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Get to know Doug Emhoff's First Wife Kerstin Emhoff; Her Career, Kids, Net worth and Relationship with Kamala Harris

Kerstin Mackin Emhoff is the CEO and co-founder of PRETTYBIRD, a hybrid production company that creates cutting-edge work that transcends boundaries and lives at the crossroads of branded entertainment, music, sports, technology, film, and television. She was named a finalist for Creativity’s Diversity & Inclusion Champions of the Year for 2021 alongside PRETTYBIRD President Ali Brown.

In addition, she is also the co-founder and CEO of Ventureland, a creative studio and idea accelerator that develops entertainment properties, advertising campaigns, and original IP alongside filmmakers, studios, and brands.

Kerstin went to a film school and after that she moved to LA where she became a waitress. One day she waited on ad guys having dinner who told her, they would get her into the ad business. She turned it down and instead told them she had a dramatic 16mm films and since then she was hooked into the world of short form.

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Get to know Pat Williams, Orlando Magic Co-founder who had sadly passed on at the age of 84 following complications from viral pneumonia.

Pat Williams was a basketball hall of famer who co-founded Orlando Magic co-founder and served as a general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers. He died on July 17, 2024 at the age of 84 following complications from viral pneumonia.

In his career, he served as a general manager with NBA teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Orlando, including the 1983 World Champion 76ers. In addition, he was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history in 1996.

In his NBA career, he has led his teams to 23 NBA Playoffs and five NBA Finals. He won four NBA draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners in 1992, 1993 and in 2004. Nineteen of his former players have become NBA head coaches.

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Who is X (Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino; Age, Husband, Ethnicity, Net worth

Linda Yaccarino is an advertising executive and X (formerly known as Twitter) CEO, she took over in June,2023 from Elon Musk who stepped down from the role and transitioned to executive chair and chief technology officer. Linda is the former chairperson of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal. She is the chairperson of the World Economic Forum's Taskforce on Future of Work and sits on the WEF's Media, Entertainment and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee.

She was appointed by former President Donald Trump in 2018 to serve a two-year term on his Council on Sports Fitness and Nutrition. In 2021, as Ad Council chair, she partnered with the Biden White House to create a coronavirus vaccine campaign featuring Pope Francis.

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Who is Kristi Noem Husband, Bryon Noem; Get to know his qualification and occupation

Bryon Noem is the husband of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, making him the first Gentleman of South Dakota. He is a rancher and insurer. He previously worked at Bryant State Bank to manage their insurance agency before he purchased the agency and renamed it Noem insurance.

Noem is the owner of Noem Insurance, which offers insurance on home, auto, farm, crop, hail, commercial and Life insurance. In 2003 he took up a job at Bryant State Bank to manage their insurance agency and then purchased that agency in 2010 and renamed it to Noem Insurance.

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Who is Judge Tanya Chutkan Husband, Peter Krauthamer?

Tanya Sue Chutkan is the judge assigned to oversee Trump's January 6, 2021 Capitol attack case in D.C. Trump is indicted on charges of attempting to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. Chutkan was one of the first federal judges in D.C. to reject the former president’s efforts to use executive privilege to withhold White House communications from Jan. 6 investigators, in that instance from the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.

Her husband was also a judge prior to his retirement in June 2023. He served as a former associate judge of Superior Court of the District of Columbia with a background in criminal justice. Most of his career, he spent being a public defender at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS).

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Who is Senator Bob Menendez Wife, Nadine Menendez?; Age, Family, Indictment

Nadine Arslanian Menendez is the wife of New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez. The couple have been indicted for allegedly accepting bribes. They face three criminal counts: conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right. This was after they allegedly accepted gold bars and cash to secretly aid the Egyptian government.

On July 16, 2024, her husband Bob Menendez was found guilty of all counts. He had pleaded not guilty and his team argued that he was acting on behalf of his constituents , and that the government had not proven that the cash or gold bars were given as bribes. This was Menendez second corruption trial in his 18 year career in the Senate. The previous one resulted in a mistrial due to a hung jury in 2018, and the justice department ended up dropping the charges against him.

On the other hand, Nadine's trial was adjourned "sine die" meaning with no date, following her cancer diagnosis as she is currently undergoing cancer treatment.

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Get to know Usha Chilukuri, J.D. Vance Wife; Her Religion, Nationality, Ethnicity, Family, Career

Usha Chilukuri Vance is an attorney and the wife of J.D. Vance, a republican senator for Ohio who has been nominated as Trump's vice-presidential candidate. She is an attorney at the San Francisco and Washington, DC law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson where she focuses on complex civil litigation and appeals.

While she was studying at Yale majoring in History, she volunteered to help the homeless, tutored public school students and edited a public school advocacy magazine called Our Education. She also participated in the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project.

She was born to her Indian immigrant parents who are a mechanical engineer and a biologist. Their names are not in the public domain. They are Brahmins and are from a Telugu-speaking region of India.

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Who was Trump Shooting Suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks?

Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa., is a 20 year old suspected Trump rally shooter in Saturday's attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump. He is the son of Matthew Crooks who has told CNN that he was s trying to figure out what happened and would wait until he spoke to law enforcement before speaking about his son.

Crooks graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022 where he received a $500 "star award" from the National Math and Science Initiative, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He is a registered Republican but at the age of 17, he donated a $15 donation to ActBlue, a political action committee that raises money for left-leaning and Democratic politicians. The donation was earmarked for the Progressive Turnout Project, a national group that rallies Democrats to vote.

Read more about his family, education and possible motive

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Biography of NYT Congressional Correspondent Annie Karni

Annie Karni is a New York Times congressional correspondent covering Capitol Hill. She formerly covered the White House for three years, reporting extensively on the 2020 campaign, the Republican National Convention, Trump’s response to the coronavirus and the roles of the former president’s family members in his inner circle.

Prior to joining The Times, she worked for Politico covering the White House and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Before that she spent a decade covering City Hall and local politics for the New York Post, the New York Daily News and The New York Sun.

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Biography of Fox News Contributor Joe Concha; Wife, Kids, Salary

Joe Concha is a FOX News contributor and a media and politics columnist. He is a regular guest on numerous shows including Hannity, Fox & Friends, Unfiltered with Dan Bongino, Watters World, Justice with Jeanine Pirro, Outnumbered, Kudlow, Varney & Co, and Mornings with Maria.

In addition, he is also a rotating co-host on The Big Saturday and Sunday Show and has co-hosted The Five. He is also a media and political columnist for The Messanger and Bleacher Report. He formerly contributed on The Hill and The Daily Beast.

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Get to know Newmax Host Rob Schmitt ; Is he Married?, Does he have Kids?

Rob Schmitt is an American journalist serving as a prime-time host on Newsmax TV where he hosts 'Rob Schmitt Tonight'. He previously anchored the "Fox & Friends First" morning show and was a co-anchor for Fox Nation.

Throughout his career, he has worked with several major news networks including NBC, CBS, two ABC affiliates and Foxs News Channel giving him a unique perspective for opinion writing. Some of his significant coverages includes the California wildfires and hurricanes Harvey, Gustav, and Hanna. He covered the Haiti earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people as well as the deportation of 95-year-old Jakiw Palij, a Nazi death camp guard who was discovered living in Queens, New York.

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Biography of CNN Meteorologist Allison Chinchar; Husband, Kids, Salary, Parents

Allison Chinchar is a CNN meteorologist who appears regularly on CNN's 'New Day Weekend' as well as CNN International programs. In addition, she is a columnist for 'The Danbille Register & Bee'.

She is a member of the American Meteorological Society, the National Weather Association, and the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology.

She has previously worked at WXIA-TV in Atlanta, WKRN in Nashville, Tennessee and WTVC in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her weather coverage includes the super tornado outbreak on April 26-27, 2011, the ice/snow storm of January 2011 which effectively shut down the city of Atlanta and the northern half of the state, and she also covered Hurricane Isaac live from New Orleans in August 2012.

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Get to Know Vanity Fair Special Correspondent Molly Jong Fast who got her break through as a reporter Tweeting

Molly Jong-Fast is an American author and freelance magazine writer. She is a Vanity Fair special correspondent and podcast host of 'Fast Politics' on iHeartMedia. She is also a political correspondent on MSNBC.

Molly was a drug addict and nearly died but she sobered up and is really grateful as most kids that grew up like her are not high functioning. Her parents split up when she was just 3 and was often left with her grandparents as her mother was busy being a cultural icon. She was introduced to left-wing politics by his grandfather Howard Fast, a novelist and Communist activist who served prison time in the McCarthy era.

At the age of 6, in 1985, her mother moved her to the Beverly Hilton for a month because she was developing a sitcom based on her experience with divorce. Her mother intended to use her name as the characters but her father objected and was changed to Megan.

Jong is dyslexic and performed poorly in school which led to her ejection from Dalton. This saw her get into alcoholism and drugs and spent time at Hazelden, an the A-list rehab center. At the age of 21, she published a roman à clef about her struggles. After getting married she wrote her second book but she felt at a loss.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, she started tweeting as she realized at some point that he would win. She tweeted upto 15 times a day and replied to journalists and posted links to their stories. The conservative commentator Bill Kristol hired her to write for his site The Bulwark. She traveled and covered Trump rallies and conservative conferences using her own money. She turned her lack of reportorial expertise into an asset, forsaking complex political analysis for a “can you believe this?” astonishment.

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Get to Know CNN Senior Producer Melissa Mahtani

Melissa Mahtani is an American journalist and an award winning senior producer and reporter for CNN’s live news team. She has almost 20 years international experience in London, Paris and New York. She focuses on International Affairs, Human Rights and Equality.

She has produced content for CNN, CNN International, CNBC, France 24 and ITN, hosting on-camera interviews, writing for dot-com and moderating panels for international current affairs and business-related news events. She also plays a key role in designing the social strategy around special events including bespoke CNN Town Halls, CNN Heroes and the United Nations General Assembly.

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Get to Know MSNBC Legal Contributor and Correspondent Katie Phang

Katie S. Phang is a trial attorney and legal analyst for MSNBC and NBC and also hosts her show 'The Katie Phang Show' on MSNBC. She is a founding partner of Phang Feldman and served as adjunct professor of litigation skills at the University of Miami School of Law.

Phang is a trial attorney specializing in commercial litigation,family law, real estate litigation, hospitality litigation, and criminal defense & special investigations. She has over 20 years of trial experience. She is a founder and partner at Phang Feldman alongside her husband Jonathan.

After receiving her Law degree she became a prosecutor on Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s team. She specialized in trying misdemeanors and left several years later as a division chief, trying capital homicide cases. She then joined Broward State Attorney Michael J. Satz’s office in Fort Lauderdale.

She co-founded Arrastia, Capote & Phang, LLP, a minority-owned law firm in 2012, where she handled commercial litigation cases for major corporate clients, as well as small business owners and individuals.

In January 2015, she joined Berger Singerman becoming the only female litigation partner in the Miami office. Her practice included business torts, contract breaches, restrictive covenants and other commercial matters, assisting both local and national companies.

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Who is CISA Advisor Nicole Perlroth, Award Winning Cybersecurity Expert who served as a lead cyber-security reporter for The New York Times for a decade

Nicole Perlroth spent a decade as the lead cybersecurity reporter at The New York Times, where her investigations rooted out Russian hacks of nuclear plants, airports, elections, and petrochemical plants; North Korea's cyberattack against Sony, banks and crypto exchanges; Iranian attacks on oil companies, banks and dams; and thousands of Chinese cyberattacks against American businesses, including leading the investigation of the months-long Chinese hack of The Times. Her outing of hacking divisions within China’s PLA compelled the first United States hacking charges against the Chinese military and earned her the prestigious “Best in Business Award” from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She left the Times in 2021 to join the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CISAC).

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Biography of Legal Analyst and Columnist Elie Mystal

Elie Mystal is an American attorney, author and political commentator. He is a justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation where he covers the courts, the criminal justice system, and politics. He is also the legal editor of the More Perfect podcast on the Supreme Court for Radiolab and a part-time MSNBC legal commentator.

He is a former litigator at a big law firm but he quit to pursue a career as an online provocateur. He wrote about politics and popular culture at City Hall News in New York Press. In 2008, he won the Above the Law Idol Contest which helped him join Above the Law.

Elie writes in his book, "Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution," that the U.S. Constitution is not only "not good," but that it's "actually trash" but the Supreme Court can be fixed. He alleges that the constitution was drafted by men who owned slaves and enshrined that evil institution with the infamous Fugitive Slave Clause and the "three-fifths compromise." He notes that the constitution is given too much deference: "We act like this thing was kind of etched in stone by the finger of God, when actually it was hotly contested and debated, scrawled out over a couple of weeks in the summer in Philadelphia in 1787, with a bunch of rich, white politicians making deals with each other."