Jesse Jackson

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of 84.

The icon of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond was remembered by politicians and prominent activists after it was announced he died "peacefully" on Tuesday morning after a long journey with a progressive neurological disease. Jackson was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, a two-time Democratic presidential candidate and a mentor to many civil rights leaders.

"His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by," his family said in a statement.

Tributes to the charismatic movement-builder rolled in from across the political spectrum. Jackson was “a good man" and a "force of nature," President Donald Trump said on social media. Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama said in a statement that "we stood on his shoulders."

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2/16/26 - Anderson Cooper is leaving 60 Minutes

2/16/26 - NewsNation turns right

1/31/25 - Chuck Todd to leave NBC news

1/28/25 - Jim Acosta signs off from CNN / Trump comments

12/19/24 - Neil Cavuto leaving Fox News after 28 years

11/12/24 - Chris Wallace leaving CNN after three years

10/1/24 - Paywall launched on CNN.com

9/26/24 - NewsMax reaches settlement with Smartmatic

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

Trump administration rejects science

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the Republican president to roll back climate regulations.

The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. The Obama-era finding is the legal underpinning of nearly all climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources that are heating the planet.

The repeal eliminates all greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks and could unleash a broader undoing of climate regulations on stationary sources such as power plants and oil and gas facilities, experts say. Legal challenges are near certain.

President Donald Trump called the move “the single largest deregulatory action in American history, by far,” while EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called the endangerment finding “the Holy Grail of federal regulatory overreach.”

Trump called the endangerment finding “one of the greatest scams in history,” claiming falsely that it “had no basis in fact” or law. “On the contrary, over the generations, fossil fuels have saved millions of lives and lifted billions of people out of poverty all over the world,” Trump said at a White House ceremony, although scientists across the globe agree that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are driving catastrophic heat waves and storms, droughts and sea level rise.

Environmental groups described the move as the single biggest attack in U.S. history against federal authority to address climate change. Evidence backing up the endangerment finding has only grown stronger in the 17 years since it was approved, they said.

“This action will only lead to more climate pollution, and that will lead to higher costs and real harms for American families," said Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund, adding that the consequences would be felt on Americans' health, property values, water supply and more.

The EPA also said it will propose a two-year delay to a Biden-era rule restricting greenhouse gas emissions by cars and light trucks. And the agency will end incentives for automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles. The device is intended to reduce emissions, but Zeldin said “everyone hates” it.

Zeldin, a former Republican congressman who was tapped by Trump to lead EPA last year, has criticized his predecessors in Democratic administrations, saying that in the name of tackling climate change, they were “willing to bankrupt the country.”

ICE agent shoots protester dead in Minnesota

[2/12/26] Homan proposes to end Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota

[1/29/26] ICE to shift tactics in Minnesota under Homan

[1/24/26] Federal agents kill Alex Pretti [ Rachel Hurley, Heather Cox Richardson, OIMC ]

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State and local officials demanded an end to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota after a federal officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis today.

Details remained in dispute, with President Donald Trump saying on social media that the agents had acted in self-defense, while state and local officials described federal accounts of the shooting with terms like “propaganda” and “garbage.” More than 1,000 protesters were gathered at the site of the shooting oWednesday night for a vigil.

Federal officials defended the use of force, saying the woman had “weaponized her vehicle” before being shot. At a news conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the woman was “stalking” officers, and that the agent who killed her “used his training to save his life and those of his colleagues.”

Mayor Jacob Frey called the federal officials’ account “bullshit,” describing the shooting instead as “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.” Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota posted on social media, “Don’t believe this propaganda machine.”

Connor Janeksela, 30, who lives on the street where the shooting took place, described what he saw: “One of the ICE agents tried to rip her door open, and another one got in front of the vehicle and then shouted, ‘Stop!’ before firing three times within a second of saying, ‘Stop.’”

In his own news conference, the governor said the shooting was predictable. “We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety,” Walz said, adding that it cost a person her life Wednesday.