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President Donald Trump (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trump wants to jail reporters over leaks from own administration

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Clavicular walks the runway during New York Fashion Week (Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

The problem with covering extremists

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Created by Harvey Levin and Jim Paratore and launched in 2005, TMZ is now owned by the Fox Corporation (Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

TMZ turning to Congress is a win for the GOP

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President Donald Trump (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

There is no one left to sell Trump’s war

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President Donald Trump has threatened reporters with treason over Iran war coverage (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Trump wants to punish media for his unpopular war

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has come under attack from MAGA media on Iran (Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images)

Lindsey Graham just triggered a MAGA revolt over Iran

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Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Ariz., confers with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Could GOP’s anti-Muslim vitriol really get worse? It did

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President Donald Trump dons a branded Trump 45-47 hat while attending the dignified transfer of remains at Dover Air Force Base. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Fox News erased fallen soldiers to make Trump look better

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Trump’s cable-news Cabinet tries to sell a war

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Some of MAGA podcaster Candace Owens' conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie Kirk's death involve Erika Kirk (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why right-wing media can’t stop Candace Owens

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Air strikes are continuing in Tehran and across Iran as part of the U.S. and Israel's military offensive against the Islamic Republic (Contributor/Getty Images)

Mainstream media rallies for war, again

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the press after her deposition with the House Oversight Committee as they investigate links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

GOP’s Hillary crusade collapses under friendly fire

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Donald Trump's State of the Union dazzled right-wing media, but it also exposed the limits of his MAGA vision (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump dazzles right-wing media with bigoted State of the Union

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FBI Director Kash Patel sparked backlash by hijacking Team USA's men's hockey victory at the Winter Olympics in Milan (Elsa/Getty Images)

Kash Patel hijacks Team USA’s Olympic hockey win

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Donald Trump | US Supreme Court building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Right-wing media splits over Trump tariff loss

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Bari Weiss' tenure at CBS News has been tumultuous (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)

CBS is unraveling — and it goes beyond Bari Weiss

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FBI Director Kash Patel is coming under fire for his handling of high-profile investigations ( Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Right-wing media turns on Kash Patel over Nancy Guthrie case

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 17: President Donald J. Trump returns to the White House before his address tonight on December 17, 2025 in Washington, D.C.. (Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

MAGA blame game shows Trump in retreat

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A Super Bowl LX sign at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Super Bowl bursts popular right-wing media myth

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has launched Headquarters, a media initiative aimed at mobilizing Gen Z voters (James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)

Kamala Harris’ return fits a degraded media moment

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Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a news conference at the DEA headquarters on July 15, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Pam Bondi has a Fox News problem

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Don Lemon makes a statement outside of federal court in Los Angeles following his arrest on charges related to covering an ICE protest in Minneapolis. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Don Lemon’s arrest turned into a MAGA misfire

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Melania Trump attends the premiere of her documentary "Melania" at the Kennedy Center (Craig Hudson/Variety via Getty Images)

Why MAGA won’t rally for “Melania” documentary

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Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded sensitive voting information from Minnesota and nearly two dozen other states. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

Pam Bondi’s shakedown exposes “Big Lie” in Minneapolis

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