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Donald Trump returned to the spotlight Sunday with a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference, but the news networks took different approaches to how they covered the event. Fox News carried the speech live, but CNN and MSNBC did not. The latter two networks covered Trump’s address: CNN had Jim…

CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, who built a reputation as a bulldog at White House Press briefings during the Trump administration, got a taste of his own medicine Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla. A conservative journalist confronted Acosta over the network’s coverage of New…

After the Conservative Political Action Conference announced that one attendee tested positive for the coronavirus, such political figures as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) said that they would self quarantine. Several media outlets who sent reporters…

UPDATED with video. Bill Maher welcomed Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp, fresh off presiding over the annual CPAC confab, “into the lion’s den” of Real Time. Over the first few minutes of the segment, he peppered Schlapp with questions about how he has stayed loyal to Trump despite repeated tests of his…

Returning to Late Night after a break, Stephen Colbert said his week had been “great because I’m not Donald Trump.” “The news cycle rode him hard and put him away wet,” the CBS late-night host joked of the week that included Trump’s failed Hanoi summit with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un and his former fixer’s…

Sebastian Gorka no longer is a Fox News contributor. Details remain murky, in much same way they were murky when Sorka left the White House back in August of 2017, claiming to have resigned, warning “forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now – ascendant within the White House," though insiders…

“We have much bigger things to worry about now than what the president says,” Arizona Sen. John McCain’s wife, Cindy McCain said Wednesday on The View, days after President Donald Trump had attacked her husband again, this time at CPAC. “We need more compassion, more empathy, more togetherness. We don’t need more…

Arizona Sen. John McCain’s daughter, TV personality Meghan McCain, announced Friday that she would wait until Wednesday to comment, after discovering President Donald Trump lies when he blasted her father at CPAC after promising to knock it off. “As you know, President Trump took some potshots at my father and got the…

President Donald Trump took the stage at CPAC this morning to promote the National Rifle Association’s proposal to arm teachers in the wake of the latest school semi-automatic rifle mass shooting. “When we declare our schools to be gun-free zones it just puts our students in more danger – well-trained gun-adept…

UPDATED with CNN statement: NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch claimed at CPAC she feared for her life at the CNN town hall on gun violence attended by grieving students and parents from Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and adults were killed at a high school in the country’s latest semi-automatic rifle mass…

Kyle Coddington, the cancer patient seen in a segment on Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal, poking fun at the “Nazi hair'” style that replaced bowties at this year’s CPAC, gave his first interview on the subject to Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends. President Donald Trump who, in his down time, likes to tweet his favorite…

UPDATE, 1:10 PM: Full Frontal has made a $1,000 donation to the GoFundMe campaign of cancer patient Kyle Coddington, reports the program EP Miles Kahn. And other, smaller donations have been coming in at a good-ish clip since news broke that Samantha Bee’s show had pulled down the segment and apologized. That includes…