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"I've never been more proud to be an American, I mean that sincerely," Joe Biden told MSNBC's Nicole Wallace today of the coronavirus pandemic gripping the nation and the world. "Ordinary people doing extraordinary things for their community, for their neighbors, for people down the street, for everyone out there,"…

Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences…

(UPDATED WITH NBC NEWS STATEMENT) With a number of members of the media in America and around the globe already sequestered due to growing coronavirus fears, CBS News today saw two of its own team test positive. At the same time NBC News is taking a cautious approach beginning next week. In a memo sent to staff in the…

UPDATED with more info: An interview this morning on MSNBC about the British royal family took a bizarre turn when a guest referred to Meghan Markle as “five clicks up from trailer trash.” The video, which has gone viral, showed journalist Victoria Mather being interviewed from NBC’s London bureau about the Duchess of…

“MSNBC used to run this thing, ‘This is who we are,’ ” Bill Maher said Friday during his panel session on HBO’s Real Time, referring to one of the cable news network’s oft-used marketing slogans. “Well, I don’t like who you were this week, and I don’t think a lot of people who work there like this either.” Maher was…

Amid confusion and even misinformation about the coronavirus, networks are stepping up their special coverage to the outbreak, often with the aim of sifting through facts and myths and what is known and what is unknown. On Sunday at 10 PM ET, MSNBC is devoting an hour to the topic with On Assignment with Richard Engel…

UPDATE, 11:03 PM PT: Joe Biden was projected to win Texas, one of the largest Super Tuesday delegate prizes, in a surprising victory over Bernie Sanders. NBC News, the Associated Press and The New York Times called the state for Biden, who has won 9 of the 14 states that voted on Tuesday. Biden’s candidacy looked like…

Morning Joe‘s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski weighed in today on their no-longer-MSNBC-colleague Chris Matthew’s abrupt resignation last night, with Brzezinski expressing her thoughts on shifts in cultural attitudes and wondering if “there might be a better way.” In a stunning on-air moment last night, Matthews…

Chris Matthews announced that he is retiring effective immediately, and that Monday’s Hardball would be the last on MSNBC. “This isn’t for a lack of interest in politics,” he said on the air tonight. “As you can tell I have loved every minute of my 20 years as host of Hardball.” Matthews did not appear on MSNBC’s…

UPDATED, 4:14 PM: Hardball host Chris Matthews apologized for a remark he made during MSNBC’s Nevada caucus coverage Saturday in which he compared the inability of establishment Democrats to stop Bernie Sanders to France’s futile hopes against Germany’s invasion in 1940. At the top of his show on Monday, Matthews…

The ninth debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary cycle is tonight on NBC News and MSNBC, beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT in Nevada ahead of the state’s February 22 caucuses. The political match-up marks former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s debate debut. He’ll face off against Sen. Bernie Sanders…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney has teamed with Andrew Zimmern and his production company Intuitive Content to record the theme music to MSNBC’s upcoming series What's Eating America. The musician and Nashville-based Jordan Lehning have drummed up the theme for the five-part series, which kicks off Sunday…