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A protester seized the microphone from Madison Police Chief John Patterson, forcing the chief from his own podium at a press conference about a fatal police shooting.

Protester Carlos Stanton, who said he represents All Power to All People — an organization he referred to as APTAP — took control of the lectern Thursday at Madison Police Department headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) sparked ridicule Thursday after citing a dinner at Vice President JD Vance's home as evidence he was meeting his oversight responsibilities on the Iran war.

During a Thursday broadcast on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney asked whether the Senate should step in and exercise more control over the conflict.

Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel hit CBS with backhanded praise after its canning of Stephen Colbert sent ratings at its rival network soaring.

In an interview with Variety, Kimmel — whose show airs on ABC — credited an almost 20 percent increase in viewership to the head honchos at CBS who pulled the plug on Colbert's show to gain favor with President Donald Trump.

"The ratings are very strong, which we are very grateful to CBS for their wisdom," he sarcastically told Variety. "We were doing pretty well before that, but that really helped."

House Republican leaders have bottled up a bipartisan bill protecting deepfake porn victims to keep Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) from claiming a win before a possible 2028 presidential run, according to a new report.

The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act — known as the DEFIANCE Act — would let victims of nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes sue their abusers in civil court. The Senate passed it unanimously twice, most recently in January 2026, according to Senate records.

President Donald Trump was repeatedly beaten by special counsel Jack Smith in hidden court proceedings, and now the president's $10 billion BBC lawsuit threatens to backfire and expose how it was done.

The BBC filed a reply brief Wednesday in federal court in Washington, pressing Chief Judge James Boasberg to unseal rulings from the Smith grand jury probe in which courts rejected Trump's attempts to shield witnesses from testifying under presidential executive privilege.

Republican campaign operatives are bracing for catastrophe, warning that President Donald Trump's next move could cost the party its congressional majorities and "ruin his second term," reports show.

Trump has only promised more war after his ceasefire with Iran collapsed, and U.S. deaths have continued to mount — 18 service members killed since the fighting began in February, the Washington Post reported.

Contract negotiations with one of CNN's highest-profile reporters broke down once again over fears that the pending Paramount + merger will result in controversial CBS News head Bari Weiss assuming the same duties at the cable news network, a new report shows.

Clarissa Ward, CNN's chief international correspondent, was in active contract negotiations this spring to extend her tenure at the network. CNN leadership, under Mark Thompson, was eager to secure the star journalist with a multiyear deal that would keep her on staff for years to come.

But those talks have reportedly collapsed. Instead of signing a long-term agreement, Ward settled for a one-year extension in April—a dramatic shortening of what CNN had hoped to achieve, media watchdog Status reported.

The impasse centered on a single concern, according to Status: what happens to CNN if Weiss gains editorial control following Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Ward, a former CBS News correspondent who contributed to "60 Minutes," has watched closely as Weiss dismantled the operations at CBS News that has included a purge of key personnel and made national headlines, according to the report.

A last-minute decision by CBS News to cover Donald Trump's much-maligned address to the nation last Thursday came as a surprise to staffers who had been informed it would only be on the streaming platform.

Now there are questions about what changed after the White House reached out to the news organization headed by Trump-friendly Bari Weiss, according to Oliver Darcy of the media-focused site Status.

A mass media company aligned with President Donald Trump faces over $600 million in penalties after a federal judge halted its $110 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery and CNN.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued the emergency order against Paramount Skydance on Monday, siding with a coalition of 12 states that sued to stop the deal a week earlier.

Despite her high-profile role as the head of CBS News, Bari Weiss is entering into a new dalliance with a conservative billionaire — leaving no doubt where her sympathies lie, according to a new report.

Media watchdog Status has uncovered an expanding professional relationship between Weiss and Mathias Döpfner, the chief executive of Axel Springer, the German publishing conglomerate that owns outlets including Politico and Business Insider.

Döpfner had previously attempted to recruit Weiss more than a year ago, an effort that failed, Natalie Korach of Status reported. Now Döpfner has invited Weiss to speak at the 2026 Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin, where she will share the stage honoring Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and prominent Trump ally.

Weiss has accepted the invitation and plans to attend the late September event, delivering remarks to both in-person attendees and livestream viewers. Neither Axel Springer nor CBS News representatives would comment on the arrangement.

According to the report, the appointment signals a deepening professional alliance between Weiss and Döpfner that has persisted even after Axel Springer's failed attempt to acquire Weiss's outlet, The Free Press.

Korach wrote, "In the year since, Döpfner and Weiss have continued to cross paths across the media circuit, including at the POLITICO-CBS News gathering ahead of White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April, where they were seen mingling alongside other media executives and Donald Trump administration officials."

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a room of Epstein survivors who had testified for decades that he was powerless to act, insisting, "I'm just the attorney general."

The meeting happened Thursday at Justice Department headquarters, according to MS NOW, which reconstructed it through one attendee and a representative for other survivors, both speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

The Secret Service has blocked the BBC from serving Donald Trump Jr. with a subpoena seeking his Jan. 6 communications, according to a court filing Friday.

The British Broadcasting Corporation disclosed the blockade in a filing that accused the Justice Department of a conflict of interest — fighting the same subpoena in court that a fellow executive branch agency was stopping on the ground.