NBC News correspondent Pete Williams said the United States is about to become a “divided country” while spelling out the consequences of the Supreme Court ruling overturning the right to abortion established almost 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade. By removing the Constitutional protection for abortion, the ruling allows states to determine their own […]
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Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by Israeli forces, the United Nations said on Friday.
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“We engage with Fox to make sure we’re reaching Fox viewers,” said a White House official about the practice.
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Vince McMahon stepped down – sort of – as CEO and chairman of WWE during an investigation into his alleged affair with a staffer, the company announced Friday.
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New CNN president Chris Licht told staff he wants to scale back use of “the big lie” to refer to former President Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election, Mediaite has learned.
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Twenty years ago, Cenk Uygur launched a radio show from the living room of his one-bedroom apartment. Today, The Young Turks has grown into a sprawling online media company boasting tens of millions of subscribers — more than five million on YouTube alone. “The Iraq war was about to start,” Uygur recalled on this week’s […]
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Former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt described in testimony before the Jan. 6 House select committee how the network sought to thwart attempts from then-President Donald Trump to mislead the public about how elections work. Stirewalt explained that Trump, in claiming the 2020 election was stolen, misunderstood common phenomenon during elections — known as the […]
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Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien bailed on his scheduled testimony before the House Select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. “Due to a family emergency, Mr. William Stepien is unable to testify before the Select Committee this morning,” the committee said in a statement. “His counsel will appear and make […]
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President Joe Biden responded on Sunday to the bipartisan deal on a set of gun safety measures reached by 20 senators. Biden said the bill “does not do everything that I think is needed, but it reflects important steps in the right direction.” The bipartisan proposal, led by Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), Krysten Sinema (D-AZ), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Cornyn (R-TX), […]
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Asa Hutchinson, the Republican governor of Arkansas, told Fox News that former President Donald Trump is “politically, morally responsible” for the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Hutchinson told anchor Bret Baier on Fox News Sunday that the Jan. 6 hearings are an “important review,” though he said he did not see a “factual […]
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