"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver ignited a fiery rebuke from author J. K. Rowling after the liberal comedian doubled down on defending transgender athletes in female sports on his Sunday night ...

John Oliver is no stranger to being heckled — but criticism feels oddly personal when it comes from Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. The Last Week Tonight host recently dedicated an entire ...

The pair first clashed last November, after Oliver said on his show that there are “vanishingly few trans girls” competing in school sports and there is “no evidence” trans athletes ...

The Harry Potter author posted: "I understand why men like Oliver, who've consistently mocked anti-science people on the right, sold out initially. They didn't want to blow up their careers.

John Oliver on 'Last Week Tonight' - Credit: Courtesy of HBO John Oliver used the opening segment of Last Week Tonight to mock Donald Trump’s economic strategy of implementing global tariffs.

J.K. Rowling and John Oliver have resumed their fight over transgender athletes. Oliver dedicated his most recent episode of Last Week Tonight to the right’s obsession with transgender ...

Oliver noted that the air strikes killed up to 46 civilians in one day, “which should be a scandal in and of itself, [but] it’s grotesque to see the glib response in the chat afterward.” ...

Just as the fictional Logan Roy once decried his children as “not serious people,” so too did John Oliver blast President Donald Trump‘s administration as woefully incompetent, especially in ...

American filmmaker Oliver Stone — whose political thriller, “JFK,” made waves more than 30 years ago — will testify on Tuesday before a House committee on the release of new documents ...

OLIVER SPRINGS, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are investigating the death of a man found dead in a home in Oliver Springs, a TBI spokesperson said. On Saturday morning ...

WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - Film director Oliver Stone will testify at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing Tuesday on thousands of pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of ...

Lily Allen's best friend Miquita Oliver, 40, has opened up about her 'secret abortion'. The star revealed that she had the abortion at 24 - with the termination taking place the day before she was ...