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MSNBC host Chris Hayes devoted a portion of his show on Monday to praising Ronan Farrow, breaking with NBC News executives who pushed back against Farrow’s reporting in his new book Catch and Kill. "It's the kind of journalism that you want to do as a journalist, that everyone who works in this business should want to…

MSNBC and The Washington Post will host the fifth Democratic presidential debate, to be held on Nov. 20 in Georgia. This will be MSNBC’s second telecast of a debate this cycle, having hosted the first in June along with NBC News and Telemundo. The debate also will air on the Radio One Network and stream on the Post’s…

Fox News Channel again beat its cable news rivals in the most recent quarter, but viewership was down almost across the board. Fox News’ primetime lineup drew 2.4 million total viewers, down 1% from the same period a year earlier, compared with 1.5 million for MSNBC, which was down 18%. CNN drew 1 million viewers but…

No one is ever going to accuse Donald Trump of being the kind of guy to benignly take a slap on the cheek. However, today the one-time Celebrity Apprentice host went truly ballistic on live television over the burgeoning Ukraine scandal and Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire's just-wrapped…

Fox News topped the news channels in the special coverage Tuesday of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. According to early numbers from Nielsen, from 5-5:15 PM ET, Fox News drew 3.3 million viewers, compared to 2.4 million for MSNBC and 1.5 million for C…

MSNBC anchor Katy Tur came back from maternity leave with a message: babies need time with their parents. Returning today from the April birth of her son, she called on lawmakers and presidential daughter Ivanka Trump to work harder to expand the right to equal paid time off for both parents. “Parents need time…

One America News Network, one of the rivals to Fox News for right-leaning viewers, filed a defamation claim against Comcast, MSNBC and Rachel Maddow on Monday, over Maddow’s claim that the conservative channel “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.” The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego (read…

MSNBC anchor Alex Witt fought back tears Sunday while interviewing a woman who came face-to-face with the gunman responsible for this weekend’s mass shooting in West Texas. The emotional moment happened as Shauna Saxton recalled the incident on August 31, that left seven people dead and 21 others injured. Saxton said…

NBC News and MSNBC are planning a series of conversations with a number of 2020 presidential candidates at this year’s Texas Tribune Festival, to be held September 26-28. The network is partnering with the Texas Tribune for the event, which has become a high-profile political gathering, even more so this year with…

Donny Deutsch has ended his Saturday night MSNBC show, but the network says it was not canceled but rather always was intended as a limited-run summer series. In fact, the host and MSNBC said Saturday Night Politics with Donny Deutsch was the highest-rated regularly scheduled program in the 8 p.m. ET Saturday slot in…

UPDATED with Doald Trump’s reaction via Twitter: At the start of his MSNBC show The Last Word on Wednesday, host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized for his report that Russian billionaires co-signed Deutsche Bank loans to Donald Trump, hours after one of the president’s lawyers issued a legal threat and demanded a…

UPDATED, 1:17 PM: Score one for Donald Trump and the threat of legal action. Less than 18 hours after proclaiming that Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin co-signed big Deutsche Bank loans to Trump, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is walking back the potentially crippling claim. Not long after NBCUniversal…