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ABC News has unveiled a series of new assignments in Washington, with Cecilia Vega promoted to chief White House correspondent and Jonathan Karl launching an interview show for ABC News Live. All of the networks have been reshuffling beats with the change in administrations. In addition to ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN all…

This week a photographer captured an image in the White House briefing room that quickly got the attention of the press corps: Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s file folder, in which she had neatly arranged possible topics as she faced reporters from the lectern. Along with “golf,” “Barack Obama,” “BLM” and a number…

As the White House readied an executive order on the conduct on social media platforms, reporters at the press briefing on Thursday focused on the latest source of Donald Trump’s discontent: Twitter’s decision to put fact check links on two of the president’s tweets about mail-in ballots in California. Earlier this…

As President Donald Trump again griped that the news media has been too fixated on the negative in covering his administration’s response to the coronavirus, ABC News’ chief White House correspondent had enough of it. After the president, at his Wednesday briefing, started to grouse that there was a lot of “bad…

The White House Correspondents’ Association has rescheduled its annual dinner for August 29, with Kenan Thompson and Hasan Minhaj set to perform on the new date. The event originally was set for April 25 but was postponed because of the coronavirus crisis. The new date will come right after the Democratic and…

President Donald Trump spent the Q&A portion of his daily coronavirus press briefing on Monday by attacking reporters not for their recent stories but for the way that they are asking their questions. “It’s such a positive event and you ask it in such a negative way,” he complained to McClatchy’s Francesca Chambers…

Just the other day, in one of President Donald Trump’s daily briefings on the coronavirus, ABC News’ chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl tried to get clarity on an important point: Will everyone who needs a ventilator be able to get one? “Look, don’t be a cutie pie,” Trump said to Karl, before insisting that…

The White House Correspondents’ Association said that a member of the press corps has a suspected case of the coronavirus and is advising journalists and others who were at the White House on a series of dates during the past two weeks to take precautions. “We have been informed that one of our colleagues has a…

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said criticism of President Donald Trump’s border policy and foreign policies has reached a point where “The whole purpose here is to demonize Donald Trump.” Appearing on ABC-TV’s This Week with ABC chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, Bannon defended the…

ABC News said this morning that Tom Llamas will anchor the Saturday and Sunday iterations of World News Tonight, and Cecilia Vega has been moved to become Senior White House Correspondent. In an announcement, Llamas was named Chief National correspondent, and Jonathan Karl is Chief White House Correspondent. Here is…