Tag: Media

President Joe Biden, center, and first lady Jill Biden

Beltway Confidential

Jill Biden is a terrible wife

Ian Haworth · May 29, 2026 12:32 pm

President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.

The method in the madness: Why Trump wants you to think he’s crazy

Craig Anderson · May 29, 2026 7:00 am

Thomas Scott, a daily newspaper reader, looks over The Seattle Times as he sits in a coffee shop in Seattle, Thursday, April 27, 2006. Newspapers are losing readers, tightening budgets and laying off workers as ad revenues and subscriptions slide and stock prices shrink. Stack up statistics like those, and the future of the industry might seem unmistakably bleak. Yet several panelists at the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual meeting this week offered up-beat pep talks, insisting that news of the newspaper's imminent demise has been greatly exaggerated. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Washington Star sues NOTUS over name rebranding despite going bankrupt 45 years ago

David Zimmermann · May 28, 2026 9:13 pm

Federal Communication Commission Chairman Brendan Carr speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Gabriela Passos)

ABC objects to ‘unlawful’ early license renewal for television stations

David Zimmermann · May 28, 2026 6:56 pm

In this March 4, 2020, file photo, E. Jean Carroll talks to reporters outside a courthouse in New York. On Monday, June 7, 2021, Justice Department lawyers said former President Donald Trump cannot be held personally liable for âcrude and disrespectfulâ remarks he made while president about Carroll, who accused him of rape.

Beltway Confidential

E. Jean Carroll under DOJ investigation. Does any sane person believe her story?

Peter Cordi · May 28, 2026 2:38 pm

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Bessent to host next White House press briefing as Leavitt rests on maternity leave

Claire Carter · May 27, 2026 11:28 pm

A restaurant's sign on a glass pane alerting customers that "We accept food stamps."

The media are wrong: It’s good that able-bodied adults are leaving food stamps

Hayden DuBlois · May 25, 2026 7:00 am

File- This Aug. 8, 2006 file photo shows the DirecTV building in El Segundo, Calif. AT&T says it is buying DirecTV for $95 per share, or $49 billion, a move that gives the telecommunications company a larger base of video subscribers and increases its ability to compete against Comcast and Time Warner Cable, which agreed to a merger in February. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

State attorneys general are playing politics with local news. Democracy pays the price

Danielle Zanzalari · May 24, 2026 7:00 am

A Secret Service agent walks near the White House, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Suspect in shooting near White House identified as 21-year-old male: Report

Carter Schroppe · May 23, 2026 6:50 pm

Fans line up in the rain outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York ahead of the final episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

Stephen Colbert was ‘predictable and losing boatloads of money’: Joe Concha

Britta Miller · May 22, 2026 12:02 pm

President Donald Trump.

Trump jokes he’ll get ‘killed’ by ‘the fake news’ for attending son’s wedding

Christian Datoc · May 21, 2026 2:42 pm

JD Vance press briefing (AP)

Washington Secrets

Vance invites Rubio comparisons with briefing room jokes but both stand in Trump’s shadow

Rob Crilly · May 19, 2026 4:18 pm