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Byline: Aaron Blake There is vanishingly little doubt that Project 2025 has become one of the most unpopular political programs or ideas in recent history. The question is increasingly how [...]

Byline: Jeremy Barr The co-hosts of MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' expressed disappointment and anger Tuesday, a day after the network chose to air a block of breaking news coverage instead of [...]

Byline: Philip Bump There are several ways Republicans can rationalize Donald Trump's promise to launch an investigation into President Biden should the former president return to the White House. Some [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin You're reading Jennifer Rubin's subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. This week, I look at the Ronna McDaniel debacle, pick the distinguished person [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison; Josh Dawsey; Jeremy Barr Two days after NBC News's decision to reverse its hiring of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, network staffers were coming to [...]

Byline: Drew Goins You're reading the Today's Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today's edition: Trump gets an easier appeal, even as his financial damage [...]

Byline: Jeremy Barr Amid a chorus of on-air protest from some of the network's biggest stars, NBC announced Tuesday night that former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel will no [...]

Byline: Jeremy Barr A growing chorus of MSNBC personnel took to the airwaves Monday to voice a stunning public protest of their own company's decision to hire former Republican National [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell Former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel faced brutal criticism during her first NBC appearance Sunday since the network hired her as a political analyst, including tough [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty Immediately after being sworn in as the country's 86th attorney general two years ago, Merrick Garland pledged to his new colleagues, 'Together, we will show the American [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro President Biden said Thursday that Americans can trust an independent Justice Department as it investigates former president and 2024 Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump. At the end [...]

Byline: Paul Farhi For the past few months, viewers of 'This Week' -- ABC's Sunday-morning public-affairs program -- have watched anchors Martha Raddatz and Jonathan Karl roam far beyond the [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) would not commit to supporting President Biden for reelection in 2024 during multiple interviews on Sunday, saying he was 'not getting [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin NBC News host Chuck Todd asked Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday: 'Do you think the country can handle prosecuting a former president?' The implication seemed [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Richard C. Wald, a longtime newspaper and television executive who was president of NBC News in the 1970s, helped create ABC's 'Nightline' and was instrumental in making [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Jim Hartz, a co-host of NBC's 'Today' show for two years in the mid-1970s who also was a local news anchor in New York and Washington, died [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple There are news honchos who agonize over how to treat officials who pushed the 'big lie' that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former president Donald [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler In 1975, a new sketch comedy show was reaching the midway point of its first season on NBC. 'Saturday Night,' as it was then known, had premiered [...]

Byline: Jeremy Barr MSNBC will have a new president on Feb. 1, when Rashida Jones, 39, will replace longtime network head Phil Griffin. Griffin, 64, has been with MSNBC since [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan When NBC News drew fire for scheduling Thursday night's town hall with President Trump directly opposite an ABC News town hall with Joe Biden, the excuse was [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi C-SPAN has suspended host and political editor Steve Scully -- who had been booked to moderate the now-scrapped second presidential debate -- after he falsely claimed his [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan When NBC News drew fire for scheduling Thursday night's town hall with President Trump directly opposite an ABC News town hall with Joe Biden, the excuse was [...]

Byline: Mike Murphy This post has been updated. Mike Murphy is co-host of the 'Hacks on Tap' podcast with David Axelrod and an analyst for NBC News. Unlike President Trump, [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent The latest batch of national polls shows some truly startling numbers: This week's NBC News-Wall Street Journal survey puts Joe Biden ahead of President Trump by 14 [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake The first two high-quality, big-name national polls since last week's presidential debate show Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading President Trump by 14 points (NBC News/Wall Street Journal) [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Lester M. Crystal, a past president of NBC News who left for PBS and became executive producer of the first hour-long daily news program on any U.S. [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle corralled three of her colleagues on Friday morning to talk about 'Obamagate,' whatever that is. The discussion wasn't perhaps what she had in [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple Remember when Megyn Kelly was a cable-news star? She hosted very watchable segments on Fox News, wherein she'd hold officials to account in occasionally spectacular fashion, advance [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi;Sarah Ellison Andy Lack, who has served as chairman of NBC News and MSNBC for five years after a longtime affiliation with the company, is stepping down from [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison;Elahe Izadi Andy Lack, who has served as chairman of NBC News and MSNBC for five years after a longtime affiliation with the company, is stepping down from [...]

Byline: Paul Farhi It was the journalistic equivalent of a lay-up, an opportunity for President Trump to utter a soundbite to soothe an anxious nation's fears and concerns amid a [...]

Byline: Paul Farhi It was the journalistic equivalent of a layup, an opportunity for President Trump to utter a sound bite to soothe an anxious nation's fears and concerns amid [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski YouTube's defenses against misinformation just backfired in a big way -- and ended up contributing to baseless speculation online that the Notre Dame cathedral fire resulted from [...]

Byline: James Hohmann With Mariana Alfaro THE BIG IDEA: Amy Klobuchar questioned last week whether a woman with Pete Buttigieg's level of experience would be on a presidential debate stage. [...]

Byline: Reis Thebault Mina Chang, the senior State Department official whose inflated resume and faked Time magazine cover raised further questions about the Trump administration's vetting process, has resigned. In [...]

Byline: Allyson Chiu As the historic public impeachment hearings kicked off Wednesday with televised testimony that threatens President Trump's office, more than 13 million people tuned into broadcast and news [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple Ronan Farrow couldn't do it, even with the publication of his new book, 'Catch and Kill.' A busload of media-savvy reporters, columnists and editorializers couldn't do it. [...]

Byline: Paul Farhi NBC News's leadership just can't quit talking about a new book that trashes NBC News's leadership. In a detailed memo to the network's newsroom on Monday, NBC [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple News organizations are staffed by human beings -- rickety creatures who are slow to come to grips with their failings. Corrections, clarifications and retractions, accordingly, take weeks [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Matt Lauer was accused of raping a former NBC News employee in his hotel room during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, according to journalist Ronan Farrow, [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple NBC News correspondent Ken Dilanian on Monday turned in a desperate and half-baked story as he rushed to compete with a CNN scoop. The U.S. government in [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison As the first Democratic primary debate kicks off in Miami Wednesday night, the largest field of presidential candidates in history will take the stage and put themselves [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison As the first Democratic primary debate kicks off in Miami Wednesday night, the largest field of presidential candidates in history will take the stage and put themselves [...]

Byline: Philip Bump President Trump's approach to the investigation into Russian election interference has never been subtle. From early in his presidency, he has described it as a 'witch hunt' [...]

Byline: James Hohmann With Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- Xochitl Torres Small is the 'it' candidate for Democrats in 2018: She's young, female, Latino and running [...]

Byline: James Hohmann With Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump's own lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, distanced himself from his client's suggestion that it "almost ought to be [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake If actions speak louder than words, Daniel Coats's actions practically screamed. When NBC News's Andrea Mitchell informed the director of national intelligence there was news from the [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple 21st Century Fox patriarch Rupert Murdoch did some talking on Thursday about the deal to sell his television and movie assets to Disney for $52 billion. Surely [...]

Byline: James Hohmann With Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve Want to understand what's happening in Donald Trump's Washington? James Hohmann has you covered with the smartest, most comprehensive daily tipsheet [...]

Byline: Fred Barbash Politico reported Wednesday that New York's attorney general Eric Schneiderman is now working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the probe of financial transactions involving [...]