George H.W. Bush, the 41st U.S. president, was hospitalized this morning for low blood pressure and fatigue, but spokesman Jim McGrath said the former president “is awake and alert, and not in any discomfort.” Bush, 93, is being treated in Maine at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford, about 10 miles from the…

UPDATE with video: Jimmy Kimmel roasted Hollywood’s diversity pretensions, Maggie Smith’s no-show pretensions, O.J. Simpson profiteering pretensions, and Mark Burnett gifting America with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, in a scorched earth opening monologue that included one of the rawest can’t-forget-it…

If you think the fracas among presidential candidates is getting yeasty, you’ll love this week’s brawl between cable news networks CNN and MSNBC. Today, MSNBC announced it will hold a town hall with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, live on Wednesday at 8 PM ET in South Carolina, moderated by Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough…

Last night’s Republican presidential debate on CBS wasn’t only the angriest debate of the season, but the most-watched of the year, drawing 13.51 Million viewers. Kicking off only hours after news spread of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, CBS’s presentation of the GOP’s final go-round prior to the…

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…

GOP hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida revealed last night on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that what he’d really like to do, if he’s not elected president, is to be NFL commissioner. He’d much prefer it to being VPOTUS, he said when asked by Jimmy Fallon, because the NFL commissioner gets to suspend…

Updated with Rand Paul statement, 6 PM: Rand Paul says he’s boycotting Thursday night’s GOP primary debate after being relegated to the kids table. “I won’t participate in anything that’s not first tier because we have a first-tier campaign,” the Kentucky senator told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer moments before Fox Business Net…

The fourth GOP debate airs tonight at 9 PM ET from Milwaukee. Reading left to right on tonight's stage: John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina and Rand Paul. The always-quotable but low-polling Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee last week got demoted to the kids-table debate…

And you thought CNBC’s GOP debate was going to be all about Donald Trump putting on his brass knuckles and knocking Ben Carson out of the front-runner spot, and that Bush Family Dynasty’s well-thought-out-in-advance moment when Jeb! would rise like the phoenix from the ashes and get back in the game. Well, here are…

The country's most popular new reality TV series, The GOP Debates, is back tonight for Episode 3. The hit series premiered with a whopping 24 million viewers in August on Fox News Channel. Episode 2, on CNN in September, clocked 23M. Tonight's episode, imaginatively titled "The Republican Presidential Debate: Your…

Updated with video: “You’ve got more pictures of yourself than I thought you’d have,” Jeb Bush said of the set as he made his entrance on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show. “I used to play a narcissistic conservative pundit – now I’m just a narcissist,” Colbert shot back. Colbert wondered, if elected, could Jeb bring people…

Jeb Bush only got seven minutes on Stephen Colbert’s inaugural Late Show, and they came nearly at the and of a slightly stretched program. But that proved to be all the time needed for the Republican presidential hopeful to become unstrung. And that was just one high point of a remarkable CBS debut for Colbert, who…