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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined Fox News as a contributor, the latest former Trump administration official to join the network. Pompeo will make his first appearance on Fox & Friends on Friday, the network said. He’ll contribute across all Fox News Media platforms. In a statement, Pompeo said, “As a…

Donald Trump tried to inject a few reality TV moments into the second night of the Republican National Convention — but he did so by shattering political norms. A presidential pardon. A naturalization ceremony. A Secretary of State speaking from Israel. Even the spectacle of holding so many convention events from the…

First Lady Melania Trump will speak to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday from a location perhaps unlike any other previous party gathering: the White House Rose Garden. It’s anticipated that her speech will tie in with her “Be Best” initiative, but networks likely will compare her remarks to those she deliv…

UPDATED: President Donald Trump went off on NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander after he pressed him on what he would say to Americans who are frightened by the coronavirus. “What do you say to Americans that are scared?” Alexander asked. “I’d say you are a terrible reporter,” Trump responded. “I think…

President Donald Trump praised Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for testy remarks to NPR host and reporter Mary Louise Kelly, telling him, “I think you did a good job on her, actually.” At a White House ceremony with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump noted the presence of Pompeo and said, “That was very…

An NPR reporter who had been scheduled to travel on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s trip to Europe and Central Asia this week was removed from the press pool, an action that a journalists’ group claims is retaliation against the network over NPR hosts Mary Louise Kelly’s recent interview with Pompeo. Shaun Tandon…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly of violating “basic rules of journalism and decency” regarding a contentious interview and its aftermath. On Friday, Pompeo abruptly ended his interview with Kelly after she pressed him on why he had not specifically defended former U.S…

Director Scott Z. Burns is challenging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to explain what parts of The Report are “fiction,” after Pompeo slammed the film on Twitter. The Amazon Studios drama centers on the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation or torture. On Friday Pompeo tweeted: “I watched The Report. Fiction. To be…

Two organizations representing documentary filmmakers are challenging new State Department “extreme vetting” rules that require visa applicants to disclose all social media handles they have used in the past five years. “We feel these new policies infringe upon foreign filmmakers' freedom of expression, and they also…

UPDATED with video: Matthew Broderick stopped by Saturday Night Live this weekend with a warning for the Trump administration — the impeachment inquiry could get “really bad.” Broderick turned in a performance as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who crashed a meeting of President Donald Trump’s top advisers about the…

Hillary Clinton (and her daughter) are on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight, which is solid timing with all the bombshell reporting today regarding that infamous phone chat involving the presidents of the United States and Ukraine. And a few other folks, apparently. The former Secretary of State discusses the…

Trump administration officials appearing on two Sunday morning political talk shows said that a transcript of a controversial phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would not be released. The July call between the two leaders has been the subject of an alleged…