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CNN landed the most total viewers during primetime coverage of what turned into an election week, enough to make it its most-watched week in its history. The network drew an average of 6.1 million viewers in primetime, compared with 5.9 million for Fox News and 4.8 million for MSNBC. The figures are from Nielsen and…

When MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin was throwing to NBC News correspondent Ken Dilanian on Tuesday, it was pretty quickly established that something was amiss. Melvin was going to a segment on the Trump administration’s refusal to work on the presidential transition with Joe Biden’s team, when he asked Dilanian, “Ken, what…

Rachel Maddow said today that she is quarantining at home and will not be in studio for tonight’s MSNBC coverage of the vote count in the 2020 presidential race. Maddow said on Twitter that she tested negative for COVID-19 after a close contact tested positive. She said that she will be at home “’til it’s safe for me…

CNN remained No. 1 in primetime among all news networks on Thursday, the third night of coverage of the 2020 presidential election. The race remains undecided, though viewers watched challenger Joe Biden overtake President Donald Trump in key battleground states Georgia and Pennsylvania last night. Like in Wednesday’s…

The second night of the news networks’ coverage of the 2020 presidential election saw CNN surpass Fox News for No. 1 overall in primetime, scoring 7.12 million viewers Wednesday, its second-highest total in its 40-year history, to lead all broadcast and cable outlets. The night featured rising tensions as vote counts…

Twice in the past week, President Donald Trump has made fun of a reporter who was injured by police. Tuesday night, Trump called Ali Velshi an “idiot reporter.” On Friday, he said Velshi's injury was “a beautiful sight.” Journalists, including Joe Scarborough, fired back at Trump saying he was undermining American…

Donald Trump again mocked MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for the moment when he was struck by a rubber bullet while covering protests in June, and told a rally crowd that it was a “beautiful sight” when police targeted an unidentified reporter and “threw him aside like he was a bag of popcorn.” Speaking at a rally in Moon…

MSNBC is adding new shows to its weekend lineup, with Alicia Menendez and Joshua Johnson set to anchor evening shows as part of an effort to feature more breaking news coverage. The news network also is bringing back its early morning weekday show, Way Too Early, with Kasie Hunt anchoring. Her Sunday evening show, Kasi…

UPDATE: MSNBC host Joy Reid devoted an extended segment of her show on Wednesday to media stereotypes about Muslims, after several groups called on her to apologize for a question she posed earlier in the week. Reid acknowledged that the way she framed the question “obviously did not work.” On Monday, in a segment on…

Focus Features’ Dawn Porter-directed documentary The Way I See It, about former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza, will premiere on MSNBC on October 9 following The Rachel Maddow Show, three weeks after the pic’s September 18 theatrical release. The doc, which Focus is co-presenting with MSNBC Films…

Joe Biden gave a surprise interview to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Thursday, just hours before Donald Trump accepts the Republican presidential nomination and likely will try to characterize his Democratic rival as soft on the issue of law and order. In the interview, Biden attacked Trump for viewing the violence in…

If the most unobtrusive man in America thought tonight was his moment in the spotlight at the Republican National Convention, Mike Pence learned the hard way that Donald Trump always gets the last word. As the powerful Hurricane Laura moved closer and closer to landfall in Texas and Louisiana, Trump's vice president…