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Barney Frank: Eliminate superdelegates; Biden for Secretary of Defense
Should the Democrats do away with superdelegates? Barney Frank certainly thinks so. “We should make a strong recommendation that ex officio delegates s...
Watch Jim & Jeannie Gaffigan play ‘How well do you know your Catholic spouse?’ with Cardinal Dolan
It’s almost 12 years too late for Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan to play The Newlywed Game — so Cardinal Timothy Dolan challenged them to a Catholic version ...
Bill Clinton, future first cat of the United States?
What will we call Bill Clinton if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency? First man? First dude? First cat? The latter is precisely what Nashville Mayor Megan B...
The Dean Obeidallah Show: Lewis Black, Don Lemon, Aasif Mandvi and more!
The first week of my new daily show featured everything from famous comedians like Lewis Black to famous Muslims like Congressman Keith Ellison – plus everyt...
Nigel Farage: The European Union project has failed
“We now have our independence day,” U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage told Stephen K. Bannon Friday. “People power can beat the e...
#DemocraticSitIn: “we’re getting into some good trouble”
“By sitting in, we’re really standing up for the rest of America,” Rep. John Lewis, an iconic civil rights figure, declared Thursday after ...
Rubio on seeking re-election: I changed my mind
Just over a month after Marco Rubio tweeted out, “I have only said like 10000 times I will be a private citizen in January,” he reversed his posi...
Clinton campaign manager laughs at state of Trump campaign
#TrumpSoPoor began trending on the internet after staggering new numbers released by both presidential campaigns showed Donald Trump with a shockingly low wa...
Wall Street donors want to keep Elizabeth Warren off presidential ticket
Progressives want Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to round out Hillary Clinton’s presidential ticket, but there is one bull of a hurdle standing...
Alexander Skarsgard on assault rifles: ‘I don’t think civilians should have them’
The man who murdered 49 people in a gay Orlando nightclub legally purchased the semi-automatic rifle he used during the June 12 massacre. The tragedy has rei...
Corey Lewandowski out as Trump campaign manager
Donald Trump parted ways with his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski Monday following weeks of slipping poll numbers and scrutiny by many members of the Repu...
The Dean Obeidallah Show expands to 5 days a week!
There’s going to be a Muslim hosting a show on SiriusXM radio five days a week! (That screaming you are hearing is from Trump supporters.) That’s right, star...
SiriusXM’s Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley bring 60 Broadway and pop stars together to benefit Orlando shooting victims
As James Corden put it at the Tonys, “hate will never win.” That’s the message that inspired musical director and SiriusXM On Broadway and ...
The Dean Obeidallah Show: LGBT and Muslims team up to fight hate!
First, I wanted to share some big news: Instead of being your your MBFF (“Muslim Best Friend Forever”) just one day a week, I will be there for you fi...
Michelangelo Signorile to LGBT community: ‘Keep pushing forward, keep demanding full equality’
“It’s not over.” The ongoing fight for LGBT rights in the United States and the continuing struggle for equality has been reignited in the ...
Pres. Obama: there is no magic to the phrase “radical Islam”
Two days after the deadly terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida, President Obama convened a meeting with his National Security Council as part of the administ...
Rep. Grayson: “one man, using one weapon killed 50 people in 5 minutes”
“I woke up this morning in a fit of rage,” Andy Cohen said Monday on Radio Andy when speaking about the terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida. Fif...
Clinton: ‘We cannot contain this threat, we must defeat it.’
The worst mass shooting in U.S. history took place in the early hours Sunday morning at a gay club in Orlando, Fla. 50 people are dead and another 53 are wou...
The Dean Obeidallah Show: Can Comedy Defeat Donald Trump?
On my LIVE show Saturday we will be talking about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, mutiny in GOP against Trump, Ramadan, and can comedy be the thing that sl...
President Obama: ‘I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.’
President Obama has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Clinton’s team released a video where the president praises Clinton for her historic campai...
“I will be honored to vote for the first woman President of the United States”
“Tonight caps an amazing journey — a long, long journey,” Hillary Clinton declared in front of a crowd filled with supporters and her entire Brooklyn campaig...
Cory Booker: Trump is ‘trying to insinuate and instigate fear mongering’
The importance of the final “super” primary day of the election season has been diminished after “an Associated Press survey of Democratic ...
‘Muhammad Ali reminded us of who we could be’
Legendary boxer and activist Muhammad Ali died on Friday at the age of 74. His refusal to be drafted for the Vietnam War, stance on racial integration during...
Stacey Dash wants to run for president in 2020, explains that awkward Oscars moment
Another celebrity just pulled a Kanye West. Stacey Dash threw her hat into the ring for the 2020 presidential race Monday on Dirty, Sexy, Funny with Jenny Mc...
The Dean Obeidallah Show: Muhammad Ali, America’s First Muslim Hero
On my LIVE show Saturday morning we will be talking the sad passing of Muhammad Ali on Friday night, people still feeling the Bern big time, look back at Don...
Why Gloria Estefan won’t visit her native Cuba
Gloria Estefan won’t hold a concert in her homeland yet. Though the Grammy-winning music sensation was born in Cuba, the idea of visiting now that the ...
Trump University documents reveal high-pressure selling techniques
New documents paint a blunt and revealing picture of the marketing and sales techniques used by Trump University staffers. On Tuesday, numerous testimonies a...
Common on the T.I. concert shooting: Violence isn’t ‘a problem created by hip-hop culture’
Hip-hop artists aren’t “thugs.” That’s the message Common hopes to impart in the wake of a fatal shooting backstage before T.I.’...
Marcia Clark says Robert Kardashian thought O.J. Simpson was guilty in the end: ‘I could see the trouble in his eyes’
The trial of the century divided the country across lines of race and sex in the 1990s — and split today’s most famous family. When O.J. Simpson was ac...
Sen. Barbara Boxer talks about chaos in Nevada and channeling her inner toughness
When Sen. Barbara Boxer took to the stage in the midst of a “massively out of control” crowd at the Nevada Democratic Convention, she tried to channel her in...
The Dean Obeidallah Show: A Muslim colonel in the U.S. Air Force?!
On my LIVE show Saturday of this Memorial Day weekend we will be honoring the service of the women and men who are serving, or have served, in the U.S. milit...
Touring Washington D.C.’s treasured monuments
In honor of Memorial Day, Kids Place Live took a stroll around our nation’s Capital exploring the treasured monuments and memorials. With the help of a Natio...
Anthony Weiner scandal captured in a new documentary
It was supposed to be a film about redemption—the rebirth of a political figure who had fallen from political grace in a new-age social media scandal. Instea...
Hear Hoda Kotb’s Gracie Award-winning piece on helping Kathie Lee Gifford cope with grief
SiriusXM supports strong, successful women, many of whom are being honored this week at the prestigious Gracie Awards. Host Hoda Kotb, talk producer Sharon M...
Anthony Mackie channels the essence of Dr. King for HBO’s ‘All The Way’
Captain America star Anthony Mackie is portraying another American hero: Dr. Martin Luther King. In the upcoming HBO film All the Way, Mackie captures the es...
Dean Obeidallah Show: A movie with a Muslim hero?!
On my LIVE show Saturday morning we will be talking Scapegoats, Muslim action stars and — of course — Donald Trump. Plus Maz Jobrani, comedian an...
Remembering legendary reporter Morley Safer
Morley Safer, legendary CBS News correspondent, died Thursday at the age of 84. Safer made a name for himself during the Vietnam War for his coverage that br...
Karen Hunter channels ‘Party of Lincoln’ with fact checker & voter registration app
It’s a technological revolution! After meeting with Van Jones to learn about his initiative with Prince to get one million young African-American kids ...
Debbie Wasserman Schultz defends superdelegates
Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz defended the superdelegate system during an interview on The Morning Briefing with Tim Farley We...
Did Donald Trump pose as publicists? Washington Post editor gives more details
Who is John Miller? And who is John Barron? An investigation by The Washington Post senior editor Marc Fisher alleges both men are in fact the same person ...
The Dean Obeidallah Show: Students bullied for their faith
On my LIVE show Saturday morning we are talking are about Muslim students being bullied for their faith, if Jon Stewart could have prevented Donald Trump fro...
Does Donald Trump have mob ties in Atlantic City?
As his quest for the White House gains steam, Donald Trump’s attitude toward minorities, disputed finances and hand size have all been questioned by jo...
Actress Diane Guerrero on her parents’ deportation, immigration reform: ‘I definitely fell through the cracks’
Diane Guerrero is sick of hearing a certain presidential candidate‘s plan to deal with the immigration crisis. “We need immigration reform, not j...
Wanda Sykes ‘wasn’t feeling’ Larry Wilmore calling Obama the n-word
Wanda Sykes criticized Larry Wilmore for calling President Barack Obama “my n—-“ during the White House Correspondents Dinner — but joked s...
Michael Moore says we need to take Donald Trump seriously: ‘He’s so good at the con’
When Donald Trump, a real estate mogul turned reality star who has never held elected office, announced his bid for president last June, much of the media tr...
Lezley McSpadden relives the day son Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police: ‘I felt like I died’
On Aug. 9, 2014, Lezley McSpadden’s life was changed forever when her son Michael Brown lost his. Brown, 18, was unarmed when he was shot by a white of...
Michael Brown’s mom Lezley McSpadden ‘cried’ when Beyonce asked her to be in Lemonade: ‘I appreciate her for being bold’
Though Lemonade has made tabloid headlines for its theme of infidelity, Beyonce’s visual album is largely a reflection on the struggles and strength of...
The moment Tom Brokaw told his wife he had cancer
Beloved NBC anchor Tom Brokaw got a devastating piece of news in August 2014, when he learned he was battling a treatable but incurable form of blood cancer....
The Dean Obeidallah show: A Muslim vice presidential candidate?!
On my LIVE show Saturday morning I’ll be joined by Will Coley who is making history by being the first Muslim to seek the nomination for vice president of th...
The Dean Obeidallah Show: Why are conservatives more outraged over film mocking Ronald Reagan than Trump’s bigotry?
On my LIVE show Saturday morning we talk political correctness, comedy, sexism and more. Can comedy about a minority group actually make people like that min...
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