Jake Tapper's soft Hunter Biden question during Biden interview follows media's weak coverage of scandal

CNN’s Jake Tapper will return to his daytime show after the midterms after filling the 9 PM ET primetime slot on the network.

As we’ve been reporting, Kanye West is finally facing consequences for the hate he’s been spreading. The Power rapper has come under fire recently for propagating white supremacist and antisemitic ideas — notably wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt to Paris Fashion Week and threatening to go “Death Con 3 on Jewish People” on Twitter.

Long live Taylena! Selena Gomez is just like Us — listening to Taylor Swift’s Midnights the moment it dropped.

Getting into the spooky spirit. Following Adam Levine‘s cheating scandal, Behati Prinsloo offered a glimpse at their home life with a sneak peek at their daughter’s Halloween costume.

Mary-Kate Olsen has been hitting the headlines this week after being spotted stepping out in a number of fashion-forward outfits in New York City.MORE: Mary-Kate and Ashley break silence following death of TV dad Bob SagetThe famous star prefers to lead a very private life and very rarely gives interviews. However, when she does, she often gives incredible insights into her life.She previously made a heartbreaking revelation about her childhood - which saw her and twin sister Ashley Olsen star is many TV films, along with Full House, as child stars.VIDEO: Elizabeth Olsen makes rare comment about twin sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley While she was very well known back then, Mary-Kate didn't like the fame, and previously told Marie Claire magazine: "I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.

Variety cover story was published on Wednesday, October 19, after it was delayed in the wake of on September 8. Markle was honored as a part of the magazine's , and reflected on her Archetypes, her and her husband's foundation, , as well as settling into her new, post-royal life in L.A.In the piece, which was updated following the official period of mourning, Markle also opened up about the legacy of the late monarch.

lengthy report on far-right social sites Monday.Tapper signed up for Gab Social after Parler announced it would sell itself to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. That sale, Tapper said, would make Ye “the latest billionaire to buy his way into the ‘Social Media Legion of Doom,'” alongside former President Donald Trump, who owns Truth Social, and Elon Musk, who is in the process of buying Twitter.Ye moved to purchase the site, which bills itself as “the world’s pioneering uncancelable free speech platform,” after he was locked out of Twitter and Instagram following a number of antisemitic posts.After detailing Parler’s history and its use as an organizing tool by many of the insurgents who stormed the Capitol on Jan.

Behati Prinsloo is giving fans a bumpdate! The former Victoria's Secret model took to her Instagram Stories Saturday to show off her growing baby bump in a slinky blank dress. Tagging the brand, Bumpsuit, Prinsloo zoomed in on her belly while giving her followers a look at her sleek, black outfit. The 34-year-old mother of two paired the look with some black combat boots.

Sabrina Carpenter is clearing the air about a rumor swirling around one of her songs.

The U.S. extended the public health emergency status for the COVID-19 pandemic Thursday, weeks after President Biden's controversial remarks declaring the pandemic was "over."  The move extends the order through Jan.

Michaela Zee editor Socialite scammer Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, sat down with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday and spoke about her regrets and why she deserves a “second opportunity” to stay in the U.S. “I feel so sorry for a lot of the choices I’ve made,” Sorokin said. “I also feel like I’ve learned so much and I grew as a person.” Sorokin was released from jail on Oct. 5 after being taken into immigration custody for overstaying her visa in March 2021. She is required to remain under house arrest with electronic monitoring and has been barred from all social media.

Fifty-one current and former U.S. intelligence community officials signing onto a 2020 letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell had the hallmarks of a "Russian information operation" was itself a deep state operation against the people of the United States, Jesse Watters said Wednesday on "The Five." Watters and other panelists on "The Five" criticized one signatory, ex-CIA intel officer and Lawfare blogger David Priess, for being a part of the signature campaign. Priess told "Special Report" on Tuesday it is not his fault if the letter was misconstrued by the public or Joe Biden – who appeared to cite it during a presidential debate as proof the story about his son was indeed Kremlin disinformation.

The first night of Jake Tapper’s stint as host of CNN Tonight, featuring a heavily promoted interview with President Joe Biden, drew an average of 854,000 viewers in the 9 PM ET hour, according to Nielsen numbers.

Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters said on "The Faulkner Focus" that Big Tech censorship played a crucial role in the 2020 presidential election.  Masters said "if everyone followed the law" then Donald Trump would "be in the Oval Office," pointing to how the FBI pressured social media and tech companies, including Facebook, to censor "true information" related to Hunter Biden's corrupt dealings. "In the weeks before the election, millions of people didn't get to read about it, and then the media said, 'oh, well, that's okay, that's just Russian disinformation.' No, it was true,"said Masters.

reported that, per their unnamed sources, federal agents “determined months ago they had assembled a viable criminal case against the younger Biden.”This week has also seen critical response of Sean Hannity for his handling of Hunter Biden’s history as a drug addict. On Monday, the Fox News host released a private voicemail President Biden left his son in an attempt to embarrass and disparage the Biden family – a move that has been widely considered “grotesque” and monstrous online. “Replace the name Biden with Trump and imagine how the mob and the media would be covering all of this,” Hannity scoffed.In conversation with President Biden Tuesday, Tapper asked point blank how he feels about his son’s ongoing troubles.

Nia Long is focused on motherhood. The actress is all smiles in a selfie posted this week, snuggled up with her sons Kez, 10, and Massai, 21. The snap marks Long's first photo of herself since news broke that her longtime partner, Ime Udoka, was suspended as head coach of the Boston Celtics for violating team policies. Udoka has apologized after allegations surfaced in which he was accused of engaging in an intimate relationship with a female member of the team's staff.

President Biden said Hunter Biden is "on the straight and narrow" and that he is "proud of" him despite recent criminal allegations against his son, including tax fraud and lying to purchase a gun. During an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper on Tuesday, the president defended his son as the 52-year-old potentially faces tax and false statements charges from David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware.

Former Central Intelligence Agency officer David Priess defended being a signatory on a letter with more than two dozen other current and former intel agents and experts who claimed the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop bombshell looked like a "Russian information operation." In October 2020, the Post broke the story about how then-Wilmington computer shopkeeper John-Paul Mac Isaac came into possession of the laptop first son Hunter Biden left at his store near Trolley Square.  A copy of the hard drive was provided to the FBI and another to former New York City Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. "It is for all these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," Priess and fellow signatories wrote in-part.

President Biden acknowledged the possibility of what he described as a "slight recession" could occur in the near future.  It was determined back in July that the U.S. suffered back-to-back consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, which has long been the indicator of a recession. However, both the Biden administration and many members of the media have dismissed that long-standing definition.  During an interview on Tuesday, CNN's Jake Tapper asked the president, "Should the American people prepare for a recession?" "No," Biden initially responded.