24 h. ago Fox News host, who mercilessly mocked Fetterman in 2022, now wants to ‘reach out and hug’ him

Before he became a regular fixture on Fox News airwaves and ‘Trump’s favorite Democrat,’ John Fetterman was relantlessly attacked and ridiculed by the network following his stroke during the 2022 election campaign.

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26 h. ago Trump reveals he has no idea how to pay the $10K he promised air traffic controllers who kept working through the shutdown

‘I always get the money from someplace regardless, it doesn’t matter,’ president tells Fox News host Laura Ingraham in latest interview as he dismisses public’s concerns about the economy

Economics

29 h. ago Bari Weiss wants to take down CBS News’ Standards and Practices unit for having ‘too much power’: sources

EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

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6 d. ago Heritage Foundation leader apologizes for backing Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist

Kevin Roberts, whose group pushed Project 2025, had defended ex-Fox News host’s talk with Nick FuentesThe leader of the conservative thinktank behind Project 2025 apologized for supporting a white nationalist amid turmoil on the right over the mainstreaming of extremist ideology, but is resisting calls to resign.Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, previously defended the former Fox host Tucker Carlson for having Hitler fan Nick Fuentes on his podcast without pushing back on his white supremacist views. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Fox News host Jesse Watters bizarrely blames single women for Mamdani’s ‘socialist takeover’ in New York

Watters' comments were reminiscent of JD Vance’s 2024 complaints about ‘childless cat ladies’

Politics

8 d. ago Erika Kirk reveals Sinclair reached out to broker personal apology from Jimmy Kimmel

Widow revealed the correspondence in an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters

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9 d. ago Bari Weiss’s security detail is costing CBS $10,000 per day, according to report

Weiss took over CBS News last month after its parent company bought her Substack, The Free Press, for $150 million

Economics

9 d. ago Trump gushes over Bari Weiss and boasts about ‘60 Minutes’ payoff — but TV viewers didn’t see that

‘Why would you subject yourself to this type of criticism? Just put it in, because it’s the first thing that I was looking for,’ one CBS News insider said of the network’s decision to omit Trump’s settlement boast from the on-air broadcast

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1 week ago Fox News host asks astronaut to debunk moon landing conspiracy theories claiming 25% of viewers ‘remain skeptical’

Fox News host Will Cain grilled retired astronaut Eileen Collins on various conspiracies on the moon landing in an interview Friday

Technology

1 week ago Bari Weiss has added another Fox News star to her list of potential ‘CBS Evening News’ anchors

When asked about Bari Weiss considering Dana Perino to lead CBS Evening News, one senior CBS News staffer responded to The Independent with a face-palm emoji.

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1 week ago ‘This is moronic!’ Fox News host says briefings on boat strikes are unnecessary because ‘bad guys are dying’

‘I don’t need a briefing. Bad guys are dying, I like it,’ Lawrence Jones declared on Friday.

Events

1 week ago Gayle King expected to depart ‘CBS Mornings’ in latest restructure under new leader Bari Weiss: report

King, who has fronted the broadcaster’s morning show for over a decade, is expected to step down from her anchor role on next year

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2 w. ago So what does Bret Baier have to say about those CBS News and Bari Weiss reports?

Saying he was ‘flattered’ by all of the media attention the speculation has received, Bret Baier added that ‘we’ll see what happens at the end’ of his Fox News contract.

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2 w. ago Bari Weiss is eyeing Fox News star Bret Baier and CNN’s Anderson Cooper for ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor chair

Sources also told The Independent that Weiss has also expressed interest in bringing Andercon Cooper over from CNN to lead the nightly news program.

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3 w. ago Fox News host Laura Ingraham joins business venture with Donald Trump Jr

Host often criticized Hunter Biden’s business on her show and said he capitalized on his father’s presidency for deals Fox News host Laura Ingraham is joining a business venture that includes Donald Trump Jr – after she repeatedly criticized the business dealings of another president’s son: Hunter Biden.Ingraham, Trump Jr and Chamath Palihapitiya, a business associate of Donald Trump’s eldest son and namesake, were all listed as board members of a new venture seeking to go public on the stock market, according to Bloomberg. It purports to “fund the next chapter of American Exceptionalism and help Make America Grow Again”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Gayle King shares surprising take after being seated next to Fox News host on flight

‘A good time was had by all,’ King declared on Instagram after her flight with Jesse Watters

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3 w. ago Fox News host Jesse Watters slams ‘No Kings’ protesters after admitting his mom was one of them

‘Sometimes I think I was adopted,’ complained the right-wing anchor on ‘The Five’ on Monday

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3 w. ago Bari Weiss, who published CBS leaks at The Free Press, now wants to root out leakers after taking over network

One CBS News staffer told The Independent that it was ‘insanely ironic’ that Weiss, the network’s new editor-in-chief, was trying to out leakers

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3 w. ago CBS News head of standards quits just a week after Bari Weiss is named editor

During an editorial call Thursday morning, Claudia Milne announced she was leaving as the head of standards at CBS News. She did not give a reason for her departure.

Politics

3 w. ago Fox News host Will Cain warns that Mamdani is a ‘threat to Western civilization’ — right after network’s big interview

‘That brings us back to who's inside the gates of the Alamo. It is a man like Zohran Mamdani,’ the Fox News host breathlessly declared on Wednesday.

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