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“GMA” host George Stephanopoulos has been “miserable” after being forced to apologize following the President Trump fiasco — and staffers are already speculating about who might replace him, The Post has learned Stephanopoulos has been rumored to be on his way out, according to multiple network sources, since ABC News parent Disney agreed to settle a defamation suit in December over the anchor insisting on-air that Trump was “found liable for rape” — instead of sexual abuse — in a lawsuit by journalist E. Jean Carroll. As part of Disney’s deal with Trump, the former Democratic operative — who co-hosts...

America is an outlier among developed nations in offering unrestricted birthright citizenship. Not a single European country does.. By any reasonable measure, unrestricted birthright citizenship, the practice of giving citizenship to almost anyone born in America, is an irrational policy. It abdicates the composition of the nation’s citizenry to chance, instead of bringing it within our control. It communicates a deep unseriousness about our sovereignty and national security to the rest of the world. Without it, we can continue to open our country to foreign talent and victims of genocide or state violence. Together, the president and Congress can choose...

A shipwreck dating to the sixth or fifth century b.c. has been discovered near Sicily along with a collection of ancient anchors, according to a report from CBS News. The wreck was found buried under sand and rock 20 feet underwater off Santa Maria del Focallo, at the southern tip of the island. The excavation was carried out by underwater archaeologists from the University of Udine in collaboration with Sicily's superintendent of the sea. Researchers determined that the ship's hull was built using a simple early shipbuilding technique known as "on the shell." Further study of the wreck may help...

Legendary ABC News anchor and reporter Tom Jarriel, who gained prominence for his coverage of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination and the Richard Nixon administration, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 89. Jarriel’s storied career spanned nearly 40 years after he joined the network in 1965, covering MLK’s murder three years later.

On August 26, Schuyler County, NY resident and registered voter Montgomery Blair Sibley uploaded his “Complaint for Declaratory Relief” filed August 12 in New York Supreme Court naming as defendant Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky “solely in her official capacity as Co-Executive Director of the New York Board of Elections and New York’s Chief Election Official.” Zebrowski Stavisky was appointed in 2021 to the Co-Executive Chairman post by Gov. Kathy Hochul and later to “Chief Election Official,” according to her official biography. In his complaint, Sibley, a former practicing attorney, alleged “that Kamala Harris is ineligible to appear on the November 5,...

An estimated 1.5 million taxpayers will be notified of their automatic eligibility for a new round of state-funded Anchor property-tax relief benefits starting next week, state Treasury officials said Tuesday. The benefits, intended to help offset the state’s high local property taxes, will once again total as much as $1,750 per household. Those eligible for automatic enrollment will see letters notifying them that their applications for Anchor benefits will be filed with the state automatically beginning Aug. 19, the officials said. Later this month the Department of the Treasury’s Division of Taxation will also be sending out information via mail...

A St. Louis television station is under fire after an anchor “mistakenly” described minority homeowners using an “outdated, offensive and racist” term. Television station KMOV issued an apology for using the term on Feb. 26 while previewing a story about racial bias on home appraisals, according to reports. “Tonight, colored homeowners are sounding the alarm when it comes to undervalued home appraisals,” anchor Cory Stark, who is white, said on air. JD Sosnoff, KMOV vice president and general manager, and Stark tried to do damage control over the apparent slip-up as criticism grew over the cringe remark. “It was in...

I had a discussion today with a church buddy, he was professing the fact that Nimrata was going to be the GOP choice for president. Back-and-forth banter took place. My thought is that her parents were NOT citizens at the time she was born, therefore she is not eligible. Similar to Obama. He also stated that anchor babies who are born in the United States are automatically US citizens. I disagree. Please help.

The 127-year-old maker of the influential beer Anchor Steam files for a form of bankruptcy amid a prolonged pandemic impact in San FranciscoAnchor Brewing Co., the self-proclaimed first craft brewery in the U.S., said it will “cease operations and liquidate the business,” about 127 years after being incorporated. “This was an extremely difficult decision that Anchor reached only after many months of careful evaluation,” said Anchor Brewing Spokesperson Sam Singer. Anchor, whose beer lineup includes Anchor Steam, Old Foghorn and West Coast IPA, has decided to begin the assignment for the benefit of creditors, or ABC, process, which is a...

Fox News anchor John Roberts said he and his colleagues are growing weary of covering a growing number of school shootings in America. “But the woman said it quite succinctly, aren’t you tired of this? Yes, we are tired of this. We’re very tired of reporting on school shootings week in and week out,” Roberts said during the network’s live coverage of a shooting at a private elementary school in Nashville on Monday. Fox’s live broadcast of a press conference being given by officials in Nashville was briefly interrupted by a woman in attendance who exclaimed that she was fed...

During Saturday’s weekend morning show, Mester, Romero’s co-anchor, went off script with an emotional speech. He apologized, on behalf of the station, to viewers and said the handling of Romero’s exit “was rude, it was cruel, it was inappropriate and we are so sorry.” Many viewers had applauded Mester’s ad-libbed message, but not long after his defense of Romero, Mester was suspended, drawing even more criticism of how KTLA handled the situation. “Mark was 100% in the right,” tweeted one user. “It’s like you guys are begging to lose all your viewers with this kind of behavior.” However, newsroom employees...

Former CNN chief anchor Bernard Shaw died Wednesday at the age of 82. Shaw died of phenomena unrelated to the coronavirus, according to his family in a statement to CNN.

CHICAGO - WGN-TV is mourning the loss of longtime former news anchor Allison Payne, who died at the age of 57. Payne was a 21-year veteran of WGN-TV, who was hired in 1990 as a 25-year-old out of Saginaw, Michigan. She went on to cover numerous important stories across the globe, including tracing former President Barack Obama’s roots in Kenya and traveling to the Ivory Coast alongside the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Payne was a Detroit native who eventually called Chicago home for many years, playing an active role in the community by mentoring students and eventually establishing a foundation for...

A Spanish news anchor was accused of cheating on his TV star girlfriend when viewers spotted a semi-naked woman saunter behind him while he was filming a live segment, according to a report. Alfonso Merlos, 41, was hosting the Estado de Alarma channel news report from his home amid the coronavirus lockdown when the scantily clad gal walked into the background of the shot, according to The Sun. Eagle-eyed fans pointed out the woman was not his partner Marta López, a former star of the “Big Brother” reality show — sparking a media firestorm earlier this week, according to the...

An ABC news anchor mistakenly announced on-air that a New Jersey man had died from coronavirus, before frantically apologizing when a video clip showed the man had in fact recovered. New York's Bill Ritter was telling the story of 26-year-old Jack Allard, who was placed in a medically induced coma for five weeks after being diagnosed with a severe case of COVID-19 in March. Ritter then said New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy had declared in an press conference earlier the same day that Allard had tragically passed away. 'After spending time on a ventilator and five full weeks in the...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A piece of the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will serve another 25 years in the Navy. The former Enterprise carrier (CVN 65) was decommissioned in 2017 after several years of inactivation work was completed at Newport News Shipbuilding. Now one of the anchors from the Enterprise has been installed on another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington. That ship just reached the midway point of its midlife Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding. During the overhaul process, shipbuilders inspecting the Washington found that one anchor on the carrier needed to be replaced....

OKLAHOMA CITY - A local news anchor issued a tearful on-air apology to her co-host after she compared him to a gorilla on television. USA Today reported that KOCO morning show host Alex Housden, who is white, made the racist comparison of co-anchor Jason Hackett, who is black, to a gorilla in a segment about one of the animals at the Oklahoma City Zoo. The Washington Post reported that Housden was specifically reporting on Fin, the zoo's baby western lowland gorilla, who was seen taking selfies during an Instagram takeover by one of his caretakers. "As you can see, Fin...

<p>A Fox 10 host in Phoenix whose bosses asked her to hide her account on “right-wing” social media platform Parler because a left-wing outlet might notice it had a terse response; “F*ck them”.</p> <p>Fox 10’s Emmy Award-winning anchor Kari Lake dropped the f-bomb on camera as she was preparing to do a Facebook Live broadcast and the clip was subsequently leaked online.</p>

Farron Salley, a West Palm Beach news anchor who was arrested and charged with DUI in December, apologized for mocking a bald cop during her arrest. Salley, who is black, claimed the arrest was racially motivated. Her charges were dropped after the Palm Beach County State Attorney determined there was enough evidence to charge her, but not to convict her. Watch the dash cam footage: [VIDEO AT LINK] Dash cam footage shows the 28-year-old news anchor was driving at night without headlights when a Palm Beach Gardens police officer pulled her over December 14. She slurs her words and mocks...

Burrous was found unresponsive at a Days Inn in Glendale after a male he was with called authorities around 1:15 p.m. to report he had passed out and was possibly not breathing, Glendale Police Sgt. Dan Suttles said in a news briefing. Paramedics who responded to the hotel, at 450 Pioneer Drive, located Burrous inside a room suffering from a medical emergency. The person he was with, who Suttles said “appears to be a friend,” was already administering aid when they arrived, the sergeant said. … First responders also administered CPR before transporting Burrous to a hospital, where he was...