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Gavin Newsom is looking like a winner this Election Day as polls suggest Proposition 50 is cruising to victory in California, and consequently a “whining” Donald Trump is having an online temper tantrum. Taking to his Truth Social this morning as voters in the Golden State, New Jersey, Virginia…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday made her first appearance on what, in years past, would have been the most unlikely of places: ABC’s The View. She also continued her criticism of recent weeks, directed not so much at Democrats but House Speaker Mike Johnson and the GOP’s failure to…

MSNBC will debut a new ad campaign during Tuesday night’s election coverage, highlighting the network’s pending name change to MS Now as it separates from parent company Comcast. The rebranding will take place on Nov. 15, with the marketing campaign introducing the new name and logo set to the…

It’s Election Day once again, and over the next 24 hours cable, broadcast and streaming channels will be analyzing, to the nth degree, what the numbers in a handful of races mean not just for the jurisdictions they cover, but next year’s midterms and even the 2028 presidential race. With Donald…

UPDATED: Dick Cheney, the influential Vice President to George W. Bush who was a central figure in the 2023 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died Monday due to “complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease,” according to his family. He was 84. A statement from his family quoted by press…

UPDATED, with Mamdani comment: Donald Trump urged New Yorkers to cast their ballots for his one-time nemesis Andrew Cuomo rather than the front-runner in the mayor’s race, Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, or even Republican Curtis Sliwa. In a Truth Social post on Monday evening, Trump…

Laurie Orlando, who has served as senior vice president of talent strategy and development at CBS News and Stations, is departing the network. Orlando announced her exit in a memo to employees on Monday.  She joined CBS News in January 2016 after serving as a top executive for ESPN, where she…

One day before Tuesday’s elections, Stephen Colbert has weighed in with an endorsement of the Democrat running to become New Jersey’s next governor, Mikie Sherrill. Introducing himself as a “proud New Jersey voter,” Colbert said that Sherrill is a “leader that I respect and…

Ukrainian producer and director Alexander Rodnyansky has pulled his work Notes of a True Criminal from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in response to its decision to exclude Israeli state-backed organizations and films from this year's edition. "My film is not…

UPDATED: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer offered his take on Donald Trump’s sit down with 60 Minutes, riffing that he should perhaps file a complaint with the FCC over the way that the interview was edited. Schumer wrote on X, “Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump…

Fox News’ Fox Nation is starting the Charlie Kirk Legacy Award at its annual Patriot Awards ceremony, with the conservative influencer’s widow, Erika Kirk, the first recipient. The ceremony, which showcases network personalities as they honor military veterans, first responders and others, will…

The off-year elections usually are a footnote in the overall direction of the country, but Tuesday’s races will provide the first significant glimpse at voter sentiment since Donald Trump returned to the White House. They will provide some indicators for next year’s midterms and, as NewsNation’s…