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The outgoing POTUS took to the bully pulpit Friday while the CEO of Meta went on Joe Rogan today with different takes on facts and the truth. "Telling the truth matters," Joe Biden said today in a critical presidential response to Mark Zuckerberg's Meta pulling the plug on fact checking in what is…

TikTok will “go dark” after January 19 unless the Supreme Court intervenes to stop a law to force its Chinese parent to sell or face a ban on U.S. platforms. “At least as I understand it, we go dark, the platform shuts down,” Noel Francisco, TikTok’s attorney, told Justice Brett Kavanaugh. In a…

UPDATE with Hoda & Jenna appearance: Today gave departing co-host Hoda Kotb a sendoff Friday with tributes and messages that ran throughout the first two hours, and even included the appearance of Kermit the Frog to sing “Rainbow Connection.” The tributes, goodbyes, hugs and tears — so many tears…

UPDATED with additional comments: President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House this month as a felon, but will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down Friday morning in New York for his criminal conviction in a hush-money trial that angered him and his supporters but didn't prevent him…

President Joe Biden said that the federal government will cover 100% of the cost of disaster assistance, on things like debris removal, temporary shelters and first responders’ salaries. At a briefing at the White House today, Biden told reporters, “Due to the magnitude of the disaster, I was talking…

Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush-money trial will proceed on Friday, after the Supreme Court declined the president-elect’s emergency appeal to halt the proceedings. In an order posted this evening, the court said that “the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect's…

A New York appellate court declined to toss Fox Corp. from Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation case. Smartmatic sued Fox News and Fox Corp. following the 2020 presidential election, claiming that on-air personalities and guests amplified false claims that it was involved in rigging the…

When Joe Biden eulogized Jimmy Carter in the majestic surroundings of Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, he said of his predecessor, “Many think he was from a bygone era, but he saw into the future.” As other speakers noted, Carter was prescient on a host of issues including climate change…

A security consultant testified in the second day of his defamation trial against CNN, as his attorney ran through a series of text messages with the network reporters. Zachary Young claims that he was defamed by a a false 2021 report that tarred him with exploiting Afghan family members by charging…

Looks like Donald Trump’s second term in the White House is sadly and truly going to be a lot like his first. As great swaths of Los Angeles are destroyed from multiple wildfires and harsh winds, the 45th and soon to be 47th POTUS made his tried and true tactic of taking to social media to find…

UPDATE, 9:12 AM: Holding up overnight in a westside hotel, Joe Biden hasn’t spoke out publicly about the devastating wildfires and battering winds pounding L.A. That may change soon as the outgoing POTUS will be getting an in-person briefing from first responders and officials, the White House…

Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his scheduled sentencing on Friday for his criminal conviction related to hush money payments made to former porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump’s legal team also is asking the court to weigh in on whether presidential immunity applies to a…