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(The Center Square) — Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has pulled out of a planned town hall debate by an ABC affiliate over the network's decision to pull the Jimmy Kimmel Live show. Mamdani, a Queens assemblyman with a double-digit lead over other competitors in the race, announced Monday that he won't be participating in Wednesday's WABC-TV Town Hall "in an act of protest against the Trump administration’s dangerous crackdowns on free expression." "I am withdrawing not as an indictment of the local affiliate or the hardworking journalists, but rather in response to the corporate...

Turning Point USA issued a scathing cease-and-desist letter to ABC News on Tuesday, calling for the Disney-owned company to “retract the defamatory statements” made earlier this week on “The View” or face legal action. “The false statements of fact intentionally made during The View’s July 25th segment were unquestionably harmful to TPUSA’s reputation and brought the organization and its student affiliates into disrepute with the public, potential donors, and current and future business partners, posing a significant financial loss to the organization,” the letter said.

VIDEO You could see Martha Raddatz of ABC News shed even more tears than she did on Election Night 2016 when Trump won. That would be if following the upcoming meeting between President Trump and Putin (with possible cameo appearance by Zelinsky) the Ukraine War is concluded via a peace agreement. Check out this snarky ABC News report by Raddatz and you can can just smell the HOPIUM exuding from her with such lines as "No real sign this war is ending any time soon." Yeah, because an end of the Ukraine War as a result of the upcoming meeting...

The long-time correspondent won’t return to the network after his suspension. ABC News correspondent Terry Moran has been let go from the network. The decision comes two days after ABC suspended Moran, the network’s senior national correspondent, over an X post about White House adviser Stephen Miller. In that post, which he lated deleted, Moran referred to Miller as a “world-class hater.” “We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post — which was a clear violation of ABC News policies — we have made the decision to not renew,” an ABC...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson ABC News says the riots in LA are just people burning cars for fun: “Could turn volatile if you move law enforcement in the wrong way and turn what is people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation.” From Steve Guest 7:43 AM · Jun 9, 2025

VIDEO"Thank you sir! May I have another?"That scene from "Animal House" will reverberate through your mind when watching President Trump doling it out to ABC's Terry Moran during their interview. Poor Terry learned the hard way that when you try to play Fake News games with President Trump, he will go full Animal House on you.

WASHINGTON - Army brass in Iraq whitewashed an incident of a soldier killed by his own lieutenant by blaming the dead hero, stonewalling his family and promoting his killer, the Daily News has learned. The friendly-fire victim, Pfc. David Sharrett, 27, of Oakton, Va., was "misidentified" by 1stLt. Timothy Hanson as an enemy gunman during a botched night raid Jan. 16, 2008, against an Al Qaeda in Iraq stronghold north of Baghdad, the Army belatedly acknowledged. Sharrett bled to death as his buddies searched frantically for him for 25 minutes after the firefight ended. For four months after the Army...

KEY TAKEAWAYSThe Walt Disney Co. is reportedly laying off around 200 employees, or just under 6% of the combined staff at its ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks units. According to The Wall Street Journal, an announcement will be made to employees as early as Wednesday. Disney is, like the rest of the entertainment industry, grappling with cord-cutting and the decline of cable networks’ audience while its streaming platform has seen quarter-over-quarter declines in subscribers. The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) is laying off around 200 employees, or just under 6% of the combined staff at its ABC News Group...

POKROVSK REGION, Ukraine -- A dire shortage of infantry troops and supply routes coming under Russian drone attacks are conspiring against Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk, where decisive battles in the nearly three-year war are playing out — and time is running short. Ukrainian troops are losing ground around the crucial supply hub, which lies at the confluence of multiple highways leading to key cities in the eastern Donetsk region as well as an important railway station. Moscow is set on capturing as much territory as possible as the Trump administration is pushing for negotiations to end the war and recently...

The Justice Department, under leadership appointed by the Trump administration, has asked for information about potentially thousands of FBI employees across the country who were involved in work related to investigations stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and a Hamas-related case filed last year in New York. According an email sent to the FBI workforce late Friday, and obtained by ABC News, the requested information is to be provided by Tuesday afternoon to the office of the acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove, whose office will then conduct a review to determine if any "personnel...

Legal service providers help individuals navigate immigration court proceedings. The Department of Justice, under new leadership following the inauguration of Donald Trump, has told legal service providers who receive federal funding to stop providing legal orientation and other work intended to support immigrants at immigration courts. In a memo obtained by ABC News, the DOJ ordered all such legal providers on Wednesday to "stop work immediately" in those areas. "This email is to send you notification to stop work immediately pursuant to the Executive Order on the following task orders," the memo said. The programs listed in the memo include...

David Muir, who? It appears George Stephanopoulos has a new rival to look out for at ABC. Stephanopoulos’ political drama with President-elect Donald Trump has followed him into the new year and sources tell us his colleague — and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” co-host — Jonathan Karl, “wants George gone,” so that he can sweep in and take over the Sunday morning news show. “He wants the show, and he sees [ABC’s Trump settlement] as an opportunity,” a source told us about Karl’s ambition to move into Stephanopoulos’ spot. While Stephanopoulos’ name is on the show, he shares hosting...

VIDEO Jonathan Karl, who has a history of extreme TDS to the extent of even writing TDS books, was shocked that Senator John Fetterman was NOT also infected with Trump DERANGEMENT Syndrome during an interview with him. Fetterman's willingness to act like a normal person in regard to Trump also earned him the ire of the Bluesky Bolsheviks as you can see here.

George Stephanopoulos was repeatedly told by his executive producer not to “use the word rape” before going on the air to discuss Donald Trump but the ABC News anchor ignored the warning — a decision that cost the network $16 million, The Post has learned. Parent company Disney’s capitulation last week in the defamation lawsuit by Trump against ABC News and Stephanopoulos shocked media and legal experts, but the damning revelation could help explain why Mouse House CEO Bob Iger signed off on the settlement so quickly. The “This Week” host uttered that Trump was “liable for rape” while discussing...

‘Fox News Live’ co-host Arthel Neville reports on the breaking story.

ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a Trump presidential foundation and museum

Ukraine's air force said that at least 73 Russian attack drones entered the country's airspace on Saturday into Sunday morning, after a week in which both sides made battlefield history with new advanced weapons systems. Ukraine's air force said it downed 50 of the 73 Russian drones that crossed into the country. Another 19 drones were lost in flight, while four more were still flying in Ukrainian airspace as of just after 7 a.m. local time. Russia's Defense Ministry reported downing 36 Ukrainian drones overnight Saturday and early Sunday. The ministry said its own strikes were part of a wider...

ABC News is in “panic mode” to hire some Donald Trump supporters for The View and other ABC News programming. This will never happen, at least not on The View, but the New York Post has been told that “ABC News brass are in ‘panic mode’ as they hunt for conservative voices to balance the rabid anti-Trump rhetoric spewed by the hosts on The View, as well as those on other shows.” After “last week’s rout by the former president,” the report continues, ABC News executives had “intense sit-downs with executive producers of the network’s various shows and other senior...

Former President Donald Trump and Republican leaders across the country have for months characterized the alleged scourge of noncitizen voting as a pressing threat to a free and fair election, using heated rhetoric to suggest that widespread illegal voting could tilt the scales toward Democrats in November. But a spate of GOP-led inquiries in the weeks leading up to Election Day tell a different story, one that experts have long insisted is true: Noncitizen voting is extraordinarily rare. Recent audits of voter rolls in states including Georgia, Ohio, and Iowa uncovered instances of noncitizen voting that overall amounted to only...

ABC News is apparently pressing the panic button in the wake of fierce criticism of its Sept. 10 presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. A sworn statement by an ABC News whistleblower exposing network bias favoring Harris continues to be in focus regarding “assurances” to the Democrat’s campaign days before the event. Now David Muir, anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight” and co-moderator of the debate, is defending his performance during the matchup, as ratings for his evening news broadcast have plunged some 12% in the aftermath. “ABC News has offered assurances to the Harris...