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“We don't have any personnel changes at this time," Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted at Friday's White House press briefing, days after President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by Twitter. Also Friday, Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly told an invited bunch of journalists, OTR, that Trump was…

President Donald Trump staged a made-for-TV meeting to talk guns, White House Communications Director Hope Hicks said so-long, First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner and Ben Carson stayed mum under the gun, and NBC’s Late Night star Seth Meyers took a Closer Look. Carson is caught up in scandal after spending $31K for a…

President Donald Trump visited the Emergency Operations Center in Austin this afternoon and held his second photo opportunity of the day to assure Texans that his team and local officials were doing a “fantastic job. “No. 1, they like each other, and No. 2, they respect each other,” Trump said with a smile. All of the…

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is facing backlash after referring to African-American slaves as "immigrants" during his first speech to the HUD employees in Washington. “That’s what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity,” Carson stated in the video above. “There were other immigrants…

UPDATED with video: “It was an exciting day for President Trump, because he went on a field trip,” Stephen Colbert said at the top of Late Show. “He was so worried Steve Bannon would not sign his permission slip,” Colbert snarked. He took a previously postponed tour of the National Museum of African American History…

Steve Harvey, Family Feud host and Hillary Clinton supporter, met with President-elect Donald Trump today to discuss a possible role for the comic post-inauguration. Greeting reporters camped out in the lobby of Trump Tower, Harvey said, "We're gonna team up and see if we can bring about some positive change in the…

In one of his first official moves as the GOP’s official nominee for president of the United States, Donald Trump this morning weighed in on the controversy over wife Melania’s keynote speech on the first night of the RNC. This latest round of Trump Tweet kicks off RNC Day 3, the theme of which is Make America First…

Hollywood is going to vote for Donald Trump, said Donald Trump this morning at a news conference. Trump says his Hollywood pals have told him, “Everyone out there is voting for you, but they’re not going to admit it.” “I say, ‘Why? Aren’t you proud? I have a tough stance on crime. I have a tough stance on borders…

An average of 14.5 million viewers watched CNN and Telemundo’s presentation of GOP presidential candidates brawling on stage from Houston, TX, according to Nielsen Fast National data. Among adults 25-54, 4.7 million watched the fracas on the two networks. These combined-network stats make it the fifth-highest among…

Ben Carson Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, whomped Donald Trump last night. CNN’s GOP insult-hurling derby in Greenville, SC, featuring Carson, Rubio and Cruz, catapulted CNN to a primetime win among cable news networks last night in total viewers and in the news demo. From 8-9 PM, when Trump went knee-to-knee with…

Stephen Colbert paid tribute to the opening moments of ABC News’ GOP debate in New Hampshire on the eve of that states’ first primary in the 2016 presidential race. That debate opening consumed TV coverage of the White House race yesterday. Making her debut half an hour before Colbert’s Late Show, TBS’s Full Frontal…

BEST DEBATE KICKOFF EVER: ABC News sure knows how to start a political debate with a bang! Ben Carson, apparently still waking up from his Florida rest stop after the Iowa caucuses, did not hear, or did not understand, when ABC News moderators Martha Raddatz and David Muir introduced him, so he continued to wait in…