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A federal judge in Florida refused to toss out Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against ABC News over comments that anchor George Stephanopoulos made during a contentious This Week interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). Trump sued the network over Stephanopoulos’ contention that “juries have found&#8221…

As the 2024 presidential election reaches uncharted territories, the news networks are preparing some last-minute coverage. Following President Joe Biden‘s announcement that he’s stepping down from the race and endorsing Kamala Harris as his replacement, ABC, NBC and CBS have announced primetime…

UPDATED: Donald Trump may be laying the groundwork for scrambling plans for another presidential debate, suggesting that Fox News, and not ABC News, should be the host. ABC News had been slated to host the debate between Trump and President Joe Biden on Sept. 10. But now that Biden has dropped out of…

UPDATED: Nielsen said that an estimated 24.2 million watched President Joe Biden’s press conference on Thursday, a figure that is roughly half the audience for CNN’s presidential debate last month. Just over 19 million of those viewers were 55 and over; 3.58 million were 35-54; and 1 million were…

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos was captured on video in the streets of New York telling a person that he doesn’t believe that President Joe Biden can serve another four years. The video posted earlier today on TMZ, and showed him responding to a question from a person with a camera, asking him…

Rick Klein has been named vice president and Washington, D.C. bureau chief for ABC News. Klein will succeed Jonathan Greenberger, who departed in April for a new role at Politico. Klein will oversee bureau operations and manage news teams in D.C., including for breaking news and special events…

UPDATE, 11:58 AM PT: Nielsen fast national numbers show that George Stephanopoulos’ interview with President Joe Biden easily won its timeslot on Friday, drawing 8.5 million viewers. The 22-minute interview, presented as a special edition of This Week, was the best performing ABC News program since…

"Every day I have that test," insisted Joe Biden tonight on ABC of the calls for the president taking a cognitive test . "Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world, and that's not hyperbole." The president was speaking to George Stephanopoulos in a damage control interview that aired in…

"It was a bad episode," President Joe Biden told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos of his rambling June 27 debate appearance in an interview airing tonight that could be pivotal in whether the 81-year-old incumbent stays in the race against Donald Trump or not. "No indication of a serious condition," Biden…

It probably won't be Lincoln vs Douglas, but another debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump could be in the cards. As the 81-year-old Biden gives a much anticipated and delayed campaign speech right now in an effort to contain the spreading blast radius from his debate debacle of last week, the…

The White House's calibrated plan to convince Americans that Joe Biden is up to another bid for the presidency just hit the hard wall of reality. Originally scheduled to emerge in dribs and drabs through the week and weekend, Biden's sit-down with George Stephanopoulos will now air in its entirety in…

Joe Biden says he’s not going anywhere despite his self-admitted bad performance at the debate with Donald Trump last week. “Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can as simply and straightforward as I can: I am running,” the increasingly besieged POTUS told his staff on a conference call…