Rose Leslie Says She's Not Going to “Guard” Husband Kit Harington From His Addiction

Here are the stories you might have missed this week. View in your browser | Update your preferences A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks April 30, 2022 Rose Leslie Says She's Not Going to "Guard" Husband Kit Harington From His Addiction Now that he's "several years into his sobriety," the actress says she's learned that "it's on him whether he chooses to drink again." R E A D  M O R E » Jane Fonda Says She Gave Up Drinking Because She Only Has "So Many Tomorrows Left" The actress and her Grace and Frankie co-star, Lily Tomlin, also spoke about embracing aging and their involvement in activism. R E A D  M O R E » Disney's Special District Tells Ron DeSantis to Cough Up $1 Billion or STFU Reedy Creek, the company's self-governing district says the Florida governor's attempt to dissolve it is illegal unless he pays off its debts first, and until then will be operating business as usual. R E A D  M O R E » Johnny Depp's Tarnished Career Enters the Amber Heard Defamation Trial Abuse allegations cost Depp his role in the sixth Pirates of the Caribbean, his former agent testified on Wednesday. R E A D  M O R E » Amber Heard Couldn't Pay Second Half of Donation After "Financial Difficulties," According to ACLU The actor pledged to donate some of her divorce settlement to the organization, but after delivering less than half by December 2018, she stopped payments, the ACLU's chief operating officer and general counsel told the jury on Thursday. R E A D  M O R E » Bernie Sanders Wants Democrats to Make Unions Their Biggest Message The moment is finally meeting the man, as national unionization efforts grow. "To turn your back on the working class, in general, is political suicide," the senator tells Vanity Fair. R E A D  M O R E » This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.

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View Online    TIPSHEET TIPSHEET   Mounting scandals fuel uncertainty over Cawthorn's reelection BY TAL AXELROD © Greg Nash The flood of controversies surrounding Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) shows no sign of ceasing just weeks before his May 17 primary, raising questions as to whether he can avoid a runoff despite being one of the highest-profile freshmen in the House.     Cawthorn in the past week alone has been hit with a slew of bad headlines and is now facing calls for an ethics investigation into alleged insider trading by Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), who is also backing a primary challenge against Cawthorn.  Read the full story here Cawthorn hit with new ethics complaint filed by rival PAC BY EMILY BROOKS Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) has been hit with a new ethics complaint by a political action committee seeking to unseat him that hits the embattled lawmaker with a host of accusations. Read the full story here Pelosi says audio recordings show McCarthy 'inconsistent' on lawmaker safety BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL The Red Cross and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said that efforts are underway to evacuate civilians from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol as officials heed the humanitarian organization's warnings, which have underscored the necessity to get Ukrainians out of the besieged city. Read the full story here Vulnerable Democrats press Pelosi to reverse rejection of gas tax holiday BY MIKE LILLIS Embattled Democrats are pushing back on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) decision to reject a gas tax holiday, urging party leaders to reconsider a proposal as lawmakers take a beating over sky-high gas prices. Read the full story here Greene spars with CNN's Acosta on Trump texts: 'You're a liar' BY RACHEL SCULLY Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) clashed with CNN anchor Jim Acosta this week over questions about her text messages calling for former President Trump to declare martial law after rioters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Read the full story here Biden eyes long-awaited student debt relief starting at $10,000 per borrower BY HANNAH TRUDO, AMIE PARNES AND ALEX GANGITANO President Biden plans to move forward with student loan debt forgiveness, with two sources telling The Hill he is considering action to expunge at least $10,000 per borrower. Read the full story here New texts highlight Hannity's close communication with Meadows BY REBECCA BEITSCH Newly released texts between former President Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows and Fox News host Sean Hannity flesh out the degree of coordination between some of the network's hosts and the White House as Trump struggled to challenge President Biden's electoral victory. Read the full story here Dow plunges 900 points, Nasdaq suffers worst month since 2008 BY SYLVAN LANE Stocks took steep losses Friday, closing a brutal month with a deep selloff driven largely by falling shares of technology companies. Read the full story here IRS faces new pressure to develop free online tax-filing system BY TOBIAS BURNS Following two chaotic tax filing seasons resulting in tens of millions of unprocessed returns, the IRS is being urged to develop more free online tax filing tools instead of doubling down on a decades-old program that prevented the agency from competing with private tax preparers. Read the full story here Pentagon spokesman chokes up while talking about Ukraine BY ELLEN MITCHELL The Pentagon's top spokesperson became emotional Friday after he was asked whether he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin to be a "rational actor."  Read the full story here Manchin-Murkowski meeting could be the start of a bipartisan energy bargain BY SASHA MACKLER OPINION | Due to its longstanding leadership both supporting advanced energy technologies like wind and solar and helping to unleash the natural gas fracking boom across the country, Congress should be well-positioned to build on its historically bipartisan actions to enact the logical next wave of federal policy. Read the full story here Elon Musk's Twitter 'free speech' mirage BY MARC GINSBERG OPINION | By every measure, Elon Musk is a brilliant entrepreneur, but a trustworthy arbiter of free speech? I think not. Musk boasts his purchase of Twitter is designed to return Twitter to its glory days as a 280-character free speech fortress, where users could post whatever their whim, with no consequences to them or to Twitter. Easy to promise, impossible to deliver.  Read the full story here The New York Times: Russia's eastern offensive appears to falter BY VICTORIA KIM AND LAUREN MCCARTHY Russia's offensive in eastern Ukraine appears to be faltering, as its troops suffer battlefield losses and logistical and morale problems similar to those they faced in the war's first phase, Western officials and analysts say. Read the full story here The Associated Press: Suspected tornado rips through Kansas, causes severe damage BY AP STAFF WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A suspected tornado that barreled through parts of Kansas damaged multiple buildings, injured several people and left more than 6,500 people without power, officials said Saturday. Read the full story here The Wall Street Journal: Pfizer's COVID-19 pill failed study testing its preventive use BY JARED S. HOPKINS The COVID-19 pill from Pfizer Inc. failed to prevent symptomatic infections in adults who had been exposed to the pandemic virus, a late-stage study found. Read the full story here Reuters: Australian Olympic Committee to back humanitarian visas for Ukrainian athletes BY IAN RANSOM MELBOURNE, April 30 (Reuters) - The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) will support Ukrainian athletes seeking to resettle in Australia on humanitarian grounds amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, outgoing AOC President John Coates said on Saturday. Read the full story here Sign up for Tipsheet Manage Subscriptions | Sign Up for Other Newsletters | Unsubscribe     Copyright © 1998 - 2022 Nexstar Media Inc. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use   To ensure you receive these emails in the future, please add info@nxsemail.nxsttv.com to your address book, contacts or safe senders list.