Tag: Media

Trump said during the campaign that Amazon has a "huge antitrust problem," and said he suspected that Jeff Bezos opposed Trump's presidential run in part because Trump might seek to do something about it. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Profit soars at Jeff Bezos’ Amazon despite Oval Office attacks

Joe Williams · July 26, 2018 8:58 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004, file photo, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s headquarters stands in Hunt Valley, Md. Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the nation's largest local TV station operators, announced Monday, May 8, 2017, that it will pay about $3.9 billion for Tribune Media, adding more than 40 stations including KTLA in Los Angeles, WPIX in New York and WGN in Chicago.

Sinclair, TV station owners under scrutiny from DOJ for advertising practices: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · July 26, 2018 8:26 pm

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., questions Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill. Booker said he was "seething with anger" over President Trump's alleged "shithole comments." ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Beltway Confidential

Right on cue: The story of Cory Booker’s ‘complicit in evil’ comments is now about the GOP reaction

Becket Adams · July 26, 2018 8:09 pm

Lou Dobbs, with Fox News, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Oxon Hill, Md.

Lou Dobbs celebrates White House ban on CNN reporter

Caitlin Yilek · July 26, 2018 6:37 pm

Marine Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander, U.S. Africa Command, center, with Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Robert S. Karem, left, and Army Maj. Gen. Roger L. Cloutier, right, chief of staff, U.S. Africa Command, and lead investigating officer, brief members of the media at the Pentagon, Thursday, May 10, 2018. Multiple failures are to blame for the Niger ambush that killed four U.S. service members last October, the Pentagon said Thursday, citing insufficient training and preparation as well as the team's deliberate decision to go after a high-level Islamic State group insurgent without proper command approval. A report summary released Thursday includes recommendations to improve mission planning and approval procedures, re-evaluate equipment and weapons requirements, and review training that U.S. commandos conduct with partner forces.

National Security

By the numbers: Pentagon briefings have slowed to a trickle

Jamie McIntyre · July 26, 2018 6:23 pm

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan speaks during the National Governor Association 2019 winter meeting in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019.

Anti-Trump New York Times writer predicts easy Trump re-election in 2020

Eddie Scarry · July 26, 2018 3:39 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump give a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, July 16, 2018.

Putin’s missing show of support for Trump added to White House transcript of Helsinki presser

Diana Stancy Correll · July 26, 2018 2:48 pm

Andrew Napolitano appears on the "Varney & Co." program on the Fox Business Network, in New York, Monday, April 11, 2011.

Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano disagrees with GOP effort to impeach Rod Rosenstein

Diana Stancy Correll · July 26, 2018 2:13 pm

Michael Cohen, personal lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, center, exits federal court in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Cohen said a recent bankruptcy court ruling againstÂ Michael Avenatti's old law firm should disqualify the lawyer for Stormy Daniels from participating in a legal case over material seized from Cohen in an FBI raid.

CNN’s infamous Michael Cohen tape of Trump has zero useful information

Eddie Scarry · July 26, 2018 4:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

Sarah Sanders on banning CNN reporter from event: ‘To be clear, we support a free press’

Caitlin Yilek · July 26, 2018 12:28 am

Beltway Confidential

Democratic socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are really good at video — but don’t worry, capitalists

Philip Wegmann · July 25, 2018 9:44 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pauses as he testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill on July 25, 2018.

Pompeo defends lack of disclosure about Trump-Putin private meeting

Pete Kasperowicz · July 25, 2018 8:30 pm