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Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS News has effectively pushed her out after she refused to alter her explosive report on the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan men to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison — and stood her ground against network boss Bari Weiss.

Alfonsi's contract expired earlier this month, and CBS News executives have made no effort to contact her representatives at talent agency UTA to negotiate a renewal, according to Variety. Her producers have been reassigned. She remains an at-will CBS employee and will continue to be paid, but she can no longer do the work of a working correspondent.

A Fox News correspondent got an earful—live on air—while reporting from outside a New Jersey immigration detention center Tuesday afternoon.

Alexis McAdams was reporting for Will Cain's 4 p.m. show outside Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark when a protester unleashed on her mid-broadcast. McAdams had just warned Cain that the scene could get uncomfortable, telling him she's "not the most popular reporter" at ICE protests—then almost immediately had to address a demonstrator nearby.

Fox News anchor Gillian Turner put RNC chair Joe Gruters on the spot this week, confronting him live on air with a graphic showing President Donald Trump's approval rating cratering across multiple polls — including the network's own.

A Fox News poll conducted May 15–18 among 1,002 registered voters put Trump's overall job approval at 39%, with 61% disapproving — the highest disapproval figure recorded in Fox News polling during his presidency. An AP-NORC poll showed 37% approval and 62% disapproval, while a Wall Street Journal survey put him at 41% approval and 57% disapproval.

Texas Republicans headed to the polls Tuesday in a make-or-break Senate runoff — and for at least one voter, President Donald Trump's endorsement didn't seal the deal. It backfired.

CNN caught up with two Republican voters outside a Plano polling location on Election Day, and their reactions to Trump's last-minute backing of Attorney General Ken Paxton told two very different stories about the state of the GOP.

The White House is pushing back hard after CNN published a report examining President Donald Trump's health and mortality — calling the journalist behind the story an "idiot" and blasting the outlet as "gutter trash."

Rapid Response 47, the Trump White House's official rapid response account, unloaded on CNN reporter Kevin Liptak after he published a piece Monday headlined "Trump's advanced age and threats to his life serve as reminders of his own mortality."

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dropped $5 million on the main House Republican super PAC just four weeks after lawmakers arranged to interview him about his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — making him the first Trump cabinet official to make a seven-figure disclosed federal donation since being confirmed.

The April 1 donation went to the Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC backing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Republican incumbents — including those who sit on the very committee scrutinizing Lutnick. The closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee took place on May 6 and lasted more than four hours.

Tulsi Gabbard didn't leave the Trump administration on her own terms — at least according to one well-placed source.

Despite an official story centered on her husband's cancer diagnosis, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters that Gabbard "had been forced out by the White House" — a stark contrast to the carefully crafted farewell playing out on social media Friday.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) dismissed the Epstein files as a "nothing burger," mocked concerns about healthcare affordability, and compared a nurse killed by ICE to Kyle Rittenhouse — all in private texts to staffers, according to a bombshell New York Magazine investigation published Thursday.

The texts, obtained by reporter Alex Shultz, paint a portrait of a senator who, his own staff says, has been "acting like a Republican" in private — even as his approval among Pennsylvania Democrats has collapsed.

A Trump administration official tasked with proving debunked election-rigging conspiracy theories tried to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states — and failed spectacularly when he couldn't produce a shred of evidence to back it up.

Reuters reported Thursday that White House adviser Kurt Olsen asked the Commerce Department to declare components of Dominion Voting Systems machines national security risks. This move would have effectively banned them before the November midterms.

CBS News head Bari Weiss suffered an embarrassing public blow on Sunday when Anderson Cooper, one of the most recognized news anchors in the world, was allowed to deliver thinly veiled criticism of her leadership — catching her completely off guard.

According to media watchdog Status, the already embattled Weiss was not given advance notice of Cooper's remarks and was effectively "blindsided" by the criticism. The exit interview, published as part of "60 Minutes" "Overtime" series, saw Cooper reflect on his nearly two decades as a correspondent while taking subtle but pointed shots at the CBS News boss.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) skipped a White House meeting Thursday — and sources say it wasn't an accident.

Two aides familiar with the cancellation told reporter Pablo Manríquez that Johnson flatly refused to attend, marking what may be the first time the Speaker has said no to Donald Trump.

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused President Donald Trump of rigging the election against Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — using the same "stolen election" language Trump deployed for years to dispute his own 2020 loss.

Speaking with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on The Alex Jones Network on Thursday, Greene unloaded on Trump after Massie's Tuesday night defeat in the most expensive House primary in American history.