Seattle Pride announced Tuesday it was cutting ties with Amazon for the 2022 Seattle Pride Parade. The organization cited Amazon’s political donation record, that anti-LGBTQ groups use AmazonSmile.  An Amazon spokesperson told Insider it “stand[s] together with the LGBTQ+ community.”  Seattle Pride will not allow Amazon to sponsor LGBTQ pride celebration events in 2022.  The nonprofit, which organizes pride events in Seattle and does other advocacy work, released a statement Tuesday that it would “part ways” with Amazon.  “Seattle Pride has decided to not partner with Am ..read more

Elizabeth Holmes blamed her ex-business partner, Sunny” Balwani, in her fraud trial. Now, he’s doing the same to her. In Tuesday’s opening statements, Balwani’s attorneys emphasized, “Elizabeth Holmes, not Sunny, founded Theranos and built Theranos.” The prosecution, meanwhile, argued the two were “partners in everything, including their crimes.” Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud trial may be over, but it looks like the Theranos founder is a focal point in another trial now underway. Opening statements took place Tuesday in the fraud trial of Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, who is Holmes’ ex-boyfriend and Th ..read more

Sterling K. Brown told Hannah Zeile to “really cherish” her time on the “This Is Us” set.  “Everyone just actually gets along, actually loves each other,” Zeile told Insider.  The 24-year-old said her on-screen parents Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore have “wisdom to offer.” “This Is Us” star Hannah Zeile was working as a cashier at Chipotle when she auditioned for the role of teenage Kate Pearson. She was 18 and had decided to get back into acting after doing some when she was younger. Her first audition back was for the NBC drama — and the rest, of course, is history. “I’ve been ..read more

Hillary Clinton said she tested positive for COVID-19 in a Tuesday tweet.  The former secretary of state said she has some mild cold symptoms but is feeling fine. Clinton praised the vaccines’ protection and urged others to get inoculated and boosted.  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has tested positive for COVID-19, she tweeted Tuesday. The former senator and presidential hopeful said she has some mild cold symptoms but is feeling fine. “I’m more grateful than ever for the protection vaccines can provide against serious illness,” Clinton tweeted. “Please get vaccinated ..read more

Caan, who played Sonny Corleone in “The Godfather,” recalled how he loosened up Lenny Montana. Director Francis Ford Coppola was angry at Montana (Luca Brasi), who kept messing up his lines. Caan decided to tape “fuck you” to Montana’s tongue. “Everyone’s gonna laugh,” he told Montana. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece “The Godfather,” one of the stars of the movie, James Caan reminisced about how he loosened up the actor who played one of the movie’s iconic characters. Former professional wrestler Lenny Montana was cast as the Corleone crime famil ..read more

Marie Yovanovitch wrote that Rudy Giuliani “absorbed the lesson of Russian disinformation” while working for Trump. She wrote about how he wanted Ukraine’s president to publicly announce investigations into the Bidens ahead of the 2020 election. Giuliani had learned that “the allegation can be just as damaging as the action, and it’s easier, quicker, and cheaper to deploy,” Yovanovitch wrote. Former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch writes in her new memoir that Rudy Giuliani “completely absorbed the lesson of Russian disinformation” while working for then President Donald Trump ahead ..read more

Sen. Mitt Romney pushed back on GOP attacks against Ketanji Brown Jackson as “off course.” Several GOP members have raised concerns about Jackson’s record on child pornography cases. “It struck me that it was off course,” Romney told the Washington Post. Sen. Mitt Romney on Tuesday criticized his Republican colleagues’ attacks against President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record on child pornography cases. “It struck me that it was off course, meaning the attacks were off course that came from some,” Romney told The Washington Post’s Paul Kane on Tuesday ..read more

National security advisor Sullivan said Russia has “manifestly failed” in its invasion of Ukraine. “The brave citizens of Ukraine are refusing to submit,” he said. “They’re fighting back.” President Biden will head to Europe on Wednesday to map out the next steps for dealing with Russia. National security advisor Jake Sullivan on Tuesday said that Russia has “manifestly failed” in achieving its three major goals through the country’s “brutal” invasion of Ukraine. Sullivan — while speaking at the White House press briefing ahead of President Joe Biden’s trip to Europe beginning on Wednesday ..read more

In summer 2021, the US Navy put an aircraft carrier through shock trials for the first time since 1987. Afterward, USS Gerald R. Ford only needed a fraction of the repairs as the last carrier to do shock trials. That testing and other developments aboard the Ford indicate its finally ready to deploy with the fleet. On March 1, the US Navy said its newest carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, had completed its first Planned Incremental Availability, a six-month modernization and maintenance process intended to give the carrier its final touches before its first deployment. Ford entered its PIA after ..read more

Smartmatic is resuming its defamation lawsuit against Sidney Powell. A New York judge dismissed the lawsuit for jurisdictional reasons earlier this month. But Smartmatic filed a backup lawsuit in Washington, DC, that it’s moving forward with. Smartmatic is pursuing its defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell — just in a different court than it initially planned. The election technology company included Powell — a lawyer who pursued several failed lawsuits that alleged Smartmatic and rival company Dominion manipulated the results of the 2020 election against then-Preside ..read more