Chris Wallace thinks that President Biden might not wind up as Democrats’ choice to run for president in 2024, underscoring a sentiment that has been simmering among some members of the party and media pundits in recent weeks. “Remember, in the CNN poll of polls, I think it’s 75 percent of Democrats say they would […]
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(Photo by Walid Berrazeg) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Nvidia NVDA gapped lower this morning on a negative reaction to a partial earnings report. The stock closed last week at $189.89 and traded as low as $172.42 this morning, down 9.2%. Nvidia is above its 50-day simple moving average at $170.18 and above its value […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Representation holds power and basketball star and businessman Russell Westbrook is putting the focus on ensuring multicultural audiences see themselves reflected in the products and content they consume. The nine-time NBA All-Star has launched a digital media division under his company Russell Westbrook Enterprises. Westbrook will use the new venture—dubbed RW Digital—as […]
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Alex Jones attempts to answer questions about his text messages asked by Mark Bankston, lawyer for … [+] Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, during trial at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022. Briana Sanchez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool. ©GANNETT InfoWars host Alex Jones returned to his day job Saturday, telling his […]
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An advertisement for Discovery+’s Shark Week in New York City. OUTFRONT The streaming wars have been well-documented over the past three years, as new launches and new patterns of consumer behavior turn the streaming landscape on its head. With Netflix losing subscribers and HBO Max’s future clouded by rumors, the streamers need eyeballs not just […]
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Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for WarnerMedia. Getty Images for WarnerMedia Most investors tuning into the Warner Bros. Discover earnings call on August 4 were looking for exciting news about the new streaming service the company plans to debut. However, management quickly turned the tone of the call focusing on how they are one of […]
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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld speaks during Fox News Channel’s “Gutfeld!” Live In Dallas at Gilley’s … [+] Dallas on February 22, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. Getty Images The past week or so could not have offered a more stark reminder of how the center of gravity has shifted in the world of late-night TV […]
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Leslie Grace (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) FilmMagic Just as the film was in post-production, management at Warner Bros Discovery decided to pull the plug on the DC Comics film BatGirl, despite it having a reported budget of more than $100 million and stars Leslie Grace, Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton and J.K. Simmons. The reviews must have […]
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 03: A person walks past Fox News Headquarters at the News Corporation … [+] building on May 03, 2022 in New York City. A leaked draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito has suggested that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, a historic ruling that […]
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Jared Kushner, former President Trump’s son-in-law and ex-senior adviser, claims in a forthcoming memoir that former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon told him “I will break you in half” if Kushner crossed him, according to CNN, which obtained an early copy of the book. “Steve, you gotta stop leaking on Gary,” Kushner says he told Bannon […]
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FILE – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, Thursday, Oct. … [+] 17, 2019. Federal regulators, Wednesday, July 27, 2022, took legal action to block Facebook parent Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg from acquiring virtual reality company Within Unlimited and its fitness app Supernatural, asserting the deal would hurt competition and […]
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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 17: Chris Cuomo attends the 2017 Turner Upfront at Madison Square Garden on May … [+] 17, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage) WireImage Chris Cuomo’s coming back. The question is: will viewers go looking for him? It’s been seven months since CNN fired Cuomo, whose Cuomo […]
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First lady Jill Biden’s press secretary Michael LaRosa is departing the White House for a job in the private sector, he confirmed in an email to The Hill on Tuesday. LaRosa, who has served as Biden’s spokesman since the 2020 presidential campaign, said he would be joining the public affairs firm Hamilton Place Strategies. […]
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Ted Anderson, a precious metals seller, was hoping to rustle up some business for his gold and silver dealership when he started a radio network out of a Minneapolis suburb a couple of decades ago. Soon after, he signed a brash young radio host named Alex Jones. Together, they ended up shaping today’s misinformation economy. […]
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(Infinity Stones gauntlet image courtesy of ECG) With the Avengers’ arch villain Thanos vanquished (again), it’s probably safe for Marvel fans to peek over their hands during the revived San Diego Comic-Con this weekend to stare at a just-unveiled $25 million collection of actual gems cut to look like the Infinity Stones at the heart […]
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Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt said the morning after the latest hearing investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that Congress should also probe the riots that broke out during protests for racial justice across the country during the summer of 2020. “There’s never an excuse for a riot, but remember the summer of 2020 when […]
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That Biden was unwell and perhaps even demented similarly received a great deal of attention on the right, even in its newsier corners. Fox News’s midday programming flashed graphic after graphic about the 79-year-old president’s various comorbidities. A Thursday gaffe in which Biden said he had contracted cancer also received a great deal of attention, […]
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(Russo Brothers image courtesy of Agbo) On Friday, after a brief week in theatrical release, the most expensive film in Netflix history will arrive on the streaming service, courtesy of two brothers who together shepherded four Disney Marvel movies to more than $6 billion in grosses during far longer stays in theaters. But that short […]
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The searing heat of summer may finally be slowing the pace of the immersive tech industry. There was only one funding announcement, for a company that makes avatars for conferencing, not a web3 battle royale in which the slain pay a price to respawn. Meta made no announcements but still managed to get into the […]
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Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday made her first comments about President Biden since leaving his administration to join MSNBC as a host and analyst. Calling into the network from the parking lot of a Barnes and Noble during breaking news coverage of Biden’s Thursday coronavirus diagnosis, Pskai said the White House […]
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Suicide is often deemed a newsworthy event—the death of a celebrity, the use of self-immolation as a protest tactic, or new data on suicide rates nationally are all certain to receive some measure of coverage. But in cases where stories describe suicide methods, mass media coverage has led to a demonstrable increase in copycat deaths, […]
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Surprise, surprise: Donald Trump is running for president—again. Yes, this has been more or less obvious from the moment he left office, but he’s starting to barely hide his intentions anymore. Speaking to rallygoers in Las Vegas last weekend, Trump hinted at a possible run. “We have a president who ran twice, won twice,” Trump […]
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In a sense, that wreckage has come about, but not in the way Musk’s critics and doomsayers predicted. Three months after Musk launched his gambit, Twitter hasn’t been ruined per se. But it is in a state of shambles. As The New York Times’ Kate Conger and Mike Isaac reported earlier this week, Twitter is […]
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For example, in response to the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, some right-wing media actively drove a “Black-on-Black” crime narrative in defense of Brown’s killing. There is no such phenomenon as “Black-on-Black crime”—most white murders are intraracial, but no one runs around talking about “white-on-white murder.” The “criminals will have guns” argument […]
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What motivates the line Paul takes—as her argument is hardly new—is the moment. As much of the right was celebrating the collapse of abortion rights with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling in late June, it was also already repurposing the same tactics to attack trans people that it had used to attack women’s rights and […]
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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post) Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), Publisher of The Solari Report and former Assistant Secretary of Housing (Bush 41 Admin.), contends this is what the so-called “reset” looks like. High food and fuel prices along with crushing interest rates are no accident. CAF explains, “To me, this is part of […]
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