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The once-venerable news program “60 Minutes” is in a state of tumult these days, to put it lightly. The show’s parent network, CBS News, has undergone drastic changes under the new leadership of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss — and “60 Minutes” has been no exception to the general overhaul as Weiss tries to make the network more centrist. (Both CBS News and “60 Minutes” had long been accused of veering to the far left.) Among a litany of smaller changes, the biggest changes that Weiss has been making to “60 Minutes” have largely been with the staffing. The most notable of...

President Donald Trump reportedly walked out of a weekend interview with NBC News anchor Kristen Welker — some of which aired during Sunday’s broadcast of “Meet the Press.” The interview was recorded in Wisconsin on Friday, and NBC News anchor Gabe Gutierrez revealed during a broadcast on Saturday that Trump abruptly ended the interview — after giving Welker nearly an hour of his time — as the two clashed over her questions about election integrity. WATCH: “As for that interview, Kristen and the ‘Meet the Press’ team conducted it here in Wisconsin inside a barn at the request of the...

I like to picture him shrieking, but Scott Pelley almost certainly delivered the line with confidence. “She’s murdering ’60 Minutes,’” Pelley said of his insurgent new boss, Bari Weiss. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that. She has no qualifications for her job.” The assertion came in what turned out to be a very-not-public grilling Pelley gave his other new boss, Nick Bilton, the executive producer Weiss hired to run 60 Minutes. “You have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’...

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CBS News has parted ways with longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi after declining to renew her contract. The split comes months after Alfonsi clashed with CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss over a segment about conditions inside El Salvador’s CECOT prison involving deported migrants and President Trump’s administration. The Trending Politics report laid out the contract decision and the internal fight that preceded it: Alfonsi’s deal expired over the weekend, and CBS chose not to renew it after nearly two decades with the network and more than a decade on 60 Minutes. The exit followed a high-profile fight over a CECOT...

Hardly anybody is still alive today who has personal memories of the Hollywood Blacklist of the immediate post-World War II period, let alone of the rabid Communist agitation that took place in the film colony before and during the war. But all of us have lived through an era, now decades long, during which the Blacklist has been repeatedly condemned and its so-called victims celebrated. As Lloyd Billingsley writes in his richly informative new book, Hollywood Party: Stalinist Adventures in the American Movie Industry, it took scarcely any time at all after the Blacklist collapsed in 1960 for a new...

Lupita Nyong'o is not the only actress discovering how brutal modern franchise fandom can become after a major casting announcement. From fantasy epics to superhero reboots, Hollywood’s newest leading women are increasingly being forced to survive online backlash before their films even reach production. Now Milly Alcock has found herself at the center of that same cycle following her casting in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Alcock has spent the last several months absorbing waves of online hostility despite reportedly being one of James Gunn’s top choices for Kara Zor El. Industry insiders following the DC reboot process noted early that...

Drew Carey criticized Spencer Pratt’s run for Los Angeles mayor in a blunt social media post. The "Price is Right" host waded into the political waters with a Threads post and encouraged LA residents to think again before June primaries. "Anyone who votes for, or endorses Spencer Pratt for Mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their a--," Carey wrote. "I understand being angry/unsatisfied, but at least get behind someone competent and not some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass." He added, "F--- this guy already." Representatives for Pratt and Carey did not immediately respond...

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey is shaping up to be the biggest movie of the year, and right-wing voices are furious at it. “Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey,” wrote Elon Musk on X. Musk, alongside hundreds of right-wing culture warriors algorithmically boosted on his platform, have spent the past few weeks fuming over the news that Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o is playing Helen of Troy, and that transgender actor Elliot Page might be playing Achilles. One right-wing influencer described the casting of Page as Achilles as “the final straw to ruin Homer.” Another pundit, in a post that received...

Former NBC Sunday Night Football sideline reporter Michele Tafoya is dominating the early Republican primary race for Minnesota’s open 2026 U.S. Senate seat. A Quantus Insights survey conducted May 6-8 among 663 likely Republican primary voters puts Tafoya at 52 percent, a staggering 43-point lead over her closest competitor. Former basketball player Royce White sits at 9 percent, followed by Adam Schwarze at 4 percent and Tom Weiler at 2 percent. More than a quarter of likely GOP primary voters, 27 percent, remain undecided, leaving room for the field to shift before primary day. Still, the size of Tafoya’s advantage...

I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation. I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million Americans tuned in every night to find out what they were allowed to believe by morning. We didn't sell jokes. We sold certainty. Certainty costs nothing to produce. People will pay anything for it. We charged $50 million a year and still lost money because it turns out permission...

LA moms are DONE. Judgement Day is June 2. Vote Pratt. @spencerpratt #VotePratt #LAmayorsrace 🔥 pic.twitter.com/3Bdo8dgyCN— Lisa Foster (@LisaRFoster) May 22, 2026

Disney has filed a petition with the FCC asking the agency to declare that The View is exempt from the statutory equal opportunities requirements that would otherwise apply to broadcast shows. Disney argues that The View qualifies as “bona fide news” under the law, comparing itself to Meet The Press or Face The Nation. Therefore, Disney argues, it can have one partisan candidate for office on The View while denying equal opportunities to all others. The FCC is now seeking public comment on Disney’s request to be labeled as “bona fide news.” Is The View a “bona fide news interview...

Hunter Biden and Candace Owens may be the strangest political media pairing of the week. Owens announced that Hunter will appear on her show Thursday, posting a promo image of the two together and setting off immediate reactions across the political world. The preview clip contains the line everyone is already talking about. Hunter looks across at Owens and acknowledges what she has called him for years. Washington Examiner reported on the upcoming interview and the subjects previewed for the episode. Owens is expected to sit down with Hunter Biden for a wide-ranging interview on The Candace Owens Show. The...

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"Don’t Look Up" filmmaker Adam McKay unveiled the conspiracy theory that the oil companies may be responsible for the devastating Palisades fire and that corporations have “misled” people into thinking an arsonist was responsible for the fire. During an interview with left-wing, enviro podcaster Jesse Damiani, McKay made the wild clam that the oil companies are responsible for “blacking out the news communication” around the deadly and devastating fires. “The oil companies have been wildly successful blacking out the news communication, buying up our supposed representatives. So, there’s there,” the far-left Hollywood elitist told the podcaster. “I saw it with...

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...

In an NYT interview, Santa David made a case that failed like a Colbert monologueMAGA Disposed of Stephen Colbert—with help of course from podcasts, Twitter and reruns of Friends, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, and Modern Family because if you are looking for late-night humor, you will not find it on the broadcast networks.But on cable, the Antenna channel shows reruns of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. So if you are looking for political humor from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, there’s that. Stephen Colbert’s show will end this month due to his B-2 ratings. They are nearly invisible....

Former Vice President Kamala Harris made a recent appearance on ABC’s The View, where she stated that the 2024 presidential race was “the closest presidential race in the 21st century in terms of the outcome,” a comment that led to a rousing round of applause from the audience. It also prompted co-host Ana Navarro to say, “You know, say that again because he likes to say over and over again that he got a mandate.” In response to Navarro, Harris said, “Well, and that’s part of why I wrote the book, because history will talk about this race. It is...

If Only- He should live long enough to witness his inevitable devastating loss in the midterms, be held accountable for his unprecedented corruption, impeached, convicted & humiliated for his countless crimes. Long enough to realize he'll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore. #don_TheCON