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President Donald Trump emerged from a rare day of Twitter silence late this afternoon, renewing his frequent war on three of his big MSNBC critics in “Little” Donny Deutsch, Joe Scarborough and “his very angry Psycho wife,” (aka Mika Brzezinski). Trump reminisced about his days on NBC’s The Apprentice, recalling how…

The Florida man who mailed bombs last year to high-profile critics of President Donald Trump including Democratic politicians, cable news outlets and pundits and Robert De Niro was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison. Cesar Sayoc, 57, whose own legal team called him a “Donald Trump superfan,” was arrested Oct…

UPDATED AT 5:40PM PACIFIC WITH DETAILS FROM POLICE OFFICIALS. As law enforcement officials investigate today’s deadly shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas; Fox News and NBC News are planning extensive live coverage. The first calls on the mass shooting at Cielo Vista Mall came in at 10:39 a.m. local time…

Michael Moore interrupted hosting duties at his 15th annual Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan to make a bold suggestion about the 2020 presidential race: He urged former first lady Michelle Obama to jump into the ring and predicted that if she did, she would trounce Donald Trump. "She would beat him. She would…

Sean Hannity will be competing with the first night of the CNN-hosted Democratic debates tonight, but the Fox News Channel host likely won’t even get a scratch when it comes to the ratings. Holding steady with last year and last month, Donald Trump's favorite 9 PM show was again the most watched on cable news in July…

Mika Brzezinski opened a segment of her MSNBC program today by calling out its hatewatcher-in-chief, then speaking directly to him. “President Trump apparently is watching Morning Joe again,” she said. “And Donald, you really oughta find something else to do in the morning. It’s just not healthy.” Hosting the show…

MSNBC is taking some heat today after a panelist on an afternoon discussion program falsely stated that Fox News is not airing live coverage of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before two Senate panels this week. Rick Wilson, a longtime Republican strategist and author of Everything Trump Touches Dies…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Monday that NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell will receive the lifetime achievement award at the 40th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in September. Mitchell is currently NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports…

It would almost be old news that Fox News Channel has topped cable news for a 70th consecutive quarter and is again the most watched outlet on all of basic cable. However, with historic viewing highs for last week's two-night Democratic debate on MSNBC, the win for the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet during the just-ended…

UPDATE, 12:01 PM: Looks like the viewership estimations for the second Democratic debate were as conservative as frontrunner Joe Biden. With 18.1 million tuning in to see Sen. Kamala Harris school the former VP, the simulcast across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo is officially the most watched debate that the party of FDR…

UPDATE: Ozzy Osbourne’s wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne, wasn’t laughing at Donald Trump’s “Crazy Train” video joke. She fired off the following tweet: “Based on this morning's unauthorized use of @OzzyOsbourne's "Crazy Train," we are sending notice to the Trump campaign they are forbidden from using Ozzy's music in…

UPDATED with total viewership numbers: Most of the contenders pulling in big poll numbers take the stage in Miami later today for Night 2 of the Democratic debates on NBC, but Night 1 has set a pretty high bar for Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and the rest to reach. That bar, however, is well below what…