Amy Schumer has opened up about undergoing a medical procedure that has temporarily affected her interest in intimacy.

During her appearance on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast on Sunday, the 44-year-old comedian candidly shared, “I had a kind of botched colonoscopy, so I’m not feeling very sexual right now.”

This medical examination, as described by the Mayo Clinic, involves a physician using a long, flexible tube equipped with a camera to inspect the rectum and large intestine for signs of colorectal cancer.

Despite the setback, Schumer, who recently separated from her husband of nearly eight years, maintains a positive outlook, stating, “I feel happier than I’ve ever been before.”

In December, the actress publicly announced her split from Chris Fischer, a 45-year-old chef, with whom she shares a seven-year-old son, Gene.

‘Blah blah blah Chris and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage after seven years,’ the movie star wrote on Instagram. 

Amy Schumer has revealed on a podcast that she had a medical procedure that has kept her from wanting to have sex

‘We love each other very much and will continue to focus on raising our son. We would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time.’

Schumer, who featured in Trainwreck, joked that her dramatic weight loss and Fischer being a ‘hot James Beard award-winning chef who can still pull some hot tail’ were not the causes of their breakup.

The Hollywood star ended the post with: ‘Amicable and all love and respect! Family forever.’

The former couple were first linked in November 2017 after they were photographed at a candlelit dinner together in New York City.

Just days after they went Instagram official in February 2018, they got married in an intimate ceremony in Malibu, which was attended by around 80 people, including Jennifer Aniston and Larry David.

Schumer shared a series of photos from their special day on Instagram, simply captioning the carousel: ‘Yup.’

Appearing on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, the actress revealed she had a botched colonoscopy – but her spirits have not dimmed

The star wore a black sleeveless dress with her hair down when talking to host Amanda Hirsch

Schumer credited her glam team when posing with Hirsch at the Dear Media studio in New York

In October that year, Schumer made her pregnancy announcement via journalist Jessica Yellin of News Not Noise.

Sharing a list of the actress’s recommended congressional and gubernatorial candidates, Yellin wrote: ‘I wanted to share some news from our community, maybe it’s noise, but it’s happy noise.’

And the end of the post stated: ‘I’m pregnant – Amy Schumer.’

Gene was born on May 5, 2019. Announcing the news a day later, Schumer joked: ‘Our royal baby was born’ – in reference to Prince Archie, son of Harry and Meghan, who had arrived that day.

Last year, she lost over 30lb thanks to Mounjaro.

‘Three years ago, I tried Wegovy. I was puking, I couldn’t handle it. I don’t know if they’ve changed the formula, whatever,’ she said in a social media video last March.

Schumer and Fischer were first linked in 2017 and split in December last year

‘I went on this Telehealth meeting with Midi Health, and it was cheap. I wanted to try it myself ’cause I wanted to recommend it to my friends who are nurses and teachers,’ added Schumer. 

‘They put me on estrogen and progesterone because I realized I was in perimenopause and my symptoms from being perimenopause have disappeared.’

She continued, ‘My hair is fuller, my skin is better, I have more energy, I want to get down more, if you know what I mean. I’m talking about sex. So that’s been great and Mounjaro’s been great.’

An HIV outbreak in central Maine has expanded to 43 confirmed cases after two additional infections were identified last week. This development has spurred action from health authorities and local community groups.

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the latest cases in Penobscot County were diagnosed in April, as reported by the Bangor Daily News on Monday. This surge, which started in October 2023, significantly surpasses the county’s average HIV incidence, which typically consists of about two new cases annually.

According to the Maine CDC, nearly all those affected by the outbreak had either injected drugs or were homeless within the year leading up to their diagnosis.

Health officials caution that the actual number of HIV infections may be higher than currently reported figures suggest.

The situation has prompted a public health response focusing on the dangers of needle sharing among drug users, as underscored by warnings from the Maine CDC.

Community groups across the state have increased HIV testing and prevention work as officials try to contain the spread. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff also visited Penobscot County in December to assist with the response, according to the report.

The Maine CDC also identified a separate cluster of five HIV cases in November that had been detected in Cumberland County last year among people who inject drugs.

HIV attacks the immune system and can interfere with the body’s ability to fight infection and disease, according to the CDC. There is no known cure, but medication can help control the virus.

In nearly all of the reported Penobscot County cases, the people infected also tested positive for hepatitis C, the Maine CDC said. Hepatitis C is a liver disease that can be mild for some people but can lead to severe long-term complications, including liver cancer.

More than three-quarters of HIV patients tied to the Penobscot County outbreak received care within 30 days of diagnosis, according to Maine CDC figures. Among the 41 people in the outbreak currently living in Maine, 59% had reached viral suppression at their most recent test, meaning they cannot transmit HIV to others.

In a new legal twist, Alex Murdaugh has initiated a lawsuit against the South Carolina clerk accused of influencing the jury responsible for his initial conviction in the murders of his wife and son. This legal action comes shortly after his conviction was overturned.

Murdaugh, a former attorney who has been disbarred and remains incarcerated for defrauding clients of millions, is seeking $600,000 in damages from Becky Hill, the former clerk of Colleton County. He alleges in a federal lawsuit that Hill attempted to manipulate jurors to secure his conviction for the 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul.

Hill previously faced legal consequences, receiving a probation sentence last year after admitting to charges of obstruction of justice, perjury, and misconduct in office.

Last week, the state supreme court overturned Murdaugh’s conviction, citing Hill’s actions as having “placed her fingers on the scales of justice.”

Despite the overturned conviction, prosecutors have announced their intention to retry the 57-year-old Murdaugh.

Donald Trump has finalized a substantial $1.8 billion agreement with the Internal Revenue Service, redirecting taxpayer funds to individuals he claims are victims of legal targeting, such as January 6 participants and his political supporters. This settlement has been sharply criticized by Democrats, labeling it as an unprecedented act of corruption.

In a legal battle initiated by the former President, along with his sons Don Jr. and Eric, and the Trump Organization, they sued the Treasury and IRS in a federal court located in the Southern District of Florida following the exposure of their tax records.

The lawsuit, along with additional claims for damages linked to the 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago and the investigation into Russian election interference, was dropped in return for the establishment of an ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ by the government.

This $1.776 billion fund is designed to offer official apologies and financial compensation to claimants, which include Trump’s associates and the 1,600 individuals charged in connection with January 6. The fund will be overseen by a five-member commission appointed by the Attorney General, with Trump having the authority to dismiss any member.

Although Trump himself is prohibited from directly benefiting from the fund, there is no explicit restriction preventing associated entities from submitting further claims.

The settlement sparked outrage from Democrats, including Ron Wyden of the Senate Finance Committee, who said it represented a brazen new level of corruption.

‘Even by his standards, the move he’s trying to get away with now is a stunning act of corruption,’ said Wyden.

‘What Trump wants is a $1.7billion slush fund for right-wing political violence and subversion, and if he follows through, it will be the most brazen theft and abuse of taxpayer dollars by any president in American history.’ 

The President sued the IRS in January over the 2019 leak of his tax returns to the press 

Acting attorney general Todd Blanche said of the case: ‘The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American’ 

‘The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,’ said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

‘As part of this settlement, we are setting up a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.’ 

The extraordinary arrangement comes despite the misgivings of the judge in the case, Kathleen Williams, who was investigating a potential conflict of interest as Trump sued his own government.

Trump himself conceded last October that ‘it’s awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself.’

However, the judge has limited legal authority to halt any settlement deal. 

Minutes after Trump’s legal team announced it was dropping the suit on Monday, almost 100 House Democrats submitted a ‘friend-of-the-court’ brief accusing Trump of ‘blatant self-dealing’ as they seek to put legal blocks on the fund. 

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement: ‘This case is nothing but a racket designed to take $1.7 billion of taxpayer dollars out of the Treasury and pour it into a huge slush fund for Trump at DOJ to hand out to his private militia of insurrectionists, rioters, and white supremacists, including those who brutally beat police officers on January 6, 2021, and sycophant accomplices to his election stealing schemes.’

The Trump administration claims that the fund is non-partisan and that anyone can file a claim if they believe they were mistreated by Biden’s DOJ. The President has previously vowed to donate any proceeds he receives from the lawsuit to charity.

‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley, right with fur hat, during the Capitol riot in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021

It was not immediately clear who precisely will stand to benefit from the fund but its creation reflects Trump’s long-running claims that the Justice Department during the Biden administration was weaponized against him.

He has cited as proof the since-dismissed criminal charges he faced between his first and second terms of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and retaining classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Several Trump aides were also prosecuted, as were hundreds of MAGA supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Merrick Garland, who served as attorney general during the Biden administration, has repeatedly denied allegations of politicization and has said his decisions followed facts, the evidence and the law.

His Justice Department also investigated Biden for his handling of classified information and brought separate tax and gun prosecutions against Biden’s son Hunter.

Nonetheless, Trump’s current Justice Department has actively pursued the president’s retribution campaign and grievances, bringing criminal charges against some of his political opponents and initiating a wide-ranging investigation that aims to establish a years-long conspiracy between law enforcement and intelligence officials to destroy Trump’s political prospects and keep him power.

No charges have been brought in that investigation. 

Trump filed a lawsuit earlier this year in a Florida federal court, alleging that a previous leak of his and the Trump Organization’s confidential tax records caused ‘reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump, and the other Plaintiffs’ public standing.’

In 2024, former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense and national security tech firm, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking tax information about Trump and others to two news outlets between 2018 and 2020.

A pro-Trump protester carries the lectern of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi through the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC

The outlets were not named in the charging documents, but the description and time frame align with stories about Trump’s tax returns in The New York Times and reporting about wealthy Americans’ taxes in the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica.

The Times report found Trump paid $750 in federal income tax the year he first entered the White House, and no income tax at all some years, thanks to reported colossal losses.

A group of lawyers wrote to the court this month, expressing concerns about whether the Justice Department was properly insulated from the president’s control of the case. Additionally, several ethics watchdog groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs challenging the president’s lawsuit.

Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, an advocacy group that filed an earlier brief, said in response to the dismissal: ‘This case was always a sham, and another ploy by the President to access taxpayer funds to line his pockets.’

Perryman vowed that her group would continue to fight the settlement.

The NFL’s Rooney Rule has been stirring conversations and controversy for years, and now it finds itself under scrutiny once again. This time, it’s the state of Florida taking a closer look at the rule, with State Attorney General James Uthmeier stepping into the spotlight.

On Wednesday, Uthmeier announced he had issued an investigative subpoena to the NFL. This move comes amidst ongoing discussions about the 23-year-old rule, which he argues may breach Florida law by enforcing race-based hiring practices. Uthmeier had previously warned of potential legal actions against the league if the rule was not reconsidered.

The subpoena was accompanied by a letter to Ted Ullyot, the NFL’s executive vice president and attorney, signaling a possible escalation in the state’s challenge to the league’s hiring policies. Uthmeier’s concerns center on the rule’s requirement for teams to consider minority candidates in their hiring processes, which he claims could be legally questionable.

The Rooney Rule, originally designed to promote diversity within the NFL, has evolved over time. It now includes mandates for interviewing minority candidates not only for head coaching roles but also for general managers, coordinators, and quarterbacks coaches. Specifically, teams must interview at least two external minority candidates for key positions like head coach and general manager, while at least one must be considered for the quarterbacks coach role.

Despite its intentions, the rule has faced criticism for allegedly leading to superficial interviews that fulfill a requirement rather than genuinely considering diverse candidates for employment. This has sparked a debate about whether the rule effectively promotes diversity or if it simply serves as a box-ticking exercise.

That is one of the elements in the 2022 lawsuit filed by former Dolphins head coach – now Vikings defensive coordinator – Brian Flores, who accused the NFL and three teams of racist hiring practices.

What is the origin of the Rooney Rule?
The rule was named after late Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, who was head of the league’s Workplace Diversity Committee at the time, and requires teams to interview diverse candidates (minority or female) for head coach, general manager and coordinator vacancies.