health care

 9/19/24 - United States ranks last in health care among wealthy countries

The race for President of the United States (2024)

9/18/24 - Trump wishes Biden and Harris weren't nice to him

9/18/24 - Scientific American endorses Harris

9/16/24 - FBI investigating second Trump assasination attempt

9/15/24 - Harris campaign responds to Trump comment on Taylor Swift

9/14/24 - Woman who started the rumor didn't mean it to happen

9/12/24 - Trump says he won the debate and won't do another

9/11/24 - Harris and Trump shake hands again

9/11/24 - Debate coverage (NBC, AP, CNN, NYT, ABC, Reuters, USA Today, NPR, LAT, NYT)

9/10/24 - Trump says immigrants are eating dogs and cats / Yahoo, CBS, NPR, factcheck.org

9/10/24 - Taylor Swift says she's voting for Kamala Harris / 9 million likes / Trump responds

9/8/24 - Trump is vigorous and effective (Henry Greenfield)

9/6/24 - Trump's hush money sentencing to be delayed until after the election

9/5/24 - Hunter Biden pleads guilty to tax charges

9/5/24 - Trump says he's not weird

9/5/24 - Trump would appoint Elon Musk to head government efficiency commission 

9/5/24 - Ahead of debate, Trump calls ABC the most dishonest network

9/2/24 - Trump declares that he had "every right" to interfere in the election

8/30/24 - Harris-Walz interview on CNN (Cal Thomas)

8/29/24 - Harris leads Trump in Reuters/Ipsos poll

8/23/24 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends campaign and endorses Trump

8/22/24 - Kamala Harris accepts the nomination

8/22/24 - Jon Stewart covers Fox News covering the DNC

8/21/24 - DNC Day 3: Stevie Wonder, Bill Clinton, Oprah, Tim Walz

8/21/24 - Stephanie Grisham speaks at the DNC

8/20/24 - Biden speech (Paul du Quenoy, PBS)

8/20/24 - Five takeaways from the DNC

8/16/24 - Two easy fact checks of Trump by CNN

8/16/24 - Trump's chances updated (Daniel Bittinat)

8/13/24 - UAW sues Musk and Trump for comments during interview

8/13/24 - Illegal immigration saved Trump's life

8/12/24 - Musk interview of Trump / CNN fact check

8/12/24 - Celine Dion denounces Trump campaign for using song

8/12/24 - Isaac Hayes family suing Trump campaign for use of song

8/12/24 - The Trump vs. Harris campaign show

8/12/24 - Trump says Kamala's crowds are AI generated

8/8/24 - Trump and Harris to debate on ABC after all

8/8/24 - Vance and Walz go to war

8/7/24 - It's Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley in the presidental race

8/7/24 - Trump says Harris/Walz want the country to turn communist immediately (if not sooner)

8/6/24 - Harris select Tim Walz as running mate

8/3/24 - Trump backs out of debate on ABC, would debate on Fox News

8/1/24 - Trump didn't know Harris was black

7/28/24 - Schumer calls Vance more extreme than Trump

7/24/24 - Harris gives speech in high school gym in Milwaukee

7/23/24 - Secret Service director resigns after Trump attack

7/23/24 - Trump may be dodging the next debate

7/23/24 - Harris says she knows Donald Trump's type

7/22/24 - World leaders react to Biden's exit

7/22/24 - Pelosi gives her endorsement to Harris

7/21/24 - Trump calls Biden the worst president in history and Jr. calls Harris is less competent than Biden 

7/21/24 - Biden pulls out of the race, endorses Hrris

7/20/24 - False claims at the RNC / MSNBC at the RNC

7/18/24 - The Hollywood Reporter reports on Trump's acceptance speech

7/17/24 - Biden tests positive for COVID

7/17/24 - Adam Schiff believes it is time for Biden to pass the torch

7/16/24 - 5 notable moments from Biden’s interview with NBC’s Lester Holt

7/15/24 - Amber Rose speaks at the RNC

7/15/24 - Trump selects J.D. Vance as running mate

7/14/24 - Melania releases statement after the shooting

7/14/24 - Biden addresses the nation after Trump shooting

7/13/24 - Biden condemns shooting at Trump's rally

7/13/24 - Trump's ear shot by gunman at rally

7/11/24 - Biden press conference: a mixed bag (commentary by James Hibberd) [fact check]

7/11/24 - Biden calls Zelynskiy "Putin"

7/10/24 - Trump comments on George Clooney

7/7/24 - Waihee, Cayetano, and Abercrombie believe Biden should withdraw his candidacy

7/5/24 - Biden says he's staying in the race

7/5/24 - How voters see Trump and Biden

7/5/24 - Sanjay Gupta encourages cognitive testing of Biden

7/4/24 - Poll shows Michelle Obama would handily defeat Trump

7/4/24 - Trump and the military (Froma Harrop, Star Advertiser 7/4/24, A15)

7/1/24 - Jill decides Joe will stay in the race

6/28/24 - Biden sounds in better form after the debate

6/28/24 - Debate coach grades the debate

6/28/24 - CNN opinions on the debate

6/28/24 - CNN criticized for not fact-checking in real time

6/28/24 - Trump outpoints Biden 30-9

6/27/24 - Five takeaways from the debate

6/26/24 - Trump vs. Biden economies

6/26/24 - This debate is: Which candidate can stand and speak for 90 minutes and not make us feel sad and scared? (James Hibberd)

6/25/24 - Rex Huppke scripts the debate (opinion)

6/23/24 - Representative Ronny Jackson to request that Biden take drug test before and after debate

6/17/24 - Unfair media treatment of Trump (quora)

6/15/24 - Biden and Trump prepping for debate

6/15/24 - Biden fund raiser in Los Angeles starred Trump

5/29/24 - Pennsylvania and Arizona are must-wins for Biden (says Robert Szandowski)

5/23/24 - Biden is now doing stand-up

5/22/24 - Stock market is currently giving a 58.8% chance of winning (Mark Hulbert)

5/22/24 - Nikki Haley says she will be voting for Trump

5/17/24 - Brace yourself.  Biden is probably going to lose the election (USA Today opinion)

5/15/24 - Romney said Biden should have pardoned Trump

5/15/24 - Biden and Trump agree to two debates, on June 27 on CNN and on September 10 on ABC

5/8/24 - A worm ate a portion of Robert F. Kennedy's brain

5/8/24 - Biden touts Microsoft building plant in Wisconsin

4/30/24 - Trump doesn't rule out violence if he doesn't win

4/29/24 - 61% consider Biden's presidency a failure

4/28/24 - Kennedy responds to Trump

3/30/24 - Man changes named to Literally Anybody Else

3/28/24 - Biden taps Obama and Clinton for fundaiser in New York

3/26/24 - Robert Kennedy chooses Nicole Shanahan as running mate

3/17/24 - Howard Kurtz fact checks Trump's claims on abortion

3/16/24 - Pence won't endorse Trump, but won't vote for Biden either

3/13/24 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mentions Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura as potential running mates

3/10/24 - Jimmy Kimmel reads Trump's tweet at the Oscars

3/10/24 - Trump meets with Laken Riley's family

3/8/24 - Biden's State of the Union address takeaways

3/6/24 - Haley drops out of race after losing 14 of 15 on Super Tuesday, declines to explicitly endorse Trump

3/4/24 - Supreme Court rules that states cannot keep Luke off the ballot

3/3/24 - Haley defeats Trump in Washington D.C. primary

3/3/24 - Illinois is the third state to remove Trump from the ballot

2/29/24 - Romney answers whether he would vote for Trump

2/28/24 - Williamson re-enters the race after getting 3% of the vote in Michigan

2/27/24 - Biden appears on Late Night with Seth Meyers

2/26/24 - Trump speech fact checked by Cavuto live

2/24/24 - Trump's rambling speech at CPAC is total genius declares Trump 

2/24/24 - Trump defeats Haley in her home state

2/16/24 - Manchin decides not to run for president

2/7/24 - Marianne Williamson suspends campaign

2/4/24 - Nikki Haley appears on Saturday Night Live

1/24/24 - Biden's plan to defeat Trump

1/24/24 - Trump declared victor over Haley in New Hampshire

1/21/24 - DeSantis drops out of race, endorses Trump

1/19/24 - Tim Scott endorses Trump

1/17/24 - Ted Cruz endorses Trump

1/16/24 - Ramaswamy suspends presidential bid and endorses Trump

1/15/24 - Trump wins Iowa caucus with 51% of the vote, DeSantis 21%, Haley 19%, Ramaswamy 8%

1/11/24 - Chris Christie bows out of race

12/28/23 - Christie asks "what kind of president do we want?"

12/22/23 - "Fake New Hampshire poll was released on Birdbrain"

12/9/23 - McCarthy endorses Trump

12/8/23 - Ken Langone endorses Haley

12/7/23 - Presidential debate fact check

12/1/23 - DeSantis debates Gavin Newsom (fact check)

11/13/23 - Tim Scott drops out of race

11/11/23 - Beto O'Rouke says Biden is "really failing us" (on other counts) 

10/28/23 - Pence suspends Presidential campaign

10/27/23 - Dean Phillips to run against Biden for President

10/9/23 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to run for President as independent

10/7/23 - Highly respected pollster expecting an electoral landslide for Trump over Biden (America Insider)

10/6/23 - GOP candidate Steve Laffey is leaving the party

10/5/23 - Cornel West to run for president as independent, leaving the Green Party

9/28/23 - Takeaways from the second Republican debate

8/23/23 - Five takeaways from the Republican debate

8/9/23 - Trump won't sign GOP loyalty pledge required for first debate

7/24/23 - Kamala Harris and DeSantis sparring over Florida's take on black history

7/12/23 - Chris Christie takes the high road (?) in response to Trump

7/11/23 - DeSantis trails Trump by 20 points in Florida

6/15/23 - Miami GOP mayor Frank Suarez enters the race

6/8/23 - Will Trump pick Kari Lake as running mate?

6/7/23 - Pence says he chose the constitution over Trump

6/6/23 - Newsom threatens DeSantis with kidnapping charges

6/4/23 - Pence, DeSantis, Haley criticize Trump for praising Kim Jong Un

6/3/23 - Stone and Gutfield comment on Christie entering the race

5/31/23 - Pence and Christie planning to enter the race

5/25/23 - DeSantis would consider pardoning Trump

5/25/23 - The "real" Donald Trump response to DeSantis announcement

5/24/23 - DeSantis jumps into the the race

5/19/23 - Tim Scott enters the race

5/4/23 - Poll says Trump/DeSantis or Trump/Lake would defeat Biden/Harris

4/25/23 - Biden announces he's running for re-election

4/2/23 - Asa Hutchinson announces candidacy

3/15/23 - Joe Exotic announces presidential run despite being in prison

3/4/23 - Undaunted Marianne Williamson launches 2024 campaign

2/17/23 - Ann Coulter says Haley should go back to her own country

2/16/23 - MTG calls Haley Bush in heels

2/14/23 - Nikki Haley announces bid for the presidency

2/12/23 - Trump still deciding what insulting nickname to use against Ron DeSantis

11/15/22 - Trump announces third presidential bid

Maui fires

9/14/24 - Report finds no evidence that officials acted on warnings about fire

8/18/24 - Insurance companies lay blame on Bishop Estate, Hawaiian Electric, and Oceanic

8/14/23 - Lahaina after the fire (photos)

8/10/23 - Maui fires devastate Lahaina (Hawaii News Now)

Russia and Ukraine

9/3/24 - Russian missles kill at least 50 in Ukraine military institute

8/14/24 - Ukraine advances into Russia

7/8/24 - Russian missiles strike children's hospital, killing at least 36

6/19/24 - Russia and North Korea sign partnership deal

2/16/24 - Alexei Navalny dies in prison

2/8/24 - Zelenzky fires top general

2/6/24 - Tucker Carlson to interview Putin

10/5/23 - Missile strikes Ukraine cafe killing 51

8/23/23 - Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly in plane crash with no survivors

7/19/23 - MI6 chief says Putin cut a deal with Wagner to save his skin

7/1/239 - Zelensky claims 21,000 Wagner mercenaries have been killed

6/24/23 - Yevgeny Prigozhin calls off attack on Moscow

6/20/23 - Russia strikes Kyiv as Ukraine counter-attacks

5/31/23 - Drones strike Moscow

3/17/23 - International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant, accusing Putin of war crimes

3/8/23 - Trump tells Hannity how he could have prevented the war

2/25/23 - McConnell says aid to Ukraine is not charity, but a direct investment against Putin's war machine

2/24/23 - Ukraine considering parts of Beijing peace plan

1/9/23 - Russia and Ukraine swap 50 prisoners of war each

12/22/22 - Putin says end to war in Ukraine would involve diplomatic solution

12/21/22 - Zelenkiy and Biden show solidarity at the White House

10/18/22 - Iran to provide missiles to Russia

10/5/22 - Putin annexes Ukraine regions even as Russian forces flee

6/27/22 - Russian missiles hit Ukraine shopping mall

6/1/22 - Allies split on shipping weapons to Ukraine

5/16/22 - Sweden says they will apply for NATO membership, Turkey objects

4/4/22 - Biden says Putin should go to trial for war crimes

3/30/22 - U.S. says Putin is being misinformed by his advisors

3/27/22 - Biden criticized for saying Putin "cannot remain in power"

3/15/22 - Russia sanctions Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton

3/15/22 - Fox News cameraman killed in Ukraine

3/11/22 - Zelenskiy says Ukraine has "already reached a strategic turning point"

3/9/22 - China to send aid to Ukraine (but really not very much)

3/8/22 - Biden orders ban of Russian oil imports

3/6/22 - Thomas Friedman sees three scenarios on how the war ends  (Star-Advertiser E4)

3/6/22 - Trump suggests U.S. should diguise jets as Chinese and bomb Russia

3/4/22 - Pence to say there is no room in GOP for Putin apologists

3/4/22 - Lindsey Graham calls for Russians to assassinate Putin / push back

3/2/22 - United Nations votes to reprimand Russia

3/1/22 - Pat Robertson says Israel is next after Ukraine and bring about the End Times

3/1/22 - World Taekwondo strips Putin of honorary black belt

2/28/22 - Switzerland breaks neutrality to sanction Russia

2/26/22 - Opinions of Putin mixed at CPAC

2/25/22 - Xi tells Putin he supports negotiation

2/24/22 - Tucker Carlson criticizes Lindsey Graham on Ukraine too

2/24/22 - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine’s government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in what it called a “full-scale war” that could rewrite the geopolitical order and whose fallout already reverberated around the globe.

In announcing a major military operation, Russian President Vladimir Putin deflected global condemnation and cascading new sanctions — and chillingly referred to his country’s nuclear arsenal as he threatened any foreign country attempting to interfere with “consequences you have never seen.”

NATO’s chief said the “brutal act of war” shattered peace on the European continent, as the U.S.-led alliance mobilized more troops to move toward eastern Europe.

2/23/22 - Trump praises Putin

2/22/22 - U.S. and Europe slap sanctions on Russia

2/22/22 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognising them as independent states.

Russia said the troops have not yet been deployed but will be "peacekeeping" in the regions, which it has backed since 2014.

The US said calling them peacekeepers was "nonsense", and accused Russia of creating a pretext for war.

Several countries have announced sanctions in response.

Ukraine's president said his country was "not afraid of anything or anyone".

cable news (and comment)

9/3/24 - Brian Stelter rejoins CNN

4/25/24 - Toobin, Lemon, Stelter re-appear on CNN

3/26/24 - NBC News drops Ronna McDaniel

3/18/24 - the aftermath: Don Lemon releases Musk interview on YouTube

3/13/24 - Don Lemon says Elon Musk cancelled his show on X, will be on YouTube instead

9/21/23 - Rupert Murdoch steps down as chairman of Fox

6/30/23 - Geraldo says he is leaving Fox News

6/26/23 - Jesse Watters will take Tucker Carlson's primetime slot

6/17/23 - Trump says only "TRUMP" can save Fox News

6/16/23 - Sarah Palin says she got cancelled from Fox

6/16/23 - Biden dictator producer resigns from Fox News

6/7/23 - Chris Licht is out at CNN

5/16/23 - CNN ratings fall below NewsMax

5/9/23 - Tucker Carlson says his show will return via Twitter

4/27/23 - Fox ratings tumble are Carlson exit

4/26/23 - Tucker Carlson breaks silence

4/25/23 - Lemon and Carlson hire the same lawyer

4/24/23 - Fox fired Carlston "with cause", Carlson lawsuit expected

4/24/23 - Right wing backlash against Fox after dropping Carlson

4/24/23 - CNN parts ways with Don Lemon

4/24/23 - Fox News parts ways with Tucker Carlson (Yahoo)

4/19/23 - Fox News facing four more lawsuits

4/18/23 - Fox News and Dominion reach settlement agreement before trial begins

4/11/23 - Judge says Fox News has a credibility problem

3/23/23 - Trump's return to Hannity is a loss for half of Fox News

3/22/23 - Fox News producer files lawsuits against Fox News

3/11/23 - Fox is now trapped in an ever-worsening spiral of lies (Katie Phang)

2/28/23 - Trump says Murdoch is throwing his anchors under the table

2/24/23 - CNN guests say Fox News is in a precarious situation and in real jeopardy

2/20/23 - Don Lemon to participate in "formal training"

2/15/23 - Only 25% of Americans believe that national news organizations do not intend to mislead

2/3/23 - Don Lemon screamed at Kaitlan Collins

1/27/23 - Trump reviews Jessica Tarlov

1/22/23 - Chris Cuomo says he'll "never be what I was" after being fired by CNN

1/16/23 - CNN reportedly considering Jon Stewart or Bill Maher to fill Chris Cuomo slot

12/6/22 - Robin Meade signs off

11/12/22 - Judy Woodruff to leave PBS NewsHour

11/9/22 - Fox & Friends explains why Oz lost (according to the exit polls)

11/3/22 - Shepard Smith cancelled by CNBC

10/21/22 - Newsmax bans Lara Logan after appearance

9/20/22 - Roseanne planning special on Fox Nation

9/6/22 - John Dickerson to host CBS News show that won't air on CBS

9/6/22 - Chris Wallace to return on HBO Max and CNN

9/2/22 - John Harwood leaving CNN

8/18/22 - CNN ends Brian Stelter

8/11/22 - Shannon Bream to take over Fox News Sunday

7/27/22 - Trump threatens to sue CNN

7/27/22 - Chris Cuomo to join NewsNation

3/27/22 - Chris Wallace found it unsustainable to work at Fox News

1/23/22 - Pearls Before Swine

1/17/22 - Rand Paul cancels DirecTV after it drops OANN

1/7/22 - Hannity and Fox face ethical questions after texts to Trump revealed

12/12/21 - Chris Wallace leaving Fox News for CNN+

12/5/21 - Chris Cuomo fired by CNN for helping his brother

10/26/21 - Fox is trouncing CNN and MSNBC in the ratings

8/4/21 - Devin Nunes sues Maddow

6/26/21 - Carlson on Hannity on Carlson?

6/23/21 - Don Lemon punches down at Tucker Carlson

4/12/21 - Fox standing behind Tucker Carlson

4/11/21 - Anti-Defamation League CEO calls for removal of Tucker Carlson

2/11/21 - Gutfeld has evolved

2/9/21 - Kudlow will sort of replace Dobbs

1/20/21 - "Bloodbath" at Fox News

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Fox News, the top-rated cable channel, has announced its biggest shake-up of its daily lineup in several years — an overhaul that includes shifting one of its marquee news anchors, Martha MacCallum, out of her 7 p.m. spot to make way for an expansion of its prime-time opinion programming.

The move highlights the increasing dominance of conservative punditry at a network that positioned itself at its founding as a “fair and balanced” alternative to what it saw as a liberal drift in other media. Fox has not yet named a permanent host for the 7 p.m. slot and will instead feature “a rotating group of Fox News opinion hosts” in that hour after MacCallum moves to a lower-profile 3 p.m. slot next week. Brian Kilmeade, who co-hosts the “Fox and Friends” morning show, will be up first on Monday.

Rival news network CNN also unveiled a slate of programming changes that includes an expansion of news anchor Jake Tapper’s show and a shrinking of veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer’s.

From October: What happens to Fox News if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared.  MacCallum will take the afternoon time slot now held by news anchor Bill Hemmer. Hemmer will return to the morning show, “America’s Newsroom,” which he left to replace Shepard Smith, who abruptly resigned from the network in October 2019. But that morning show will now be two hours instead of three, beginning at 9 a.m., with co-host Dana Perino, the former White House press secretary, who previously hosted a 2 p.m. show.

Fox’s chief White House correspondent John Roberts will leave the beat to anchor a 1 to 3 p.m. news show with Sandra Smith, now the host of “America’s Newsroom”; his replacement at the White House has not yet been named. And Harris Faulkner, another key member of the network’s news division, is being moved from 1 p.m. to 11 a.m. She will remain a lead panelist on the 12 p.m. talk show “Outnumbered.”

Fox News finished 2020 as the most-watched network in cable. But, in the wake of President Trump’s electoral loss to Joe Biden, CNN has been on a major upswing, while Fox’s ratings have experienced some softness.

In the last few months of 2020, CNN attracted more viewers than Fox News between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the 25-to-54 demographic, though Fox was watched by more total viewers. In prime time, Fox News edged CNN by 15,000 prime-time viewers in the key demographic over the same time period.

From November: What happens to CNN and MSNBC if Biden wins? It’s complicated.  CNN’s programming changes include an expansion of Tapper’s 4 p.m. weekday show from one hour to two, beginning in April, while Blitzer’s “Situation Room,” now a two-hour show that begins at 5 p.m., moves to a one-hour slot at 6 p.m. His show will air on CNN’s overseas networks, though. And CNN introduced a new delineation of the two anchors’ roles, describing Tapper as the lead for Washington news and Blitzer as a principal for breaking news.

Tapper will also take turns with chief political correspondent Dana Bash in hosting the Sunday morning “State of the Union” show. Abby Phillip will take over the Sunday edition of John King’s “Inside Politics” franchise, hosting from 8 to 9 a.m., beginning Jan. 24. And Pamela Brown will anchor a three-hour news block on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

CNN also announced that chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who rose to national attention as a sparring partner of Trump, will become an anchor and take on the new title of chief diplomatic correspondent. Kaitlan Collins will serve as the network’s chief White House correspondent for the Biden administration.

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[10/25/19] 44 months of Fox News

[9/2/18]  Fox News earns top spot in poll