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Lawyer Backs Up Alec Baldwin's Assertion He Didn't Pull Trigger
The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin a prop gun that went off on a New Mexico film set, killing a cinematographer, backs up the actor’s assertion that he did not pull the trigger.
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Ken Jennings? LeVar Burton? Steve Kornacki? As ‘Jeopardy!' Airs Alex Trebek's Final Show, a Look at Who Could Succeed the Legendary Host
Friday evening marks the final posthumous “Jeopardy!” episode for beloved host Alex Trebek. Trebek died on Nov. 8 after being diagnosed and treated for pancreatic cancer. A permanent “Jeopardy!” successor hasn’t been named. Longtime “Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings will be the first of a planned series of guest hosts on episodes that begin appearing next week. As difficult as it...
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Trump Denies Downplaying Virus, Casts Doubt on Mask Usage
President Donald Trump is denying he played down the threat of the coronavirus earlier this year, although there is an audio recording of him stating he did just that.
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ABC's Stephanopoulos Positive for Coronavirus But Feels Well
ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos said Monday on “Good Morning America” that he has tested positive for COVID-19.
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Pelosi on Impeachment Resolution: ‘What Is At Stake Is Our Democracy'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., addresses the House of Representatives ahead of a vote on a resolution that will formalize the next steps in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
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Oscar-Winning Documentary Maker D.A. Pennebaker Dies at 94
D.A. Pennebaker, the Oscar-winning documentary maker whose historic contributions to American culture and politics included immortalizing a young Bob Dylan in “Don’t Look Back” and capturing the spin behind Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign in “The War Room,” has died. He was 94. Pennebaker, who received an honorary Academy Award in 2013, died Thursday of natural causes at his home...
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‘Late Night': A Closer Look at Trump's ABC Interview
Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump sitting down for an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
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Election Cop: Trump Taking Foreign ‘Oppo' Would Be Illegal
A top election official issued a statement Thursday on campaigns accepting foreign aid the day after President Donald Trump said he’d consider taking information on opponents from other countries, NBC News reported. Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview excerpt aired Wednesday he thinks he’d “take it” if a foreign government came to him and offered dirt on an...
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Search Warrants Tied to Former Trump Lawyer Cohen Released
It was Michael Cohen’s numerous contacts with a Russia-linked company and a sudden flow of foreign money into a bank account he controlled that led federal investigators to look into whether the money might be part of a plan to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia, according to court filings unsealed Wednesday. Five search warrant applications, from the early stages of...
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Prosecutors Refuse Final Meeting With Cohen as Prison Looms
For months, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen tried — but failed — to position himself as a whistleblower in the vein of Watergate hero John Dean. As the time ticked down toward his deadline to report to prison, Cohen also lost the interest of the one group of people who could help him out: the federal prosecutors he...
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Catholic Church Today ‘Not the Church' of Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report
The bishop of Pittsburgh’s Roman Catholic diocese pushed back against a call for his resignation and said the diocese has “followed every single step” needed for responsible action after allegations of child sexual abuse.
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Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Fires What Could Be a Warning Shot
After once boasting he would “take a bullet” for Donald Trump, the president’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen fired a possible warning shot toward the White House, saying he now puts “family and country first.” In his first interview since federal agents raided his home and hotel room three months ago as part of an investigation into his...
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Scaramucci Criticizes ‘Lowlife' Reporter Who Legally Recorded His Vulgar Rant
Anthony Scaramucci says his profanity-laced phone call that preceded his ouster as White House communications director was recorded without his permission. But a spokesperson for The New Yorker said Thursday that reporter Ryan Lizza wasn’t required by law to get Scaramucci’s consent to record the conversation. Washington, D.C., and New York only require one party to a conversation to consent...
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is a Rising Star in Trump's Universe
Faced with aggressive on-air questioning about the president’s wiretapping claims, Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t flinch; she went folksy. Speaking to George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America,” she pulled out a version of an old line from President Lyndon Johnson: “If the president walked across the Potomac, the media would be reporting that he could not swim.” The 34-year-old spokeswoman for...
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Miss Teen USA Karlie Hay Apologizes for Offensive Tweets: ‘It's Never Acceptable'
The newly crowned Miss Teen USA Karlie Hay said in a TV interview Tuesday that she is ashamed and embarrassed about tweets she sent several years ago that used offensive language, calling them a careless but inexcusable mistake.
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Trump Misfires on NFL/Debate Claim
Donald Trump made the baseless accusation that the Hillary Clinton campaign was plotting to schedule two of three presidential debates on nights with NFL football games in order to limit viewership. The dates were set by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates long before either Trump or Clinton secured their parties’ presidential nominations, and before the National Football League even...
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Trump Suggests US Accept Russia's Annexation of Crimea
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is suggesting the U.S. accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea if it would lead to better relations with Moscow and stronger cooperation in fighting Islamic State militants....
That view runs counter to the Obama administration, which imposed economic sanctions against Russia for annexing the territory in Ukraine two years ago. The United Nations also doesn’t want countries... -
Fact Checking Clinton's Big Speech at DNC
On the night Hillary Clinton accepted her party’s nomination for president, Clinton and other Democrats played loose with some facts
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Fact-Checking Donald Trump's Press Conference
Donald Trump made several false and misleading statements in an hour-long press conference — on Bernie Sanders, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton’s emails and more.