MSNBC Star Anchor Rachel Maddow Steps Back From Show for Movie, Podcast

  • Rachel Maddow is taking a hiatus from her top-rated MSNBC show starting February 7.
  • The star anchor will work for a few weeks on new projects with her former boss Phil Griffin.
  • Rotating anchors will fill in for Maddow in the interim. 

Rachel Maddow is stepping back from her prime-time weekday show on MSNBC to work on movie and podcast projects, she told her team Monday, according to two sources with knowledge of conversations. The star news anchor is expected to share with viewers of “The Rachel Maddow Show” tonight that she’ll take a break starting next week but will be back in “a few weeks,” said an MSNBC insider. 

Maddow is taking time off to work on a Focus Features movie based on her book and podcast, “Bag Man,” about a political bribery scandal. It will be directed by Ben Stiller and Maddow will be an executive producer.

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Business Insider Australia to close in reported ‘global strategic decision’

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning, Business Insider Australia is set to close, following the decision from the parent company to wind up the local publishing licence, currently with Nine.

After an 11-year “exclusive representative” deal with Nine, and formerly Allure Media (Fairfax), the licensing deal with the publisher, Insider Inc will change in March.

A Nine spokesperson told Mumbrella that Pedestrian Group, which currently houses Business Insider Australia, and Insider are “pursuing a commercial arrangement” that would see Nine continue to commercialise its inventory in the local market and “across Insider more broadly”.

“We look forward to working with our valued partners at Insider Inc in this new capacity.”

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Mumbrella understands that the result of the “global-led decision”, it comes at the cost of three local editorial staff.

Nine said that it is working to find roles within Pedestrian Group “and the wider Nine group”

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Biden’s Possible Supreme Court Pick Once Slammed Trump by Declaring ‘Presidents Are Not Kings’

  • Ketanji Brown Jackson swatted away Trump’s claim that a top advisor did not have to testify before Congress.
  • Jackson is widely believed to be President Biden’s potential Supreme Court pick.
  • Her 2019 opinion, which drew considerable attention at the time, will almost certainly become a focal point if she is nominated.

US Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is viewed as President Joe Biden’s likely Supreme Court pick, once issued a 118-page opinion that torched the Trump administration for arguing that former White House counsel Don McGahn didn’t have to cooperate with Congress’ investigation.

“Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings,” Jackson wrote in 2019. “Rather, in this land of liberty, it is indisputable that current and former employees of the White House work for the People of the United States,

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‘Moon Cube’ Discovered by Chinese Rover Turns Out to Be a Rock

  • China’s Yutu-2 rover, on the far side of the moon, spotted a distant cube-shaped object last month.
  • China’s space agency dubbed the object “mysterious hut.” Others called it “moon cube.”
  • The rover got closer and snapped a better photo, revealing the “cube” is a rabbit-shaped rock.

China’s mysterious “moon cube” is a mystery no longer. The big reveal: It’s a rock that’s not even shaped like a cube.

The nation’s Yutu-2 rover discovered the object — which appeared to be a gray cube looming on the lunar horizon — in early December. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) dubbed it “mysterious hut,” playfully speculating that the cube might be an alien house or spacecraft.

News reports called it the “moon cube.”

cube-shaped rock on the lunar horizon

China published this Yutu-2 image of the “mysterious hut” on the lunar horizon on December 3, 2021.


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The CNSA estimated the object was

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Newman May Have Bribed Primary Opponent, House Ethics Body Finds

  • The Office of Congressional Ethics voted 6-0 to find reason to believe Rep. Newman bribed a political opponent.
  • The case now goes to the House Ethics Committee, where it will be reviewed by her peers.
  • Newman allegedly promised Iymen Chehade a senior position in her office if he didn’t run against her in a primary.

The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) said on Monday that it had found reason to believe that Democratic Rep. Marie Newman of Illinois offered a job to a potential primary opponent in exchange for a job in her congressional office. The body voted 6-0 to refer the case to the House Ethics Committee on October 15, 2021.

After unsuccessfully challenging moderate Rep. Dan Lipinski in the 2018 Democratic primary, Newman chose to again challenge the conservative Democrat in the following election. And she began making those preparations soon after her loss.

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