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CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish used Friday's Group Chat to promote her new CNN podcast, Engagement Party, co-hosted with former her former National Public Radio colleague Ari Shapiro, whom she brought onto the Chat panel. The discussion quickly turned into a nostalgic send-off for Stephen Colbert’s Late Show. The segment perfectly illustrated the insular world of legacy media’s liberal talent pipeline. Cornish and Shapiro, both veteran NPR anchors, were joined by Garcia-Navarro (another longtime NPR host) as they lovingly processed Colbert’s exit. Shapiro set the tone early, describing the finale as “so moving” with a “snow globe moment” that...

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Executive summaryCNN published an investigation into online communities likened to an "online rape academy" that document and trade techniques for drugging and sexually assaulting partners, prompting widespread alarm and viral claims that "62 million men attended" the academy — a figure that has been misrepresented on social media [1] [2]. Fact-checkers clarified that the 62 million number cited by CNN represented total visits to a pornographic website in a single month, not the number of users enrolled in or explicitly participating in the abusive chats [2] [3]. 1. What CNN actually reported CNN's As Equals series described months of reporting...

A Democratic strategist stunned a CNN panel into silence after claiming a new congressional map set to make a black Republican the odds-on favorite to win the election is racist. Democratic strategist Tezlyn Figaro made the argument on Thursday's NewsNight after journalist Lydia Moynihan pointed out how the redistricting bid will help the odds of GOP candidate Charlotte Bergmann, a black woman, in Tennessee. The new map made it through the state's general assembly hours before. Moynihan framed the situation as 'ironic', given that many critics have called the redraw racist. They say it dilutes the state's only black-majority district,...

Earlier this spring, a mysterious explosion blew up a car carrying an alleged cartel operative in broad daylight on one of Mexico’s busiest highways just outside of its capital city. Francisco Beltran was killed instantly along with his driver, their bodies found slumped over in their seats after the concentrated blast. Video and pictures of the attack on March 28 show a quick burst of flames with the car continuing to roll forward, drifting off the highway. Known as “El Payin,” Beltran was accused of being a mid-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficking...

Gunshots have been heard in the Philippine Senate building, Senate authorities said on Wednesday, where a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court has been holed up to resist arrest. [SNIP] Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos insisted the incident was not carried out by government personnel, but rather an apparent shootout between an unidentified armed group and Senate security personnel. Marcos said no government forces attempted to enter the Senate to arrest Senator Ronald Dela Rosa, a longtime ally of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who evaded arrest by local investigative unit officers earlier this week. Senator Dela Rosa was filmed...

On Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish, formerly of NPR, kicked off a redistricting segment with a classic tell of her liberal bias: “I have to admit, Republicans are feeling good now.” We feel your pain, Audie! Cornish played a clip of comedian D.L. Hughley calling for black college athletes to boycott the SEC: “If you can’t run in a state, you shouldn’t run in a state.” Cornish cheered it with: “I thought that was a great way to put it.” Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

A Russian cargo vessel suspected of carrying components for two nuclear submarine reactors, possibly destined for North Korea, sank in the Mediterranean Sea under mysterious circumstances in December 2024, according to a CNN investigation published today. The Ursa Major (also known as Sparta 3), a heavy-lift ship linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet” and previously used in military operations in Syria, went down approximately 60 miles (about 100 km) off the coast of Spain near Cartagena on December 23, 2024. The sinking followed a series of explosions that killed two crew members and left 14 others rescued by Spanish authorities. Spanish...

Screencap of Twitter/X video. This weekend on CNN, liberal contributor Leigh McGowan threw a hissy fit when another panelist, Lydia Moynihan, was talking about the success of Spencer Pratt’s mayoral campaign in Los Angeles. It began with McGowan rolling her eyes but then she exploded when she couldn’t hold it together anymore. This is proof that Pratt is doing well. As Rush Limbaugh always used to say, the left will tell you who they’re afraid of. That’s exactly what is happening here. FOX News has details: CNN panelist Lydia Moynihan and political commentator Leigh McGowan sparred during a heated segment...

CNN’s data guru Harry Enten is warning of a potential gerrymandering “nightmare” for Democrats at November’s midterm elections. Enten appeared on CNN on Sunday to discuss the impact a redistricting battle playing out across the country could have on national election results. Last week, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan. The court ruled 4-3 that the state’s Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements by placing the amendment on the ballot to authorize mid-decade redistricting.

Spencer Pratt is officially not shying away from comparisons to Donald Trump, as the reality TV star-turned-mayoral-candidate on Sunday reposted a CNN segment in which one of the president’s former communications aides likened his campaign to Trump 2016. “I think Spencer Pratt could be the next mayor of Los Angeles, and I’ll tell you why,” said Caroline Sunshine, who worked on Trump’s 2024 run. “The last time a reality television star who was politically incorrect ran for office, he ended up all the way at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And Spencer Pratt is reminding me of the saying, ‘First they ignore...

On Friday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish gave Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) free rein to lecture Republicans on the evils of partisan redistricting, complete with hyperbolic comparisons to Jim Crow poll taxes and literacy tests. The guest warned that GOP moves in the South would backfire, as blue states could retaliate by wiping out Republican districts on the West Coast: "Republicans are gonna come to regret it... We can have a West Coast where there's not a single Republican district. That can be done." Nice Republican districts you got there — wouldn’t want to see nuthin’ happen to them!...

The billionaire media mogul spent much of his time — and even more of his riches — trying to "take pollution down to zero."He may not have had the sweet green flattop/mullet combo haircut, but make no mistake about it: Ted Turner was Captain Planet. This morning, following the maverick mogul’s passing, Turner is being most-remembered for launching CNN, a 24/7 cable news channel that undeniably changed the media landscape forever. But his contributions go much further and are not limited to the stations that bear his name, like the first “Superstation” TBS (Turner Broadcasting System) and later TNT (Turner...

President Trump has issued a statement on the passing of CNN founder Ted Turner, and it is quite different from other deaths of noted rich liberals. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Turner, the left-wing billionaire who founded CNN, died today at the age of 87. In addition to founding CNN, Turner was a prominent philanthropist who once donated $1 billion to the United Nations. Turner also gave $1.3 million to Democrats and Democratic causes throughout his life. No cause of death has been revealed yet, but Turner announced in 2018 that he had Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder....

The billionaire died on Wednesday, according to the cable news network he founded. Turner was nicknamed the 'Mouth of the South' for often being outspoken, and built a media empire that included movies and sports channels, as well as owning the Atlanta Braves.

At least 16 US military bases damaged, some rendered unusable, across Persian Gulf during war with Iran, CNN report says. Iran caused extensive damage to a large portion of US bases in the Persian Gulf using missiles and drones, according to a CNN investigation. The report states that Iran struck at least 16 US military bases across eight Gulf countries, representing the majority of US bases in the area. Several of the bases were reportedly hit so severely that they were rendered inoperable. A US source familiar with the matter told CNN, "I have never seen anything like this at...

Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow, a candidate running for US Senate, deleted thousands of tweets, some of which defended “coastal elites” and were critical of “Middle America,” after The Post first reported on them last year. Morrow, 39, purged her X account of roughly 6,000 posts, including all her tweets posted prior to 2020, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reported on Wednesday. The journalist noted the social media cleanse came after The Post’s April 2025 scoop on McMorrow’s tweet history. The deleted posts even included jabs at the purple state she is now running to represent. “Aaaand it’s snowing. Screw you, Michigan. #NYCtoLA,”...

CNN, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and political violence, has been forced to postpone a scheduled anti-Trump documentary called Imperial Presidency due to yet another leftist allegedly attempting to assassinate President Trump. “[A]n update: My latest @CNN documentary, ‘The Imperial Presidency,’ will air at a later date. We will keep you posted,” CNN’s Fareed Zakaria wrote on X the day after Saturday night’s assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner. As someone pointed out on X, “They keep having to delay programming on right-wing fascism because of left-wing violence.” The X post references The Savant, an...

[snip] In an interview with Steve Schmidt, a founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project, asked whether the country has a “rhetoric problem” in light of multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, Schmidt pointed squarely at Trump: “I think that there's one person, beyond and above all others, who's responsible for poisoning the rhetoric in America. And that guy's name is Donald Trump . . . He's an insurrectionist, the foremost domestic enemy of the Constitution in American history. He is a vile and disgusting man. A convicted sex predator, and likely a pedophile.” Steve, we've got your "vile and disgusting...

An $81 billion Warner-Paramount mega merger has received shareholders’ stamp of approval, propelling a deal that could vastly reshape Hollywood and the wider media landscape closer to the finish line… That corporate drama may now be over, but the implications remain. Thousands of actors, directors, writers and other industry professionals have voiced “unequivocal opposition” to the deal, in a letter arguing that further consolidation will lead to job losses and fewer choices for filmmakers and movie goers… The merger would bring together two of Hollywood’s remaining five legacy studios. It would also join two major streaming platforms — Paramount+ and...