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Aidan McLaughlin

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Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Tucker Carlson at the Oscars For Rewriting History of January 6

Jimmy Kimmel took a shot at Fox News host Tucker Carlson and his coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night. → Read More

‘Stay Strong, My Love’: Alexey Navalny’s Wife Yulia Accepts Oscar For Documentary as He Remains Jailed By Putin

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, spoke at the 95th Academy Awards after a documentary about his life won Best Documentary. → Read More

Russell Brand is Wrong: The Fox News Scandal is Different

Russell Brand railed against MSNBC in an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher last week, accusing the network of "propaganda" on the same scale as Fox News. → Read More

‘I Hate Him Passionately’: What Tucker Carlson Says About Trump in Private

More private comments made by Tucker Carlson about Donald Trump were revealed as part of a trove of new documents released as part of Dominion's defamation lawsuit. → Read More

Elon Musk Falls For Tucker Carlson Revision of Jan. 6: ‘Deeply Wrong, Legally and Morally’

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, embraced Tucker Carlson's revisionist account of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in a series of tweets. → Read More

Rupert Murdoch Did Not Say ‘It Is Not Red or Blue, It Is Green’

It has been widely reported that Rupert Murdoch had a stunning reply when asked why Mike Lindell was allowed on air at Fox News. → Read More

WATCH: Alex Murdaugh Sentenced to Life in Prison For Murders of Wife and Son

Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison for the 2021 murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul by a judge in South Carolina Circuit Court Friday. → Read More

DeSantis Snaps at Reporter When Pressed On What He Would Do Differently From Biden in Ukraine

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was profiled in the Times of London in a piece published Thursday that examined his presidential ambitions. → Read More

‘Today’ Forced to Audible Mid-Show After Savannah Guthrie Tests Positive For Covid

Today host Savannah Guthrie left the NBC morning show program for the day after testing positive for Covid-19. → Read More

Pence Reportedly Declines CPAC as DeSantis Appears Set to Skip Event Amid Matt Schlapp Groping Allegation

Mike Pence "declined" an invitation to this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, ABC News's Olivia Rubin reported Friday. → Read More

Curt Schilling Compares Ukraine to Fascist Italy Under Mussolini: A ‘Bad’ Place With ‘Bad’ People

Curt Schilling called Ukraine a "bad" place with "bad" people and compared the country to Fascist Italy on Fox News Thursday night. → Read More

JUST IN: Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson Arrested in Fraud Case

Carlos Watson, the CEO of Ozy Media, was arrested after his chief operating officer plead guilty to fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. → Read More

JUST IN: Kevin McCarthy Releases Jan. 6 Riot Tapes — All 41,000 Hours — to Tucker Carlson

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has finally released the 41,000 hours of surveillance footage filmed during the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol — but not publicly. → Read More

6 Bombshell Revelations From Trove of New Evidence in Fox News Defamation Suit

The revelations demonstrate the gulf between what was said on air by Fox's top hosts and what they privately believed. → Read More

With Maddow Stepping Back, Is Ari Melber Emerging as the New Face of MSNBC?

The Rachel Maddow ratings vacuum has been filled by Ari Melber, the host of 6 p.m. show The Beat and the network's chief legal analyst. → Read More

The Plot Thickens: Fox News And The White House Offer Competing Versions Of Super Bowl Interview Implosion

The White House said Friday that Fox Corporation canceled a planned interview with President Joe Biden ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl. → Read More

DeSantis Threat to Crack Down on Press Protections Would Be Bad News For Conservative Media

The irony of DeSantis threatening free speech protections is that conservative outlets would be the first to face severe consequences. → Read More

WATCH: Trump Official Turned Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Slams "Woke Mob" in Rebuttal to Biden SOTU

Arizona Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered the Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech. → Read More

Reporter Posts Private Email From Candace Owens Threatening Him With Sexual Innuendo Over Negative Story

A prominent reporter said Candace Owens threatened him with sexual innuendo over a 2016 story that cast her as a conspiracy theorist. → Read More

Mediaite Smashes Traffic Records With Big Front Page Numbers

We are proud to announce that Mediaite broke its traffic record in 2022, pulling in 422 million page views (approaching half a billion, no big deal). → Read More