attention when the Republican presidential nominee questioned the racial identity of likely Democratic opponent Kamala Harris. But Donalds, a Black Republican recently considered for Trump’s running mate, said Trump also communicated a record that …

“Now as far as, ‘Who is Kamala?’ Most of us wouldn’t have gone in there and gone, ‘Hmm, who is Kamala Harris? Is she Indian? Well, she’s Jamaican, too.’ “Not something I would have done, but he went in there and he peeled back the curtain. And a lot of times I think early in her career she identified as …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Late last week, Harris appeared on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” to stump for the crossdresser vote. “Each day we are seeing our rights and freedoms under attack, including the right of everyone to be who they are, love who they love, openly and with pride,” Harris stated without proof. “So, as we fight back …

NBC News reports: A federal judge in Alabama on Tuesday refused to block the Biden administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students in four Republican-led states, breaking with six other judges who have said the rules are invalid. U.S. District Judge Annemarie Axon in Birmingham in a 122-page ruling, rejected various arguments that the four states led by …

Lexington’s NBC affiliate reports: Kentucky pastor Dicky Tiller, 53, was arrested in Boyd County by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Department on July 30 and charged with one count of first-degree sexual abuse. According to a filed complaint warrant, Tiller is accused of performing sexual acts with a juvenile victim in May 2024. A uniform citation reported that Tiller, “being a …

“All right, so yeah, it’s a big crowd, quite a reception. Why were they there? How did Kamala pull that crowd? She was the most unpopular vice president of all time about 62 seconds ago. Now she’s filling arenas. “How? Why are these people there? Maybe they came to hear the vice president debut her new urban accent. “But does …

Reuters reports: The United Auto Workers union endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for U.S. president on Wednesday, boosting Harris in the swing state of Michigan as her recently launched campaign ramps up. UAW President Shawn Fain, who spoke by phone last week with Harris, praised the vice president’s record “of delivering for the working class” and said she “will stand …

First question from ABC News reporter Rachel Scott: You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of color, who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You …

From the Justice Department: A United States District Court Judge sentenced a Utah County man Monday, who posed as a fake doctor, to three years’ imprisonment and one year of supervised release after he scammed consumers looking to heal a variety of ailments, including Coronavirus. In March, on the second day of trial, Gordon Hunter Pedersen, 64, of Cedar Hills, …

CBS News reports: President Biden is expected to give a primetime address on the first night of the Democratic National Convention next month in Chicago, two sources familiar with the planning tell CBS News. A “big tribute” is planned for the president that night, one of the sources said. A Democratic National Committee convention official said that while no programming …

Deadline Hollywood reports: “Mamala” is getting back to work, as Maya Rudolph will reprise her Emmy-winning role as Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live this fall as the NBC late-night comedy program covers the final stretch of the 2024 Presidential campaign. Rudolph’s impersonation of Harris has been so popular, the moment the Vice President emerged as the presumptive …

Mashable reports: The explosion of nonconsensual deepfake imagery online in the past year, particularly of female celebrities, has presented a difficult challenge for search engines. Even if someone isn’t looking for that material, searching for certain names can yield a shocking number of links to fake explicit photos and videos of that individual. Google is trying to tackle that problem …

USA Today reports: A Texas woman was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for her role in a Ponzi scheme, in which she helped a Christian radio host bilk elderly listeners out of millions of dollars, prosecutors said. A jury found Debra Mae Carter, 65, guilty on July 8 of money laundering following a two-week trial, according to the Tarrant …

CNBC reports: Meta agreed to pay a record $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit by the state of Texas over the Facebook owner’s unauthorized use of biometric data by users, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday. The suit, filed by Paxton in February 2022, accused Meta of capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texas residents — …

ABC News reports: A Missouri woman is suing a Kansas hospital where she says she was denied an emergency abortion after she went into premature labor at 18 weeks of pregnancy, alleging she was denied emergency health-stabilizing care. The lawsuit comes a year after a government investigation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that hospitals in Missouri …

Roll Call reports: Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, may not be fond of “childless cat ladies,” but he’s almost certain to skip a vote this week on legislation to expand the child tax credit. The Senate is scheduled to take a procedural vote Thursday on a House-passed bill that would expand the credit for low-income …

The Hill reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign looks like it is in trouble with Vice President Kamala Harris as the likely Democratic nominee. Kennedy is scrambling to keep the public’s attention — and struggling to keep his moribund presidential bid alive. The independent candidate’s polling, prominent family and unpredictability have kept him on the watchlists of both parties. But …

The New York Post reports: Harley-Davidson became the latest major brand to face backlash over its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives — with a conservative online influencer calling for a boycott of the iconic motorcycle maker. Robby Starbuck, who has more than half a million followers on X, accused the Wisconsin-based company of having “gone totally woke” by hosting …