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    Danny Shea

    Danny Shea

    Editorial Director, The Huffington Post

  • Carmen Ejogo Urges America To 'Do The Right Thing' On Marriage Equality

    Carmen Ejogo and Susan Sarandon are the latest celebrities to add their voice to LGBT advocacy group?Lambda Legal's campaign for marriage equality. Ejogo, who starred as Coretta Scott King in "Selma," said in a video for?the group's #IDo campaign?that her support for LGBT rights traces its roots in her Nigerian-Scottish heritage. "If we do the right thing in terms of marriage equality, there may be other nations that could follow suit.

  • Who Could Replace Brian Williams At 'NBC Nightly News'?

    When NBC News recently celebrated Brian Williams’ decade behind the “Nightly News” anchor desk, the network went with the tagline: “He’s been there. Williams' career began to unravel this past week?after he admitted?to falsely claiming to have been in a helicopter struck by rocket-propelled grenade fire and forced down in Iraq. NBC News is currently?investigating?Williams’?shifting claims?about the 2003 trip.

  • Princeton Student Describes Meningitis: 'Excruciating'

    Michael Moorin, one of the seven confirmed cases of meningitis on Princeton's campus, joined HuffPost Live Tuesday to share his experience with the disease. Moorin, a sophomore at the university, told HuffPost Live host Mike Sacks that he contracted the disease over the summer while studying abroad in Greece.

  • WATCH: Sting, Bruce, Bono & More In Incredible Never-Before-Seen Video

    Amnesty International presented its legendary Human Rights Concerts from 1986-1998 to raise funds and consciousness for the struggle for worldwide human rights. Those concerts starred U2, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Bono and dozens more. Those concerts have never been seen since their original solitary TV airings, and are now are being released for the first time ever on a 6-disc DVD box-set and on CD.

  • Chris Noth Unloads On GOP

    Chris Noth isn't just political on "The Good Wife." The actor stopped by HuffPost Live Wednesday to discuss his work around hunger relief, and shared his thoughts on the Republican-controlled Congress with host Marc Lamont Hill. Noth called today's legislative branch "the worst Congress since right before the Civil War" and explained why he sees "racist" undertones in the government shutdown and Birther claims and views the Tea Party as "un-American."

  • Grayson: GOP 'Sadistic' In Shutdown

    Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) joined HuffPost Live Tuesday to react to the government shutdown, calling the Republican Party willingness to shut the government down in an attempt to block access to health care "sadistic." Grayson called the shutdown "an unconstitutional method of repealing an existing law."

  • Single Moms React To Ted Cruz: 'Out Of Touch,' 'Offensive,' 'Insulting'

    Judging from Ted Cruz's 21-hour speech on the Senate floor this week, it appears that?every single mother he has ever met works as a diner waitress. HuffPost Live invited single moms to respond to the Texas Republican and got dozens of emails from single mothers from all walks of professional life. "It's insulting, quite frankly, to be just put in a category that we're all working in diners," Made-in-Italy.com Managing Editor (and single mom) Danielle Pollack -- who waited tables in college before becoming a mother -- said.

  • Did Obama Lie On 'The Tonight Show'?

    Trevor Timm, Freedom of the Press Foundation executive director and Electronic Frontier Foundation director, told HuffPost Live's?Ahmed Shihab-Eldin?Thursday that the news directly contradicts what?President Obama told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show"?earlier in the week. "There is no spying on Americans.

  • MSNBC's New Host

    Huntsman, who was one of HuffPost Live's original host/producers, will join co-hosts Krystal Ball, Ari Melber, and Toure as of July 29. The daughter of former Republican presidential candidate Jon Hunstman, Huntsman?announced the move on HuffPost Live?Wednesday.

  • NFL Player: 'Definitely' Already Gays In NFL

    The Oakland Raiders punter, whose new book Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies is out this week, told HuffPost Live host?Marc Lamont Hill?that based on statistics, there has to be a gay player in the NFL already. "The way I look at it is: how much better would gay players play if they didn't have to hide who they were?" he said. Kluwe, whose gay activism has won him fans far outside the football universe, also made a bold claim about gays in the NFL.

  • Wife Defends Jesse Friedman: 'Blatant Lies' About Porn In Report

    Convicted sex offender Jesse Friedman and his wife Elisabeth Walsh joined HuffPost Live Tuesday, just one day after it was announced that his conviction in a 1980s sex abuse scandal would not be overturned. "I never sexually abused anybody, ever, in any way," Friedman said. Friedman was convicted in 1988 of molesting young boys at his father's computer classes in their home.

  • WATCH: Pundit Slaps Mitch McConnell Back With Wife Remark

    Centrist political pundit Norm Ornstein found himself at the?center of a spat with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Friday, as McConnell sparred with him at the American Enterprise Institute. Ornstein also blamed McConnell for congressional dysfunction, saying "he's got a lot to do" with gridlock in the Senate.

  • Christie On Special Election Rumors: 'Not Happening'

    New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said in no uncertain terms Friday that he will not be consolidating the special election to replace the late Senator Frank Lautenberg with the general November election. "It's not happening," Christie bluntly told HuffPost Live host Jacob Soboroff at the Points of Light Conference on Volunteering And Service in Washington. Christie said the New Jersey Supreme Court's upholding of his decision to hold the special election in October is "the end of the subject" and said that the decision to separate state elections from federal elections was a choice made by the framers of the New Jersey state constitution.

  • WATCH: HuffPost Live Remembers Michael Hastings

    Journalist Michael Hastings, who died Tuesday in a Los Angeles car crash, was a frequent guest on HuffPost Live, appearing at least a dozen times in the network's first ten months on the air. Host?Jacob Soboroff?remembered Hastings Wednesday night, delivering a tribute featuring clips of Hastings' appearances -- "always being his cantankerous self," as Soboroff put it -- and Soboroff's own personal memories.

  • Valerie Plame Rolls Eyes At Dick Cheney Calling Snowden A 'Traitor: 'The Irony!'

    Former CIA agent Valerie Plame said Wednesday that she views NSA leaker Edward Snowden as neither a hero nor a traitor, but that Americans should be grateful that he brought the conversation about liberty and security to the national forefront. "I don't think [Snowden's] a hero, I don't condone what he did. At the same time he's certainly not a traitor as he was called by Dick Cheney," Plame told HuffPost Live host?Mike Sacks.

  • Fineman: Bachmann's 'Got A Point' On Syria

    HuffPost Media Group Editorial Director Howard Fineman didn't have kind words for Michele Bachmann when it came to her feud with Karl Rove, but he admitted that she's "got a point" in her recent criticism of the Obama administration's decision to arm Syrian rebels. Bachmann told Laura Ingraham Tuesday that it's "insanity and madness for the American taxpayer to be paying to send arms to what will essentially be Al-Qaeda." After initially describing Bachmann as "an item of curiosity in the museum of recent conservative political history" and saying she's not taken that seriously in the Republican Party, Fineman granted that Bachmann isn't totally off base when it comes to her Syria commentary.

  • WATCH: Russell Brand's Top 5 NSFW HuffPost Live Moments

    When Russell Brand comes by, it's anybody's guess what will happen. HuffPost Live host Josh Zepps — along with his nipples and his computer — learned that the hard way Tuesday. Watch above to see the top five most hilarious (and NSFW) moments from the interview.

  • Activists Rally In Support Of NSA Whisteblower

    Andy Stapanian, who helped organize the rally, joined HuffPost Live's?Marc Lamont Hill?to discuss the event and why he and others have chosen to rally behind Snowden. "I think it was a success," Stapanian said of the rally, which drew upwards of 40 activists and 60 camera crews amid downpours in New York. Stapanian described Snowden's cause as "a marginalized story," despite his case dominating the current news cycle.

  • Valerie Jarrett: Eric Holder Not Going Anywhere

    White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett offered a full endorsement of Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday, telling HuffPost Live host Marc Lamont Hill that Holder "will be in his position for quite a while." Appearing from The Huffington Post's first ever women's conference, "The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money & Power," Jarrett described Holder as "resilient" and said he "continues to have the President's full confidence and respect." "Eric never loses sight of what he's there for," Jarrett said.

  • Fox News Chief Is Unbelievably Paranoid

    Bloomberg View columnist and NBC News contributor Jonathan Alter?joined HuffPost Live Tuesday?to discuss his new book, The Center Holds: Obama And His Enemies. One such enemy, who gets a lot of ink in the book, is Fox News chief Roger Ailes.