ABC News hit with 75 layoffs as corporate parent Disney slashes costs

ABC News hit with 75 layoffs as corporate parent Disney slashes costs

ABC News and its local stations group got hit with 75 job cuts Wednesday as part of an ongoing restructuring at parent company Disney. ABC News president Almin Karmehmedovic broke the news to staffers in a memo obtained by The Post, telling them that the network has had to make some “tough decisions.” “Across the various … Read more

CBS News says Vance, Walz will have to fact-check each other in VP debate

CBS News says Vance, Walz will have to fact-check each other in VP debate

CBS News, hosting vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz for the general election campaign’s third debate next week, says it will be up to the politicians — not the moderators — to check the facts of their opponents. The 90-minute debate, scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday in a Manhattan studio that … Read more

Kamala Harris Made Donald Trump Look Silly and Small at the 2024 Debate

Kamala Harris Made Donald Trump Look Silly and Small at the 2024 Debate

Donald Trump was upset. He was supposed to be talking about immigration, the subject he’d been trying to bring up for the entire first half-hour of the debate. But his opponent, Kamala Harris, had just savaged his bizarre rants about Hannibal Lecter and brought up the fact that more of his followers seem to be … Read more

Harris and Trump prepare for debate that could help decide the US presidential election

Harris and Trump prepare for debate that could help decide the US presidential election

US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, the Republicans’ presidential nominee, will take the stage for a debate on Tuesday – a key test that pushed US President Joe Biden out of the race just a few weeks ago. Coming less than two months before Election Day, the match-up was originally supposed to … Read more

Trump and Harris urged to debate small business by Goldman Sachs campaign

Trump and Harris urged to debate small business by Goldman Sachs campaign

Goldman Sachs wants to put small business on the agenda at the Donald Trump and Kamala Harris presidential debate on Sept. 10.  The banking giant unveiled a billboard campaign in Times Square Monday just a block from ABC global headquarters, where the televised debate will take place.  The billboards are part of the advocacy arm of the … Read more

Tinubu, other world leaders express solidarity with Trump after failed assassination attempt

Tinubu, other world leaders express solidarity with Trump after failed assassination attempt

President Bola Tinubu has joined other world leaders to condemn the assassination attempt on ex-US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The shooting on Saturday grazed Mr Trump’s right ear and killed one bystander. Two other spectators were critically wounded. In a post on X, Mr Tinubu said the attack on Mr … Read more

If The “Lord Almighty” Tells Biden To Step Down, He Will

If The “Lord Almighty” Tells Biden To Step Down, He Will

In a 22-minute interview on Friday night, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos sat down with President Joe Biden, giving him the opportunity to answer some of voters’ most pressing questions: What happened at the debate and, at the age of 81, is Biden cognitively sound enough to lead this country? Their conversation, which was filmed in Madison, … Read more

Court acquits 28 charged with money laundering in Panama Papers case

Court acquits 28 charged with money laundering in Panama Papers case

A court in Panama has acquitted 28 people charged with money laundering in connection with the Panama Papers scandal, BBC reported. The ruling brings to an end the trial that began in April. Among those exonerated were Jurgen Mossack and the late Ramon Fonseca, founder of Mossack Fonseca, the defunct law firm at the centre … Read more

ABC News boss Kim Godwin ‘badmouthing’ new boss was ‘last straw’: sources

ABC News boss Kim Godwin ‘badmouthing’ new boss was ‘last straw’: sources

Embattled ABC News president Kim Godwin stepped down after she was caught “badmouthing” her new boss — the “last straw” in a “confluence” of bad decisions that included the bungled firing of weatherman Rob Marciano last week, The Post has learned. Godwin — the first black person to lead a major network news division — … Read more

Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin steps down: sources

Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin steps down: sources

Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin announced she was calling it quits Sunday night as she faced heightened scrutiny from corporate superiors over her job performance — and months after she was stripped of much of her power, sources confirmed to The Post. “I have decided to retire from broadcast journalism,” Godwin said in a … Read more