The war of words and tweets between Donald Trump and his top donor Elon Musk just went nuclear. As the former DOGE chief and POTUS tossed slings and arrows at each other over the president's “Big Beautiful Bill's” effect on the federal deficit and whether the SpaceX owner put the Republican back…

When Joe Biden arrived at a heavily promoted, record-breaking fundraiser in Los Angeles last year, he didn’t appear to recognize one of the star co-hosts of the event: George Clooney. The moment was detailed in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its…

CNN unveiled details of changes to its daytime and afternoon lineup Thursday, with Wolf Blitzer moving to mornings to anchor The Situation Room with Pamela Brown, Jake Tapper getting a new time slot, and Kasie Hunt shifting to afternoons. There is no word on what will happen to Jim Acosta, as…

A Florida judge cleared the way for a trial to proceed in a case brought by a Navy veteran who sued CNN, contending that the network falsely claimed in 2021 that he exploited Afghan family members by charging exorbitant fees to get them out of the country during the chaotic U.S…

As news broke that Donald Trump was nominating Robert Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, CNN’s Jake Tapper gave blunt assessment of what’s ahead: “Well, America, I hope you like measles.” Kennedy, who waged a third-party presidential bid before endorsing Trump, has spent…

Jake Tapper could not believe the scale of Kamala Harris’ election defeat. The seasoned CNN anchor is going viral on social media after voicing his surprise at an election map that showed Harris failing to overperform Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in a single state. “Holy smokes,” Tapper…

In the middle of a bleak reelection campaign, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is continuing to hope the Menendez brothers can shift his political fortunes. Weeks after giving a press conference to say he was "reviewing" newish evidence regarding the sexual abuse the brothers…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first running mate John Nance Garner once famously declared that the vice president’s office was “not worth a bucket of warm piss." In the first and only VP debate of the 2024 presidential election, Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. J.D. Vance on Tuesday went out of their way to…

After just missing the launch of Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign last weekend, John Oliver kicked off Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight by unpacking the week of Brat. The comedian roasted Jake Tapper over his confusion around Charli XCX‘s meme-worthy endorsement of Harris while…

Charlamagne Tha God called out Jake Tapper during a live CNN interview discussing the presidential race in the potential Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump. The Breakfast Club co-host appeared on the cable news network with Angela Rye. Tapper asked Rye if America was ready to elect a former…

If there was any winner in Thursday night’s first presidential debate, it was CNN. If there was a loser, it was absolutely Joe Biden. Throwing the already tight race into a tailspin for the faltering incumbent almost from the very beginning, the most memorable line maybe Biden's inability to…

UPDATED, 7:53 PM: “It was a game-changing debate in the sense that right now, as we speak, there is a deep, a wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party,” CNN’s John King said immediately after the the first debate of the 2024 presidential election season between Joe Biden and Donald…