Media

Sealant is breaking loose from the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool again, this time during the repair work that President Donald Trump promised would fix the monument.

Freelance photographer Joe Flood posted video of the loose sealant on X on Wednesday. Repair crews were at work on the liner on Aug. 18, according to the Washington Post. The basin has been drained for the work.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche vowed on Fox News to keep building President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom, insisting it "is being built" despite two rulings against it.

Blanche spoke Wednesday on Fox News, where host Dana Perino asked when the legal fight would be resolved so the ballroom could be finished. The attorney general served as Trump's personal defense attorney before taking the Justice Department's second-highest job, and he now oversees the lawyers defending the project.

President Donald Trump answered a question about honoring Dolly Parton by telling a radio audience the late country music star had liked him personally.

Trump appeared on the Glenn Beck Show on Wednesday, where the conservative radio host asked the president why he had lowered the nation's flags for a singer. Parton died Tuesday at 80, and Trump ordered American flags to half-staff that evening in a post on Truth Social, The Hill reported.

CBS News head Bari Weiss is still struggling to sign new talent for broadcasts, and now she is angering executives at other networks over her poaching efforts.

According to a report from media watchdog Status, the embattled Weiss still has anchor and on-air talent seats to fill and is running into resistance from some she has approached for the chaos she has created at CBS with purges, firings, and making the news organization more MAGA-friendly.

The Washington Post has been ordered by an arbitrator to rehire a Black columnist who clashed with the Opinion page editor who abruptly left the paper just weeks ago.

According to a report from the New York Times, billionaire Jeff Bezos's news organization will rehire opinion columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired in September over her social media posts about the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The arbitrator also ordered the company to compensate her with back pay.

CBS News head Bari Weiss's future with the network could hinge on the audience numbers when venerable "60 Minutes" returns to the air.

According to a report from Oliver Darcy at Status, executives at CBS have set a baseline for what they expect when the rebooted newsmagazine, which has seen a mass purge of on-air talent and producers at Weiss's direction, premieres.

In yet another stab at making a bid to assume White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's job, GOP strategist turned CNN pundit Scott Jennings is sending clips of himself to members of Donald Trump's inner circle.

According to a report from Politico Playbook, the controversial conservative gadfly has ramped up his bid for a new job by rushing to the defense of Trump aide Natalie Harp, and he is not shy about letting the White House know he has their back as reporting on Trump's constant younger companion has become a media obsession.

The question of how controversial conservative gadfly Scott Jennings landed his high-paying gig on CNN may have been answered by one of his former students.

Jennings, who is reportedly being eyed by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to replace the equally controversial Karoline Leavitt, has become a flashpoint for the network due to his abrasive and condescending appearances, which have led some female guests to balk at appearing with him.

Stephen Moore, a former senior economic adviser to Donald Trump, drooled on live television Tuesday while pitching Republican midterm 'momentum.'

The incident unfolded on Fox Business during a segment with host Larry Kudlow, as Moore argued that Senate Republicans could ride a new legislative package to victory in November.

Disney is fighting back against the Trump administration — and FCC Chair Brendan Carr in particular -- and at least one federal regulator is cheering it on.

The Walt Disney Co. and ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday, seeking to block an "unusual early license renewal process" the companies call a "free-speech attack." It's one of the most aggressive legal challenges a media corporation has mounted against the Trump administration, reports NBC News.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr faces a First Amendment lawsuit from ABC, which accused him of waging a "deeply un-American" campaign to revoke the network's broadcast licenses.

ABC and its parent, the Walt Disney Company, filed the complaint Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, seeking an emergency injunction to halt the FCC's early license renewal proceedings against the network's eight owned stations.

Attorney General Todd Blanche faces a contempt motion after skipping a federal hearing and instead sending an unprepared DOJ attorney to substitute in his place.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan had directed Blanche to appear Thursday at a status hearing in journalist Katie Phang's lawsuit over the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a 2025 law requiring the Justice Department to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trading firms paying for early access to President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts could face criminal insider trading charges, a former Justice Department official warned Thursday.

Former Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, during an appearance on CNBC, argued Truth Social users could be putting themselves in danger if they participated — and pointed to a federal lawsuit filed against the social media company to explain why.