No one has mentioned the name Seth Rich on Fox News for several years, and for good reason. The tragically deceased Democratic National Committee staffer, whose unsolved murder fueled a vicious conspiracy theory linking him to the DNC hack during the 2016 election, was a fixation of Fox News coverage in 2017. That fixation endured […]
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The vast majority of Americans who voted for Donald Trump believe that Congress should not be able to reject the results of an election once they are certified by the states, according to a new poll. A CBS News/YouGov poll — conducted in January and flagged by CNN’s Harry Enten — found that 73% of […]
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A Fox News contributor pointed out the obvious on Friday: that Mike Pence is right and Donald Trump is wrong when it comes to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump has repeatedly bashed his former vice president for refusing to decertify the results of the election Trump lost to current President Joe Biden by […]
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Jeff Zucker, the longtime head of CNN and news industry titan, announced his resignation in a email to staff on Wednesday. “As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone have worked with for more than 20 years,” Zucker wrote in […]
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Just one day after pledging to make his wildly popular talk show more accurate, Joe Rogan shared a false story claiming the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin was found to be effective against Covid in a Stage III clinical trial. Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug that Rogan and others have promoted as a treatment for Covid, is not […]
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Reuters issued a serious correction to a report that claimed Ivermectin was found to be effective in treating the Omicron variant of Covid. Reuters initially reported early Monday morning that a Japanese pharmaceutical company had found Ivermectin — an anti-parasitic drug that has been touted as a treatment for Covid but has not been approved […]
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Stephen Hayes, the conservative writer who quit Fox News in protest of its coverage during the Trump era, is joining NBC News as a contributor and political analyst. Hayes, who co-founded and serves as CEO of The Dispatch, will make his first on-air appearance this Sunday on Meet the Press. “I’ve known and worked with […]
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Watching Margaret Brennan interrogate Secretary of State Antony Blinken over tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine can be a nerve-racking affair. Brennan, the moderator of Face the Nation, is relentless in her questioning, and knows exactly where to press. Blinken, a career diplomat, is careful with his phrasing, well aware that a misplaced word […]
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Bakari Sellers, CNN political commentator, attorney and best-selling author, is my guest on this week’s episode of The Interview podcast. Sellers got his start in politics early: He was elected to the South Carolina legislature at the age of 22, making him the youngest African American elected official in the country. He is the son […]
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The former top editor of the New York Post’s website, who was fired last week, in a new lawsuit accuses the paper’s longtime editor in chief Col Allan of “years of sex-based harassment” — including propositions for sex, extensive verbal abuse, and a demand she delete a story on a rape allegation against Donald Trump. […]
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