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Rosalynn Carter was a first lady “who saw her role as going well beyond the essential, warm and welcoming host to being a close and trusted, yes, adviser” to her husband Jimmy Carter, PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Judy Woodruff recalled on Tuesday. Woodruff was among the speakers at a tribute…

UPDATED: In her closing remarks Thursday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said that “Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office.” The committee went all in on the use of often harrowing – and at times humorous – video and audio clips, some of which quickly went viral and will likely be replayed in the…

The executive producers of the upcoming Showtime anthology series The First Lady are already thinking about what historical women to focus on in Season 2. Its debut season, centering Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Michelle Obama (Viola Davis), premieres on April 17. Cathy…

There’s at least one thing everyone should agree will be missed after tomorrow: Laura Benanti’s recurring appearances as Melania Trump on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Fortunately, the Tony-winning Broadway star provided a fitting goodbye last night with a send-off that hit an early high note for…

UPDATED with White House doctor memo + Melania Trump & Mike Pence tweets: The President of the United States of America and the First Lady have tested positive for the coronavirus. With just more than 30 days to the election, the announcement from Donald Trump on social media late Thursday night comes just hours after…

Excepts have appeared from the new book Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady, written by her former best friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. The tell-all comes out September 1 via Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint. Excerpts appeared in New York Magazine and Britain’s The Guardian…

After a debut session called dark and dystopian, night two of the Republican National Convention was a more optimistic and hopeful affair, attempting to reframe Donald Trump’s record on race relations, the coronavirus pandemic and women’s issues. Reactions were divided mostly along partisan lines, but those of Bette…

Donald Trump tried to inject a few reality TV moments into the second night of the Republican National Convention — but he did so by shattering political norms. A presidential pardon. A naturalization ceremony. A Secretary of State speaking from Israel. Even the spectacle of holding so many convention events from the…

You couldn’t ignore Kimberly Guilfoyle's speech on night one of the Republican National Convention, even if you wanted to. Fox News’s Sean Hannity tried, cutting away for commentary in the middle of Guilfoyle’s bombastic Trump-touting. Other outlets offered withering criticism. Ironically, CNN did not cut away for…

First Lady Melania Trump will speak to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday from a location perhaps unlike any other previous party gathering: the White House Rose Garden. It’s anticipated that her speech will tie in with her “Be Best” initiative, but networks likely will compare her remarks to those she deliv…

Melania Trump resisted a bid by Ivanka Trump to rename the First Lady’s White House office the “First Family Office” and move into the space in the early days of the Trump administration, a new book claims. The book, Art of her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump by Mary Jordan (Simon & Schuster), was excerpted…

UPDATED 8 PM: After a mellow Twitter morning, President Donald J. Trump got warmed up in the afternoon with some Christmas jeering of California Gov. Gavin Newsom regarding the Golden State’s homeless crisis before blasting “crazy Nancy Pelosi” in his final tweet on Christmas Day. After keeping a civil tone on…