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Denise Petski, Ted Johnson ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped its broadcast rivals in the first week of the new season.The newscast drew 8.50 million viewers, compared to 7.33 million for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and 5.15 million for CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.In the 25-54 demo, World News Tonight had 1.67 million, to 1.48 million for NBC Nightly News and 930,000 for CBS Evening News.

Ted Johnson A federal judge on Thursday tossed out a defamation claim against Fox News brought by Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model who claimed to have had an affair with Donald Trump.McDougal had sued the network over remarks that Tucker Carlson made on one of his shows about her. But U.S.

Ted Johnson Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said on Tuesday that he will support a vote this year on a Supreme Court vacancy, making it all the more likely that President Donald Trump will be able to secure a vote for his nominee.“My decision regarding a Supreme Court nomination is not the result of a subjective test of ‘fairness’ which, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder,” Romney said in a statement.

Ted Johnson A federal judge on Sunday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from banning downloads of the Chinese-owned WeChat app, concluding that such a move raises First Amendment concerns.U.S.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson All Joe Biden had to do to claim ground against Donald Trump in tonight’s CNN town hall was show up and show he cared. And that’s exactly what the former Vice-President did from the very start of the unique drive-in event near his hometown of Scranton, PA with Anderson Cooper.“My heart goes out to you,” the current Democratic POTUS candidate responded to local voter Shani Adams, who revealed that she had lost her sister to the coronavirus.

Ted Johnson Barack Obama appears in a new get out the vote video that premiered on Wednesday on ATTN:, aimed at getting Gen Z and millennial voters to register and turn out.“Register, vote as early as you can, and do whatever you can to make sure your voice is heard in this election,” Obama said.Obama tweeted out the video, which links to the Vote Save America page.Over the last few months, I've learned a thing or two from the young people in our country.

Ted Johnson CNBC’s Jim Cramer again apologized for a remark he made to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview with her on Tuesday, when he referred to her as “crazy Nancy” before quickly explained what he meant.“I made a very stupid comment,” Cramer said on Mad Money.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson Donald Trump may have told Bob Woodward he wanted to play down how deadly the coronavirus pandemic could be, but the incumbent’s campaign today seems to want to stamp out how their candidate’s supporters are ignoring basic COVID-19 safety protocols.New York Times reporter Kathy Gray was just “kicked out” of the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host’s ongoing rally in the battleground state of Michigan – as she detailed on social media in near real time:Trump rally in freeland

Ted Johnson Joe Biden will participate in a CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper on Sept.

Ted Johnson MSNBC is adding new shows to its weekend lineup, with Alicia Menendez and Joshua Johnson set to anchor evening shows as part of an effort to feature more breaking news coverage.The news network also is bringing back its early morning weekday show, Way Too Early, with Katie Hunt anchoring.

Ted Johnson, Dade Hayes The National Association of Broadcasters has pushed its annual convention in Las Vegas from its usual April slot to October 2021.The new dates will be October 9-13. Given its scale, with tens of thousands of attendees coming from around the world, there are a host of travel and logistics concerns in mounting the show, one of the largest staged annually at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson EXCLUSIVE: Senator Kamala Harris has long been tight with Hollywood, and yesterday Tinseltown’s biggest donors handed over some very big bucks to the Democrats’ Vice-Presidential nominee.In a virtual fundraiser put together by The Politician EP Ryan Murphy, Disney TV Studios boss Dana Walden, PR ace Chrisette Hudlin and Laura Shell, California’s junior Senator raked in over $8 million for her and Joe Biden’s poll leading White House bid.Announced on August 27, the

Ted Johnson MSNBC host Joy Reid said that she plans to address the anger over comments she made earlier this week that made comparisons to radicalized Muslims and extreme supporters of President Donald Trump.“There’s been some thoughtful commentary but also some willful distortion of the points I tried to make yesterday.

Ted Johnson On Tuesday evening comes a new entrant in the cable news wars: WGN America’s News Nation, a three-hour primetime newscast that promises a just-the-facts approach to viewers’ daily diet.No outraged hosts, no endless panels of talking-head commentary, no irreverent chyrons.

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten “Trump said he didn’t like POW’s who were captured, implied my father was burning in hell after he died and constantly trashed him while he was fighting brain cancer. This is how they have lost all decent people.” Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy.Launch dates for broadcast, cable and streaming programsUp-to-date lists for broadcast, cable and streaming seriesPandemic-proof vs.

Ted Johnson Kamala Harris added her voice to the effort by Democrats to rebut Donald Trump’s expected attacks in his acceptance speech on Thursday, as she blasted the Republican Convention week as an exercise in trying to give the president an ego stroke.“Unlike the Democratic convention, which was very clear eyed about the challenges we are facing and how we will tackle them, the Republican convention is designed for one purpose, to soothe Donald Trump’s ego, to make him feel good,” she said in

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson If the most unobtrusive man in America thought tonight was his moment in the spotlight at the Republican National Convention, Mike Pence learned the hard way that Donald Trump always gets the last word.As the powerful Hurricane Laura moved closer and closer landfall in Texas and Louisiana, Trump’s vice president seemed like an afterthought on Wednesday as the boss came onstage to upstage him without uttering a word.Speaking live to a small audience at Fort McHenry in

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten Kellyanne Conway, the soon-to-depart senior adviser to President Donald Trump, addressed the Republican Convention by praising her boss for putting women in senior leadership positions.“President Trump helped me shatter a barrier in the world of politics, by empowering me to manage his campaign to successful conclusion,” she said in her speech from the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.He said that Trump “has elevated women to senior positions in business and in

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Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson Donald Trump went straight for the drama tonight at the opening of the Republican Convention with a full pardon direct from the White House on TV.In a pre-recorded video near the beginning of Night 2 of the RNC’s virtual gathering, the former Celebrity Apprentice host exercised his presidential prerogative for criminal justice activist Jon Ponder.

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten As the Republican National Convention rolled out speaker after speaker in the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, one figure stood out for sheer effort to reach the highest octave: Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former TV personality who is helped lead the party’s fundraising efforts.To a nearly empty auditorium, Guilfoyle bashed Democrats as “socialist” and “radicals,” and said, “They want to destroy this country, and everything we have fought for and hold as dear.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson It is over a month until The Comey Rule limited series premieres on Showtime, but the still raging drama between Donald Trump and fired FBI Director James Comey was live tonight on cable news on Night 1 of the Republican National Convention.“If you put it in a script, I’m sure it would get rejected for not being realistic enough, that the chairman of the President’s campaign is working with a Russian intelligence officer,” Comey told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Joy Reid

Ted Johnson The Republican National Convention has already begun, with a morning session in which Donald Trump and Mike Pence will be renominated.The heart of the proceedings, though, will come this evening, when we’ll finally get a look at how the Trump team manages a very different convention in the midst of the pandemic.With a vastly scaled back presence in the host city of Charlotte, Trump plans to deliver his acceptance speech on Thursday from the south lawn of the White House.

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten “Family, family, family.”That was the  motto of the video that introduced Joe Biden on the final night of the virtual Democratic National Convention, and showed just how the COVID-19 forced transformation of a national tradition could produce something in many cases more intimate.Far from the cheering crowd of delegates that have characterized American political conventions for decades, the former vice president’s big night was the culmination of finely tuned

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson “In just moments, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, he will join us live,” proudly announced Fox News’ Sean Hannity at the top of his show as the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention kicked off.Actually was past the bottom of the hour before the former Celebrity Apprentice host showed up on the phone for what was a rambling half hour love-in.“We’re going to get his take on what I see as the worst infomercial on the face of the Earth,”

Ted Johnson, Bruce Haring UPDATE: Former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon is free on a $5 million bond, secured by $1.75 million in assets, on charges of fraud and money laundering.A smiling Bannon left federal court in Manhattan with a smile, claiming his indictment was a “fiasco.”  Bannon said that “This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall.”Bannon has pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering charges in an alleged scheme to steal cash donated to a “We Build the

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson It was superstar time at the Democratic National Convention tonight, and there were fireworks going off, in Delaware, Pennsylvania and the White House“The Democrats will roll out their biggest guns yet,” declared ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos as the broadcast networks went live at 10 PM ET before speeches by former President Barack Obama and Vice-Presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris.“I know a predator when I see one,” former prosecutor Harris proclaimed in a

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten As Barack Obama delivered what was his harshest warning yet about Donald Trump, telling Democratic Convention viewers in a live speech that what is at stake is “our democracy,” the president went off on Twitter.“Donald Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t,” Obama said in his speech. “And the consequences of that failure are severe.