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Yetta Kane, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, steps onto the set of a Hollywood photoshoot. It’s August 2023 and sticky hot in Los Angeles. Kane is dressed in a knee-length skirt and matching jacket, a Star of David pendant affixed to her lapel. Her hair is a sweeping crest of pale blonde, her eyes the same hue as the cloudless L.A. sky. Kane’s granddaughter, Emily Kane Miller, pregnant with her third child, is also in tow, and they take a seat in the studio’s waiting area. Yetta opens her purse, pulls out a make-up compact and applies lipstick, and it’s at that moment I think back to a conversation I’d once had with another Holocaust survivor decades earlier.

“Did you dream about anything when you were here?” I’d asked the woman. We were standing alongside the train tracks at Auschwitz, where I’d gone on...

Journalism’s big night out returned on Saturday in Washington as reporters, editors and A-list celebrities mingled at the Washington Hilton at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, an event jokingly called the “nerd prom,” in what was a more muted soirée that, for the fourth time while he has been in the Oval Office, was not attended by President Donald Trump. This year, the Whca opted to focus on the stellar journalism produced as the current administration charges into uncharted territory.

With the absence of the sitting president and the decision to nix a comic brought onstage to roast the leader of the free world — a lighthearted and often funny tradition that typically follows the meal, this year’s dinner continued the event’s downward slide in relevance as a cultural moment. Previous years have seen memorable roasts of sitting presidents and stand out moments from notable names like Joel McHale and Conan O’Brien,...

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner could have certainly used a palate cleanser ahead of the big fete tonight.

Ahead of the annual event this year, comedian Amber Ruffin was unexpectedly pulled as the headlining entertainer of the night. Additionally, President Donald Trump will not be in attendance; he did not go to the event all four years during his last term.

The yearly tradition is a fundraising event for the Whca, supporting the journalists that cover Washington, D.C. and the presidential administration, providing scholarships for the next generation of reporters and highlighting the necessity of the First Amendment. It also typically features a comic that ribs/roasts the current Potus. The night also often draws a slew of Hollywood A-listers, though this year’s attendance is likely to be scant.

Earlier this month, Whca President Eugene Daniels...

As the stock market and voters continue to reel from Donald Trump’s extensive tariffs, “Late Night” host Seth Meyers was gobsmacked on Thursday night at the “existential crisis” some reporters are having over the move. More specifically, the crisis that they’re having because Trump placed a tax on uninhabited places.

Among the countries targeted by the president’s tariffs were the Heard and McDonald islands, which have a grand total population of zero. Nothing is imported from or exported to those islands, so no money will be obtained from the tariffs.

In fact, many had never even heard of those islands, including CNN’s Erin Burnett, who admitted on-air that “I did not know that existed until today, and I love geography.”

“Reporters are spinning out! People who cover the news for a living are going through an existential crisis,” Meyers marveled. “Erin Burnett is learning about new...

Pamela Brown and Wolf Blitzer are used to anchoring their own shows on CNN, but not together. However, the pair are now co-anchoring a new-look The Situation Room. Blitzer had hosted the daily program since 2005 in the evening time slot, while Brown previously served as host of CNN Newsroom. Brown would also fill in for Blitzer on The Situation Room when he was away. That all changed on March 3, when the network relaunched the show as a two-hour morning program, pairing up the two veteran reporters. “There’s a lot of news happening [in the] late mornings, not only here in the U.S., but around the world between 10:00 and 12:00 Eastern time,” Blizter told People in a recent interview. “You got to roll with the punches.” Brown agreed with her new co-host, saying, “Any given day, there’s just so much news happening in those hours. We build this beautiful show,...

As it looks to reshape itself for a post-tv future, CNN has rehired a familiar name in a new C-suite role.

Amanda Wills, who departed the cable news brand in 2022 for The Wall Street Journal after a six-year run, has rejoined CNN as chief content officer, the company said on Monday.

The executive will work with the product team as it plans out its content strategy across TV, digital and streaming platforms and will report to Virginia Moseley, the executive editor of editorial. Wills’ start date will be April 14.

At the Journal, Wills held a similar title, chief content officer of video, overseeing the vertical for the News Corp. broadsheet.

While at CNN, Wills also worked on the short-lived foray into a subscription digital product, CNN+, as vp of content programming for the service that was scrapped after less than a month in between a sale of its parent company from AT&T to Discovery.

Michael Kosta is not a journalist. That’s the first thing the Daily Show host says when someone asks him a big, important news question meant for Diane Sawyer or Wolf Blitzer. But when I met with Kosta via Zoom to discuss The Daily Show’s role in Trump 2.0 and how it differs from Trump’s first go-around, he was happy to get into it. We also discussed his new memoir, Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy, in which Kosta writes about the field he actually dreamed of being in: tennis — and how failing at that helped him to eventually excel in comedy.

Kosta has been with The Daily Show since 2017 — going from correspondent to fill-in host to now one of the show’s rotating hosts — so he’s seen the impact the show can have on its audience. “The number one thing people say to me when they...

After 30 years of complete silence, Moretti, the "glamboyant" and lusty singer-songwriter, known to many as the "Wizard of Wiggle," returns from the brink of obscurity with a new studio album, his 18th, titled Caesar's Request. This newly recorded effort sits at the center of Opus, the feature-length debut of former GQ writer-editor Mark Anthony Green, for A24. Moretti, portrayed by a typically atypical John Malkovich, is the fabulously outrageous musician who drives disparate figures like Wolf Blitzer, Lenny Kravitz, Bill Burr, and droves of anonymous fans into a frenzy with the slightest scintilla of new material. Moretti is an assemblage of recognizable, persnickety pop idols who maintain appeal through enigmatic evasion, crawling intermittently out of the woodwork to offer lyrics like, "Girl, you're sexy and you know it / and you're not afraid to show it." Riveting stuff. From the moment the film begins, suspension of disbelief is required, and its mission,...

As Donald Trump continues to publicly yell at world leaders, allow Elon Musk to make massive job cuts in key federal agencies and departments, and rant on social media, Democrats continue to respond mostly with strong discouraging words. So, at this point, Seth Meyers is begging them to “show some spine.”

His latest plea came on Monday night, as the NBC host returned from a two-week break with a super-sized, two-part “A Closer Look” segment. In it, he largely focused on Trump’s hostile meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.

But Meyers also latched onto the Democrats’ response to Trump’s actions during the meeting, which included House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries saying, “It certainly is the case that we’ll need to see some mature leadership from the Trump administration.”

When host Wolf Blitzer pushed back on Jeffries, asking whether “you think there will be some...

“When is the last time the country was able to solve any of its problems?” ambitious congresswoman Alexandra Mullen (Lizzy Caplan) screams at her father and former Potus George Mullen (Robert De Niro) in Netflix’s just-launched Zero Day.

It is a fair question for the six-episode political thriller, and for America 2025.

Certainly, in a week that has seen a sitting U.S. president parroting Kremlin bullet points while his manic billionaire buddy takes a blowtorch to the federal government, the political thriller created by Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim and Michael S. Schmidt and starring De Niro, Caplan, Angela Bassett, Joan Allen, Jesse Plemons, Bill Camp, Connie Britton, Dan Stevens, McKinley Belcher III and Matthew Modine, may provide a much needed sugar high of hope — fictional or not. At the same time, ripped right out of the toxic underbelly of modern America as much as the headlines, Zero Day will show it can happen here,...

After nearly two decades at CNN, Jim Acosta is finally doing his last bows and final hurrahs on the network. However, his goodbye speech may be more politically inclined than it appears. The sweet takeaway? “Never bow down to a tyrant.”

Jim Acosta Shares His Most Memorable Era Working At CNN, And It’s Not Covering Donald Trump At the White House

Jim Acosta is leaving CNN after being one of the show’s mainstays for nearly two decades. The anchor’s decision to exit CNN came five days after it was announced that Wolf Blitzer’s ‘The Situation Room’ will be moving up from its current timeline at 6 pm Et time slot to 10 am starting March, thereby replacing Acosta’s CNN ‘Newsroom.’

Prior to the announcement, a CNN spokesperson had revealed that a new slot was being made available for Acosta. If they did find a spot available for his ‘Newsroom,...

Rahm Emanuel, who last served as ambassador to Japan in Joe Biden’s administration, has found a media gig at CNN.

The veteran politician will join the cable news outlet as senior political and global affairs commentator, the network said on Thursday. Emanuel, who grew his national stature as White House chief of staff to President Obama, served as mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019.

The hire adds another staunch Democrat voice on global affairs to a pundit and anchor roster that is retooling in the second Trump administration. The official, the brother of Endeavor mogul Ari Emanuel, stepped down from the ambassadorship on January 14 a week ahead of the presidential transition.

Emanuel has already been appearing on CNN’s programming recently, including with Cristiane Amanpour in December and on State of the Union with Dana Bash after wrapping his diplomatic role in Tokyo. He’s also been keeping busy by writing Washington Post opinion columns,...

CNN is losing another longtime news anchor.

Amara Walker, co-anchor of CNN This Morning Weekend, is leaving after more than a decade with the network, TVLine has confirmed.

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At a moment when the news cycle is moving at a breakneck pace, top cable news executives are grappling with an uncomfortable reality: The future of the business has never been more uncertain. As one veteran executive argues, it is more likely than not that by the end of President Donald Trump’s term, CNN, MSNBC and, yes, even Fox News will have new ownership as the power structures that have defined media for the past four decades break down.

MSNBC is already set to be spun off from Comcast and NBCUniversal, joining sister channel CNBC at “SpinCo,” a cable-focused venture to be led by Mark Lazarus. And at Warner Bros. Discovery, a restructuring has placed CNN into a “global linear networks” division, seemingly destined for future dealmaking.

Even Fox News, with its relative financial and ratings strength, isn’t immune from speculation. Rupert Murdoch, who effectively controls Fox through an irrevocable family trust,...

A remote location. A group of unsuspecting, idiosyncratic hopefuls. A murderous plan that would eliminate them one by one. The formula is nearly a fool-proof one to pull off an entertaining horror-thriller, but writer-director Mark Anthony Green’s paper-thin feature debut “Opus” squanders the opportunity with shockingly low stakes and only the most basic observations on celebrity culture and fan entitlement.

A former GQ editor, Green at least understands how tough it is to fight for relevance in print media these days. Young, hungry writers struggle to launch careers with prominent bylines, while influencer-types grab all the unearned perks. Played perceptively by Ayo Edebiri, Ariel Ecton is one such up-and-coming journalist working for a Rolling Stone-adjacent publication, fighting for interesting assignments that automatically go to her seniors, even when she’s the one who comes up with the pitch. Her casually arrogant boss Stan Sullivan (Murray Bartlett) doesn’t...

Updated, with additional comment: Jim Acosta told viewers this morning that he would be leaving CNN, departing after the network took his morning show off the schedule as part of an anchor shuffle.

“I’m grateful to CNN for the nearly 18 years I’ve spent here doing the news,” Acosta said. “People often ask me if the highlight of my career at CNN was at the White House, covering Donald Trump. Actually, no, that moment came here when I covered President Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba in 2016 and had the chance to question the dictator there, Raul Castro, about the island’s political prisoners as the son of a Cuban refugee. I took home this lesson — it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant.”

He added, “I have always believed it’s the job of the press to hold power to account. I’ve always...

Broadcast journalist Jim Acosta is believed to be leaving CNN. This follows the network removing Acosta’s morning show from its schedule. Notably, Acosta spent years with the network, particularly gaining fame as a White House correspondent.

Jim Acosta Joined CNN Back In 2007, Gaining Fame As A White House Correspondent

Acosta started his media career in radio. By 1994, he broke into television, first working for a Fox affiliate. The following year, he would get his first on-camera job.

Starting in 2003, Acosta would serve as a correspondent for CBS News. During his time there, he would cover stories from the Iraq War to Hurricane Katrina.

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In 2007, however, Acosta would join CNN. While there, he would gain prominence as the network’s chief White House correspondent during the Obama and Trump administrations. By 2012, he would be promoted to national political correspondent. In 2021, he became the network’s chief domestic correspondent.

Jim Acosta is leaving his longtime home of CNN.

The anchor’s decision to depart the cable news network comes five days after it was reported that The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer’s long-running evening program, would move from its current 6 pm Et time slot to 10 am in March, replacing Acosta’s CNN Newsroom.

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CNN reporter Jim Acosta on Tuesday morning said he is leaving the channel after declining to accept a new timeslot. Acosta made the announcement at the end of his 10:00 a.m. “CNN Newsroom” show.

“After giving all of this careful consideration and weighing an alternative timeslot CNN offered me, I’ve decided to move on,” Acosta said.

The longtime reporter — who gained notoriety in recent years for his combative relationship with President Donald Trump — thanked his crew and said he was “grateful” for his 18 years at the network. He said the highlight of his CNN run was not covering Trump, which many people ask him about, but rather when he went to Cuba in 2016 and was able to question Raúl Castro.

“Don’t give in to the lies, don’t give in to the fear,” Acosta said in his final plea to viewers. “Hold onto the truth — and to hope.

CNN is losing one of its more high-profile anchors amid a larger programming pivot.

Jim Acosta, the former White House correspondent who now anchors the 10 a.m. hour on the venerable cable news channel, is set to exit the company, a source familiar with the move confirms to The Hollywood Reporter.

“Jim has had a long, distinguished nearly 20-year career at CNN, with a track record of standing up to authority, for the first amendment and for our journalistic freedoms,” said a CNN spokesperson in a statement. “We want to thank him for the dedication and commitment he’s brought to his reporting and wish him the very best in the future.”

Acosta also announced the news with an on-air signoff, “I just wanted to end today’s show by thanking all of the wonderful people who work behind the scenes at this network. You may have seen some reports about me and this show.

As rumors continue to circulate regarding Jim Acosta‘s potential exit from CNN, fans have taken to social media to suggest he move to MSNBC and take over the Morning Joe slot. The news comes after CNN announced it was changing up its schedule, which included replacing Acosta’s morning show with veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown for a two-hour edition of The Situation Room. Acosta was reportedly offered the midnight “graveyard” shift, which sources claimed he was shocked by. Acosta is now nowhere to be seen in CNN’s upcoming schedule, and reports from Oliver Darcy’s Status newsletter and Fox News claim the long-time anchor is set to depart the network. The veteran news reporter joined CNN in 2007, becoming the network’s chief White House correspondent in 2018. Throughout his time at CNN, Acosta was a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, with whom he has clashed...

The Buffalo Bills (13-4) and the Kansas City Chiefs (15-2) will play for the Lamar Hunt Trophy at the AFC Championship game this Sunday — and the winner will then face the NFC Championship winner at the Super Bowl Lix in February.

The NFL playoff game between the Bills and the Chiefs airs on CBS and streams live on Paramount+ and other cable TV streaming services.

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Eyes won’t just be on the field: fans (and Swifties) will likely be keeping score on Taylor Swift cameos, as the Grammy-winning superstar is expected to cheer on boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, from a suite. (Other celebrity fans of the chiefs include Missouri-born actors Paul Rudd, Brad Pitt and Jason Sudeikis.) Famous Bills fans include The Good Fight actress Christine Baranski,...

CNN made some key changes to its lineup on Thursday, including removing Jim Acosta, one of its best-known reporters, from his daily morning show. But will those tweaks be enough to win back viewers? Such improvement appears unlkely, as CEO Mark Thompson continues to seek a broader framework to address the formidable array of challenges plaguing CNN’s entire business model.

Yes, ditching Acosta — who has had a well-publicized contentious relationship with President Donald Trump, who reentered the White House this week — was a notable move, one that many will perceive as an olive branch to the new administration.

Still, the changes are more cosmetic than colossal: Jake Tapper, perhaps the network’s most respected anchor, saw his start time moved back an hour to 5 p.m. Et; Wolf Blitzer, who has been with the network since 1990, will now do his two-hour show in the morning instead of the evening...

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CNN is moving Wolf Blitzer’s show “The Situation Room” to late mornings and expanding “The Lead with Jake Tapper” to two hours, part of a broader refresh of the network’s weekday programming line-up, executives announced on Thursday.

The new schedule affects the domestic CNN channel as well as some programs that are simulcast on CNN International, which is expected to have its own weekday programming refresh in the coming weeks. Additionally, CNN executives say new shows will be announced in the near future.

The new schedule for CNN’s U.S. channel follows below (all times Eastern):

5 a.m.: “5 Things” with Rahel Solomon 6 a.m.: “CNN This Morning” 7 a.m. : “CNN News Central” 10 a.m.: “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer 12 p.m.: “Inside Politics” with Dana Bash 1 p.m.: “CNN News Central” 4 p.m.

CNN is making major changes to its daily lineup. The network announced its new plans on Thursday, January 23, with changes in time slots and programming affecting its well-known journalists. Former NPR host and CNN podcast host Audie Cornish will take over CNN This Morning in the 6 a.m. time slot. The show was previously hosted by Kasie Hunt, who will now host a show called The Arena, which airs at 4 p.m. Meanwhile, Jake Tapper will be moving time slots. The Lead With Jake Tapper will now air from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., a one-hour shift from its previous spot at 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. As previously speculated, Wolf Blitzer is also up for a big change. He will now host a show at 10 a.m. with Pamela Brown, as opposed to the early evening spot he held on CNN for 20 years. At 5 a.m., CNN correspondent Rahel Solomon...

CNN made several changes to its lineup on Thursday, including giving longtime anchor Jake Tapper a new time slot and removing Jim Acosta from his morning show. Network veteran Wolf Blitzer is also being moved from broadcasting in the evening to the mornings as part of CNN’s shake up.

Tapper’s show “The Lead” is being moved an hour later, and will now air from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Et. each weekday. Acosta, who has had many memorable squabbles with President Donald Trump, will no longer host “CNN Newsroom” from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. during the week.

That time will now occupied by “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown,” which will air from 10:00 a.m. to noon Et. Blitzer had been broadcasting from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Et each night. Kasie Hunt is also getting a...

CNN unveiled details of changes to its daytime and afternoon lineup Thursday, with Wolf Blitzer moving to mornings to anchor The Situation Room with Pamela Brown, Jake Tapper getting a new time slot, and Kasie Hunt shifting to afternoons.

There is no word on what will happen to Jim Acosta, as Blitzer and Brown’s The Situation Room will take his place in the 10 a.m. Et slot.

Tapper’s show will move to 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Et, with a new show hosted by Hunt, called The Arena, getting the 4 p.m. Et slot.

Audie Cornish will take over CNN This Morning at 6 a.m. Et, and Rahel Solomon will host 5 Things at 5 a.m. Et.

CNN Worldwide CEO Mark Thompson unveiled further plans earlier today to shift the network’s focus to digital, with layoffs of about 200 employees from its workforce but with plans to hire 100 in digital roles.

CNN is getting a revamped lineup, with a number of familiar faces moving to new roles or time periods. Eric Sherling, CNN’s executive vp of programming, announced the changes in a memo to CNN staff Thursday.

The new lineup was unveiled just hours after CNN CEO Mark Thompson outlined job cuts and a digital-first strategy for the venerable cable news channel.

Among the changes: The Lead anchor Jake Tapper will move to 5-7 p.m., filling a critical early primetime period for news; Kasie Hunt will host The Arena at 4 p.m.; Audie Cornish will join CNN This Morning at 6 a.m.; Rahel Solomon will host 5 Things at 5 a.m.; and Wolf Blitzer and Pamala Brown will move to the 10 a.m. timeslot with a new version of The Situation Room.

There is no word on what will happen to Jim Acosta, the current 10 a.m. anchor who, according to multiple reports,...

The Situation Room is undergoing some renovations.

TVLine has confirmed that Wolf Blitzer’s long-running CNN evening program is relocating to the network’s daytime schedule. As part of a larger overhaul at the cable network, The Situation Room will move from its current 6 pm Et time slot to 10 am. It will also expand from one hour to two hours, and CNN’s chief investigative correspondent, Pamela Brown, will join Blitzer as co-host.

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CNN is shaking up its TV schedule yet again as the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet grapples with significant declines in audience and a need to control costs in an era when more viewers are migrating to streaming media.

Under a series of changes unveiled Thursday, Audie Cornish, the former NPR host will take over the 6 a.m. “CNN This Morning,” while Rahel Solomon will lead a new 5 a.m. concept called “5 Things.” Jake Tapper’s late-day program will move to a two hour slot between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., setting up audiences for the primetime lineup, and Kasie Hunt will move from mornings to a 4 p.m. program called “The Arena.”

Wolf Blitzer will move out of the early evening slot he had held for years, paired instead with Pamela Brown at 10 a.m. CNN did not specify a new role for Jim Acosta, the no-nonsense anchor who has...

CNN is cutting about 200 jobs as it focuses on a digital future, the network said Thursday, while its CEO Mark Thompson unveiled plans for a new subscription streaming service.

In a memo to staffers, Thompson wrote, “Our objective is a simple one: to shift CNN’s gravity towards the platforms and products where the audience themselves are shifting and, by doing that, to secure CNN’s future as one of the world’s greatest news organizations. America and the world need high quality, fair-minded, trustworthy sources of news more than ever. This difficult and sometimes painful process of change is the only way to make sure we can still provide it.”

The changes also include ones to its network’s schedule, with The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown replacing Jim Acosta’s 10 a.m. Et show, and plans for a new morning show with Audie Cornish, according to The New York Times.

CNN will cut 6% of its current workforce as part of CEO Mark Thompson’s continuing efforts to build up the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet’s digital and broadband acumen as the audience flocking to its flagship cable network continues to wane.

Many of his plans, telegraphed in a series of memos over recent months, have been expected.

“Our objective is a simple one: to shift CNN’s gravity towards the platforms and products where the audience themselves are shifting and, by doing that, to secure CNN’s future as one of the world’s greatest news organizations,” Thompson said in a memo. “America and the world need high quality, fair-minded, trustworthy sources of news more than ever. This difficult and sometimes painful process of change is the only way to make sure we can still provide it.”

Thompson said CNN intended to unveil a new subscription-based streaming product Tthat would...

Robert De Niro will be making his Netflix television debut next month in the political action thriller Zero Day, and the latest trailer for the new limited series showcases all the action and intrigue we can expect from its stacked cast. Zero Day centers around a devastating cyberattack that kills thousands of people, and when De Niro's character, former U.S. President George Mullen, is brought in to investigate, he's forced to not only wade through mountains of disinformation to get to the truth, but face his own shady past as a result.

"3,402 people died on Zero Day," De Niro says to open the trailer (seen below). From there we're treated to a barrage of news footage showing the effects of the cyberattack, with CNN's own Wolf Blitzer making an appearance to add, "Every phone in America displayed the same haunting message: this will happen again." In addition...

The new Zero Day trailer sets a grim scene for what is called a “zero day” event, a cyberattack that exploits vulnerability.

Wolf Blitzer appears with a CNN breaking news update of sheer panic in the trailer (below): The country has been hit with widespread technology outages, computers have been highjacked and there are significant casualties. Robert de Niro, as former U.S. President George Mullen, says that 3,402 people have died.

“This will happen again.”

In response to the attack, De Niro’s Mullen has been brought back into the White House inner circle and is asked to head up the Zero Day Commission and charged with finding the perpetrators of the devastating cyberattack that has caused chaos and left thousands of fatalities in its wake.

The logline for Zero Day reads, “As disinformation runs rampant and the personal ambition of power brokers in technology, Wall Street and government collide,...

The 2025 inauguration of Donald J. Trump will be a three-day extravaganza in Washington, D.C. leading up to the swearing-in ceremony Monday, January 20 of Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance that has been moved inside because of the threat of cold weather.

The official inaugural events begin Saturday with the President’s Reception and Fireworks as well as the Cabinet Reception and Vice President’s Dinner.

On Sunday, an Arlington National Cemetery ceremony will see Trump laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Later, he will deliver remarks at the Make America Great Again Victory Rally at Capital One Arena, which will include performances by Kid Rock, the Village People, Billy Ray Cyrus and Lee Greenwood. Trump will also speak later in the evening at the Candlelight Dinner.

Inauguration Day on Sunday will begin with a St. John’s church service and a tea at the White...

CNN has told anchor Jim Acosta that they want to move him from his morning Et slot to midnight Et, a less high profile time period where cable news networks have traditionally run reruns of programming from earlier in the day.

Acosta has anchored a 10 am. Et show for almost a year, having moved from a weekend time slot. Acosta was told earlier this week that the network wanted to make the move as part of an anchor shuffle, according to a source. Status newsletter first reported on the potential move.

During Donald Trump’s first administration, Acosta was one of the most recognizable journalists on the beat as CNN’s chief White House correspondent. The president, irate over Acosta’s and the network’s coverage, often got into testy exchanges with him or berated him at press conferences and other events. At one point, the White House sought to revoke Acosta’s hard pass,...

Wolf Blitzer could soon be joining CNN’s daytime programming lineup.

The veteran anchor, who has lead the early evening news program “The Situation Room” since 2001, may make the move to mid-to-late mornings, according to Oliver Darcy’s Status newsletter. Under the plan reportedly being considered, the 76-year-old would co-anchor the new program with Pamela Brown, who is currently in the 11 a.m. time slot, and give Blitzer an additional hour of air time.

It’s currently unclear whether the new program would keep “The Situation Room” name or how the potential schedule change will ultimately impact the rest of the network’s programming lineup. According to Darcy, Kasie Hunt and Jake Tapper may see their schedules shift under one scenario being discussed.

Representatives for CNN declined to comment on the report.

The potential programming shakeup comes as CNN CEO Mark Thompson has been making an aggressive push for a...

After hosting an early evening news broadcast on CNN for 20 years, veteran journalist Wolf Blitzer may be getting a brand new time slot. The network is eyeing a potential move for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer that would see it air during mid-to-late mornings instead of at 6 p.m., a person familiar with the situation told Variety on Thursday, January 16. CNN is reportedly considering having Blitzer team up with 11 a.m. anchor Pamela Brown for a two-hour show that would keep the Situation Room title, according to Variety’s source. The Situation Room previously ran for two hours until it was shortened in January 2021 amid programming changes that increased Jake Tapper‘s time slot to two hours instead. The shake-up would fall under CNN’s new programming plans as the network aims to put more of a focus on digital content amid declining viewership. However, CNN has not announced...

Wolf Blitzer may be getting ready to storm the morning on CNN.

The veteran anchor, who has led the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet’s “The Situation Room” in early evenings since 2005, could bring the program to mid-to-late mornings, according to a person familiar with the matter, under a set of new plans around programming and talent currently being considered by CNN.

A CNN spokesperson declined to comment. The Status newsletter previously reported on Blitzer’s potential move to a different time slot.

CNN, which is grappling with significant downturns in viewership, has long been mulling a set of maneuvers that will put more of a spotlight on digital content, and staffers have grown more anxious over what those ideas will portend. Layoffs have long been expected, according to two people familiar with the situation, along with new tweaks to the schedule of the company’s flagship cable network. There...

Wolf Blitzer paid tribute to CNN political analyst Gloria Borger on Thursday (December 19) as she gets set to depart the news network after 17 years. At the end of Thursday’s edition of The Situation Room, Blitzer turned to Borger to thank her for all her contributions over the years, noting that her first appearance on the network came on his show back in September 2007. “Everybody stand back for a moment. I want to have a special moment right now to say, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you,’ to our Gloria Borger,” Blitzer said, per Deadline. “Seventeen years here at CNN. This is going to be your last week here at CNN. You’re getting ready to move on, and we want to wish you only the very best.” The long-time news anchor continued, “You and I go way back. In fact, your first appearance on CNN was right here in The Situation Room.

CNN political analyst Gloria Borger is exiting the news network after 17 years, and Wolf Blitzer has shown his gratitude for her contributions to The Situation Room over the years.

At the end of Thursday, December 19’s broadcast, Blitzer took a moment to thank Borger and remember her first appearance on his show, airing a clip from September 13, 2007.

“Everybody stand back for a moment. I want to have a special moment right now to say, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you,’ to our Gloria Borger. Seventeen years here at CNN. This is going to be your last week here at CNN. You’re getting ready to move on and we want to wish you only the very best,” Blitzer told Borger. “You and I go way back, in fact, your first appearance on CNN was right here in The Situation Room.”

The clip showed Blitzer hosting The Situation Room and taking...

CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota announced she is leaving the network Sunday at the beginning of her show. After she praised the network for having afforded her “incredible opportunities” that were “the kind of peak career experiences that I had dreamed of since I was a teenager,” she told viewers to follow her on Instagram and hinted at things to come: “I’ll see you all soon.”

“Before we go on this very busy news day, I just want to take a moment to share some personal news,” Camerota began. “This is my last day on air at CNN. I’ve had such incredible opportunities here these past ten-plus years. I’ve interviewed presidents and heroes and extraordinary people. The kind of peak career experiences that I had dreamed of since I was a teenager.”

“The journalists at CNN are the very best in the entire news business. And it’s...

Alisyn Camerota will exit CNN. Her last show will be Sunday afternoon.

Camerota announced the news on social media just hours before her final show. In a brief message, the news anchor encouraged fans to tune in at 1:50 p.m. Pt for her sign off.

Camerota anchored CNN’s morning show New Day from 2015 to 2021. Since then, she has hosted and co-hosted programs such as CNN Newsroom with Victor Blackwell and CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper and Laura Coates. More recently, she became a floating political commentator for the network, as well as a correspondent for The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.

On air later Sunday, Camerota said CNN had provided her “the kind of peak career experiences that I had dreamed of since I was a teenager,” adding that “the journalists at CNN are the very best in the entire news business, and it’s been an honor to have been their colleague.

In an era when traditional media is shrinking, Kaitlan Collins, at least, will have more to do.

CNN gave the anchor of its 9 p.m. hour the title of chief White House correspondent, a maneuver that will have her scrambling for the latest news on the Trump administration even as she tries to maintain a pivotal primetime slot on the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet’s schedule.

“Kaitlan Collins is the perfect person to lead coverage of the new Trump White House, even as she continues to anchor her key primetime show The Source,” said CNN Chairman and CEO Mark Thompson, in a statement. “Kaitlan is a political journalist of real depth and tenacity who already boasts an amazing record of scoops and exclusive interviews. I’m excited to see what new heights she scales as she combines this key new posting with her duties as a major CNN anchor.”

In expanding Collins’ duties,...

A viral meme from earlier this year showing before and after shots of several women in Donald Trump’s immediate orbit — RNC chair Lara Trump, Don Jr. squeeze Kimberly Guilfoyle, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer and South Dakota governor and confessed dog killer Kristi Noem — pointed to an undeniable trend. Their faces had all, over an unspecified period, morphed from conventionally human to makeup-caked, angular cheekboned, full-lipped, Fellini-esque exaggerations of the dolled-up Fox News anchorwoman look. And it’s not just the women: Few of us can remember the content of former Florida Rep. (and former prospective attorney general) Matt Gaetz’s RNC speech last summer, so fixated were we on the new elfin arc of his eyebrows. (And the less said about George Santos and his Botox habit, the better.)

As with everything Trump, the look represents a brash departure from well-established D.C. norms. Could Trump’s return to...

Sia dedicated a performance of “Titanium” to survivors of the Nova Music Festival caught up in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel during the 2024 Anti-Defamation League’s In Concert Against Hate event on Monday night in Washington, D.C.

Before singing the song she originally recorded with David Guetta, Sia declared from the stage of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, “We will dance again,” as Nova Festival survivors Ofir Amir, Danielle Gelbaum, Tomer Meir and Daniel Dvir came to her side after the performance.

Gelbaum, when first introducing Sia, told the Kennedy Center audience: “Her music gave me the opportunity to know that I will dance again, and I am dancing again, and tonight we will dance again.”

The Adl event also saw Eden Golan, who represented Israel at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, sing the original version of “October Rain.” Golan performed a rewritten version of the song,...

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The 2024 presidential election is reaching its climax as ballots roll in all over the country.

At a Glance: How to Watch Election Day Results Without Cable

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As always, many Americans are eager to watch election night results live, but, if you’ve cut the...

See how your favorite channel will be following the race for the White House and other key races around the country on Tuesday evening.

The waiting 2024 U.S. presidential election is nearly over. Election night is Tuesday, Nov. 5, and each of the major broadcast and cable news networks that traditionally cover election news are gearing up for a cycle like no other. Virtually no one expects to be able to call the race for the White House on Tuesday night, and there are down-ballot decisions from all around the country to keep track of as well. Find out what kind of coverage you’ll be able to see on your favorite news channel here and make sure you stay informed on this highly consequential election!

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CNN is kicking off its comprehensive coverage of Election Day two full days before most Americans head to the polls.

On Thursday, the Warner Bros Discovery-owned cable network said its coverage of key U.S. Senate, U.S. House and White House competitions will start on Sunday, November 3 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time with a special programming block called “Countdown to Election Day.” The block will feature special weekend editions of “The Situation Room,” “Erin Burnett Outfront,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” “The Source with Kaitlan Collins, “CNN News Night: State of the Race with Abby Phillips” and “Laura Coates Live.”

“Election Day in America” will offer non-stop coverage of Election Day on Tuesday, November 5 at midnight Eastern Time. Boris Sanchez and Jessica Dean will helm a three-hour early morning block until 3 a.m. Eastern Time, at which point Erica Hill and Kasie Hunt take over hosting duties. Omar Jimenez...

Multiple on-demand streaming services are offering election coverage this year, and you can watch without coming close to what you’d pay for cable.

The 2024 U.S. presidential election is coming up fast. Election day is set for Tuesday, Nov. 5, less than two weeks away as of the time of this writing. Will Vice President Kamala Harris continue trying to build on the policies of the Biden administration, or will former President Trump win another term in the White House? The polls are incredibly tight, and a clear winner likely won’t emerge until election night itself, if not after. If you want to keep track of all the latest news and updates without a cable subscription, I’ll break down the best ways to watch national coverage of the election all evening long using top streaming services.

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