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The New York Times Co. will return the 2018 Peabody Award it received for the podcast Caliphate after an internal investigation found it did not adhere to the news organization’s standards for accuracy. The Peabody organization confirmed the news Friday, hours after the Times released the results of its investigation…

The documentary community is rallying around Syrian-born filmmaker Feras Fayyad, director of Oscar-shortlisted film The Cave, after he was denied a visa to enter the United States. The International Documentary Association wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Friday, urging him to let Fayyad into the country to…

UPDATE, 6:04 p.m. PT: President Donald Trump chimed in on ABC News’ apology for airing a video it initially said was footage of a bombing in northern Syria when it was in fact from a Kentucky gun demonstration. He connected the error to the network’s planned interview with Hunter Biden on Tuesday. Trump wrote, “A big…

Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah both struck an ominous tone Monday night while discussing President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria as Turkey prepares a military assault against Kurdish fighters. Noah suggested Trump is betraying the Kurds — who helped the U.S. battle the Islamic State — to…

A local driver hired by NBC News was killed Saturday in Syria after an explosive device detonated near a group of the network’s journalists, NBC News reported on its website. No other network employees were injured. “We are thankful that NBC employees escaped unharmed, however one of the local drivers working with…

A federal judge has ruled that Syria is responsible for the 2012 death of A Private War subject Marie Colvin and ordered Bashar al-Assad’s regime to pay more than $300 million in a civil judgment today. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia unsealed a $302 million judgment…

In what started as Lindsay Lohan’s attempt at a philanthropic act to help a homeless Syrian refugee family turned into accusations of children trafficking and a scuffle with Lohan ending up on the ground crying. The Mean Girls actress documented all of this in a very strange Instagram video where she was insisting she…

CBS continued to dominate a Donald Trump-interrupted Friday, with Hawaii Five-O taking honors in the key 18-49 age bracket and Blue Bloods topping the night in total viewers. It marked CBS’s 21st Friday win of the season in total viewers. It also scored the network’s 20th Friday victory in the demo, where the network…

A potential hot war between Russia and the coalition of the United States, Britain and France might have inched closer to reality tonight, as a strong statement was issued by the Russian Ambassador to the United States of America in reponse to tonight’s coalition air strikes on Syria. Russia has vowed that an attack…

The early reactions to the announcement that the US is bombing Syria in retaliation for chemical weapons use against civilians show a mixed bag of Hollywood, politicians and media types. Reactions have been split so far, reflecting the narrow camps that divide the country. Among the reactions so far: The way @maddow…

President Donald Trump went live across broadcast and cable news networks at 6:01 PT tonight to announce that he has authorized precision air strikes on targets in Syria. "A short time ago, I ordered the United States Armed Forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities…

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasted those who suggest that President Donald Trump emboldened Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad to use chemical attack on his citizens over the weekend when Trump announced he soon would pull U.S. troops from the country. “It’s outrageous to say the President of the…