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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will no longer take questions from "ABC fake news" after Sunday's interview between Vice President JD Vance and George Stephanopoulos, which the "This Week" anchor abruptly ended while Vance was speaking. Trump was addressing reporters after a Cabinet meeting when several shouted "Mr. President" to get his attention. The meeting aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform. Trump pointed at an ABC reporter and said, "You're ABC fake news," before calling on someone else. "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the...

The ABC News mainstay sparred with the vice president over claims Border Czar Tom Homan accepted bribes to lobby for government contracts. One of Donald Trump’s most loathed nemesis in the media abruptly cut off JD Vance during a live interview Sunday morning. ABC News host George Stephanopoulos was speaking with the vice president about bribery allegations against the MAGA administration’s Border Czar Tom Homan when the host interrupted Vance mid-sentence to announce the network would be cutting to commercial. “I think the American people would benefit much more from [talking about the shutdown] than from you going down some...

Dominion Voting Systems -- the voting machine company at the center of false 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories -- has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former Republican election official, according to a person familiar with the sale. John Poulos, the former Dominion CEO, confirmed the sale in a statement. "Liberty Vote has acquired Dominion Voting Systems," Poulos said.

Posing as a TV reporter clad with body armor, Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday mocked the Trump administrative narrative that National Guard troops are needed to quell chaos in “war-torn Chicago” in a bit for ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “This is JB Pritzker, reporting from war-torn Chicago. As you can see, there’s utter mayhem and chaos on the ground. It’s quite disturbing,” he says on a downtown Chicago bridge. “The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs. “We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them, and our deep dish pizza, well, has...

ABC late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel told his audience that Antifa does not exist in the same week that the funding mechanisms for organized Antifa rioters was revealed by, Seamus Bruner, the Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).The ratings-killing Kimmel addressed the Antifa issue during his monologue on Thursday insisting that there is “no Antifa.”“You understand, there is no Antifa? This is an entirely imaginary organization,” Kimmel exclaimed, plying the left’s recent favorite assertion about the group. “There is not an Antifa. This is no different than if they announced they rounded up a dozen Decepticons [from the...

News of a truce between Israel and Hamas sent shockwaves through the mainstream media on Thursday as it appears President Donald Trump may finally have earned his Nobel Peace Prize. The president plans to arrive in Israel on Saturday, two days before Hamas is set to release approximately 200 living hostages still in captivity. The first phase of the peace agreement also calls for Israel’s troops to withdraw to a fixed perimeter, with a final goal of total demobilization from Gaza. On ABC News, correspondent Martha Raddatz appeared unrecognizable from her past pieces critical of Trump as she breathlessly recounted...

Outspoken Donald Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel said he would 'love' to have the President on his show amid his tumbling ratings. The late night host was discussing his return to the screen after his show was temporarily axed over his comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The remarks prompted an outcry, followed by celebrations from Trump when it was announced that Kimmel was being yanked off air.

Comey, who pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday, was indicted last month on charges of making a false statement and obstruction related to 2020 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee -- but Justice Department officials have privately expressed that the case could quickly unravel under the scrutiny of a federal judge and defense lawyers. Daniel Richman -- a law professor who prosecutors allege Comey authorized to leak information to the press -- told investigators that the former FBI director instructed him not to engage with the media on at least two occasions and unequivocally said Comey never authorized him...

They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Love him or hate him, that adage did bear true when ABC semi-funnyman Jimmy Kimmel was yanked off airwaves for lying about the Charlie Kirk assassin in mid-September. Kimmel came back from his five-day suspension to an undeniably massive audience: 6.48 million viewers, according to Mediaite. But if absence makes the heart grow fonder, does presence make the heart grow weary? Love him or hate him, that appears to be true about Kimmel, as well. Despite that monstrous viewership for his return, few of them appeared to have stuck around, if...

Churches across the West are twisting themselves into shapes no apostle would recognize — bending like pretzels to please secular society. They update doctrines, rewrite homilies, and water down long-held beliefs, all in hopes of attracting people who rarely show up anyway. And now the Church of England has chosen its new leader: Dame Sarah Mullally, hailed as a “theological liberal” and celebrated for her progressive stances. But it raises a fair question: does the Archbishop believe in the Christianity she is meant to lead, or only in a softened imitation of it? Mullally, the first female Archbishop of Canterbury...

An immigration judge on Wednesday denied a motion filed by Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys to reopen his immigration case, according to a copy of the decision obtained by ABC News. In the emergency motion filed in August to reopen the case, attorneys for the wrongly deported Abrego Garcia argued that because he was deported to El Salvador and then brought back to the United States, he is now eligible to apply for asylum within one year of his last entry into the U.S. But in the order filed on Wednesday, Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge Philip Taylor said that Abrego...

Kimmel said, referring to Trump, "I mean, that son of a b----, you know?" "Mister son of a b----," Colbert added.

The timing of streaming billing cycles, and a decision by Disney to stop reporting subscriber numbers, will likely obscure any impact on protest cancelations.Disney‘s Jimmy Kimmel affair may be over for now, but the company may have to grapple with the repercussions for some time: To what extent did the Kimmel suspension impact what has become the company’s key growth driver, Disney+? While much of the talk about Kimmel has focused on the role of the FCC and local station owners like Sinclair and Nexstar in the decision, there was also a concerted (and very public!) pressure campaign to get...

Jimmy Kimmel Live! enjoyed a short-lived ratings bonanza after his triumphant post-suspension return to ABC. Kimmel's late night show returned to screens on Tuesday with record-breaking ratings, after he was suspended for five days over remarks he made about Charlie Kirk's assassination. As many as 6.5million people tuned to Kimmel on Tuesday, which was a three times the show's usual audience and the biggest in over a decade. But by Thursday, Kimmel averaged 2.3million - a shocking 64 percent drop since the show's return episode, Fox News reported. Notably, Kimmel lost 73 percent of the viewers in the coveted demographic...

A legendary NFL quarterback was noticeably absent from his scheduled appearance on Jimmy Kimmel this week.

WASHINGTON - The White House released a list of nearly 30 elected officials -- all of them Democrats -- who the Trump administration said incited violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents throughout the U.S. The White House named the following elected officials on the list, as well as quoted each of them: Gov. Tim Walz smeared ICE as the “modern-day Gestapo. Gov. Gavin Newsom likened ICE to “secret police,” calling them “authoritarian” and proclaiming a “right to push back.” Gov. JB Pritzker claimed the country is becoming “Nazi Germany” because ICE is “grabbing people off the street and...

Well, that was fast.Just three days after Democrats and the media made a huge deal about Jimmy Kimmel’s big comeback, his ratings have utterly evaporated. Since the beginning of this week when he returned to the air, his ratings have dropped by 70 percent. It looks like his much-hyped return was little more than hype. A sugar-high lasts longer than this.

Sinclair has agreed to stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, allowing the show to resume airing on its ABC affiliates. Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show was indefinitely suspended by ABC after comments the comedian made about Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old charged with the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. “We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” said Kimmel on the Sept. 15 episode. President Donald Trump...

Behar: "It's funny, under Obama and Biden it was working. All of a sudden it's not working. Gee, what happened?!" ... Cohost Ana Navarro claimed that Trump had only gotten reelected in 2024 because he’d been out of office for four years, and in that time, people “had forgotten how bad Trump was. I think it meant a lot to people in 2020 when Joe Biden was first running because we were just surviving that first Trump term.”

And that is, you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. ... Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group ... And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset.