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In a ruling late Monday, a federal judge in San Francisco dismissed lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and Google that sought to punish them for their role in the December 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, CA. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said the tech companies could not be held accountable for the rise of…

Fueled by Wednesday’s breaking news of the San Bernardino terrorist attack that killed 14, Fox News Channel topped the basic cable rankers last week, both in primetime and total day. The network averaged 2.8 million viewers in primetime, topping ESPN (2.6M) and holiday-heavy programming on ABC Family (2.3M) and…

President Barack Obama's Sunday night primetime speech might have, according to GOP White House candidates, been too little too late – and why give the address from the intimacy of the Oval Office if you're going to shove a podium in front of the POTUS desk? – but it attracted a whopping 46 million viewers. To give…

Mass shootings are happening at such a clip these days, CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert had to “catch up” on two of them that took place while he took a 10-day break from The Late Show: Colorado Springs and San Bernardino. He offered his thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families, noting “these days…

Two Fox News contributors were suspended for two weeks for having potty mouths on its networks. Obama’s to blame. Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and actress-commentator Stacey Dash contributors got ultra undie-bunched today while discussing President Barack Obama’s Oval Office address of last night. “Look, Mr…

The FBI kicked off a noon news conference today reiterating that the agency did nothing wrong when it left personal documents lying about for TV cameras to shoot at the home of the San Bernardino shooters last week. On Friday morning, TV news crews combed through the shooters’ home at the invitation of the landlord as…

Updated with additional details: President Obama interrupted primetime on TV tonight to speak in a rare address from the Oval Office, to call Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino an act of terrorism perpetrated by two people who had “gone down the dark path of radicalization,” to call on Congress to block people on…

UPDATED with Kennedy Center Honors, NBC football and Trump: President Obama will be late for the ceremony for tonight’s Kennedy Center Honors, though he will host a pre-ceremony reception for honorees at the White House as planned. Earlier, it was unclear whether the president could show up for the ceremony. The…

New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. today made the extraordinary gesture of giving prominent, Page One placement to an editorial declaring it “a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency.” It was…

2ND UPDATE: 12:45 PM PT: It does not appear the two perpetrators of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino are part of an organized cell or part of a network, FBI director James Comey said at a news conference this afternoon. “We are going through a very large volume of electronic evidence … these killers tried…

UPDATED with statements from CNN and MSNBC: Looking like an episode of Storage Wars – or a typical real estate open house in Santa Monica, California – TV news reporters with cameras this morning stormed the apartment rented by the San Bernardino shooters, at the invitation of the landlord. MSNBC, CNN and CBS were…

Cable news networks clocked enormous ratings increases yesterday when a married couple gunned down 14 at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and injuring another 21, fled in an SUV and died in a hail of bullets when police caught up to them. Across 2 PM ET Wednesday to 1 AM today, over which time…