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6+ min ago (551+ words) While Netflix's flagship sci-fi hit dominates streaming, Thanksgiving programming claims the top spots on linear We've seen Netflix dominate the Samba TV Weekly Wrap report throughout the second half of 2025, but this week, one particular Netflix show is taking over the chart. That show, of course, is "Stranger Things," which returns after a three-year gap and places three different seasons on this week's streaming chart. The debut of the first four episodes of Season 5 was met with rabid anticipation, topping the chart thanks to 3.2 million households watching the first episode over the Thanksgiving holiday. Even more remarkable: 39% of all households that watched any of season five actually binged all available episodes within the first 48 hours. Clearly, fans were eager to catch up on the latest happenings in Hawkins, Indiana, after a three-year wait for the final season. With the fervor…...

10+ min ago (541+ words) Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Thursday insisted that the "best days are ahead of us," just hours after a sharply critical report charged that some "House Republican women are in open revolt" against him. Speaking from inside the U.S. Capitol, Johnson on Thursday told reporters, "steady at the wheel, everybody," and, "it's going to be fine. Our best days are ahead of us. Americans are going to be feeling a lot better in the early part of next year," according to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman. "Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women," NBC News reported, adding: "a number of high-profile Republican women are fleeing the House for other opportunities, weighing retirement or quitting Congress early, fueling some concern that GOP women's ranks could be depleted in the next Congress." Politico this week described Johnson's…...

12+ min ago (151+ words) Jose Alejandro Bastidas is TheWrap's TV editor. Previously, he worked as assistant arts & entertainment editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. He also served as a staff writer at PopCulture.com, based in Nashville, and as food reporter and digital producer at The Desert Sun (a Gannett publication) based in Palm Springs. He has a BA [] Addison Montgomery will walk the halls of Grey Sloan Memorial again in Episode 10 "Grey's Anatomy" fan-favorite Kate Walsh will walk the halls of Grey Sloan Memorial again in Season 22. The actress behind Dr. Addison Montgomery is set to reprise the role in Episode 10, titled "Strip That Down" and set to air Jan. 29, TheWrap has learned. This marks the latest appearance from Walsh on the long-running medical drama, who last appeared in a multi-episode arc starting in Season 18, with appearances from 2021 to 2023....

13+ min ago (415+ words) The "It Ends With Us" director and star officially requested to dismiss the actress" lawsuit in November Blake Lively's legal team filed a motion early Thursday calling for the court to reject Justin Baldoni"s move to dismiss her lawsuit against him and his Wayfarer Studios, demanding that the case "proceed to trial." In November, Baldoni and his legal team filed a motion asking the court to toss out Lively"s sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, calling the actress" case a "litany of minor grievances" that did not prove that he and his production company actually created an "objectively hostile" environment on the set of "It Ends With Us." That move came five months after Judge Lewis J. Liman dismissed Baldoni"s defamation case against Lively in June. Baldoni was given the chance to file an amended complaint after the judge…...

13+ min ago (195+ words) Federal authorities have finally arrested a suspect in the January 6 pipe bombs case, potentially shedding light on a mystery that has lingered since 2021, ABC News' Katherine Faulders reported. The suspect is reportedly a man from Virginia, identified after FBI agents combed through footage and evidence in an extensive review. The explosive devices were placed at the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican National Committees on the same day that an angry mob of MAGA activists stormed the Capitol to try to stop the certification of President Donald Trump's election loss that year. The bombs were viable, according to authorities, but did not explode. Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris passed within 20 feet of one of the explosive devices at one point. Aside from publicly released footage of an unknown figure in a gray hoodie, the mystery of who planted the devices has…...

15+ min ago (202+ words) This post is also available in: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Arabic Ahmed N'jib Chebbi was arrested today, Thursday, December 4, in Tunis after being sentenced to 12 years in prison in a sham trial in which he was accused of "conspiring against state security." Chebbi, who is 81, is one of the country's best-known left-wing opponents and has had a long political career that led him to run for president of Tunisia in 2009, serve as a minister in the first government of national unity after the fall of Ben Ali, and become a member of the Constituent Assembly. In recent days, Chebbi had stated in a video: "I am going to prison with a clear conscience and knowing that I have done nothing wrong." His arrest is not an isolated case, following the arrest of lawyer Ayachi Hammami and activist Cha'ma Issa,…...

16+ min ago (246+ words) California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco on June 1, 2019 (Gage Skidmore/Flickr) Back in 2019 " the year after he defeated Republican Steve Poizner in the race for California insurance commissioner " Democrat Ricardo Lara drew criticism when it was discovered that he was soliciting money from people he was regulating. Lara, in response to the controversy, vowed, "I must hold myself to a higher standard. I can and will do better." Now, in late 2025, Lara is facing another controversy. The Los Angeles Times' Paige St. John, in an article published on December 4, reports that the former California state senator is "under two new investigations for potential campaign finance and ethics violations" and is "accused by consumer advocates of cozying up to those he regulates." Lara, according to St....

20+ min ago (415+ words) Inset: Jose Carlos Villanueva (KGTV). Background: The 7-Eleven store in Chula Vista, California, where Villanueva allegedly set his ex-girlfriend on fire, killing her (KNSD). A California man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend after he set her on fire while she worked at 7-Eleven last year appeared before a judge this week for a preliminary hearing. Jose Carlos Villanueva, 49, is charged with murder, arson causing great bodily harm, mayhem and torture in the death of 44-year-old Amanda Buchanan. Cops responded to a fire just after 8 a.m. Aug. 24, 2024, at the 7-Eleven at 899 Broadway in Chula Vista, a San Diego suburb. Smoke billowed from the store's front doors when officers arrived. They found one woman suffering from significant burns outside and could hear another woman's voice coming from the inside. Officers found Buchanan and carried her outside as she was unable to move on…...

20+ min ago (1789+ words) The Office of the Inspector General's Signalgate report is out, and it does not fully exonerate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, regardless of his supporters' claims. "We concluded that the Secretary sent sensitive, nonpublic, operational information that he determined did not require classification over the Signal chat on his personal cell phone," the 84-page report reads. After 83 people have lost their lives in dubiously legal boat strikes in the Caribbean, some prominent Republican senators seem to finally be ready to part ways with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth's Pentagon was revealed to have levied a second strike against a boat in September in order to kill two survivors of the first attack. The strike, which could be considered a war crime, may be the last straw for Hegseth. On Thursday, Republican Senator Roger Wicker, chair of the Armed Services Committee, said…...

20+ min ago (1766+ words) JD Vance hit up his buddies in the Signal chat used to coordinate bombing Yemen with a late-night plea for companionship'hours after the chat's existence was revealed to the public by Atlantic editor Jeff Goldberg. "This chat's kind of dead," Vance texted at 2:26 a.m. "Anything going on?" A report from the Pentagon inspector general released Thursday reveals new details about what the chat's members did in the days and hours after March 24, when Goldberg published that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had inadvertently texted him classified information about the Trump administration's war plans. The vice president's "u up?"-style message, which we are generously reading as a joke, was sent in the wee hours of the morning of March 25. Other officials changed their profile names: Secretary of State Marco Rubio changed his screen name from "MAR" to "MR," CIA Director John Ratfcliffe…...