• Eric Trump's Fox News Interview Sparks Ridicule

    Comments from Eric Trump concerning his father Donald Trump's bond payment from his civil fraud ruling sparked ridicule online Sunday.The former president was hit with a massive penalty after being found liable in a civil fraud trial brought against him and The Trump Organization by New York Attorney General Letitia James, which accused him of a long-term scheme to inflate his net worth and the worth of his assets in order to secure more favorable business loans. With interest, the penalty is...

  • Fox News Host Fact-Checks Donald Trump After Interview

    Fox News host Howard Kurtz fact-checked former President Donald Trump on Sunday following an interview in which he shared an oft-repeated false claim about abortion.The exchange began during an interview Kurtz conducted with Trump, who is now the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, in which the host asked if he would support a nationwide abortion ban after 16 weeks of pregnancy, a proposal he has reportedly supported in private, but declined to commit to one way or the other in public.In...

  • Good Morning, News: Bad News for NIMBYs, Portland's Sweet 16, and Republicans Blame Bridge Collapse on "Diversity"

    by Wm. Steven Humphrey The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! Prepare yourself for a classic Portland spring day which includes all of the following, and perhaps more: Showers! Sun! Hail! Frigid...

  • FOX News 'pushing back' on Donald Trump

    FOX News was forced to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million last year. The lawsuit seems to be having a profound effect on its election coverage.

  • Veteran Fox News host is infuriating MAGA Republicans — here's how

    Fox News has had plenty of turnover during its 28-year history.But "Fox & Friends" co-host Steve Doocy, like Sean Hannity, has been with the right-wing cable TV outlet since 1996 — the year it was launched. And Fox News chose Doocy as a "Fox & Friends" co-host in 1998.Politically, Doocy is clearly on the right — his politics have always been conservative. But the Washington Post's Jeremy Barr, in an article published on Monday, stresses that in recent months, Doocy has been "the resident...

  • Donald Trump Complains About Fox News Coverage of His Fraud Case

    Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News in a social media post, complaining about the network's coverage of his New York civil fraud case as a key deadline to stop his properties from being seized is less than a day away.Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, was fined $355 million after being found liable in a civil fraud trial brought against him and The Trump Organization by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The former president and executives at the Trump...

  • More Americans trust Trump on trade than Biden, but split on China: Survey

    More Americans trust former President Trump’s approach to trade than President Biden's but are split on their approach to tariffs on China, according to a new survey. The YouGov poll, released Friday, found 42 percent of Americans somewhat approve of Trump's approach to foreign trade, 11 percent higher than Biden’s 31 percent. At the same

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    2024 campaign news: Biden, Trump move toward a rematch

    President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump continue to move toward a rematch in November after clinching their parties' presidential nominations. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

  • Biden leans on his Democratic predecessors as Trump remains isolated from other Republican leaders

    When President Joe Biden needs advice, there are two people he can turn to who know what it’s like to sit in his chair. Sometimes he will invite Barack Obama over to the White House for a meal or he will get on the phone with Bill Clinton.

  • 'Don't like': Trump has a problem with how Fox News is covering his fraud case

    Donald Trump on Sunday took to social media to attack a conservative network that has often had his back: Fox News.Trump, who has had a hot-and-cold relationship with the right-wing media giant owned by the Rupert Murdoch family, posted his attack on Truth Social. The social network the ex-president created is rumored to be ready for a public offering, which could inject much-needed funds into Trump's accounts as he struggles to come up with bond money in a fraud case in which he was ordered to...

  • Former Giuliani associate blasts Fox News for spreading Biden lies

    Wednesday morning’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, titled “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” was yet another chance for Democratic Congress members to embarrass the GOP. Witness Lev Parnas, a former Rudy Giuliani associate convicted for campaign finance violations and wire fraud, told the committee that by May or June of 2019, it was clear to him and to Giuliani that the “dirt” they were digging up on then-candidate Biden was mostly lies...

  • GOP Biden impeachment witness sues Fox News co-host Tarlov

    Tony Bobulinski, a former associate of Hunter Biden, filed a $30 million defamation lawsuit against Fox News host Jessica Tarlov over her comments about his legal fees, which she corrected a day later. The suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleged Tarlov “lied” last week when she