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April Ryan is joining Byron Allen’s TheGrio.TV as its first White House correspondent and Washington, D.C., bureau chief. Ryan will start her position at Allen’s Allen Media Group on January 4. TheGrio.TV is a newly branded network that airs on broadcast stations, including a recent deal with Fox to be carried on the…

April Ryan Thursday afternoon said she did not accept a tweeted apology from a Trump appointee who fat-shamed her on Twitter. Ryan said she is anxious to talk to the official’s boss, Ben Carson, about the attack. A Twitter war that erupted between Ryan and event-planner turned HUD honcho Lynne Patton foamed over when…

UPDATE, with video April Ryan, the White House correspondent who asked President Donald Trump if he is a racist, told CNN today that news organizations in the age of Trump have “the FBI and local police on speed dial” for death threats against reporters. “Death threats, yes,” Ryan told a seemingly surprised Brian Stelt…

UPDATED with Donald Trump weighing in: President Donald Trump finally had something to say about Omarosa’s made-for-reality-TV exit from his administration. Previously, Trump was the one who would tell Omarosa she was fired, when he was the star of The Apprentice reality TV series, and Omarosa his favorite series…

Updated with video Bill Maher took a CSI approach to the Russia investigation tonight, mocking up one of those bulletin boards with photos and yarn and connect-the-dots explanations, all to unmask the culprit behind a global conspiracy: Donald Trump’s infamous fat guy in bed. Three guesses on the big guy’s identity…

CNN thumbed its nose at President Donald Trump Monday, hiring American Urban Radio Networks’ April Ryan as a contributor. Though Trump’s White House hasn’t yet hit 100 days, Ryan already has made headlines several times for tangling with the administration: NEW CNN CONTRIBUTOR: APRIL RYAN named a CNN political…

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer hugged it out with American Urban Radio Network reporter April Ryan at Wednesday’s briefing, one day after ordering her – twice –  to stop shaking her head, when she asked him about the White House’s “image” in the midst of all the Russia probes. Spicer, who seemed to have done…

April Ryan, the African American reporter who essentially was asked yesterday by President Donald Trump for a hook-up with her friends on the Congressional Black Caucus, continued going high in her response this morning. “I want to believe he wasn't thinking what everybody's thinking,” Ryan said on MSNBC today…