The leader of the so-called Islamic State group has been killed during a US special forces raid in north-western Syria, President of the United States Joe Biden has announced.
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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOne year into the Biden administration, the nation’s big TV news organizations’ hopes for a return to normalcy have yet to be borne out.While White House activity has found a more familiar cadence during President Joe Biden’s first year — ABC News political director Rick Klein calls it “professional” — many of the TV reporters who cover the place say their working lives have yet to return to pre-Trump rhythms. The ongoing pandemic and ramped up demands for streaming initiatives have increased pressure on correspondents and news organizations at a time when traditional ratings are down.“Today was bananas,” says Cecilia Vega, ABC News’ chief White House correspondent, during a recent phone interview that started just after 11 a.m.
— before the day was even halfway through. She had been working furiously since 5 in the morning.
“Is it slower? We are not at the point at the White House where we are filing two to three stories for the evening news like we were during the Trump administration, but no, it doesn’t mean it’s slower,” she says. When Peter Alexander covered the Trump White House for NBC News, he felt like he was whiplashed by “a 24-hour news cycle every 24 minutes.” Under President Biden, who marks his one-year anniversary in the Oval Office on Jan.
20, the NBC News co-chief White House correspondent still has a lot to digest. One early Biden initiative came with a 45-minute background call for reporters.
“I could have given you 25 pages on it,” Alexander says.As president, Trump spurred a ferocious news cycle, sending the media into spasms of alerts and social media swooning with a well-placed, wee-hours tweet. The current administration isn’t hurling invective at individual
.The leader of the so-called Islamic State group has been killed during a US special forces raid in north-western Syria, President of the United States Joe Biden has announced.
Broadcast and cable networks are expected to carry President Joe Biden’s remarks on Thursday announcing that U.S. forces in Syria conducted a raid that let to the death of the leader of ISIS, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.
Meghan King revealed that she’s back in the dating game after her high-profile split from President Joe Biden’s nephew, Cuffe Owens, a little more than a month ago. The "Real Housewives of Orange County" star tied the knot in September in an intimate ceremony that was attended by the president and first lady, only to end the marriage just two months later. Speaking on the "Two T’s In A Pod" podcast with former "Real Housewives" co-star Tamra Judge on Tuesday, where she was filling in as a guest co-host for Teddi Mellencamp, King noted that she’s put herself back out there in the dating scene already. She also explained that she learned a lot from her whirlwind romance with Owens – namely that it was not really a marriage to her. Meghan King revealed that she's dating again just weeks after her divorce.
Joe and Jill Biden are giving a special someone a new home. The animal-loving President and First Lady opened their arms, and the White House, to an adorable new addition: a cat named Willow.MORE: Prince Harry praised by First Lady Jill Biden at virtual event honoring Warrior Games athletesNamed after the First Lady's hometown of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, the grey cat joins Commander, a German Shepherd puppy the Bidens also recently acquired. The couple have had two German Shepherd's previously, Champ and Major.
It’s a bit unusual when any FCC nomination becomes controversial — and even a bit strange when Tucker Carlson seizes on it.
James Austin Johnson once again returned as President Joe Biden on the ‘Saturday Night Live’ cold open, this time as he meets with advisers who give him the goods on Russia’s disinformation machine over Ukraine.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have expanded their family — their pet family, that is. The couple adopted an adorable cat named Willow, and Jill, 70, debuted the feline on her Instagram page on Friday, January 28.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden have welcomed a cat named Willow to the White House. On Friday, the first lady introduced the two-year-old feline on her social media accounts.
Dr. Jill Biden took to Instagram to share pics of her and President Joe Biden's new cat, Willow.The first lady's press secretary, Michael LaRosa, told CNN that the feline is a short-haired, two-year-old gray tabby, who's named for Dr. Biden's hometown, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.Dr.
Wilson Chapman editorPresident Joe Biden will be one of many guests for the upcoming primetime special “Celebrating Betty White: America’s Golden Girl,” NBC announced Thursday.The special, a tribute to the iconic comedic actress Betty White, will feature a taped tribute from Biden commemorating the late White, who passed away last December. NBC also announced several other stars who will appear in the special, including: Drew Barrymore, Valerie Bertinelli, Cher, Bryan Cranston, Ted Danson, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer, Goldie Hawn, Vicki Lawrence, Jane Leeves, Jay Leno, Anthony Mackie, Wendie Malick, Joel McHale, Tracy Morgan, Jean Smart and Mary Steenburgen.
Daily Mail column that she and husband Ben Domenech recently tested positive for COVID-19. She took aim at President Joe Biden and his administration, writing, “Why is it so hard to get an at-home Covid test?” “President Biden promised — verbatim — while he was running for President that ‘I will end this.
dropped the inflammatory new song Monday, along with two others, to promote his upcoming Bad Reputation tour, which he claims could be his last, Fox News reported.Entitled “We The People,” the rabble-rousing rock song begins by slamming Dr. Anthony Fauci, the world’s leading infectious disease expert.
Joe Biden is back to his old self.
President Joe Biden responded to a question about inflation on Monday by calling a Fox News reporter a vulgarity.
Laura Ingraham impersonated Kate McKinnon’s “Saturday Night Live” impression of the Fox News personality.
Ciara's son told President Joe Biden something very important when he visited the White House. The 36-year-old singer appears virtually on Tuesday's episode of , and reveals what her eldest child, 7-year-old Future, yelled at President Biden during their White House visit.Ciara joined first lady Dr. Jill Biden at the White House in November to promote COVID-19 vaccinations for children, and brought her own kids -- Future, Sienna, 4, and Win, 1 — along with her.
CNN’s Jake Tapper defended Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy on Monday night, the same day President Joe Biden called Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch.”“I don’t think any president should be calling any journalist a dumb son of a bitch, and to be fair to Peter Doocy, the question was fairly anodyne,” Tapper told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who was reveling in the insult and laughed about it during the opening monologue on his long-running ABC program. Kimmel was surprised and said as much: “Fox News says that you’re on Team Biden and you are a mouthpiece for the Democrats, and yet here you are defending Peter Doocy, who, as far as I have been able to tell, is indeed a dumb son of a bitch.”“I do not agree with that and I will say standards for decency don’t have to do with whether or not you like the people that are being treated poorly.
Peter Doocy, 34, unintentionally stepped into the spotlight on Jan. 24 when President Joe Biden, 79, shockingly responded to a question he asked him about inflation by calling him a “stupid son of a b*tch.” It’s unknown if Joe knew his mic was on at the time of his response, but it got the attention of many people shortly after. “Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?” the Fox News reporter asked the politician at a White House event before he answered, “It’s a great asset—more inflation. What a stupid son of a b*tch.”
President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic on Monday (January 24), seemingly calling a Fox News reporter a “stupid son of a b-tch.”
Joe Biden responded to a question about inflation on Monday by calling a Fox News reporter a vulgarity.The president was in the East Room of the White House for a meeting of his Competition Council, which is focused on changing regulations and enforcing laws to help consumers deal with high prices. Reporters in the room shouted a number of questions after Biden's remarks.Fox News' Peter Doocy asked Biden about inflation, which is at a nearly 40-year high and has hurt the president's public approval.