Ron DeSantis’s attorneys say that The Walt Disney Co. lacks standing to sue him in the company’s federal lawsuit over the Florida governor’s moves to strip the company of control of a special district that covers its Orlando theme parks. DeSantis’s legal team also contends that the governor has sovereign …

Donald Trump’s election conspiracy case may be billed as the trial of the century, but as things stand, the public won’t have any way of seeing or hearing it — save for going to the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, D.C., waiting in line and hoping for …

UPDATE: Federal prosecutors say that Donald Trump was seeking a court order “designed to allow him to try this case in the media rather than in the courtroom.” Special counsel Jack Smith’s team singled out Trump’s attorney, John Lauro, and his Sunday morning talk show blitz. Lauro defended Trump on …

CNN announced a series of promotions in its domestic newsgathering division. Matthew Hilk was upped to senior vice president, news and domestic editorial director, as the editorial lead for domestic coverage and planning. Adam Levine was promoted to senior vice president of news and Washington executive editorial director, the editorial …

A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, litigation centered on references made by on-air figures to “the Big Lie,” or the former president’s unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Trump had argued in his lawsuit, filed in federal court in …

UPDATED, with DeSantis comment: A Florida state court judge declined to dismiss The Walt Disney Co.’s effort to toss a lawsuit brought by the Ron DeSantis-appointed board that now oversees a special district covering the company’s Florida properties. Disney had sought to dismiss the lawsuit, which seeks to invalidate a …

Tony Bennett, the legendary singer whose long career enjoyed a resurgence that extended into his 90s, has died. Bennett was 96. His publicist confirmed his passing, according to the AP. Bennett battled Alzheimer’s disease, but even after that diagnosis, he continued to perform, including a memorable series of final concerts …

Cable news was again a study in contrasts on Thursday: Fox News carried a big portion of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony before a House committee, while CNN and MSNBC did not. Kennedy’s candidacy — which seems to be embraced much more by the right than the …

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seized on the SAG-AFTRA strike in an online conversation with President Fran Drescher on Tuesday evening, as they both bashed Bob Iger and other CEOs, and made the case for why the actors’ walkout should be of concern of all workers. Appearing on a screen with …

Margaret Brennan recently was among a small number of reporters who traveled with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China, a trip designed to turn down the temperature on simmering tensions with Beijing. That was reflected in what it took for the Face the Nation moderator and CBS News chief …

UPDATE: Donald Trump offered a fusillade of unfounded claims and falsehoods in his interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, who seems to have gone into the sit down with a strategy to challenge the the former president on certain topics and move on at other moments. “Why did you have …

The Fox News producer responsible for putting up a chyron labeling Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” resigned from the network shortly afterward, Tucker Carlson said in his latest Twitter video. Carlson did not name the producer, but Alexander McCaskill, who had long worked at Tucker Carlson Tonight and continued at …