Trump seeks former FCC chair’s communications to bolster lawsuit over controversial ’60 Minutes’ interview Kamala Harris speaks with ’60 Minutes’ in October 2023. (CBS News) The Federal Communications Commission has fast-tracked President Donald Trump’s request for internal discussions about CBS News’s controversial interview with failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris before the election. The FCC last
Days before Donald Trump was sworn in as president last month, the Washington Post ostensibly abandoned its catchy #Resistance-era slogan—”Democracy Dies in Darkness”—in favor of something less combative: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.” Alas, the paper’s recently unveiled “Next 50” list of individuals “shaping our society in 2025” suggests the Post‘s journalists are still
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to expand access to in vitro fertilization services, fulfilling a campaign promise and refuting Democrats’ claims that he wanted to ban the fertility procedure. “The Order directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments,” a White
Brennan controversy just the latest black eye for CBS News on issues related to Jews and Israel Marco Rubio and Margaret Brennan (Face the Nation/YouTube) CBS News host Margaret Brennan has not publicly addressed her controversial exchange with Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the weekend, in which the anchor claimed that the Holocaust occurred
Dale Ho, a former ACLU director, faced criticism during his confirmation hearing over ‘hateful’ comments against Republicans (Reuters) The federal judge set to rule on the Trump Justice Department’s motion to drop corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams is a self-described “wild-eyed sort of leftist” who faced a contentious confirmation process over
Were President Donald Trump to have pardoned New York City mayor Eric Adams, we would have understood. By the same token, were the Justice Department to announce that the case against Adams was too weak, and to call for prosecutors to dismiss the charges, we would be supportive. That is to say, there are prudent
Democratic tensions over immigration policy have heightened in recent months, with swing-district Democrats supporting President Donald Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary cities even as immigration groups threaten a “break” between the party and progressives. Some Democratic lawmakers are openly blaming the party’s progressive wing for its election loss in November and expressing worry that interest groups