Hours after Scott Pelley made headlines for speaking out against firings and other changes at 60 Minutes, the show’s former executive producer offered words of praise for the correspondent. Bill Owens told a New York Press Club event that Pelley “can smell fraud a mile away.” Owens, receiving the New York Press Club’s Gabe Pressman […]

With calls of American “resilience and unity” ahead of the country’s 250th birthday and chants of “USA, USA” from the the crowd of nearly 20,000 in a packed Madison Square Garden for Monday’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals, President Donald Trump learned how Knicks fans really felt about him. The erstwhile New York resident […]

Netflix will start its first daily live program next month when it streams the video podcast The Breakfast Club with Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy and Jess Hilarious. The daily show will debut on Netflix on June 1, and will simulcast on iHeartMedia, which entered into a partnership with the streamer last year. The radio […]

After Freedom 250 announced a lineup of performers for the Great American State Fair this week, some are already pulling out of the event. Morris Day, Young MC and The Commodores have said that they will not perform, even though they were on the roster of artists announced for the June 25-July 10 event on […]

CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss defended the network’s decision to fire 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, telling staffers Wednesday that after attempting to engage with him, they couldn’t “find a way back” and “we had to part ways.” Nick Bilton, who Weiss tapped as the new executive producer of the newsmagazine last week, […]

YouTube will partner with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to stream next week’s Sports and News & Documentary Emmys. The Sports Emmys will stream live on May 26, and the News & Documentary Emmys will be shown on May 27-28 on the NATAS YouTube channel, starting at 7 p.m. ET each evening. […]

The Trump administration asked a judge to reject an effort to block plans for Sunday’s Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White House, saying that government regulations were followed and that it fell under an exclusion from environmental guidelines. After noting that more than $60 million has been spent and more than 120,000 visitors are […]

Scott Pelley responded to Bari Weiss’ characterization of a final meeting he had with her and other top CBS News executives, saying that she and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski were “openly hostile from the start.” Earlier on Wednesday, Weiss addressed Pelley’s termination on a staff call, contending that after they tried to engage with […]

Donald Trump said that his administration will be working with Congress to transfer the Kennedy Center “back to them” in light of a federal judge’s ruling that the president’s name must be taken off the performing arts institution and blocking plans to close it for two years for renovations. In a Truth Social Post, Trump […]

Kevin O’Leary will be feted in Washington, D.C. next week as part of the second AI Honors Gala, joining other recipients including a top Pentagon official, Capitol Hill lawmakers and the co-founder of Nvidia. The Shark Tank star will receive the AI Global Ambassador Award for “his investments in AI implementation, data centers, and the […]

When the Trump administration’s Mehmet Oz spoke to this year’s AI Honors Gala, he referenced what numerous polls have shown: the AI revolution is being met with public skepticism and fear. “When was the last time you saw a fictional movie where AI was the hero?” Oz, the former TV talk host who is the […]

After a group of former FCC chairs and commissioners petitioned the agency to repeal its news distortion policy last November, the current chairman Brendan Carr never acted on it. Last month, they asked an appellate court to compel him to do so. On Wednesday, a three-judge panel gave the FCC 30 days to respond to […]