Hours after Scott Pelley made headlines for speaking out against firings and other changes at 60 Minutes, the show’s former executive producer offered words of praise for the correspondent. Bill Owens told a New York Press Club event that Pelley “can smell fraud a mile away.” Owens, receiving the New York Press Club’s Gabe Pressman […]
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that calls for the creation of a voluntary framework in which AI companies would provide the government with access to new models for a 30-day review period before their release. The order signaled a move toward more oversight of AI, in an administration that has generally taken […]
In his first interview since his firing from 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley said that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and the network’s leadership are engaged in “subtle political bias” to influence the show, while he said that the brass “don’t know what they’re doing.” In an interview with The New York Times podcaster […]
After a group of former FCC chairs and commissioners petitioned the agency to repeal its news distortion policy last November, the current chairman Brendan Carr never acted on it. Last month, they asked an appellate court to compel him to do so. On Wednesday, a three-judge panel gave the FCC 30 days to respond to […]
About an hour after Stephen Colbert signed off on his final Late Show on CBS, Donald Trump posted a note of celebration. At 1:52 a.m. ET on Friday, the president posted on Truth Social, “Colbert is finally finished at CBS. Amazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like […]
Donald Trump said that a peace agreement with Iran has been “largely negotiated” to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The president’s announcement on Saturday lacked details, and he wrote on Truth Social that it is “subject to finalization” between “the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the […]
Donald Trump said that he’s now planning a June 24 rally in Washington, D.C. with Lee Greenwood and Christopher Macchio performing after a line up of artists pulled out of previous plans for a Freedom 250 concert series on the National Mall. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday, “On Wednesday, June 24th, at 7 […]
Bruce Springsteen made a few jabs at Donald Trump and David and Larry Ellison before he performed on Stephen Colbert’s second-to-last The Late Show on CBS. “I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you’re the first guy in America who has lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke,” […]