Senator Ted Cruz and Charlie got in a heated exchange ... over President Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund that might compensate January 6th insurrectionists at taxpayer expense.
Charlie was blunt ... as a taxpayer he didn't want to pay people who committed violence at the Capitol. The Senator from Texas shot back with a question ... Was Charlie concerned about President Biden weaponizing the Justice Department against peaceful protesters as well as President Trump himself?
Charlie pushed back, saying this wasn't about Biden in the past ... it was about Trump in the present -- giving money to January 6th rioters who were convicted of violence.
A web design company says Kanye West's brand Yeezy has "Runaway" from their request for payment ... and now the web design company is suing the brand for a six-figure sum over allegedly unpaid fees.
Ryanso, LLC -- a web design company -- claims it entered into a contract with Yeezy in January 2025 ... agreeing to web design services totaling $150K.
Ryanso claims it completed the work for Yeezy in October of last year and issued an invoice for the work ... but says the company never paid up.
Kim Scottwas allegedly staggering, slurring her words and blowing nearly three times the legal limit during her latest DUI arrest ... TMZ has learned.
According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, officers say Eminem's ex-wife appeared unsteady on her feet, had slurred speech and smelled strongly of alcohol after allegedly crashing into a parked car in Chesterfield Township, Michigan last week.
Police say Kim admitted she'd been drinking earlier in the night before agreeing to a preliminary breath test and according to the report, she blew a .204 BAC ... more than 2.5 times Michigan's legal limit of .08.
Lil Poppa -- a popular rapper based out of Jacksonville, Florida -- died in February ... and now his official cause of death has been released.
According to documents from the Fulton County coroner, obtained by TMZ ... the rapper -- real name Janarious Mykel Wheeler -- died from a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the left side of his head. He was in the passenger's seat. A toxicology report is pending.
Hapeville Chief of Police Bruce Hedley previously told TMZ ... Lil Poppa was in a single-car accident on Interstate 85 south of Hapeville, Georgia ... shortly after his manager came to meet him ... and that is when he shot himself.
Steve Shirilla is pushing back on the firestorm surrounding Netflix's documentary about his daughter ... insisting his comments about marijuana were twisted and people have misunderstood what he was trying to say.
Check it out ... Steve joined us on “TMZ Live” after being placed on paid leave from his Ohio Catholic school teaching job following backlash over "The Crash" ... centered around his daughter, MackenzieShirilla, who was convicted of murder in the 2022 crash that killed her boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan.
A major point of controversy has been Steve's remarks in the doc about Mackenzie smoking marijuana as a teenager ... but he says that interpretation is off base ... telling us the filmmakers condensed days of interviews into a few short sound bites and left out important context.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will almost certainly have inked a prenup before their summer wedding ... and if they do, it's all about location, location, location.
Taylor and Travis check all the boxes for a couple that needs a prenup ... there is so much money on the line, plus they are both active money earners. Taylor is worth an estimated $2 billion and Travis comes in at $90 million.
Picking a state where the prenup is drafted will be just as important as picking out a wedding venue. The laws governing prenups vary from state to state, and these prenups typically say the law of the state where it's written will apply, regardless of where they end up living.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is under investigation by the Department of Justice ... so says Vice PresidentJ.D. Vance.
The Veep addressed the media in the White House's James S. Brady Press Briefing Room ... and he was asked about previously saying Rep. Omar "definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America."
Vance says the DOJ's reviewing the situation ... and, while he doesn't want to "prejudge" an investigation, he feels there's "something fishy" going on -- especially when it comes to her marital status. Vance and others in the administration have advanced a conspiracy theory that Omar married her own brother.
5:16 PM PT -- The TRO was granted by the court following Tuesday's hearing.
Jack Avery says his ex, TikTok influencer Gabbie Gonzalez, is being accused of conspiring to hire a hitman to kill him ... and now he's seeking court ordered protection from her and sole legal and physical custody of their daughter.
The former boy band singer beelined it to court Tuesday and filed for a temporary restraining order against Gabbie, who was arrested Friday as part of an alleged murder-for-hire plot.
Jack claims the FBI told him Gabbie, her father Francisco, and her friend Kai Cordrey, conspired to hire a hitman to have him whacked ... and now that she's been busted, he wants Gabbie nowhere near him or their 7-year-old, Lavender. He says having sole custody rights would allow him to get a therapist for the kid to help her process everything.
Hayden Panettiere’s memoir isn’t all trauma and family drama -- 'cause she also shared one chaotic Hollywood memory involving 'shrooms, "Scream 4," and David Arquette making a very questionable movie-night choice.
The actress said the whole thing went down back in 2010 while shooting the movie when she, her bestie Allie, and a bunch of twenty-something crew members went glamping at a property rented out by Neve Campbell. That’s where she tried mushrooms for the very first time.
Hayden admitted she had no clue what to expect going into it -- but felt safe doing it around close friends she trusted to keep the weekend stress-free.
Rashee Rice is going to spend a chunk of his offseason behind bars -- the Kansas City Chiefs receiver was just ordered to serve 30 days in jail for violating the conditions of his probation in connection to his 2024 car crash.
According to online court records, Rice was placed in custody on Tuesday after his drug test came back positive for THC -- the main ingredient in marijuana.
TikTok influencer Gabbie Gonzalez will be charged in an alleged conspiracy to kill the father of her daughter ... boy band singer Jack Avery, and TMZ has learned her father is also in custody for the alleged plot.
Law enforcement sources tell us Gonzalez will be arraigned Tuesday in L.A. County for conspiracy to commit murder. We've also learned her father, Francisco Gonzalez, was arrested Monday in Florida, and booked for the same crime.
According to the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept ... Gabbie was in a nasty custody battle with Jack over their 7-year-old daughter, Lavender, and Gabbie's father also got involved in the dispute.
One witness told cops ... Francisco had said it would be cheaper if Jack were dead.
Jack is a former member of the boy band Why Don't We.
Kim Kardashian's shapewear brand, SKIMS is making it crystal clear it had absolutely nothing to do with a major cocaine smuggling operation in England ... after the company's clothing shipment was tied to a convicted drug trafficker.
A rep for SKIMS tells TMZ ... "SKIMS is aware of the recent news involving a shipment with our products. We want to be absolutely clear: SKIMS had no knowledge whatsoever about this criminal activity. We had no connection to the smuggling operation, the driver, or the truck."
The statement comes after Jakub Jan Konkel was sentenced Monday in Chelmsford Crown Court in Essex, England to 13 years and 6 months in prison for trafficking cocaine.
Natalie Maines is diving headfirst back into political firestorm territory ... more than two decades after the Dixie Chicks controversy that turned country music upside down.
The singer posted a scorching Instagram message Monday aimed at President Donald Trump ... accusing him of destroying democracy and using taxpayer money to help January 6 defendants.
In the post, Maines wrote, "Our democracy is disappearing right before our eyes," before unleashing even harsher language -- calling Trump a "fugly slut" and referencing the Epstein files in a hashtag.
Hayden Panettiere says an Oscar-winning actor and director showed her his testicles, without consent, when she was just a teenager.
The actress has opened up about a ton of stomach-churning stories in her new memoir "This Is Me: A Reckoning" about the abuse she suffered while coming of age in Hollywood ... and she's now relaying a tale about a party she attended when she was 19.
Panettiere says she was leaving a gathering -- having grown uncomfortable while chatting with a group of men near the end of the night -- when a "well-respected" Oscar winner approached her as she was putting on a coat and complained about the gum stuck to his pants.
