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Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth was confirmed as Defense Secretary Friday night on a narrow vote in the U.S. Senate, a victory for President Donald Trump despite disturbing allegations about Hegseth’s conduct and questions about his fitness for the job.

Hegseth’s appointment was secured in a late-night vote only when Vice President J.D. Vance stepped in to break the tie after three Senate Republicans voted against him. Hegseth has been accused of sexual assault and of having a history of alcohol abuse. His candidacy seemed in doubt earlier in the week when another person came forward with allegations that Hegseth had been abusive to his former wife.

Hegseth was co-host of Fox News’ “Fox & Friends Weekend” daytime show from 2017 until late last year when he stepped down after Trump nominated him to oversee the nation’s military. He previously served in the National Guard and...

Pete Hegseth, the former co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, will be the next secretary of defense, after he squeaked by Senate confirmation with Vice President Jd Vance breaking a tie 50-50 vote.

It was an unusually close call for a cabinet nominee, reflecting concerns over Hegseth’s experience and allegations of sexual assault and heavy drinking. Hegseth has denied a number of claims, and said that a sexual encounter with a woman in 2017 was consensual.

Three Republicans — Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-ky), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Me) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ak) — voted against his nomination, joining with all Democrats. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-nc) did not announce his decision on the Hegseth nomination until this evening, when he said that he would vote in favor of it.

Tillis wrote on X, “Pete has a unique perspective as a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and is...

Updated: Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s Defense Secretary nomination cleared a Senate procedural hurdle, pointing to a likely confirmation for one of Donald Trump’s most controversial picks.

The vote was 51-49. Two Republicans, Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-ak), joined with all Democrats in opposing the confirmation.

Murkowski said in a statement that she “cannot in good conscience support his nomination for Secretary of Defense.”

“Managing the Department of Defense requires vast experience and expertise as the department is one of the most complex and powerful organizations in the world, and Mr. Hegseth’s prior roles in his career do not demonstrate to me that he is prepared for such immense responsibility,” she said. “His leadership of two veteran organizations was marked with accusations of financial mismanagement and problems with the workplace culture he fostered.”

Collins expressed similar concerns, which also included previous statements...

Update: Pete Hegseth had a number of tense exchanges with Democratic Senators at his confirmation hearing today, providing for some viral moments, but Republicans signaled their support for the former Fox News host to lead the Pentagon.

A key vote is Sen. Joni Ernst (R-ia), who had expressed some hesitation to back Donald Trump’s pick as news emerged of a settlement with a woman who accused Hegseth of sexual assault.

One of Ernst’s central concerns has been the prevalence of sexual assault in the military. Hegseth told her that he would appoint a senior level official dedicated to sexual assault prevention and response, and she didn’t indicate opposition to his nomination.

Democrats seized on the hearing to highlight Hegseth’s lack of experience leading an organization anywhere near the size of the Pentagon.

But the standout moments came when Hegseth faced questions of excessive drinking and past...

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The Fox News Channel’s weekend morning host Will Cain will launch a new program in the 4 p.m. Eastern Time slot during the week, effectively taking over the slot vacated by Neil Cavuto upon his retirement last month.

Cain, currently the host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” will launch “The Will Cain Show” on January 21, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott announced on Friday.

“It has been an honor to wake up with America these past four years, and I am thrilled to apply my background in news, law, entertainment and business to help our viewers better understand the headlines through thought-provoking content and analysis every weekday afternoon,” Cain said in a statement emailed to The Desk on Monday.

“As the media landscape continues to evolve, we are always looking to innovate our programming lineup to meet the needs of our viewers,...

Fox News has officially named a replacement for Neil Cavuto after the longtime journalist’s exit from Fox News Network in December 2024. Fox & Friends Weekend host Will Cain will be taking over the 4 p.m. time slot with The Will Cain Show beginning on Tuesday, January 21. “Will Cain brings years of experience to the 4 p.m. hour as an accomplished broadcaster and a lawyer and we look forward to adding his insights to what will no doubt be another historic news cycle ahead this year,” Fox News Media’s CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement. The Will Cain Show “will offer a comprehensive look at the news of the day in a signature podcast style,” according to the network. Cain’s last Fox & Friends Weekend episode will be on Sunday, January 18. He will be replaced by Charlie Hurt, who is stepping down from his position as opinion editor...

Fox News Media announced Monday that Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Will Cain will be taking over the exiting Neil Cavuto’s 4 pm weekday time slot with The Will Cain Show. The big change kicks off Tuesday, Jan. 21 on Fox News Channel, TVLine has learned.

Cain’s new show will feature “conversations with newsmakers from across politics, business, culture and sports,” offering “a comprehensive look at the news of the day in a signature podcast style.” In addition, Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt will take Cain’s spot on Fox & Friends Weekend beginning Saturday, Jan. 18.

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Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Will Cain is set to replace Neil Cavuto in the 4 p.m. time slot on the Fox News Channel.

The launch of The Will Cain Show on Jan. 21 follows Cavuto leaving Fox News after 28 years. Cain’s new show will see the host bring a “signature podcast style,” the Fox News Channel said on Monday, as conversations with newsmakers from across politics, business, culture and sports will be featured.

Cain’s last appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend is set for Jan. 18, when he will be replaced by Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt as a new co-host.

“Will Cain brings years of experience to the 4 p.m. hour as an accomplished broadcaster and a lawyer and we look forward to adding his insights to what will no doubt be another historic news cycle ahead this year,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement...

Will Cain, the co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, will take over the 4 p.m. Et weekday timeslot on Fox News Channel following the departure of Neil Cavuto last month.

Cain will start his show, The Will Cain Show, on January 21.

Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt will replace Cain as Fox & Friends Weekend co-host, joining Rachel Campos-Duffy. As he takes the new role, Hurt will step down as opinion editor of the Washington Times. He will continue to write a regular column for the publication.

Cavuto left the network last month after hosting his show since the Fox News launch in 1996.

The network said that Cain’s new show “will offer a comprehensive look at the news of the day in a signature podcast style.” He joined the network in 2020. He also hosts a podcast, with will continue to post new episodes and simulcast on Fox News Digital.

Fox News also announced other changes,...

Will Cain, a popular co-host of the weekend edition of “Fox & Friends” will take over the 4 p.m. slot at Fox News Channel anchored for many years by Neil Cavuto, part of a series of programming changes in daytime and weekends at both the network and its sister outlet Fox Business Network.

Cain will start in the new weekday role on January 21. The show will be called “The Will Cain Show,” replacing “Your World.”

“Will Cain brings years of experience to the 4 Pm hour as an accomplished broadcaster and a lawyer and we look forward to adding his insights to what will no doubt be another historic news cycle ahead this year,” said Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media, in a statement.

The network will bring a format to the hour that may be less familiar to veteran viewers. Cain’s new program, Fox News said, “will offer...

Two Fox News hosts and at least one other journalist have captured and shared their own photos and videos of the mysterious drones flying with increasing intensity around New Jersey and elsewhere in the past few weeks, with one saying he saw a craft that was as big as a school bus hovering 100 feet off the ground in Montclair.

“Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy told his co-hosts Tuesday that he has observed the flying craft multiple times now, coming in “low, they’re about 100 yards, flying over my backyard. … They are buzzing overhead all the time. The scary part is when they stop. They just kind of hover for a little while.”

The FBI, New Jersey State Police and other agencies are scrambling to identify the strange craft, described as “SUV-sized,” able to avoid radar detection and so far elusive to all interception efforts, as helicopters are advised to stay away.

Sean Duffy is entering the real world of Washington D.C., with Donald Trump tapping the Fox Business host and former Representative of Wisconsin to be his nominee as his secretary of transportation. Duffy would replace Pete Buttigieg, who was selected by sitting President Biden to lead the department under his administration.

Duffy represents a double-dip into the bin of Fox personalities for Trump. The President-elect had previously announced that “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Pete Hegseth would be appointed secretary of defense. Unlike Hegseth, Duffy has legislative experience, having served as a U.S. Representative from 2011 to 2019. He resigned in 2019 for personal reasons, disclosing that his newborn daughter had been diagnosed with a heart defect.

Prior to his 2010 campaign for the House of Representatives, Duffy had been appointed the District Attorney of Ashland County in Wisconsin in 2002.

Duffy first entered the public eye in his late twenties, featured as...

Sunny Hostin warned her cohosts on The View that the first batch of Donald Trump‘s cabinet appointments should not give them hope about the incoming administration, and on Wednesday’s (November 13) live episode, she got to play a sly game of “I told you so” over the latest controversial hire. After the previous episode aired, Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth was announced as the next Secretary of Defense, earning immediate criticism from across the political spectrum due to his inexperience for such a vital role in national security. The panelists reviewed footage of him saying, among other things, that women soldiers do not belong in combat, along with media pundits’ mixed reactions to the news. Whoopi Goldberg took the first dig by noting that Hegseth is the host of Fox & Friends Weekend and not the daily show and asked, “Is this the guy who’s qualified to make...

President-elect Donald Trump assigned Elon Musk on Tuesday to “dismantle” the U.S. bureaucracy, and named a longtime Fox News host, Pete Hegseth, to lead the Pentagon.

Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, had offered himself during the campaign as someone who could cut waste out of the federal budget. In late October, he claimed he could cut $2 trillion.

Trump said that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican primary candidate, would provide outside advice to the administration from a “Department of Government Efficiency.” The acronym Doge is also a nod to the Dogecoin cryptocurrency that has been associated with Musk — a self-serving move that raised immediate hackles among pundits given that the price of Dogecoin shot up with the announcement.

“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement.

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Fox News Media will launch a daily, one-hour Spanish-language news program on the sports network Fox Deportes.

Rachel Campos-Duffy, who co-hosts Fox & Friends Weekend, will anchor the program starting on Oct. 15. The show, Fox Noticias, will air at 4 p.m. Et on weekdays and also will be available on podcast on Fox News Audio, as well as online platforms and on the subscription streaming service Fox Nation.

Fox News Digital also launched a Spanish-language version of FoxNews.com today.

The debut of Campos-Duffy’s new show will feature an interview with the newly elected president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino. The show also will features sports highlights from Fox Deportes.

In addition to Fox & Friends Weekend, Campos-Duffy co-hosts a podcast on Fox News Audio, From the Kitchen Table, in which she is partnered with her husband Sean Duffy, a Fox Business host. She also is the national spokesperson for the The Libre Initiative.

From left: Senator J. D. Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. (Vance photo by Gage Skidmore; Walz photo via Wikimedia Commons)

Fox News Media has become the first broadcaster to announce a plan to simulcast the CBS News vice presidential debate when it airs next month.

The debate, scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 1, will pit Republican Party nominee Senator J. D. Vance and Democratic Party nominee Governor Tim Walz in their only scheduled television debate of the 2024 presidential race.

As was the case with the two presidential debates hosted by CNN and ABC News earlier this year, CBS is offering other broadcasters the opportunity to simulcast its television debate. The simulcast rules will be revealed in the coming days, but are expected to be substantially similar to the guidelines offered by CNN and ABC.

Related: ABC, Fox News grab highest ratings for Trump-Harris debate

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“Truths with Vivek Ramaswamy” streams on Fox Nation. (Courtesy image)

Fox News Media will offer a new limited-run television series hosted by former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

The show, called “Truths with Vivek Ramaswamy,” will debut on Sunday, September 22 on the streaming service Fox Nation. A condensed version of the show will also air on the Fox News Channel on September 22 at 10 p.m. Eastern Time.

“We are excited to launch this new series showcasing Mr. Ramaswamy’s thoughtful and unique perspective on the state of American politics after his meteoric rise over the last year,” Laure Petterson, the President of Fox Nation, said in a statement on Monday.

Leading up to the debut, Ramaswamy has agreed to a one-hour forum that will be taped in Philadelphia, moderated by “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host and Fox Nation personality Pete Hegseth, the network said. That program will air on Fox Nation on Friday,...

Host Rachel Campos-Duffy praised Sen. Ron Johnson for “not falling for the Covid scam” during Sunday’s episode of Fox & Friends Weekend.

Fox & Friends host praises Ron Johnson for his bravery during "the covid pandemic scam" and for standing up for "the vaccine injured" pic.twitter.com/eYhy7SYcCm

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“I saw you had a podcast with Russell Brand. … You two couldn’t look more different and yet both of you were the most courageous people during the Covid pandemic scam, and both of you have...

A still image from former President Donald Trump’s interview with “Fox & Friends Weekend.” (Still frame via broadcast)

Former President Donald Trump’s first television interview since his conviction in a New York state criminal case brought 1.174 million viewers to the Fox News Channel on Sunday, according to Nielsen data reviewed by The Desk.

During the interview, Trump asserted that his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records and other criminal activity amounted to a “weaponization” of the legal system, which he characterized as “a very dangerous thing.”

The case centered around business documents Trump and others altered in order to conceal payments made to adult film star Stephanie Clifford, better known by her screen name “Stormy Daniels.” Trump paid Clifford through his then-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, then reimbursed Cohen under the guise of “legal expenses.”

Trump has maintained his innocence in the matter. Cohen testified against the former president last month.

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Since Tucker Carlson’s surprise ouster from Fox News just over three weeks ago, viewership on the cable news channel has cut in half during its 8 p.m. hour, which has been replaced with “Fox News Tonight,” which will rotate though network contributors until naming a final successor.

Whereas Carlson’s second to last week on the network from April 10 through April 14 averaged 3.19 million total viewers and his last week on the network from April 17 through April 21 averaged 3.02 million total viewers, the three weeks since rotating hosts took over the 8 p.m. hour have averaged 1.53 million total viewers in the timeslot, according to Nielsen live plus same-day figures, marking a 52% and 49.3% decrease in total viewership, respectively.

The network has been rotating through weekly hosts before deciding on its permanent host,...

In Jan. 2021, Tucker Carlson told a Fox News colleague that he hated Donald Trump “passionately.” But less than two months earlier he was singing a dramatically different tune, newly leaked texts reveal.

In an exchange with his senior producer, obtained by the Daily Beast, the recently fired host was so upset about the unusually negative coverage Fox was giving Trump that he said he was “happy to start threating people” to make it stop.

The text exchange happened Nov. 19, 2020, as Fox News was suffering a severe drop in ratings caused by the exodus of viewers angry that it had accurately called the election for Joe Biden and then — temporarily — refused to support Trump’s constant lying about the loss.

The day before, Fox had published this story about Trump’s decision to hold the annual presidential “pardon” of a turkey. The article’s opening paragraph noted this was happening, “despite...

Saddle up, rodeo fans! Fox Nation has announced that it is teaming with Professional Bull Riders (Pbr) to release a new series that goes behind the scenes to show what it takes to become a bull riding champion. The series is titled “Last Cowboy Standing,” and debuts Sunday, May 7 on Fox Nation.

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Under the watchful tutelage of five legendary mentors including Pbr (Professional Bull Riders) CEO and commissioner Sean Gleason, Pbr founding member Cody Lambert, Pbr 2002 World Champion J.W. Hart, Pbr Ring of Honor member Ross Coleman and Pbr 2005 and 2007 World Champion Justin McBride, the cowboys will undergo training, sharing camaraderie and competition as they vie for the ultimate title of Last Cowboy Standing.

“We are excited to share this all-access, unfiltered program with our viewers as the series dives into the fast paced and exciting world of Professional Bull Riders,” said Jason Klarman,...