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Conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday morning at the age of 70 following a battle with lung cancer, his wife Kathryn Limbaugh announced at the beginning of his radio program.

CNN and NBC each paid left-wing filmmaker John Sullivan $35,000 for his footage of violence during the Capitol riot, according to court documents filed by his attorneys.

CNN anchor Don Lemon said Tuesday on “Newsroom” that after former President Donald Trump’s term, the “Republican Party can no longer say that they don’t agree with the insurrectionists, with the bigots, with the racists, with the white supremacists, with the anti-Semites.”

An article published on Wednesday in The Nation presents a thorough case for a “blue-state secession,” claiming it is “the only way to ensure democracy

Former Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow was caught on a hot-mic during Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” saying “bullshit” to Vice President Kamala Harris’ comments on the coronavirus vaccine distribution plan.

Tuesday, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough addressed the comparisons of violent Black Lives Matter protests to last month’s riot at the U.S. Capitol by a group in support of former President Donald Trump.

Meghan McCain told her co-hosts on Tuesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View” that the media after former President Donald Trump’s term is essentially acting like “the only way to become a good Republican is to become a Democrat.”

Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson will take a break from co-hosting his Daily Beast podcast The New Abnormal as the Never Trump group continues to reel from a growing sexual harassment scandal involving co-founder John Weaver.

ABC is under fire for featuring 16-year-old Claudia Conway on “American Idol.” Critics are calling it the “worst sort of exploitation of a minor” on reality TV.

NBC’s Dylan Byers, an alumnus of CNN, reported on Tuesday that Allison Gollust, CNN’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, is the “top internal candidate” under consideration to succeed Jeff Zucker, the news media outlet’s current president.

Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity said Monday night on his show that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was “sanctimonious” for condemning former President Donald Trump in a speech on the Senate floor after the impeachment vote adding his leadership will soon be challenged.

Monday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his program with a sharp rebuke of so-called green energy policies that have wreaked havoc on the country as an Arctic blast makes its way across the United States.

Jacobs and Stelter share a common left-wing misunderstanding of what the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was about.

Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-CA) in an interview Sunday with CNN reiterated calls for a “truth commission” aimed at community-wide conversations about “our history” in order to reach “a common narrative moving forward of what we want our country to be” as well as a “reckoning with the racial injustice and white supremacy of our past.”

The Lincoln Project’s fundraising page is no longer operational in the wake of sexual harassment allegations waged against co-founder John Weaver and a wave of resignations from the embattled Never Trump organization.  

The New York Times waited until the end of Trump’s impeachment trial to issue a retraction of its “fire extinguisher” fable.

Representative Sara Jacobs (D-CA) on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” that America needed a truth commission to establish a common narrative on racial injustice and white supremacy.

Democrats are torn between the Biden administration’s desire for Congress to get moving on its agenda and the Democratic base’s “loathing” of the former president.

A United Nations organization deleted a Valentine’s Day tweet celebrating different forms of love after the left complained that a depiction of a black woman hugging herself was racist.

Sunday in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment acquittal, former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) discussed the GOP’s identity with Trump no longer in office.

Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s News HQ,” George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley sounded off on the question of whether or not former President Donald Trump could be criminally charged for inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol in January. The Senate voted Saturday to acquit Trump of inciting an insurrection.

YouTube has permanently banned LifeSiteNews, a popular pro-life news outlet with some 314,000 subscribers.

On this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz decried so-called cancel culture, which was highlighted by threats made against Trump defense attorney Michael Van Der Veen.

Chris Harrison, host of “The Bachelor,” says he is stepping down from his TV role and is “ashamed” for his handling of a swirling racial controversy at the ABC dating show.

Saturday, shortly after the U.S. Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, Trump defense attorney Michael Van Der Veen appear on CBSN in an interview with anchor Lana Zak.

They defeated what Trump defense attorney Michael van der Veen mocked as the “Raskin Doctrine”: the idea that only Democrats are entitled to free speech.

Members of the media criticized Senate Democrats for deciding Saturday not to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.

With monumental problems facing America — from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic to joblessness and an economic crisis — left-wing celebrities are busying themselves swooning over the Bidens for setting up a Valentine’s Day display outside of the White House.

BEIJING (AP) – The European Union on Saturday called on China to reverse its ban on the BBC World News television channel imposed in apparent retaliation for Britain’s pulling of the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.

America’s fake news media had a very bad, horribly terrible, not very good Friday, and it was glorious…

Friday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson speculated why the media went out of its way to protect the embattled Lincoln Project, as rumors and speculation have swirled about cofounder John Weaver.

Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, said her father “despised” Lincoln Project cofounders Steve Schmidt and John Weaver. 

CNN’s Jake Tapper mocked David Schoen, one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers, for his Orthodox Jewish faith on Friday afternoon.

Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace said Friday that former President Donald Trump’s lawyers using a video montage of Democrats saying the word fight was “ludicrous” during his network’s impeachment trial coverage.

Lincoln Project TV host Nayyera Haq resigned from the Never Trump organization Friday amid a growing number of allegations of sexual harassment against co-founder John Weaver. 

Establishment media journalists are fuming over news that Biden deputy press secretary T.J. Ducklo will remain in his role after a report alleging he threatened Politico author Tara Palmeri for revealing his relationship with Axios’ Alexi McCammond.