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As a television man, President Donald Trump knows the value of a tease. Last night, he tweeted that “Something very big has just happened,” setting off a frenzy of speculation on just what was in store. Today, the Commander-in-Tweet revealed the big news. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, was killed…

In a ruling late Monday, a federal judge in San Francisco dismissed lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and Google that sought to punish them for their role in the December 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, CA. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said the tech companies could not be held accountable for the rise of…

As pressure builds on tech giants to clean up their platforms, Google-owned YouTube said it is getting faster at removing problematic videos, and took down 1.7 million entire channels in the third quarter. The channel removals as well as one-off videos taken down added up to some 58 million videos going dark between…

The White House has no recording of President Donald Trump's phone call to the widow of a soldier killed in an ISIS ambush in Niger earlier this month. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made that headline at today's briefing after her boss tweeted this morning "I have proof" Democratic Congresswoman Fr…

After taking a brief break in their respective corners to mop away the sweat, Fox News Channel and The New York Times tonight began another round of Competitive Insult Trading. Fox took tonight’s first swing: "Neither Fox News' report nor the subsequent on-air coverage was inaccurate. We find it beyond disappointing…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, the creator-producer of Lifetime’s UnReal, is planning to make her feature film directing debut on a story garnered from some of the most heroic women in the world: the 100-plus female army fighting against ISIS whose members suffered through the Yazidi genocide in Iraq and then…

Shortly after tweeting his review of Donald Jr.’s televised interview with Sean Hannity – "He did a good job last night. He was open, transparent and innocent" – President Donald Trump announced “I have very little time for watching TV,” what with the White House functioning so perfectly: The W.H. is functioning…

UPDATE with video sneak peek: Amal Clooney will be among Fareed Zakaria’s guests on his CNN program GPS on Sunday. The human rights barrister and Yazidi human rights campaigner Nadia Murad will discuss taking the fight against ISIS to the International Criminal Court. Zakaria also will talk about German Chancellor…

Channel 4 and National Geographic Channel are partnering on a four-part drama from writer/director Peter Kosminsky (Wolf Hall) chronicling the fact-inspired fictional story of four British men and women who join ISIS in Raqqah, Syria. Currently untitled, the series, based on research and first-hand accounts compiled…

U.S. TV news operations expecting to start early today with blanket coverage of three western states’ primaries and the fracas of the 2016 presidential cycle, had to pull off major pivots when pre-dawn terrorist attacks in Brussels left 30 dead and nearly 230 injured according to officials, with those numbers expected…

The heads of the major Hollywood studios and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met today at Universal Studios to discuss how to counter ISIS. It was no state secret, as Kerry noted the meeting on Twitter this afternoon. The sitdown was similar in nature to when the Bush administration came to Hollywood’s doorstep…

President Barack Obama's Sunday night primetime speech might have, according to GOP White House candidates, been too little too late – and why give the address from the intimacy of the Oval Office if you're going to shove a podium in front of the POTUS desk? – but it attracted a whopping 46 million viewers. To give…