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"I'm not afraid to testify at all, I'm just not going to out of fear," said James Austin Johnson 's Donald Trump from the hall of a Manhattan courthouse in the cold open tonight of the final show of SNL's 49th season. Set to pick up with the defense's case on May 20, Trump's hush money trial is never…

Jimmy Kimmel will moderate a conversation with President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama at a Hollywood-centric L.A. fundraiser for the 2024 re-election campaign next month. The event, to be held on June 15 in downtown Los Angeles, also will feature George Clooney and Julia Roberts…

CNN will make its June 27 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump available for simulcast by other networks, a spokesperson said Friday. ABC News, which is planning a Sept. 10 debate, has said that it will provide the feed to other networks. The debates between the presidential…

Donald Trump said that his campaign has agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate — but on Fox News. His statement came a day after Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said that Vice President Kamala Harris had accepted CBS News’ invitation for a debate, either on July 23 or Aug. 13. In…

The man convicted of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was sentenced to 20 years in prison today, per the AP. David DePape was found guilty last year on federal charges of kidnapping and assault. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley issued separate 20-year and 30-year…

C-SPAN coverage of Congress turned into a Jerry Springer-like spectacle of name-calling and insults on Thursday, as a verbal jab lobbed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) triggered an extended period of outcry from several Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. The purpose of the hearing was…

UPDATE: Michael Cohen appeared to win a battle this afternoon over how reliable his memory is of eight-year-old phone calls with Donald Trump, after faltering in an earlier round of cross-examination questioning today in the former president's hush money trial in New York. Before a lunch break, Trump…

Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate this summer, to be hosted by CBS News. Donald Trump’s campaign has not yet publicly accepted the invite, the network said. The Biden campaign had proposed a vice presidential debate in late July, after Trump…

ABC News’ David Muir and Linsey Davis will moderate the second presidential debate on Sept. 10. Joe Biden and Donald Trump said that they would participate in the event, to be their second matchup this cycle. CNN is hosting the first debate, scheduled for June 27 at its Atlanta headquarters, with…

Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate the June 27 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the network said. Both candidates said today that they had agreed to participate in the event, which will take place at CNN’s studios in Atlanta. Tapper and Bash were to co-moderate a…

Hours after Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s campaigns swiftly finalized plans for two presidential debates, the president’s team is already warning that his rival is “playing games.” “No more chaos, no more debate about debates,” Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement this…

ABC News plans to make its coverage of the second presidential debate in September available to other networks for simulcast. The network announced today that it will host a debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Sept. 10. That followed an earlier announcement by CNN…