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NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker will moderate the next Republican debate along with Hugh Hewitt, host on the Salem Radio Network. The lineup for the Nov. 8 event was announced on Nightly News this evening. The debate will air from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m…

Media-wise, the 2024 Presidential election crosses the official starting line with debate season, and this cycle the contenders on the Republican side, including a multiple-indicted former POTUS, are looking to beat Democrat Joe Biden and take over the White House. But first they have to take on each…

Former President Donald Trump was fined again by the New York judge who imposed a gag order that forbids Trump from attacking members of the judge’s staff. Judge Arthur Engoron imposed a $10,000 fine on Trump, adding to the $5,000 sanction imposed last week, per the AP. Engoron was angered by a…

UPDATE: Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) won the vote for speaker, ending three-weeks of Republican intra-party divisions and bitter argument that paralyzed the House. Johnson won 220 votes while Hakeem Jeffries drew 209 votes. The manual roll call was a contrast to previous ones, as Republicans were…

UPDATE: Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) is the latest GOP nominee for speaker, but he may face the same types of divisions that sank three previous party designees for the top House post. Johnson, the vice chair of the House Republican Conference and deputy whip, drew 128 votes in the third ballot this…

Attorney Jenna Ellis, once a steadfast media defender of Donald Trump and his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, pleaded guilty today in the Georgia election case. Ellis, who was a former legal adviser to Trump, pleaded guilty to a single felony charge of aiding and…

"Yo-hoo, is this the loser's room?" asked James Austin Johnson's Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live's cold open tonight. “Don’t we love our country, what an awful place it is,” he said later in the skit, nailing the ex-real estate mogul and one of the better political cold opens SNL has had in a long…

UPDATED: A New York judge on Friday fined Donald Trump $5,000 for violating a gag order that prohibits him from disparaging courtroom staff. “Make no mistake: future violations, whether intentional or unintentional, will subject the violator to far more severe sanctions, which may include, but are…

Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney and one of the 19 defendants named in the Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case, pleaded guilty today to a felony charge. Chesebro pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing false documents, averting a trial that was scheduled to start…

Sidney Powell, who along with Rudy Giuliani made wild and unfounded claims of fraud in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, has pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor charges she was facing in the Georgia election interference case. As part of the plea deal, Powell agreed to testify truthfully…

NBCUniversal News Group filed its own request to televise Donald Trump’s election conspiracy trial, citing the extraordinary circumstances of a former president facing criminal charges. In an application filed today in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., NBCU’s legal team, led by Theodore…

UPDATE, October 17: Former President Donald Trump has appealed a judge’s partial gag order that prohibits him from attacking prosecutors, court staff and witnesses in his election conspiracy case. In her written order, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote that Trump’s comments about figures like…