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The sixth debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates kicks off Thursday at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT live on PBS, with CNN simulcasting the event being held at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. PBS NewsHour and Politico are co-hosting the event, the last of 2019 and the first since President Donald Trump…

PBS NewsHour and Politico will host the December Democratic debate in Los Angeles on Dec. 19, the two news outlets announced on Friday. The debate will be held at UCLA, with a set of moderators to be announced. The Democratic National Committee also raised the threshold for candidates to qualify for the debate…

UPDATE: The satirical Mad magazine, an iconic institution in comedy for more than 50 years, has fired back at South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, who claimed not to know who mascot Alfred E. Neuman was when compared to the character by President Donald Trump. Buttigieg claimed he had to use Google to be filled…

ICM Partners has just signed political news operation Politico to develop the organization’s IP across all platforms and to work together on the agency’s first-of-its kind political department and Politico’s Women Rule Iniative. As part of the agreement, the agency says it will “explore all aspects of Politico’s…

ABC News President James Goldston sent the following note to the news division announcing that Tara Palmeri is joining ABC News as a White House Correspondent. See below for Goldston's note to staff: From ABC News president James Goldston’s memo: Tara is a tenacious reporter with a keen instinct for political scoops…

UPDATED throughout with responses from various media outlets: Shortly after President Donald Trump vowed to “do something” about the “cunning” media who he’s called “the enemy” of the American people, CNN announced on air it, and other members of the press, had been barred from today’s White House briefing. CNN…

Sinclair Broadcasting Group pushed back at news reports about an offer it made to Donald Trump during the campaign. "Over the past three days, there have been numerous misleading press stories about Sinclair's election coverage,” Sinclair Broadcasting Group VP News Scott Livingston said this afternoon in a statement.…

Donald Trump will not continue his campaign practice of banning individual news outlets once he’s in the White House, Republican National Committee’s communications director Sean Spicer said at a bar-in-the-back event in Washington. "There's a big difference between a campaign where it is a private venue using private…

This is the biggest of Sinclair’s recent deals to bulk up its TV station portfolio — and it’s one that also will make it a prominent player in Washington. When completed, expected by year end, Sinclair will pick up seven ABC affiliates including Washington DC’s WJLA, and DC’s NewsChannel 8 cable news service.  “To buy…

David Chalian has been named VP of video programming at Politico, the site reported today. Chalian was fired as Yahoo News Washington Bureau Chief during the Republican National Convention after he was caught on open mic over a break during an ABC News/Yahoo News webcast saying Mitt Romney and his wife Anne were “not…

Abraham Lincoln is coming to this weekend's White House Correspondent's dinner. Actually the Great Emancipator isn't coming but Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays the 16th President in the upcoming Steven Spielberg Lincoln film, is. The often reclusive Oscar winner, a guest of the Huffington Post, is one of many Hollywood…

Ari Emanuel and Charlize Theron will be among the Hollywood A-listers joining Barack Obama and the political elite at this year's White House Correspondent's dinner Saturday night. Politico announced today that the WME CEO and Oscar-winning actress are coming to the WHCA as their guests. Also invited are Desperate Hous…