How Ana Navarro is working around getting bleeped on 'The View'

NEW YORK –Ana Navarrois ready to tape her new podcast anytime, anywhere.

TheCNNcontributor andABC "The View"cohost, 54, launched"Bleep! with Ana Navarro"earlier this year. While on Easter break in Costa Rica on April 9,First Lady Melania Trumpissued a statement at the White House in which she deniedhaving any involvementwith convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Navarro, armed with mobile recording equipment, hopped into action. And while the timing of the Trump's press conference befuddled some, Navarro believes that there was clearly a plan in place.

"She obviously didn't write that stuff herself, right?" she tells USA TODAY. "It was full of legalese. So yes, I think she got advice. I think she got help. But because of that, I've now done a couple of breaking news episodes of the podcast from a portable thing I have."

Navarro, anoutspoken criticof the Trump administration, teamed up with iHeartMedia and Hyphenate Media Group for her new podcast. Hyphenate was launched by actressEva Longoriaand media executive Cris Abrego. Longoria also serves as an executive producer of Navarro's podcast.

"There are not that many Latino voices breaking down news," Navarro says about why she continues to lean in to these news cycles. "One of the things that most touches me is anytime I'm in the supermarket or I'm at the airport and some young Latina comes up to me and tells me how much it means for them to have somebody like me speaking up on behalf of our community.

"It's like a privilege and a duty."

'The View' inspired Ana Navarro's new podcast

The title of Navarro's podcast is a playful jab at her other her day job.

"The problem is that I get bleeped at'The View,'"she explains. "Sometimes I try to say things in Spanish. So now (ABC is) to the point where if I say 'queso,' they will bleep me out because they don't know what I'm saying and they're nervous."

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She will not be censored on her own show.

Navarro's goal with the podcast is to both interview interesting subjects and break down news items without the typical restrictions of cable or broadcast TV, where a cohost or panelist may only get a fraction of a 7 minute segment to speak.

But she still enjoys her work on TV, despite the occasionally "bleep" and her commute between New York and Miami. Navarro believes authenticity is the key to any successful show and is one of the reason why "The View" has lasted on ABC for almost 29 years.

"It's women from different backgrounds, different generations, different races, ethnicities, different takes on life, giving their opinions," she explains. Cohosts on the view range from age 36 (former White House strategic communications directorAlyssa Farah Griffin) to 83 (actress-comedianJoy Behar).

Navarro also credits the team behind the cameras, whom she calls "an entire family." She says some have worked there since the show's launch with Barbara Walters in 1997. "They run like a fine tuned Swiss watch and they keep the shows going."

Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga perform a salsa-inspired "Die with a Smile" during his Super Bowl halftime show Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, California.

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Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga perform a salsa-inspired "Die with a Smile" during his Super Bowl halftime show Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, California.

Ana Navarro still wants to talk about 'The Bad Bunny Bowl'

It has been more than two months since the Seattle Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots inSuper Bowl LX. Navarro couldn't tell you who played or what the final score was (29-13). But she can't stop replayingBad Bunny's halftime performance. She says that his halftime show,Karol G's Coachella setand other forms of entertainment are a part of her "concerted effort of doing things that take me away from doomscrolling about the things that are going on in the United States."

"I actually thought the halftime show itself was not tremendously political," she opines. "It was cultural and there were so many different threads and aspects of Latino culture that were woven in. I love the way that he brought Ricky Martin as an ode to those that came before him and that opened doors for him.

"There were some people so hung up here in the United States because he was singing in Spanish, because he's Bad Bunny, because he's Puerto Rican, which is part of America, but whatever," Navarro continues. "And then I see him filling up stadiums all over the world. And you see kids singing his songs and dancing to his music in villages in Africa. And you realize music is supposed to unite us, not divide us."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Ana Navarro found a fix for getting bleeped on 'The View'

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How Ana Navarro is working around getting bleeped on 'The View'

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You may have seen British-born skincare brand Elemis at high-end spas, but the celebrity-backed luxury line also has a place on Amazon, where products are currently up to 30% off during theSummer Beauty Sale.

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Oscar statuette for 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' goes missing on flight

By Matthias Williams

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - TheOscar statuettebelonging to Pavel Talankin, the Russian director who won best documentary this year for 'Mr. ‌Nobody Against Putin', has gone missing after he was forced to ‌check the award into hold luggage on a flight from New York to Germany, his co-director said.

Talankin ​was due to fly from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Frankfurt on German carrier Lufthansa. But Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents told him that the 8.5 lb (3.8 kg) statuette posed a potential security threat, his co-director David Borenstein said on Thursday.

"At ‌the airport, a TSA agent ⁠stopped him and said the Oscar could be used as a weapon," Borenstein said on Instagram.

"Pavel didn’t have a bag to ⁠check it in, so the TSA put the Oscar in a box and sent it to the bottom of the plane," he said, posting a series of pictures, ​including of ​the box.

"It never arrived in Frankfurt."

Responding to ​Borenstein's Instagram post, Lufthansa said it ‌was taking the matter seriously.

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"We will do everything we can to find the Oscar as fast as possible and have already escalated this," it said.

Lufthansa did not immediately respond to a request for further comment on Friday, which is a public holiday in Germany.

Speaking to the online magazine Deadline.com after arriving in Germany on ‌Thursday, Talankin said it was "completely baffling how ​they consider an Oscar a weapon."

On previous flights ​on various airlines, he had flown ​with it "in the cabin, and there never was any kind ‌of problem," he told the outlet.

Talankin ​and Borenstein's documentary used ​two years of footage that Talankin recorded at a school where he worked in Russia's Chelyabinsk region, to show how students were exposed to ​pro‑war messaging.

The 35-year-old Talankin, ‌who fled Russia in 2024, has defended the film as a record ​for posterity to show how "an entire generation became angry and aggressive".

(Reporting ​by Matthias Williams; Editing by Kate Mayberry)

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MAGA, Mamdani and the king. The political undertones to Charles' visit

LONDON−King Charles IIIisn't an elected politician. But his trip to the United States has political implications.

But the monarch's state visit to the U.S. to mark thenation's 250th birthdaycomes as extreme political movements are on the rise back home, echoing political divisions facing Americans and placing a spotlight on the U.K.'s relationship withPresident Donald Trump.

Reform UK, a far-right political party, and the Green Party, a far-left liberal party, lead ahead of May 7 elections across the United Kingdom, according torecent Ipsos UK polling asking who citizens expect to win. Meanwhile, voters expect the mainstream Labour and Conservative parties to see losses, the polling suggests. And April 2026 opinion polling by Ipsos in the U.K. shows Reform UK in the lead, with25% of voterssaying they intend to vote for the far-right party and 17% saying they will vote Green.

These fresher, more extreme parties aren't officially linked to any U.S. political movements, but there are parallels in their origin stories.

"They have similar domestic causes," Tony Travers, associate dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, told USA TODAY, naming high living costs and concerns about immigration as key factors. "It's a turbulent time for U.K. government."

Here's the state of play in U.K. politics ahead of the king's visit and why it matters for Americans.

The state of play in UK politics

Increasingly sharp political divides backdrop the king's visit to the U.S. The liberal Labour Party currently holds power in Parliament, but is increasingly unpopular, according to David Dunn, professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham.

Living costs havecontinued to rise, while U.K. Prime MinisterKeir Starmeris in afragileposition as he's criticized for broken campaign promises, such as reversing a pledge toabolish tuition feesfor students, Dunn explains. He's also come under fire for his pick of U.S. ambassador, who wasremoved from office and arresteddue to ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

"The anti-incumbency trend means a willingness to deviate away from the two main parties," Dunn says. "There's a fracturing in British politics."

MAGA and Reform UK are 'similar but different,' expert says

From frustration with the major parties in the U.K. has risen more hard-liner coalitions pitching themselves as change-makers.

In the same wayMake American Great Againwas born from the Republican party, Reform UK broke away from the traditional Conservative Party, Dunn says. Reform UK echoes the driving forces behind the MAGA in that it promotes an immigration crackdown and blasts the incumbent government for failing on affordability.

Reform UK, like MAGA, also has a highly charismatic leader in Nigel Farage, who, like Trump, touts a radical shift from status quo and identifies as a leader who comes from outside the political establishment, Dunn explains.

"The same way you understand where MAGA came from, you can understand where Reform came from," he says. "By promising everything opposite all at once, (Farage) can build a coalition that gets support."

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Reform UK is "similar but different," to MAGA, Travers says. Reform UK is distinctly secular whileChristian nationalist valuesunderpin MAGA, Travers says. And its causes are centered around definitively U.K. concerns, specifically the economic aftermath of the U.K.'s referendum to leave the European Union in 2016.

And Reform UK has also worked to carve its own image separate from Trump, Travers says.

"Farage has sought distance from Trump ... Trump doesn't play well in British politics," Travers says. "Even though Reform has similar concerns to those who vote MAGA."

Far-left chases Mamdani's success

While Reform and MAGA aren't exact counterparts, the Green Party, a far-left party also emerging in the U.K., is set on mimicking the successful progressive campaign of newly-inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Travers says. He says the Greens, led by London Assembly member Zack Polanski, sees Mamdani as a "hero."

"Polanski wants to follow the Mamdani path to garner votes," Travers says. For liberals who see Labour as too soft on progressive causes, the Green Party is a popular new route thataims to deliveron unemployment for young people and increase public funding for health care.

"Polanski wants to follow the Mamdani path," Travers says.

The king is 'lower case political'

Charles' visit also comes amid declining popularity of Trump among British people, Dunn says. The president's forging of war in Iran has driven up global oil prices, while his tariff policies continue to increase costs for British people. And tensions worsen over U.S. use of British air bases for the war in the Middle East, he says.

"He's something that does not fit well with the British people," Dunn says. Some may want the king to avoid the president. Others may see the king's role as something beyond current political rife, he says.

"If they see Charles meeting with Trump, or the Chinese president, people in the U.K. know this is part of a diplomatic magic ... to smooth over diplomatic cracks," Travers says.

The king is not an elected official and does not have political power. Meeting with Trump doesn't indicate any political attitude from the king either way, Dunn says. It's part of Charles' job description as a ceremonial figure to represent his country and keep political beliefs inside −something his mother modeled with presidents across the political spectrum, Travers says.

"What's being celebrated here is the wider relationship and the bigger picture rather than the individual people," Dunn says.

But he is head of state of Canada, Australia and the U.K., which are key members of international alliances with the U.S. His mission will be to remind Trump of the symbolic value of these relationships at a time when global security hangs in the balance, according to experts.

"The stakes are so high," Travers says. "The future of NATO, peace in Europe, peace in the Middle East are all in some extent in King Charles' hands ... reinforced by the fact the U.K. government is in such a weak domestic position at the moment ... He's 'lower-case p' political."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:King Charles’ US visit comes as a MAGA-esque movement rises back home

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