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CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins fired back at President Donald Trump this week by turning his favorite insult into on-air desk decor.

A mug emblazoned with the words "America Needs Nasty Women" sat in clear view on Collins' desk during multiple broadcasts of her CNN show "The Source," The Daily Beast reported Saturday.

The message is a pointed callback to an insult Trump has hurled at Collins for years. During a 2023 CNN town hall in the Republican primary, Collins pressed Trump on the classified documents the FBI said he had kept at Mar-a-Lago and refused to hand back, a standoff that ended in a search of the property. Trump shot back, "You are a nasty person."...

Paramount CEO David Ellison’s effort to keep CNN chief Mark Thompson aboard signals doubts about Bari Weiss’s ability to oversee the network after turmoil at CBS News, Status founder Oliver Darcy argued.

“I think that’s a real indictment of her. I really do,” Darcy said Friday on Status’s "Powerlines" podcast as he dug into Ellison’s apparent assessment that Weiss isn’t ready for the high-profile role.

“I don’t think this is a good sign for Barry Weiss,” he added....

Jared Kushner lashed out at CNN on Friday, accusing the network of publishing a “deeply misleading” investigation about his business investments — and declaring that a decade of ignoring stories about himself was over.

“For the last 10 years, I have ignored false and misleading stories about me and focused on the work,” President Donald Trump’s son-in-law wrote Friday. “But the cycle has gotten out of control where old lies get repeated as fact, new ones get added, and the record becomes increasingly distorted.”

Kushner, who has served as an unofficial Middle East envoy while remaining outside the MAGA administration, said the time has come for him to break his 10-year silence....

An attorney for CNN said he was surprised President Donald Trump didn't seem to know what a federal judge had ordered him to do.

Ted Boutros, who represents CNN in its lawsuit over the White House's restrictions on the network's reporters, told CNN anchor Erin Burnett on Thursday that an exchange in Trump's new interview with Time magazine caught him off guard.

Asked whether he was ignoring an order from U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, Trump told the magazine, "I'm not ignoring his order. I'm just saying that when I don't have to go out of my way, these people write only bad stories."...

The White House dropped CNN from President Donald Trump's Thursday press pool, days after a federal judge blocked his ban on the outlet.

The network had been slated to travel aboard Air Force One and handle on-the-ground pool coverage for the trip, according to a rotation schedule the White House put out Sunday, NBC News reported Wednesday. But CNN was missing from the daily guidance released for Trump's stops, which include a visit to a truck plant in Denton, Texas, and a speech in Durant, Oklahoma.

The exclusion lands less than a week after a federal judge paused Trump's attempt to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. That order, however, covered only access to the White House grounds, leaving the administration room to sideline the outlets elsewhere....

Conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings grew colder behind the scenes for weeks before cursing at a fellow panelist on live television.

Adam Mockler, the political commentator on the receiving end of that outburst in April, described the buildup on a Wednesday episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles.

Mockler said he and Jennings had been on "a lot of panels over the past few weeks" as the war with Iran slid into "a pretty bad stalemate," with Jennings repeatedly insisting "that the war was going to be over soon and that we were winning."...