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If not, the short version: the comedian put on prosthetics, a blonde wig and a white suit and posted a video called "How Conservative Women in America Act," and the internet collectively lost its mind. Over 100 million views, wall-to-wall discourse, fake cease-and-desist letters, Grok somehow identifying Druski as the real Erika Kirk. A whole thing. 

Here's my take: it's a free country. Druski exercised his free speech, the same free speech conservatives love to invoke. You can find it tacky, you can find it distasteful given that Erika Kirk is a grieving widow. I get that. But she also stepped into the spotlight after Charlie's assassination. She took the CEO role at Turning Point USA. She became more vocal, more visible. That's a choice, and it's one that opens you up to criticism and satire. 

What I kept thinking about watching this, though, was Charlie himself. Say what you want about the man, but he always knew exactly what people thought of him and he met it head on. He never hid from it. So I couldn't stop wondering: how would Charlie Kirk have responded to this sketch? Would he have leaned into it? Called it out on his own terms? Made it a fundraising email? 

We'll never know, because of the most horrible of circumstances. But one thing I'm certain of: he wouldn't have been silent. 

David Begnaud spent years as one of the most recognizable faces in television news. Now he's doing something entirely his own, and his first phone call was to Oprah Winfrey. 

I sat down with the CBS News journalist to talk about Do Good Crew, his new media company built around his podcast, The Person Who Believed in Me. He told me about growing up gay and closeted in the South, finding refuge in The Oprah Winfrey Show, navigating a childhood with Tourette's, and getting in front of a camera at 18-years-old.

The through line of all of it: television, he said, saved him from himself. 

The podcast reflects all of that. Every conversation is built around mentors and turning points, and Begnaud goes places most celebrity interviews don't. His philosophy is simple: "To listen is one of the greatest ways to ask a question." 

The full conversation is on the Parting Shot Podcast now. Go listen. 

Jane Don't went home doing it her way, and honestly, I respect it. 

I talked to the most-discussed queen of Drag Race season 18 right after her elimination, and she is remarkably at peace with what happened. She didn't connect with the Karen challenge, instead she took it in a Christopher Guest direction instead of the Jerry Springer chaos the show wanted, and she knows it cost her. "It was sort of my tactical error," she told me. She also went into that lip sync in a full overbust corset against Nini Coco in a catsuit, performing to a Lady Gaga track that Nini had been rehearsing for two months. The odds were stacked. 

But here's what stuck with me: her message to the fans already losing their minds online. Don't just scream about it. Buy a ticket. Show up. Support the art. 

Lisa Rinna has really done it all—from soap operas to reality TV, QVC and New York Times bestsellers.

The secret to her longevity?

“I think the thing is, I just say yes more than I say no,” she told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott at the Women’s Global Impact Forum in Los Angeles on March 25. 

“I don't have a lot of ego, I'm very practical. I had a family to raise. I had two small young children. My husband's an actor. Sometimes he works, sometimes he doesn't work. So I'm like, what can I do to make sure that we can still live the life that we want to live?”

Sarah Ferguson has had her Freedom of the City of York stripped, as continued pressure mounts for her over her ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

There is also speculation that her children are being negatively impacted with calls for Princess Beatrice, the daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, urged to leave the United Kingdom to stop her marriage to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi from crumbling under pressure from her father's arrest by police investigating the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Daily Beast European Editor-at-Large Tom Sykes joins Newsweek's Jack Royston to discuss the ongoing situation surrounding the York family.

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