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17 hours agoThe Man Who Broke His Own Family
Rupert Murdoch manipulated his children against each other, revealing dark family dynamics that influenced the control of Fox News.
I don't think we landed on the moon, she said. Miller noted during the conversation that she'd asked SpaceX head Elon Musk where we went to the moon in 1969 and he said yes. I asked Elon this one. He said he said we did indeed land on the moon, she said. Minaj shrugged off the comment and doubled down on her belief about the moon landing.
Fox is still finding its footing in the streaming era. It didn't operate its own streaming platform until this past summer, with the launch of Fox ONE, and, unlike Disney and NBCUniversal, it lacks lucrative sports rights that help drive viewership. What Fox does have, though, is Fox News. Roughly one-third of total viewing minutes on Fox ONE come from people consuming news, CEO Lachlan Murdoch told investors during the company's earnings call on Wednesday.
The parents, joined by Shane Thomson, a security contractor tasked with advising the journalists, allege that Fox did not take precautions to protect its reporting team, tried to cover up Kuvshynov's death and subsequently shifted blame for the disaster on Thomson. In addition to Fox News, the suit names Fox Corporation Chairman Emeritus Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Chief Executive Suzanne Scott, and correspondent Benjamin Hall, who survived after sustaining an acute injury in the attack, as defendants.
These are not highly sophisticated, he told Loeffler. Yet the investigations go in perpetuity for years Hey, look, cut it off and see who yells and screams. Then we can go figure out where the problems are. But for the ones that have been going on for years, there's got to be an acceleration to say, Yeah, Monday, new year, new leaf. We're going to take care of business that, quite frankly, we should've taken care of last year.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk has done what years of media fractures couldn't. It forced Fox News to choose between its institutional alliances and the influencer class that increasingly dominates the right and in doing so, to decide whether it would defend mainstream conservatism or surrender the field entirely to conspiracism. Fox & Friends made that choice explicit on Thursday morning, lining up behind Erika Kirk and rebuking the conspiracy theories pushed by Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
Fox News stars Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, and Harold Ford Jr. were inspired to create a daily bible study group after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Watters said on Tuesday. Watters shared that he and his work buddies have been reading The Good Book on The Five; his announcement coincided with Erika Kirk, the wife of the slain Turning Point USA founder, joining the show.
The allegations carry a familiar ring: Fox News aired outrageous lies that an election software company rigged votes in the 2020 presidential elections for Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Behind the scenes, Fox News' controlling owners, executives and biggest stars didn't believe the wild claims from President Trump and his allies. Nonetheless, the voting tech company's officials received death threats. Its reputation and financial prospects were badly damaged.
To pass the time, David and Trevor compared hearing aids. One in slacks, one in jeans; one in purple polo shirt, one in purple button-down. Their wives nattered among each other, laughing, leaning in, touching the forearm of the other supportively. The men had already covered some important details: One had worked in insurance; one was in cattle ranching. Now they were talking earpiece specs and swapping tips on where to get the very best deals.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee dropped a bomb Wednesday morning with the release of emails that Epstein sent to accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff that directly referenced Trump. Republicans responded with a dump of tens of thousands more documents and emails, many with explosive revelations. The revelations dominated media coverage except at Fox News. Miller was a guest on Wednesday night's edition of Fox News Channel's Hannity, during which she tried to remedy that situation by blurting out a stream of Epstein patter over the host's objections laughing all the while.
We have to stop with this, you know, it's on both sides. No, it actually isn't. The violence we're seeing is on the left, the rhetoric is coming from the left, Antifa is on the left. These attacks are coming from left and until we identify it for what it is we can't resolve it,
In Sora Not Sorry, which aired Wednesday evening, Trump and Vance are depicted having intercourse in the Lincoln Bedroom. But boss, what about Satan? the cartoon Vance, depicted as a version of Fantasy Island's Tattoo, asked Trump while the two lay in bed together. In the latest season, the cartoon Trump is in a toxic relationship with Satan and the two are expecting a baby. The cartoon Vance has been working behind the scenes to have the baby aborted.
I'm flattered by all the press and everything like that, but I'm in a multi-year contract with Fox. So I don't know where everything's going. I'm signed on to Fox, very happy at Fox. And, you know, we'll see what happens at the end of that, he said.
I don't watch it, I stop watching even the cuts on social media unless it's Jessica Tarlov fighting is that her name? The one TOMMY CHRISTOPHER: Burnt her reputation HUNTER BIDEN: Yeah, exactly. I mean, yeah, exactly. But I look, I think that Fox is nothing more than state-run media right now. And I don't and again, I really mean it. That's not an exaggeration.
And the Democrat Party, this interview proved that the Democrat party's main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals. (SILENCE FROM JOHN ROBERTS AND SANDRA SMITH) That is who the Democrat Party is catering to. Not the Trump administration and not the White House and not The Republican Party, who is standing up for law abiding Americans, not just across the country, but around the world.
Watch Friends,' they're not even hot. He continued, Look at people now. They are so much better looking because all they gotta do is they have everything at their fingertips. It's like Jennifer Aniston looks better now, like twenty years older, weighed in Watters.
WATTERS: Up next, Barron Trump brought a girl home. He brought her back to Trump Tower. He shut the whole floor down at Trump Tower just so he could be alone. One of his classmates said this: He's tall and awkward, but he was the thing, the guy. He had a lot of girls running after him. Another said, He's a ladies' man for sure.
Andy has been the most consistent defender of bad DOJ behavior going all the way back to his FISA court defenses in 2017. His analysis on the politics of this situation is about as good as his 2024 prediction, Domenech wrote about McCarthy. Andy has been the most consistent defender of bad DOJ behavior going all the way back to his FISA court defenses in 2017. His analysis on the politics of this situation is about as good as his 2024 prediction. https://t.co/BT2aCQ5vI7 Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) September 26, 2025
Fox News is celebrating the strong debuts of Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany and The Sunday Briefing with Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich. Saturday in America debuted as the top program in cable news on Saturday, drawing 1.6 million viewers. The show drew 131,000 in the key 25-54 age demographic, according to Nielsen data, besting both CNN and MSNBC, though Fox does that regularly with their programming.
I never imagined it would break through like it has and get under the skin of the president of the United States, said Newsom after being asked about his recent social media posts parodying President Donald Trump. And some of my friends on, you know, Pravda, Fox. Host Stephen Colbert replied, Matter of fact, here we are. I think this is Dana Perino. She's not too thrilled with you.
It's absolutely true there were UN-affiliated organizations that enable a lot of this mass migration but they also have been very permissive about money laundering in the movement of illicit chemicals. The fentanyl pandemic in the United States is tied to a lot of these kinds of movements. Took my daughter and 500,000 other sweet children out of our country.