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Bill Maher, guesting this morning on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Gps, defended the network’s recently ousted pundit Jeffrey Lord as a victim of political correctness. Lord, formerly CNN’s resident Trump supporter, was fired by the network last week after tweeting "Sieg Heil!" at a member of liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America. "I don't know how long I'm going to last, really,” Maher told Zakaria, bemoaning what he sees as today’s political correctness. “It's worse…...

An unprecedented show of solidarity took place Sunday in Paris at a “unity rally” against the terror attacks that claimed 17 lives in France this week.

An estimated one million people marched from the Place de la Republique in central Paris to the Place de La Nation. The massive rally came in the aftermath of a tragic week that saw journalists, cartoonists, police officers, and other civilians killed after terrorists attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday, and a gunman killed a female police officer and civilians Thursday and Friday.

An unprecedented number of police and security officials covered the rally...

CNN host Brian Stelter took on the plagiarism scandal surrounding colleague Fareed Zakaria on Sunday morning's “Reliable Sources.” During the final segment of his morning news program, Stelter defended the “Fareed Zakaria Gps” host, saying he is being unfairly singled out. “Earlier this month anonymous bloggers who call themselves Our Bad Media accused one of my colleagues, Fareed Zakaria, of plagiarism — stealing other people's words and passing them off as his own,” Stelter said. “I disagree with a lot of what the bloggers are alleging,” he added before admitting that Zakaria does have a “perception problem.” Also read: CNN Ordered to.

CNN host Fareed Zakaria joked on “The Daily Show” Thursday that he may soon answer to Jon Stewart. “I'm a little nervous because I realize I might be speaking to my future boss,” Zakaria said. Also read: Jon Stewart Launches $10 Billion ‘Let's Buy CNN’ Kickstarter Campaign – Sorta In response to Rupert Murdoch's efforts to buy Time Warner — which owns CNN — Stewart has launched a joke campaign to raise money to take over the cable news channel. “Can I tell you something? Our fake Kickstarter to buy CNN is up to $150 billion now,” Stewart told the “Fareed Zakaria Gps”...

The 10 Am Et debut of Fox News Channel‘s Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo (1.078 million viewers, 312,000 in the news demo) took the top spot in cable news, beating CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria Gps (643,000, 169,000) and MSNBC ‘s Melissa Harris-Perry (391,000, 168,000) combined in overall audience and nearly doing same in the demo. Sunday Morning Futures’ demo crowd was Fox News’ third-biggest demo audience for the timeslot this year, delivering a strong lead in for Fnc’s 11 Am program, MediaBuzz, which delivered its highest demo rating since debuting back in September (1.001 million viewers, 353,000 in the demo), outstripping CNN’s Reliable Sources (674,000 viewers, 189,000 demo viewers).

Fareed Zakaria, the CNN host and Time editor-at-large who was suspended last week for plagiarizing in his latest magazine column and in a CNN blog, passed reviews by both news outlets and will be reinstated, the two media companies announced Thursday. Both CNN and Time put the journalist on leave last Friday while they reviewed his  work for more signs of plagiarism. CNN said his show, "Fareed Zakaria Gps" will return to the air on Sunday, Aug. 26.  Also read: CNN Joins Times in Suspending Fareed Zakaria for Plagiarism (Updated) "CNN has completed its internal...

Update: Time magazine also lifted its suspension of Fareed Zakaria for using in a column on gun control an unattributed quote from an article by historian Jill Lepore of Harvard in The New Yorker. The magazine’s statement followed CNN’s announcement earlier this afternoon that it had decided not to continue Zakaria’s suspension. CNN’s and Time’s statements follow: CNN has completed its internal review of Fareed Zakaria’s work for CNN, including a look back at his Sunday programs, documentaries, and CNN.com blogs. The process was rigorous. We found nothing that merited continuing the suspension. Zakaria has apologized for a journalistic lapse. CNN and Zakaria will work together to strengthen further the procedures for his show and blog. Fareed Zakaria’s quality journalism, insightful mind and thoughtful voice meaningfully contribute to the dialogue on global and political issues. His public affairs program Gps will return on Sunday,...

CNN suspended Fareed Zakaria on Friday hours after he apologized to Time magazine for plagiarizing paragraphs from a New Yorker article. Time suspended Zakaria, its editor-at-large earlier in the day. "We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria's Time column, for which he has apologized," CNN said. "He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on the same issue which included similar unattributed excerpts. That blog post has been removed and CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter is under review." Zakaria's program "Fareed Zakaria Gps" usually airs Sundays at 10 a.m. Also read: Time Suspends Fareed...

CNN pulled the plug today on Fareed Zakaria Gps because of plagiarism by the host in a Time magazine column and a blog post for the network. “We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria’s Time column, for which he has apologized. He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on the same issue which included similar unattributed excerpts. That blog post has been removed and CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter is under review,” said CNN in a statement Friday afternoon. Broadcasts of Your Money With Ali Velshi will air in Gps’s 10 Am Sunday time slot and The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer will air in the show’s 1 Pm slot. Zakaria was suspended by Time earlier in the day after it came to light that portions of a column that he wrote on gun control for the magazine’s August 20 issue closely resembled those from an...

Fareed Zakaria is a well respected journalist with a proven track record in both print and broadcast media. As Editor at Large for Time magazine, and on his CNN program Fareed Zakaria Gps, the Indian-American writer/personality has a specific focus on international news issues. So it may come as no surprise to some that he revealed to his CNN cohort Eliot Spitzer that he meets with President Obama to discuss many international issues.