Documents obtained by Right Wing Watch detail how Focus on the Family, a religious conservative and anti-abortion organization, convinced the IRS in 2016 to classify the nonprofit as a church, releasing it from financial transparency rules and requirements like unemployment benefits.
In a 2011 interview with InTouch Weekly that was recently unearthed and published in full, Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with Donald Trump and was paid to keep quiet about it, tells the magazine about an evening she says she spent with him in a Beverly Hills hotel room, talking about sharks ’n stuff…
On Monday afternoon, Page Six published a story about a recent performance of Sunset Boulevard (the Andrew Lloyd Webber revival currently on Broadway) after which its star, six-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close, took to the stage to auction off some props from that night’s show: her glasses and fake eyelashes. The…
The day after Donald Trump was elected president, Jezebel published a list of charities whose work would be especially important under the new administration. The response was overwhelming.
Donald Trump, an industrial-sized wastebasket in a clip-on tie, reportedly spent some $258,000 of his charity’s money to settle two legal claims, according to the Washington Post. Trump has repeatedly claimed that he “never” settles lawsuits, but in fact, he frequently does. Using the Trump Foundation’s money to do so…
In good news for animal lovers and slightly less good news for Leona Lewis’s pop career, the singer has released the very grammatically confusing “(We All Are) Looking For Home” in partnership with the organizations Stop Yulin Forever and the Vanderpump Dog Foundation. The “charity track” is meant to generate…
In wake of the recent allegations made against loathed pharma tycoon Martin Shkreli involving securities fraud and conspiracy, a homelessness charity has decided to return the thousands of dollars Shkreli has donated to them.
Because I have a feeling a bunch of people are about to get reallllly mad.
Today in news that you could have sworn should have already happened: The Second Mile, disgraced former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky's charity that he allegedly used as a totally fucked up matchmaking service to meet potential victims, is finally closing its doors.
Last night at Milk Studios in New York City, models Coco Rocha and Behati Prinsloo screened this film about their post-earthquake humanitarian trip to Haiti. It's 23 minutes long, but well worth a look. As is Lakay Pam, the charity Prinsloo and Rocha opted to work with, which runs orphanages, schools, and…
Last night at a premiere party for a movie — The Way, although I saw neither (star) Martin Sheen nor (director) Emilio Estevez and therefore didn't get to pester them with questions about Catholicism or Steve Jobs or whatever — I met a lady who runs a pretty cool charity.
San Francisco-based charity Matter of Trust wants your hair. Donations of human and pet hair are turned into mats, which are used to absorb oil and clean up spills. Gross, maybe, but definitely green. Video after the jump. [via InventorSpot]
John Mayer broke his Twitter silence today by posting a link to the Isaac Foundation. Nice try, but even the charity's assurances that he is a "kind, caring, and compassionate person" doesn't convince us he's not also a douche. [BlackBook]
On Wednesday, HBO will air the Academy Award-winning short documentary Smile Pinky, the story of two Indian children whose cleft lips are repaired by the charity Smile Train. Director Megan Mylan says such exposure can translate into aid for thousands of children.
