White House Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was interviewed by a radio show host in North Carolina on Tuesday. It did not go well. Radio host Mark Garrison spoke with KJP on WBT Charlotte. He asked the press secretary if her boss, the president, has dementia. He said that “a number of people” he talked to before […]
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will reach a grim milestone on March 29. That date marks the one-year anniversary of his detention in Russia. Evan is being held in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison on charges of espionage. Evan, his family, the Wall Street Journal, and the State Department all deny that Evan is a spy. […]
NEW YORK — The Gannett and McClatchy news chains, publishers of more than 230 outlets including USA Today and the Miami Herald, have said they will stop using journalism from The Associated Press amid continued financial pressures for the news industry. The decision by Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, severs a century-old partnership. It […]
NEW YORK (AP) – The media company Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today, said Tuesday it would stop using journalism from The Associated Press later this month, severing a century-old partnership. The decision “enables us to invest further in our newsrooms,” Gannett spokeswoman Lark-Marie Anton said. With more than 200 […]
Today in “this is how Democracy™ works, Jack, no joke, you dog-faced pony soldier,” we have the virile president of the United States getting lost in the rain, rescued, and then shielded from public views by his frumpy, childless handlers (the press they are paid to control are surrogate children to them). […]
NEWS AND OPINION: Two presidents and one border: The arrival of President Biden and former President Donald Trump at the southern U.S. border at least provided the press with fodder for headlines. Here are a few samples from the last 24 hours: “Trump and Biden collide in split-screen trips to the border with immigration in […]
President Biden is sitting down Tuesday with congressional leaders at the White House in a scramble to unlock aid to Israel and Ukraine and avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week. Mr. Biden will press House Speaker Mike Johnson to pass the $95 billion national security package, which allocates roughly $60 […]
President Biden on Friday implored governors to put pressure on their representatives in Congress to pass a $95 billion package of U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that has stalled in the House. “I urge all of you if you agree with me — and many of you do — to urge your congressional […]
Tensions between the White House’s dueling spokespeople have muddied the messaging in a tough election year in which the administration has struggled to answer questions ranging from foreign policy to the president’s memory. In an unusual dynamic, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has increasingly elbowed out press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the […]
If you’re in the habit of watching White House news briefings — and I know there are some of you masochists out there — you might be confused whether Karine Jean-Pierre or John Kirby is the one in charge in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. You’re not the only […]
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