15+ hour, 11+ min ago (343+ words) Comedian Bill Maher called out the mainstream media's liberal bias as he sat down with Lara Trump, lauding Bari Weiss " "my girl" " for her work at the Free Press and for making CBS News "more fair." On Monday's Club Random podcast, Maher and Lara Trump, who is daughter-in-law to President Donald Trump, were discussing campaigns by Russia and China to use the internet to "foment anger" among Americans online when the host added: "I don't give any quarter to the leftists who just constantly downgrade America." "It's another reason why they hate me. I mean, this is what I said to him " your father-in-law in the text. It's like, you know, if I'm so captured by the lunatic left, why do they hate me, too?" he continued. Maher went on to say that his fans were "people in the middle…...

8+ hour, 51+ min ago (322+ words) As Smartmatic's lawsuit against Fox News advanced on Monday, with a judge refusing a request for a pause, tens of thousands of pages of exhibits were released. Smartmatic, a voting technology company, is suing Fox Corp for $2.7 billion dollars for defamation over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. The tranche of documents includes text messages and emails between Fox talent and executives, including major figures in the company like Sean Hannity, Rupert Murdoch, Maria Bartiromo, and Tucker Carlson. Carlson was fired from the network in April 2023, months after it settled with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million. Among the many bombshell revelations in the newly released materials was Tucker Carlson calling then-President Donald Trump a "total piece of shit.' The Guardian's Jeremy Barr dug through the materials and highlighted some of the more eye-popping moments, including: An unidentified individual told Tucker…...

19+ hour, 16+ min ago (285+ words) President Donald Trump personally urged Paramount's owner Larry Ellison to bring back Rush Hour, the buddy-cop martial arts franchise fronted by Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, according to new reports. Ellison, a key political ally and major financial backer, is now a large shareholder at Paramount and inching toward a takeover of Warner's storied catalogue. That gives the president, for the first time, a foothold in Hollywood's creative machinery and leaves open the opportunity to revive the style of comedies and blackbusters common in the 1980s and 1990s. First on the president's list is Rush Hour, sources told Semafor, a franchise that started in 1998 but has been dormant since 2007. The movies were directed by Brett Ratner, who recently spent months filming the president's wife for an Amazon documentary, Melania. Over the years, sexual misconduct allegations against Ratner have hampered any effort by…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago (586+ words) A Florida judge granted motions to dismiss to The Guardian and other defendants in a defamation lawsuit filed by Truth Social's parent company, Truth Media & Technology Group Corp., the latest example of President Donald Trump's legal actions against media companies not holding up in court. The post Judge Throws Out Truth Social's Defamation Lawsuit Against The Guardian first appeared on Mediaite. A Florida judge granted motions to dismiss to The Guardian and other defendants in a defamation lawsuit filed by Truth Social's parent company, Truth Media & Technology Group Corp. (TMTG), the latest example of President Donald Trump's legal actions against media companies not holding up in court. The dispute arose from two articles published by the UK-based Guardian in March 2023 "reporting on a federal criminal investigation related to TMTGs receipt of two payments totaling $8 million," Judge Hunter Carroll of the…...

19+ hour, 27+ min ago (383+ words) The Oval Office gaggle wasn't supposed to change anything. It was supposed to be content " President Donald Trump and his newly elected progressive foil, each performing the roles cable news has spent months codifying. Conservative media had already settled on its narrative. The White House press corps arrived expecting friction, spectacle, maybe even fireworks. What they got instead was a different story " not about conflict, but about alignment. By the time they stepped in front of cameras, the friction the press had arrived for had already been neutralized. Which brings us to the question of what, exactly, happened here. Some will read Friday as pure opportunism " two politicians doing what was convenient in the moment " but Mamdani's staffing decisions suggest something far more deliberate and coherent. Because what distinguishes Mamdani from familiar "hybrid" figures like Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, or…...

17+ hour, 26+ min ago (222+ words) Former Phoenix news anchor Stephanie Hockridge has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for her role in one of the largest Paycheck Protection Program fraud schemes tied to a public figure. The ex-ABC15 presenter was ordered to pay nearly $64 million in restitution on Friday after a Texas federal court found she helped funnel bogus Covid-era loans through a company she co-founded with her husband, Nathan Reis. Hockridge, convicted in June of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, is expected to report to prison on December 30. She will serve her sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, according to the New York Post, which is a minimum-security facility already housing Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. " ABC15 Arizona (@abc15) November 22, 2025 The couple also secured more than $300,000 in PPP funds for themselves, according to the Justice Department. A…...

16+ hour, 46+ min ago (308+ words) Bill Maher was left in disbelief as Lara Trump denied that President Donald Trump called a reporter "piggy" aboard Air Force One. The moment came after Maher asked Trump about the exchange between the president and Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey on November 14. As Lucey inquired about the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein fiasco, the commander-in-chief snapped back, "Quiet, piggy!" Trump received a massive wave of backlash as a result. His most ardent supporters " and even his own cabinet " moved quickly to defend the comment and even praise him for his "openness." Others outright denied what was said and claimed the president actually said, "Peggy." On Monday's episode of Maher's show Club Random, Maher said he was in the process of writing an editorial in which he argues that liberals have to "get over" themselves and "eat with your family, even…...

15+ hour, 9+ min ago (317+ words) MS NOW political pundit Dr. Jason Johnson'was giddy that ICE agents have "found that their tires are slashed" and have been chased out of restaurants and buildings by protestors, following the Trump administration's latest crackdown on illegal immigration in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Johnson, during a segment on The 11th Hour with host Stephanie Ruhle on Saturday, said he "won't say that I'm suggesting this behavior," but indicated that he was not upset by it, either. The doc agreed it was "dangerous behavior." Still, he said it was worthwhile if it meant showing ICE and Border Patrol agents that protestors hate their work. "It is a demonstration that the American public " when they're not being listened to "these are the options that they'll take," Dr. Johnson said. "I hope this administration listens and pulls back these ICE raids." Johnson, a moment…...

15+ hour, 53+ min ago (344+ words) Bill Maher said he would never have Nick Fuentes on one of his shows " and added that President Donald Trump should make it more clear he wants nothing to do with the white nationalist. Lara Trump " the president's daughter-in-law and Maher's guest on Monday's episode of his Club Random podcast " agreed. "There are people who I wouldn't have here " like that little prick Fuentes," Maher told her. Trump said she can't stand Fuentes either. "That is [an] unfortunate individual, and I hate that he gets associated so closely with the MAGA movement, with my father-in-law," the Fox News host said. "Well he should denounce him more forcefully," Maher told her. Trump said "maybe you're right," then said he's certainly not a representative for Make America Great Again. The president, earlier this month, said he had no problem with Tucker Carlson…...

20+ hour ago (241+ words) Progressive Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn snapped that she wouldn't engage in "cable news talking points" as she refused to address old, since-deleted "defund the police" tweets brought up during a Sunday night interview by MS NOW anchor Catherine Rampell. Behn is currently running for the vacant congressional seat in the state's 7th district, with the special election set to be held on December 2. President Donald Trump won the deep red district by +22 points during the 2024 presidential election, but the Democratic Party is still hoping to take it, even dispatching former Vice President Kamala Harris to canvass voters. In a late Sunday interview on The Weekend, however, Rampell offered Behn the chance to "clarify" her stance on law enforcement as she displayed several now-deleted tweets from 2020 on screen, in which the Democrat called for defunding of police. "2020 was obviously a very…...