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Election Day is here, and the major news networks are prepared for a long night — and potentially a long week.

With over 50 million people early voting in the 2024 Presidential Election, Tuesday night will offer plenty of results to thumb through even if an ultimate winner isn’t called until later in the week, and most of the news networks will kick off their election night coverage at 6 p.m. Et, with CNN even starting at 12 a.m. Et while NBC News begins at 5 p.m. Et.

MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki will return to the Big Board — and will even be livestreamed on Peacock and other social platforms — while Fox News will see Bill Hemmer steering the “Bill”-board.

Most networks have scheduled eight hours of election night programming from 6 p.m. Et to 2 a.m. Et, with a result for the presidential showdown between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump not expected immediately.

The newsroom of the Fox News Channel appears in an undated photographer. (Image courtesy Fox Corporation)

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Fox News Media (Fnm) will present special programming surrounding the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) beginning Sunday, August 18th through Friday, August 23rd. Originating from Chicago, Illinois, the network’s convention coverage will be available across all of Fox News Media’s signature platforms, including Fox News Channel (Fnc), Fox Business Network (Fbn), Fox News Audio, Fox News Digital and Fox Nation.

Fnc will commence its special coverage from Chicago on Sunday with Fox News Sunday anchored by Shannon Bream (check your local listings). From 10 Am-12 Pm/Et on Fnc, Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino will anchor America’s Newsroom, followed by Outnumbered at 12 Pm/Et, America Reports from 1-3 Pm/Et, The Story with Martha MacCallum at 3 Pm/Et and...

It’s been 20 years since the beloved stoner comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle first hit theaters, which is why the titular burger chain offered a Harold & Kumar-themed meal earlier this year, consisting of a box full of 20 burgers, which had to be ordered between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. Thankfully, White Castle stopped short of asking customers to provide urine samples proving that they were, in fact, high as shit.

To celebrate the anniversary, the creatives behind the film, including stars John Cho and Kal Penn, chatted with Rolling Stone, describing the ins and outs of the film’s production. Penn also revealed that, despite the fact that the movie initially flopped in theaters, its eventual cult following included several high-ranking politicians — who still never bothered to legalize weed.

Famously, Penn went on to work in the White House under President Barack Obama in 2009 after sending in a job application online,...

Tucker Carlson and his estranged ex-boss Rupert Murdoch very nearly collided Wednesday in the lobby of the Trade Hotel in Milwaukee, where they’ve both been staying during the Republican National Convention this week. Sources tell Hot Source that the potentially awkward reunion was averted by quick-thinking Murdoch aides, who formed a human wall around the Fox News baron just as Carlson was passing by, narrowly averting contact between the two.

Carlson, of course, was fired from Fox in April 2023, part of the fallout from the Dominion Voting System lawsuit, which cost the network $787 million in damages. Relations between Fox and the talk show host — who during his tenure at Fox lobbed such on-air whoppers as George Floyd died of a drug overdose — are said to be strained, to say the least.

Not completely surprising then that Carlson would be using the RNC as something of a revenge tour against the Murdochs,...

America decides in 2024, and viewers who want to see the most coverage of the 2024 Republican National Convention when it meets in Milwaukee starting Monday, July 15 have plenty of options. Unsurprisingly, the most coverage will come from Fox News and the Fox broadcast network. With the assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump on Saturday, there will undoubtedly be even more attention on the GOP proceedings than normal. That means the best way to stream the 2024 RNC is with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream.

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The 2024 U.S. presidential election promises to be one of the most consequential in the history of the country. Incumbent President Joe Biden will take on former President Donald Trump, and the pair have scheduled a single debate to lay their positions before the country. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate the debate on CNN on Thursday, June 27 at 9 p.m. Et, and will be simulcast on a number of different networks. Viewers can stream the entire debate live with a subscription to Sling TV.

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CNN is hosting the Biden-Trump debate, but it will be simulcast on a host of other networks.

Former President Donald Trump (left) and President Joe Biden. (Photos by Gage Skidmore)

The Fox News Channel will offer a live simulcast of CNN’s presidential debate next week, the network announced in a statement.

The debate is scheduled to take place on Thursday, June 27 and will mark the first formal debate between incumbent President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Both are the presumed nominees for their respective parties.

The event is the first time two leading presidential candidates have participated in a nationally-televised debate not organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates since the 1980s. The candidates mutually agreed to appear on CNN and ABC News for at least two debates during the election season, and the two networks have offered other TV stations and news outlets the opportunity to simulcast them live.

On Thursday, a spokesperson for Fox News Media said their channel was taking CNN up on the offer,...

Updated, with latest results: Donald Trump and Joe Biden dominated a majority of Super Tuesday contests this evening, making it all the more certain that the November election will be a rematch.

Biden and Trump were projected to be the winners, by a wide margin, of party primaries in California, Colorado, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Maine, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Alabama, Utah and Tennessee. Biden also was projected to win Vermont, and Trump won a caucus in Alaska.

The lingering question was whether Nikki Haley would continue her bid for the Republican nomination as Trump’s last remaining rival. She was projected to win Vermont, denying Trump a sweep of all Super Tuesday contests. Referring to Trump’s speech earlier in the evening, her campaign said in a statement, “Unity is not achieved by simply claiming, ‘we’re united.'”

Otherwise, the former president scored lopsided margins of victory.

“It...

Update: Donald Trump mocked Nikki Haley’s remarks to supporters after she lost the New Hampshire primary, telling supporters that “she was doing a speech like she won.”

“She didn’t win, she lost,” Trump said.

“Who the hell was the imposter that went up on the stage before and claimed victory. She did very poorly. She had to win. The governor said, she is going to win. She is going to win. And she failed badly.”

He seemed especially irritated during the speech, telling the crowd, “I don’t get too angry. I get even.”

He explained why he decided to focus on Haley in his speech, given that he’s all but assured to get the nomination.

“I find in life you can’t let people get away with bullshit. You just can’t do that. And when I watched her, in her fancy dress that probably wasn’t so fancy,...

Have you heard it’s cold in Des Moines? The subzero temperatures are making Monday’s caucuses in Iowa the coldest on record, a running theme of coverage throughout the day and into this evening. It’s not trivial, as the frigid weather may very well impact turnout.

As Iowa’s first votes of the 2024 presidential race come in, expect a lot of analysis, punditry and prediction, even if the results represent just a sliver of the primary electorate. The Hawkeye state’s primacy as the first-in-the-nation often obscures the peculiarities of the caucus system, unless there is some kind of glitch, which is what happened four years ago with the Democrats.

That said, networks see the caucuses as the kickoff of what is hoped a spike in viewer interest in the presidential contest, as was seen in 2020 and 2016. All of the broadcast networks are planning for ongoing coverage of...

Two political consultants who advised on “Succession” were shocked by how “chilling” Sunday night’s episode was and how “eerily prescient” the writers of the HBO drama continue to be.

Season 4’s eighth episode, titled “America Decides,” sees the Roy siblings squabble with one another and put their thumb on the scale in Atn’s first election night coverage since the shocking death of their father, Logan (Brian Cox). The fictional network ends up calling the state of Wisconsin before all the votes can be counted in favor of Jeryd Mencken and later calls the entire election for the far-right presidential candidate.

In an interview segment reflecting on the episode Monday night, CNN’s Jake Tapper drew parallels between the show, the behind-the-scenes communications of Fox News that emerged in its legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems and the conservative channel’s now-infamous call that Joe Biden was projected to win Arizona in the 2020 election.

After taking a short social media break to get arrested and arraigned, former President Donald Trump resumed posting while en route to Florida following his court appearance in New York on Tuesday.

“Just lifted off for Palm Beach, Florida. Will be delivering remarks tonight at Mar-a-Lago at 8:15 P.M., Eastern,” Trump wrote while onboard his private plane. “Virtually every legal pundit has said that there is no case here. There was nothing done illegally!,” he added.

Trump went on to mock the lengths New York City had gone to...

Donald Trump on Monday accused Fox News of downplaying his popularity with potential 2024 voters in favor of boosting potential challenger Ron DeSantis.

“FoxNews is promoting Ron DeSanctus so hard and so much that there’s not much time left for Real News,” the former president wrote on Truth Social. “Reminds me of 2016 when they were pushing ‘Jeb!’ The new Fox Poll, which have always been purposely terrible for me, has “Trump Crushing DeSanctimonious,” but they barely show it. Instead they go with losers like Karl Rove, Paul Ryan and now,...

“We still have absolutely no idea how this will end,” CNN’s Jake Tapper declared Tuesday as the House of Representatives appeared to come up short for the third time to vote in a Speaker.

Suffering humiliation on humiliation, GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy saw 20 far-right members of his fractious caucus put their third-ballot support behind another top Republican. With business for the new 118th Congress frozen until a Speaker is selected, McCarthy had 202 votes to 212 for House Democrats caucus chair Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and 20 votes to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan – the latter a top McCarthy ally who has urged members to vote for the California Republican.

Related Story Kevin McCarthy Stymied Again For Speaker As He Fails To Get Majority Vote On Third Ballot, House Adjourns For The Day — Update Related Story Prince Harry Tells Anderson Cooper Why He Decided To Speak Out Publicly Amid Criticism In '60 Minutes'...

As candidates and commentators warn that democracy is at stake in this year’s midterms, Nextstar NewsNation’s political editor Chris Stirewalt is a bit cool to the idea that Tuesday’s has that ultimate impact.

“The one thing I always try to impress upon people is, ‘The most important election is always the next election.’ Because we get to do it again, right? There is no finish line in a democracy. We just keep doing it,” Stirewalt told Deadline in an interview last week.

That’s not to say there are not concerns, as Stirewalt is well aware of the fallout from election denialism.

Back in 2020, Stirewalt defended Fox News’ call of Arizona for Joe Biden, the first sign that Donald Trump would lose the election. The network’s decision desk turned out to be correct, but the network faced a backlash on the right as Stirewalt and others defended the call.

Megyn Kelly has a new chance to create an Election Night memory Tuesday evening.

The former Fox News and NBC News anchor will host a special live, commercial-free edition of her program, “The Megyn Kelly Show,” on SiriusXM Tuesday night, sharing her analysis of election results as they come in, and interviewing experts and political observers.

The host will “cover breaking news and interview politicians and experts.,” says Megan Liberman, SiriusXM’s senior vice president of news, talk and entertainment programming. “But listeners will also be tuning in to hear Megyn’s take on events and be able to call in and interact with her live as results come in.” Kelly is responsible for at least one indelible Election Night moment in TV news. Some may recall her ong walk through the halls of Fox News In November of 2012, after she pushed back on an assertion from analyst Karl Rove...

The crisis of leadership Britain has been plunged into over recent years merits sustained study as a cautionary tale. But it demands deeper and sharper analysis than is available in “This England,” a curiously indifferent six-part miniseries notionally centred on former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the initial coronavirus outbreak, currently limping out on Sky’s U.K. arm.

When Winterbottom’s Revolution Films announced the project (originally titled “This Sceptred Isle”) last year – with Kenneth Branagh unveiled as the project’s Johnson – speculation was rife. Would the series be an ensemble satire, along the lines of Winterbottom’s rambunctious “24 Hour Party People”? Or an artfully sober inquiry, in the vein of the director’s Amanda Knox-inspired “The Face of an Angel”? In fact, it’s neither: what we’ve got is a hurriedly assembled primetime procedural that undermines its claim to rigorous accuracy from the off...

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Bill Plante, who spent more than a half-century with CBS News as one of the longest-serving White House broadcast journalists in history, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at his home in Washington, his family announced. He was 84.

Plante reported on the Vietnam War, covered the civil rights movement and all 13 U.S. presidential elections from 1968 to 2016 and anchored the CBS Sunday Night News from 1988-95 before retiring in 2016 after 52 years with the division.

The multiple Emmy winner was a White House correspondent for 35 years during the administrations of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He also covered the State Department while George H.W. Bush was president.

“I have no wasted sympathy on any occupant of the White House,” Plante once said. “They are out to present themselves in the best possible light, and it’s our job to find out,...

Never misunderestimate George W. Bush. The former president and infamous wordsmith is taking on higher education — and looking back at some of his presidential gaffes — as the latest instructor for MasterClass.

The 43rd president has joined the online platform to teach a class on “Authentic Leadership.” The class spans three hours (divided into 12 video lessons) and includes instruction on everything from “the art of personal diplomacy” to “crisis management” and “building a strong team.”

President Bush also speaks out about some of the most pivotal events from his time in office,...

Update June 13, 2022:

Chris Stirewalt was the first in-person witness today at the House Committee hearings about the attack on the Capitol. He had worked as a Fox News political editor for over a decade until February 2021, and was part of the projection desk team that controversially declared that Arizona had been won by Joe Biden on Election Night. Though he stated today that the projection was only “controversial” to Fox News’s competitors.

Both before the election, and after, we reported on the high reputation and importance of Fox News in making projections. Irrespective of their long-time reputation as biased towards Republicans in their news coverage, their record on election projections had high credibility. Stirewalt reiterated this in his testimony. The article below adds details to this.

Based on everything that’s known, Stirewalt’s work at Fox News was professional and his personal political views were not relevant.

The memorial service for retired Army general, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is set for Friday in Washington D.C., with the broadcast news networks and their digital and affiliate outlets planning live coverage that will impact regular daytime programming.

Coverage at National Cathedral will begin just before noon Et/9 a.m. Pt. C-Span and the cable news networks will join ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS in providing live reports from the ceremony, which will include tributes from Richard Armitage, Madeleine Albright and Powell’s son Michael.

You can watch a livestream here:

Powell died October 18 at age 84 from complications of Covid-19. Born in Harlem the son of Jamaican immigrants, he played an influential role in shaping foreign and military policy in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

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On Wednesday’s “Late Night,” Seth Meyers criticized the media’s reliance on asking the architects of the disastrous War on Terror for context in the withdrawal from Afghanistan. It’s time we stop listening to what John Bolton thinks, you know? Listening to him is what got us here in the first place.

Meyers talked about the Afghanistan Papers that the Washington Post reported on in 2019, which showed that government leaders never really had any idea what they were doing in Afghanistan and knew that they had failed in stabilizing the country, but the military-industrial complex kept America from withdrawing. People who were making money from the war said they could fix the problems if they just had more time.

“And that’s how ‘forever wars’ happen: People in charge just keep asking for a little more time to turn things around and then, next thing you know, it...

Apple is producing 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room, a new documentary special that tells the story of 9/11 through the eyes of the Presidency by gaining unprecedented access to the key decision makers who responded for the nation. Narrated by Jeff Daniels, the doc recounts the 12 hours after the strike on that momentous day, offering rare and unique insight into the dilemmas of decision making against the clock, as those involved provide intimate, revealing, and heartfelt details for the first time.

Apple will co-produce the project with BBC and the documentary will make its global debut on Apple TV+ and BBC One this September, marking the 20th anniversary of the attack.

The documentary special will feature never-before-heard testimony with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor), Colin Powell (Secretary of State), Andy Card (Chief of Staff), Dan Bartlett (Director of Communications), Rear Admiral...

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Apple TV Plus and the BBC will present “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” in September.

Narrated by Jeff Daniels, the documentary specials tells the story of 9/11 through the eyes of the U.S. presidency through unprecedented access to the key decision makers who responded to the attacks. It recounts the 12 hours after the strike and dives into the dilemmas of against-the-clock-decision making.

“9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” will feature interviews with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor), Colin Powell (Secretary of State), Andy Card (Chief of Staff), Dan Bartlett (Director of Communications), Rear Admiral Deborah Loewer (Head of Situation Room), Josh Bolten (Deputy Chief of Staff), Ari Fleischer (Press Secretary), Karl Rove (Senior Advisor to the President), Mary Matalin (advisor to Cheney), Karen Hughes (Special Advisor to the President), Mike Morrell...

A night after NBC’s Seth Meyers called out Sean Hannity and Fox News for their ongoing opposition to gun law reform, the Fox News Channel personality launched a tirade against the NBC Late Night host, chastising Meyers for name-calling before name-calling him a “limousine liberal, socialist, hypocritical asshole.”

“And you are not funny, ever,” Hannity zinged.

What set off the Donald Trump loyalist was Meyers’ Wednesday night “Closer Look” segment examining gun violence and the recent mass shootings in Boulder and Atlanta. Meyers lambasted “a small minority of sociopaths with outsized power in politics who stand in the way when the rest of us try to do something about it,” and criticized Hannity for only “briefly mentioning” the Boulder shooting during his program.

Hannity took the bait. “You want to call me sociopathic, which you have called many others before, like Trump, like Karl Rove, you use the word a lot,...

Seth Meyers has been taking so many closer looks at Ted Cruz and Fox News Channel lately, he’s gonna need some Visine to get the red(-state spin) out.

On Thursday’s “Late Night,” Seth’s “A Closer Look” segment first drilled down into the Texas senator’s refusal to wear a mask during a press conference, despite being asked to by a reporter. Meyers then nailed Fox News for, in his words, being “more desperate” to use their collective Joe-Biden-hiding-in-a-basement quip than “George Constanza was to use his ‘jerk store’ line.”

But neither of those is why we decided to write this clip up today. No, we just liked the coincidence that in it, Seth Meyers called “Hannity” crony Cruz an “asshole” on the same night Sean Hannity called Seth an “asshole.”

We knew, it. We’re surrounded by assholes.

Watch the Seth Meyers video above and the Sean Hannity one here.

President Trump’s second impeachment will commence Tuesday, when Trump stands trial for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrectionist attack on the Capitol that led to five deaths. And Fox News will offer viewers a free livestream of the impeachment trial.

Fox News will begin live coverage of the impeachment trial beginning at 1 p.m. Et on Tuesday, Feb. 9. with its “America Reports” program co- anchored by John Roberts and Sandra Smith. Fox News’ “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier and “The Story” anchor Martha MacCallum will join Roberts and Smith’s live coverage.

MacCallum will also focus on the trial during “The Story.” Following her program, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto will provide ongoing reporting beginning at 4 p.m. Et on his program “Your World.” Baier’s “Special Report” show comes on at 6 p.m. Et, during which he’ll also focus on the impeachment hearings.

Fox will have a panel of contributors rotating in throughout the day,...

Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene became the subject of Stephen Colbert’s latest GOP roast after her comments about a wildfire-starting “Jewish space laser” and other conspiracies gained attention.

While Greene, who is a public QAnon supporter, may be one of the more vocal GOP figures sharing potentially dangerous conspiracy theories, Colbert noted that she’s far from the first.

“This kind of behavior from Republicans was coming,” The Late Show said on Tuesday night.

During his opening monologue, Colbert revisited the George W. Bush Administration, calling out former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. During his time as a White House representative, Rove said his critics were part of “the reality-based community” and claimed that people like him “create our own reality.”

With generations of GOP senators finding solace in different realities, it’s now wonder that current Republican figures support QAnon, Colbert said.

“When it comes...

While most political pundits are expressing doubt that enough Senate Republicans will grow a spine to convict the president in the coming impeachment trial, one influential GOP strategist, Karl Rove, says if Trump uses Rudy Giuliani to lead his defense, the likelihood of a conviction only rises.

When asked on Fox News Sunday about the chances Trump will be convicted in the Senate, Rove admitted that the usual partisanship might take a backseat this time around.

“Normally I’d say not much chance,” Rove said after host Chris Wallace reminded...

Karl Rove had some advice for the man who consistently claims to “not like losers” – Americans do not like sore losers and Trump “is on the edge of looking like a sore loser.”

After Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked the former deputy chief of staff to George W. Bush if he expects the outgoing president to continue to contest the election past Monday when the Electoral College formally casts their ballots for president and vice president, Rove used the opportunity to speak to Trump’s endgame, and offered some unsolicited advice.

Fox News puts Joe Biden’s electoral vote count at 264, six short of victory, raising the possibility that the network will be the first to call the presidency for the Democratic nominee.

The past 24 hours have been a whirlwind of snazzy red and blue electoral maps, deep dives into voting data and weary TV anchors going on little sleep. And there have been standout moments, one of which is the drama surrounding Fox News’ call of Arizona for Biden, a call that the Associated Press also made but not yet any of its rivals. Coverage shifted a bit on Wednesday to potential Donald Trump campaign legal challenges, the latest of which is a lawsuit filed to stop the vote count in Georgia.

There were some key moments of the nonstop coverage, culminating in Trump’s early-morning speech in which he (at least prematurely) declared that he won. Network coverage will...

President Trump was going to make a speech from the White House about the 2020 election, a process so unique and unprecedented that, at well past 2 in the morning eastern time, no news organization could predict who was going to be the winner. Before he got on camera, however, Norah O’Donnell had something to impart to her viewers.

“We at CBS News are not projecting in this presidential race. We will not disenfranchise the millions of voters in those battleground states and the hundreds of thousands in Georgia who also have not had their votes counted,” said O’Donnell, speaking during CBS News coverage of the election well after most viewers normally watch her on “CBS Evening News.” Moments later, as Trump spoke, anchors on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC broke into his comments — during which he falsely claimed he had won the election despite millions of votes left uncounted – – and Savannah Guthrie,...

Fox News saw quite a bit of backlash for calling Arizona for Joe Biden on Tuesday night.

The Trump camp contested the call right away, saying that the number of outstanding votes in the southwestern state still gave the president a very real chance to win. Fox News’ Decision Desk stood by the decision, however, stating their statistical models put Trump four standard deviations away from winning.

“Yes, there are some outstanding votes in Arizona,” said Arnon Mishkin, director of the Fox News Decision Desk, after the call was made. “Most of them are coming from Maricopa, where Biden is currently in a very strong position. And many of them are mail-in votes where we know from our Fox News voter analysis Biden has an advantage. We don’t know exactly how many mail-in votes there are, but what I think we’ve heard from the White House is that...

This could be an election night like no other. Since television coverage began, several elections took until the next morning to declare a winner — 1960, 1968, 1976 — and, technically, a winner was never declared by the networks in 2000. Some — 1964, 1972, 1980, 1984 — were landslides, with a winner known early when polls closed in all states.

And, of course, there was 2016. Experts had warned that Donald Trump’s defeat was not a done deal with a tightening race in its final days. As hard as it might be to top the drama of that night, this year — despite a consensus on Joe Biden being ahead — the real-time story evolution could be filled with even more twists and turns, and the potential for confusion and misdirection is massive.

So how best to follow the results? Here are some hints I’ve learned from being a political junkie; my first viewing was as a seven-year-old in 1960, including the next...

The final debate of the 2020 presidential election cycle is tonight in Nashville, with the second nationally televised meeting between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden set to begin at 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt at Belmont University.

NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker will moderate the debate, which will be simulcast across a total of 16 broadcast and cable networks and available on several streaming services and digital platforms. You can also watch the livestream on Deadline (courtesy of PBS NewsHour) here:

Like the first debate on September 28 in Cleveland — which drew 73.1 million viewers across the networks, the third-highest total ever — tonight’s debate will be 90 minutes without commercial interruption, with the subject matter (chosen by Welker) across six 15-minute segments to include fighting Covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.

The Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the proceedings, has tweaked...

This 2020 presidential election cycle is, finally, coming to a close as we arrive at the final presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump — with less than two weeks left to go before Election Day. And, of course, you’ll find plenty of coverage of this debate on Fox News.

So if Fox News is your TV news network of choice, you’ve come to the right place — we’ve got everything you need to know about the channel’s coverage plans for the Thursday, Oct. 22 debate, which are pretty similar to its coverage plan from the first debate and the vice presidential debate a couple weeks back.

The debate itself is scheduled for 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt on Thursday, and is set to run for 90 minutes. Fox News’ dedicated coverage, which will open up at the scheduled debate start time, will be anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum,...

Fox News Channel will once again have Special Report anchor Bret Baier and The Story anchor Martha MacCallum leading its 2020 presidential election coverage from Studio F on the ground floor of the channel’s Manhattan headquarters.

Baier and MacCallum will be joined by a number of reporters and analysts during their coverage, which is set to kick off at 6 Pm Et. Fox News Sunday moderator Chris Wallace, analyst Brit Hume, The Five co-hosts Dana Perino and Juan Williams and contributors Donna Brazile, Karl Rove and Katie Pavlich are all scheduled to appear.

They will be joined by anchor Bill Hemmer, who will once ...

Fox News Channel will once again have Special Report anchor Bret Baier and The Story anchor Martha MacCallum leading its 2020 presidential election coverage from Studio F on the ground floor of the channel’s Manhattan headquarters.

Baier and MacCallum will be joined by a number of reporters and analysts during their coverage, which is set to kick off at 6 Pm Et. Fox News Sunday moderator Chris Wallace, analyst Brit Hume, The Five co-hosts Dana Perino and Juan Williams and contributors Donna Brazile, Karl Rove and Katie Pavlich are all scheduled to appear.

They will be joined by anchor Bill Hemmer, who will once ...

There’s a little TV event taking place tonight that you might have heard about. President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden will square off in their first debate of the 2020 election season. Deadline is offering the C-span livestream above, but there are numerous other ways to watch.

Moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the 90-minute tussle starts at 9 p.m. Et from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland. The Fox News Sunday host already has laid out what tonight’s topics will be, in no particular order: the Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities and the integrity of the election.

All the major broadcast and cable news networks and their radio and online outlets will carry the feed, while it will be shown on online platforms ranging from Roku to Twitter.

Here’s a...

The 2020 Democratic National Convention comes to an end on Thursday, after former Vice President Joe Biden officially accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

Biden will also deliver a speech “about his vision for uniting America, to move us forward out of constant chaos and crisis,” according to the DNC. His address comes one day after Sen. Kamala Harris was officially nominated as veep.

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“Hey everybody, it’s me, Kamala.”

The history making Vice-Presidential nominee for the Democrats broke from tradition tonight with a pre-speech appearance at the party’s virtual convention.

Less than two hours before Kamala Harris is set to give her acceptance speech as the first woman of color on a major American political party ticket, the California Senator injected some live drama into the proceedings with her cold open and a call to vote.

“Before I go onstage tonight, I want to talk about the importance of voting,” Sen. Harris said after a remote Pledge of Allegiance. “So, I think we need to ask ourselves, why don’t they want us to vote? Why is there so much effort to silence our voices? And the answer is because when we vote things change,” the potential next Veep to potential Potus Joe Biden added.

“When we vote, things get better when...

Donald Trump startled reporters at a press conference on Wednesday after he was asked a question about QAnon, the far-right conspiracy movement that has been deemed a potential domestic terrorism threat.

The FBI named QAnon in a bulletin on fringe theories that warned of increasing extremist domestic violence.

“I don’t know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate,” Trump told reporters, adding that “these are people that don’t like seeing what’s going on in places like Portland and places like Chicago and New York and other cities and states.”

But then the president was told the specifics of what QAnon followers believe, going well beyond concerns of protests and unrest in major cities.

“The theory is this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this Satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals,” a reporter asked him. “Does...

The 2020 Democratic National Convention will make history on Wednesday night when Kamala Harris formally receives the nomination to be the next Vice President of the United States.

Harris is now the third female vice presidential candidate of a major party in U.S. history, following in the footsteps of Sarah Palin (2008) and Geraldine Ferraro (1984). She is also the first Black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent on a major-party ticket for national office.

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Two of the moments that stood out on the second night of the Democratic National Convention: the feel-good moments of a roll call from 57 different locations across the country, and the marquee speech from Jill Biden.

“How do you make a broken family whole?” Biden, the former second lady of the United States, said from Brandywine High School In Delaware, where she once taught. “The same way you make a nation whole. With love and understanding—and with small acts of kindness. With bravery. With unwavering faith.”

What showed on Tuesday were producers more in the groove of a virtual convention than on night one, particularly when it came to the official business of the proceedings, the roll call vote. A throwback to the days when it really mattered and the outcome was in a bit of doubt, it’s still one of the highlights for different state delegations who...

Blink and you’ll miss Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

As previously reported, Aoc will have just 60 seconds to deliver a pre-recorded message during Tuesday’s virtual event. Meanwhile, fellow rising star Stacy Abrams is among 16 who have been chosen to deliver the DNC’s keynote address. Additional keynote speakers include Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta of Pennsylvania, Sen. Marlon Kimpson of South Carolina, and Sen. Yvanna Cancela of Nevada.

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All eyes will be on Michelle Obama as she closes out Night 1 of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

The former First Lady gave one of 2016’s most memorable DNC speeches, which included her now-famous motto, “When they go low, we go high.” On Monday, she’ll speak out in support of former Vice President Joe Biden, who served alongside her husband, President Barack Obama, for eight years.

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While the names Lee Atwater and Karl Rove may send shivers down the spines of progressives around the world, those two men are at the center of a new film from director James Schamus titled “College Republicans.” And this isn’t going to be your typical political drama.

According to Deadline, Schamus has signed on to direct “College Republicans,” which will star Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield as versions of real-life conservative figures Lee Atwater and Karl Rove.

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Asa Butterfield and Logan Lerman are set to star in the coming of age ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’-esqe ‘College Republicans’.

Set in the height of summer in 1973, Butterfield plays the role of a young Karl Rove who embarks with his untrustworthy campaign manager Lee Atwater, played by Lerman, on a backroom vote-stealing road trip through the South. In the process, they form uneasy alliances with the likes of Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Jeff Sessions.

However Atwater meets his match in a beautiful young Republican operative named Kate King (Kristine Froseth) and their dreams of victory bring them all too close to humiliating, career-ending defeat. The Kate King character is said to be a composite of several real people.

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‘Brokeback Mountain’ producer James Schamus will direct from a script by Wes Jones (Billions).

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James Schamus, the former head of Focus Features and writer of films like The Ice Storm and Lust, Caution, has found his next directing project: College Republicans, a script which topped the Black List a decade ago but has taken on new significance thanks to the corruption in the Republican party that’s played out over the […]

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Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield will star in the film as a young Karl Rove and Lee Atwater in “College Republicans,” which topped the Black List in 2010, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.

James Schamus is set to direct Wes Jones’ buddy comedy. Based on true events, set in the summer of 1973, aspiring politician Karl Rove wants to become the next national chairman of the College Republicans — but the odds are stacked against him. He and his new campaign manager Lee Atwater set off on a road trip to drum up support before the vote and discover some dirty tricks along the way before ending up at the contested College Republican National Convention.

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Logan Lerman; Lee Atwater in 1982 (Getty Images; White House Photographic Collection)

Producing the project are Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron,...