Politics

President Donald Trump is going back for seconds at the White House Correspondents' Dinner ... announcing a new date for the event after an alleged assassination attempt forced an abrupt end to the gala.

POTUS confirmed Tuesday the annual dinner -- which was cut short when a gunman opened fire on April 25 -- has been rescheduled for July 24 at the luxurious Waldorf Astoria in D.C.

In a post on Truth Social, the Prez framed the rescheduling as a show of "Strength and Fortitude" ... saying the country can't let "Lunatics" dictate schedules or disrupt traditions.

Spencer Pratt is firing back at folks who think he's bad with money ... and he's defending his much younger self for blowing through $10 million.

Spencer was on the "No Jumper" podcast when he took aim at critics bashing him for spending his own money back in the day ... saying every dollar he spent came from his "The Hills" paydays.

Spencer's running for Los Angeles mayor at 42 ... but when he was in his 20s, he says his life goals were much different ... get rich, get famous, and build an empire like Kim Kardashian.

Spencer says he never expected the reality TV gravy train to come to a screeching halt, so he wasn't treating the money like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Plus, as he points out, he wasn't spending anyone else's money but his own ... and definitely wasn't touching taxpayer dollars.

Tom Steyer spent the final hours before Election Day making one thing clear ... he's not backing down ... and he used karaoke and drag queens to make his point.

TMZ obtained video of the California gubernatorial candidate taking the stage Monday night at GYM Bar WeHo, where he grabbed a microphone and belted out Tom Petty's classic anthem, "I Won't Back Down," alongside drag performers.

Roll the tape ... Tom appears right at home under the lights ... smiling, singing, and working the crowd. He sticks close to the song's defiant message, tailor-made for a candidate heading into a crucial primary.

Freedom 250 performers keep dropping like flies ... and now Milli Vanilli's Fab Morvan is backing out.

Fab says he was all about performing for his country at first, but as he explained to CNN, things changed, and the event is no longer what he signed up for.

Fab says he started to get cold feet when he saw Young MC pull out ... he was worried the "Bust A Move" artist knew something he didn't.

The fallout from The Black Crowes' onstage political dust-up on Sunday didn't end with boos ... it kept rolling straight toward the exits.

Check out the video we obtained ... concertgoers can be seen popping up from their seats and streaming out of the venue following frontman Chris Robinson's controversial comments during the band's Tampa show.

The clip shows a steady flow of fans heading for the aisles while others remain seated as the concert continues. Several sections appear noticeably in motion as attendees make their way toward the exits -- no longer interested in sticking around after the tense exchange.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass isn't pulling any punches on the eve of Election Day ... taking direct aim at challenger Spencer Pratt and questioning whether the reality star has ever held a job outside of being on TV.

We got the mayor Monday at Pann's Restaurant, where she framed the mayoral race as a choice between governing experience and reality TV fame.

Bass rattles off what she considers key accomplishments from her time in office before brushing off Pratt as a "reality TV star villain" who doesn't understand how city government operates.

The mayor also seemed to draw a comparison between Pratt and President Trump ... arguing celebrity status alone isn't a qualification for public office.

Chris Robinson got into it with fans at The Black Crowes' Florida concert ... beefing with folks who started chanting "U-S-A."

Here's the deal ... the band was performing Sunday in Tampa as part of their "Southern Hospitality Tour" when a visual thrown on a screen reportedly showed the band's Black Crowe character dressed as Uncle Sam.

A source tells TMZ ... before the band started playing "She Talks to Angels," the crowd started chanting "U.S.A."

That's when Chris addressed the crowd, saying ... "Thanks for the geography lesson."

When the crowd kept chanting, Chris added ... "I don't know what you have to be so proud of right now."

President Donald Trump is abandoning plans to hand out nearly $2 billion to his allies -- including J6 rioters -- on the heels of judges blocking the so-called anti-weaponization fund.

TMZ has confirmed the Dept. of Justice is opting to abide by the federal judges' ruling that it could not "under any circumstances" proceed with handing out money to people who believe they'd been targeted by the DOJ.

One source told Axios, which first reported the news, "It's dead for now."

Caroline Kennedy fought back tears talking about her late daughter Tatiana Schlossberg in her first public comments since John F. Kennedy's grandchild died following a terminal cancer diagnosis.

During her speech at the JFK Profile in Courage Award Ceremony Sunday, Caroline addressed family members in the audience before taking a moment to honor her daughter.

Caroline grew emotional as she remembered Tatiana as a woman who "represented everything my parents stood for in her beautiful, amazing, and too-short life."

The Minnesota GOP is catching serious heat after delegates at the party's state convention held a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin -- the former Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd.

According to multiple reports, convention proceedings kicked off Saturday morning with a 10-second moment of silence for Chauvin ... just days after the sixth anniversary of Floyd's death.

Chauvin, of course, was convicted in 2021 of murdering Floyd. Video showed Chauvin, a Minneapolis cop at the time, kneeling on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes during a 2020 arrest. The footage sparked massive protests across the country, fueling calls for police reform and renewed scrutiny of racial justice issues in law enforcement.

Hasan Piker and his uncle, Cenk Uygur, have been blocked from entering the United Kingdom ... and they say it's because they criticized Israel.

The left-wing commentators and progressive activists had their visas revoked just days before multiple speaking engagements across the pond.

Cenk says he found out as he was trying to hop on his flight. He posted on X ... "I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!"

The official Instagram account for the Obama White House started posted some strange content Sunday ... with someone claiming the White House is under Shiite control ... and it turns out it was the work of a hacker.

Barack Obama has his own personal page, but the hack happened with the @obamawhitehouse IG account ... the official account for The Obama White House.

There were some posts that went up that raised eyebrows ... including an A.I.-generated image with a caption that translated to, "The White House is under Shiites' control."

David Rush, the longtime CIA officer who was arrested for allegedly hoarding $40 Million in gold bars at his home, has been linked to President Donald Trump's No. 2 man at the Pentagon.

Rush used to work with billionaire Stephen A. Feinberg ... according to NBC News and The New York Times ... and that's notable because Feinberg is now Trump's Deputy Secretary of Defense.

A CIA officer for 17 years, Rush held a senior position inside the agency's Directorate of Science and Technology ... and he appears to have first come into contact with Feinberg during Trump's first term, when they were both reportedly on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.

Bill Gates' public persona looks like it's taking a huge hit ... and it sounds like it's all because of his association with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

In an exposé about Bill's carefully crafted image and the way it appears to be cracking, The Wall Street Journal reports Bill's standing is falling in public and in business as he gears up to testifying before Congress in the Epstein investigation.

Bill reportedly has a bunch of staffers tasked with carefully crafting him to come off like Mr. Rogers -- they test out wardrobe choices on a custom mannequin -- but it's all going to waste now that his ties to Epstein and some affairs with Russian women have been revealed.

President Trump is pissed at the performers who dropped out of Freedom 250's Great American State Fair -- and now he wants to pull the plug on the whole damn concert series!

47 posted an explosive message Saturday on Truth Social, ripping "overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain."

Trump then demanded the cancellation of the Freedom 250, comparing it to "the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center." More on the Kennedy Center in a bit.