Daren DeFrank is a News Editor at The Wrap. She has been covering film, television and all things entertainment in Los Angeles for nearly a decade. She joined TheWrap in 2025 after seven years at Ranker, where she served as Managing Editor and built out their film and television vertical.

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Rachel Maddow Fumes at Trump Admin ‘Geniuses’ Who Fired Nuclear Safety Personnel – Then Scrambled to Hire Them Back | Video
“What about the National Nuclear Security Administration bugs you and makes you think that one is dispensable?” the MSNBC host says
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JD Vance Slams Mehdi Hasan as a ‘Dummy’ for Comparing AP White House Ban to Attack on Free Speech
The veteran journalist responded to the vice president’s name-calling with an open invitation to appear on his show
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John Oliver Tells Viewers to Keep Fighting Back Against Trump: ‘Defeat Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy’ | Video
“Now is not the time to be looking away and saying ‘This is what you f–kers voted for’ and turning your backs,” the “Last Week Tonight” host says
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‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Casts Rosalía and Marshawn Lynch, Dominic Fike Set to Return
Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi are all heading back to the HBO hit series, while Storm Reid is notably absent
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Amazon Defends Scaling Back DEI Efforts Under Trump, Says They Were Always Going to ‘Change Over Time’
“We strive to tell the very best stories, while empowering diverse voices in our storytelling wherever possible,” an Amazon spokesperson tells TheWrap
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Fox TV Condemns ‘Appalling’ Kanye West Super Bowl Ad for Swastika Tees: ‘We Regret These Commercials Aired’
CEO Jack Abernethy addresses the incendiary ads that ran in three local markets during Super Bowl LIX in a memo to staff
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Hits NBCUniversal With $100M Defamation Lawsuit Over ‘Making of a Bad Boy’ Doc
The rapper claims the Peacock documentary “maliciously and baselessly jumps to the conclusion” that he is a “monster”
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‘Hitch’ Director Recalls ‘Battle’ Working With Will Smith: He ‘Tried to Back Out 3 Days Before’
Andy Tennant talks the film’s 20th anniversary and says he “was pushing back on a lot of crazy s–t that was happening”
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Steve Bannon Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Steal $15 Million From Border Wall Donors
The former Trump chief strategist and conservative podcaster avoids jail time after facing 15 years in prison
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Kanye West’s Yeezy Website Shut Down by Shopify for Selling Swastika T-Shirt
The rapper promoted the website in a bizarre Super Bowl ad following a series of antisemitic tweets last week
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Rachel Maddow Slams DOGE for Granting ‘Highly Trained Professionals’ Like Online Hacker ‘Big Balls’ Government Access
The MSNBC host also took aim at an Elon Musk DOGE employee who said he was “racist before it was cool”
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FireAid Benefit Concert Available to Stream for 1 Full Year, Donations Matched Dollar for Dollar
Fans can continue to support L.A. recovery efforts by streaming the star-studded event with every donation matched by Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and wife Connie
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Hollywood Producer Found Guilty of Murder in Overdose Deaths of 2 Women
David Brian Pearce was also convicted on all charges of sexually assaulting seven women between 2007 and 2020
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Lawrence O’Donnell Says Trump Just Gave Musk ‘The Domestic Equivalent of the Nuclear Codes’ | Video
“Of all the horrendous things that have happened in the Trump regime just in the last weekend, nothing is potentially more dangerous than that” the MSNBC host says
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The Weeknd and Jenna Ortega Team Up in ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Trailer
“Waves” director Trey Edward Shults brings his surrealist odyssey to life with Barry Keoghan also starring