The Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday was free of some of the fireworks of previous events, but one candidate stood out for her sparring with her rivals: Tulsi Gabbard. The Hawaii Democrat was a target of one of Kamala Harris’s attacks. “It is unfortunate that we have someone on this stage who is attempting…

Gordon Sondland’s bombshell testimony at the impeachment hearings on Wednesday overshadowed the Democratic debate, as candidates were immediately grilled on the question of removing President Donald Trump from office. Moderator Rachel Maddow asked Elizabeth Warren whether she would try build Republican support for…

An attorney for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman fired off a letter to Fox News on Wednesday, asking the network to retract an October 28 segment of The Ingraham Angle in which a guest suggested that he engaged in espionage. Vindman’s attorney, David Pressman of Boies Schiller Flexner, said in the letter that the segment…

UPDATE, 1:05 PM PT: The public gallery watching Wednesday’s impeachment hearing gave it a cinematic climax – they stood and applauded after Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) concluded the session with a lengthy statement explaining why Gordon Sondland’s testimony was “deeply significant and troubling.” His voice rising, Schiff…

Four 2020 Democratic candidates — Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) — have signed on to a letter calling on the Democratic National Committee to ensure that Comcast orders an independent investigation of sexual harassment and misconduct…

UPDATE, 2:47 PM PT: As two new witnesses testified in the impeachment inquiry, the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, claimed that the ratings for the hearings were “way down, way down.” Nunes was at the start of his questioning of Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, and Tim…

In the hours after the Justice Department announced it would move to terminate the Paramount consent decrees, the stock price in AMC, Cinemark and IMAX all popped in after-hours trading. But even if studios are freed from 71-year-old restrictions that prevent them from exercising significant control over the…

The Justice Department will ask a federal court to eliminate the Paramount consent decrees, the 71-year-old restrictions on major distributors’ control of the exhibition pipeline. The elimination of the decrees could alter the dynamics of the business, and perhaps lead to further consolidation. But the DOJ, which has…

Comcast is facing an antitrust lawsuit from a Denver regional sports network, which claims that the cable giant is using its market power to try to extract much more favorable terms that would put it out of business. Altitude Sports and Entertainment, which produces and telecasts games from the the Colorado Avalanche…

NBC News and Meet the Press are launching a new project to cover the 2020 election from the vantage point of five key counties in swing states. Meet the Press moderator and political director Chuck Todd and reporters Vaughn Hillyard and Dasha Burns will provide coverage from Milwaukee County in Wisconsin, Kent County…

President Donald Trump is reviving the National Medal of Arts, with plans to honor actor Jon Voight, singer Alison Krauss, Sharon Percy Rockefeller and the musicians of the United States Military in a White House ceremony on Thursday. [Voight, Krauss and author James Patterson are shown above.] This will be the first…

Focus Features’ Harriet landed one of the prized slots of award season — a screening on Capitol Hill. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and the Congressional Black Caucus co-hosted a showing of the movie, a biopic of Harriet Tubman, at the theater in the Capitol…