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Fox News
3 days ago
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Fox News beats ABC, NBC, CBS during weekday primetime while CNN has lowest-rated week of year
Fox News Channel beat all broadcast networks in a key metric last week as CNN had its lowest-rated week of the year. Fox News averaged 2.7 million viewers during primetime on weekdays from May 26-30, compared to 2.4 million for NBC, 2.4 million for CBS and 2.3 million for ABC. While Fox News prevailed against the trio of broadcast networks, it also obliterated CNN. Fox News averaged 1.5 million total day viewers from May 26 through June 1, compared to a dismal 308,000 for CNN. During primetime, Fox News averaged 2.3 million viewers while CNN settled for only 374,000. It was much of the same among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 25-54, as Fox News delivered 175,000 total day demo viewers and 240,000 during primetime, compared to 49,000 total day and 61,000 primetime demo viewers for CNN. CNN finished with its worst week of the year across both primetime and total day as Fox News had its highest cable news share since inauguration week. Along the way, the top 100 cable news telecasts for the week all aired on Fox News. "The Five" averaged 3.7 million total viewers and 409,000 in the critical demo to lead cable news in both categories. "Special Report with Bret Baier," "The Ingraham Angle," "Jesse Watters Primetime," "Hannity," "FOX News @ Night," "Gutfeld!," "Outnumbered," "The Will Cain Show," "America's Newsroom," "America Reports" and Harris Faulkner's "The Faulkner Focus" all had strong weeks, too, to help Fox News crush CNN. Ratings data courtesy of Nielsen Media Research.
France 24
07-05-2025
- Business
- France 24
China vows to defend 'justice' in looming trade talks with US
Since Trump returned to the White House in January, his administration has levied new tariffs totalling 145 percent on goods from China, with some sector-specific measures stacked on top. Beijing retaliated by slapping 125 levies on US imports to China, along with more targeted measures. This week's talks mark the first official public engagement between the world's two largest economies to resolve that trade war. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer will attend the talks on behalf of the United States, their offices said. Bessent told Fox News that the sides would hold meetings on Saturday and Sunday intended to lay the groundwork for future negotiations. "We will agree what we're going to talk about. My sense is that this will be about de-escalation, not about the big trade deal," Bessent told "The Ingraham Angle" show. "We've got to de-escalate before we can move forward," he added. Vice Premier He Lifeng will attend on Beijing's behalf, China's foreign ministry announced. Beijing's commerce ministry vowed the country would "defend justice" and stand by its principles during the talks. "If the US wants to resolve the issue through negotiations, it must face up to the serious negative impact of unilateral tariff measures on itself and the world," a ministry's spokesperson said. "If the US talks in one way and acts in another, or even attempts to continue to coerce and blackmail China under the guise of talks, China will never agree," they added. Beijing, the spokesperson vowed, would not "sacrifice its principled position and international fairness and justice to seek any agreement." The USTR announced that Greer would also meet with "his counterpart from the People's Republic of China to discuss trade matters," without naming He. The tit-for-tat tariffs have left the two nations with cripplingly high levies that have shocked financial markets and reportedly caused a sharp slowdown in bilateral trade. "This isn't sustainable, as I have said before, especially on the Chinese side. 145 percent, 125 percent is the equivalent of an embargo. We don't want to decouple. What we want is fair trade," Bessent said. © 2025 AFP
Fox News
16-04-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Trump administration refers NY AG Letitia James for possible prosecution over allegations of mortgage fraud
New York Attorney General Letitia James has been hit with shocking allegations by the Trump administration, accusing her of mortgage fraud. In documents obtained by Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, accusing James of mortgage fraud. FHFA Director William Pulte said in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that James appears to have falsified records in order to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms. Pulte cited a property in Virginia that James allegedly claimed as her principal residence, and a property in New York that she claimed as a four-unit structure instead of five, which he said could mean she was able to get a different and more favorable loan. Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told Ingraham the irony of James getting accused of falsifying records is "perfectly crushing." "This is a person who prosecuted Trump for everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, and among the charges that were brought in New York, in just the civil but the criminal case, was making false or misleading statements to financial institutions," Turley said. "As for James, if we apply the Letitia James standard that she created, there'd be little question here. This seems pretty straightforward." He explained that the Trump administration is saying this was not her principal residence because, as a New York elected official, she has to say her principal residence is in New York. James is also accused of stating that her father is her husband in order to file as a married couple, Turley added. "The Supreme Court just stated earlier in March, in a case called Thompson, that they want to see knowing false statements under sections like 10-14, not just misleading statements," Turley said. "These are misleading statements: either it's your principal residence or it's not. Either you're married to your father or he's your father." The DOJ and James did not respond to Fox News on the matter. The issue has been prosecuted in the past, but as Turley said on the Ingraham Angle, the "documents themselves are quite damning." The New York Post reported that the documents show that the property James purchased with her father had both parties listed as "husband and wife" in 1983 and 2000. "While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James representations on mortgage applications," Pulte reportedly wrote. James brought forth a civil fraud suit against President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and its senior leadership in 2022, frequently sitting in the courtroom throughout the proceedings, and celebrated the prosecution of Trump in the Manhattan criminal trial over the 34 counts of falsifying business records. Trump was ordered to pay a $454 million civil fraud judgment in James' lawsuit against him, which is currently on appeal. So far in 2025, James has spearheaded at least five legal actions against the Trump administration, including leading a coalition of state attorneys general to sue the federal government to halt DOGE's access to the Treasury Department's internal systems, as well as another lawsuit related to the Trump admin slashing grant funding to research institutions and universities.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ken Paxton eyes John Cornyn's Senate seat. Here's what the polls show
The Brief Recent polls show voters are more favorable towards Ken Paxton compared to Sen. John Cornyn. Paxton announced he was running for US Senate Tuesday night. Paxton and Cornyn have sparred for the past few years with Paxton teasing a Senate run against Cornyn. DALLAS - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton officially announced his bid for US Senate on Tuesday, bringing a Republican primary challenge to incumbent John Cornyn. Paxton has teased a Senate run since shortly after his acquittal in his 2023 impeachment trial. Recent polls suggest that Paxton has a good chance at upending Texas' senior senator in 2026. By the numbers In early April, the Texas Politics Project released job approval trends for Paxton and Cornyn. In February, 37% of those polled said they did not approve of the job Cornyn was doing in the Senate, while 30% said they approved with 33% saying they either didn't know or they didn't approve or disapprove. Paxton's numbers in February were better, with 34% of those polled saying they disapproved of the job Paxton was doing as attorney general, while 37% approved and 29% saying they didn't know or didn't approve or disapprove. Among Republicans and independents polled by the Texas Politics Project, Paxton appears to be the preferred candidate. Polling found 27% of Republicans polled and 8% of independents strongly approved of Paxton and another 35% of Republicans and 14% of independents somewhat approved. In those same groups, 17% of Republicans and 1% of independents strongly approved of Cornyn, and 32% of Republicans and 10% of independents somewhat approved. In March, Texas Public Opinion Research, which describes itself as a nonpartisan initiative that studies Texans' beliefs, attitudes, values and policy preferences, surveyed 700 registered voters on a variety of issues, including favorability ratings for several well-known political figures in the state. The group's polling shows only 21% of voters polled had a favorable opinion of Cornyn, while 43% had an unfavorable opinion. In the same poll, 35% of voters held a favorable opinion of Paxton, while 40% had an unfavorable opinion. What they're saying Paxton made the announcement on the Ingraham Angle on Tuesday night. "It's definitely time for a change in Texas. We have a great US Senator in Ted Cruz and it's time we have another great Senator that will actually stand up and fight for Republican values, the values of the people of Texas and also support Donald Trump in a very significant way," said Paxton. After the TV appearance, Paxton released a statement. "I'm running for U.S. Senate to fight for President Trump's agenda and take a sledgehammer to the D.C. establishment," he said. "John Cornyn has been in Washington for over two decades, and he has turned his back on President Trump and the America First agenda time after time. He's said President Trump's 'time has passed him by' and called President Trump's border wall 'naive.' Texans deserve far better than a Senator who thinks it's 'naive' to build a border wall to protect our citizens. It's crystal clear that it's time for a change. I'm a battle-tested Attorney General and conservative warrior who's secured major victories against the establishment, the corrupt Biden Administration, and woke corporations. Now, I'm ready to take that same toughness to the U.S. Senate." Ken Paxton has been a controversial figure in Texas politics. Timeline Paxton was indicted on state securities fraud charges in 2015. He was accused of duping investors in a tech startup near Dallas before he was elected attorney general. In 2024, Paxton reached a deal to have the felony counts against him dropped. In exchange, Paxton was required to make full restitution to victims — roughly $300,000 — and must also complete 100 hours of community service and 15 hours of legal ethics education. In Oct. 2020, some of Paxton's aides went to the FBI, alleging that the attorney general used his office to help his friend and donor, Austin real estate developer Nate Paul. Paul also employed a woman with whom Paxton acknowledged having had an extramarital affair. The Justice Department made the decision not to prosecute Paxton during the final weeks of the Biden administration, according to the Associated Press. The allegations were at the center of Paxton's impeachment by the Texas House in 2023 on articles of bribery and abuse of public trust. He was acquitted by the Texas Senate in the political trial. Last week, a Travis County judge ordered Paxton to pay the aides that reported him to the FBI $6.6 million for violating the Texas Whistleblower Act. The whistleblowers were fired a month after they made the report. Paxton is expected to appeal the ruling. Cornyn's campaign responded to Paxton's announcement on Tuesday night. "Ken Paxton is a fraud. He talks tough on crime and then lets crooked progressive Lina Hildago off the hook. He says his impeachment trial was a sham but he didn't contest the facts in legal filings which will cost the state millions. He says he's anti-woke but he funnels millions of taxpayer dollars to lawyers who celebrate DEI. And Ken claims to be a man of faith but uses fake Uber accounts to meet his girlfriend and deceive his family," said a spokesperson for the Cornyn campaign. "This will be a spirited campaign and we assure Texans they will have a real choice when this race is over." In an interview with FOX 4's Steven Dial last week, Cornyn said he has always had a contested primary and looks forward to the challenge. The backstory Senator John Cornyn announced he was running for a fifth term in the Senate late last month. Cornyn has not lost an election in Texas. He was elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1990, won an attorney general race in 1998 and then defeated a crowded field to become US Senator in 2002. Paxton and Cornyn have publicly taken shots at each other in recent years. Cornyn spoke out against Paxton ahead of the attorney general's political trial, saying he was troubled by the allegations against the attorney general. After his acquittal, Paxton turned his sights against Cornyn. Paxton has consistently referred to Cornyn as a RINO, or a "Republican in name only." "I've seen how guys like John Cornyn have represented the State of Texas and not represented us, I think it's time somebody needs to step up and run against this guy that will do the job and do it the right way," Paxton told former FOX News host Tucker Carlson. In his campaign announcement video in March, Cornyn touted backing President Trump more than 95 percent of Senators during his first term. Paxton responded to the video, asking Cornyn "Are you delusional?" Cornyn replied saying, "I'm not." In February, Paxton called Cornyn "anti-Trump" and "anti-gun" in a post calling for a primary challenge to Cornyn on social media. "Hard to run from prison, Ken," Cornyn responded. Paxton hit back at Cornyn after news came out that the Justice Department had stopped pursuing charges against him. The attorney general shared a screenshot of the article from the AP saying "Care to comment now, John?" What's next: The 2026 elections will be important in Texas. In addition to voting for US Senate, Texans will have an opportunity to vote for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, among several other positions. Primary elections will be held in March with runoff elections in May. The Source Information on polling numbers comes from the Texas Politics Project and Texas Public Opinion Research. Information in this article about the upcoming Senate primary comes from the Ingraham Angle, Ken Paxton and US Senator John Cornyn.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ken Paxton announces run for US Senate
The Brief Ken Paxton is challenging John Cornyn in a race for US Senate. Paxton has been Attorney General of Texas since 2015. John Cornyn has served as US Senator since 2002. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he is running for John Cornyn's US Senate seat in 2026. What they're saying Paxton made the announcement on the Ingraham Angle on Tuesday night. "It's definitely time for a change in Texas. We have a great US Senator in Ted Cruz and it's time we have another great Senator that will actually stand up and fight for Republican values, the values of the people of Texas and also support Donald Trump in a very significant way," said Paxton. After the TV appearance, Paxton's released a statement. "I'm running for U.S. Senate to fight for President Trump's agenda and take a sledgehammer to the D.C. establishment," he said. "John Cornyn has been in Washington for over two decades, and he has turned his back on President Trump and the America First agenda time after time. He's said President Trump's 'time has passed him by' and called President Trump's border wall 'naive.' Texans deserve far better than a Senator who thinks it's 'naive' to build a border wall to protect our citizens. It's crystal clear that it's time for a change. I'm a battle-tested Attorney General and conservative warrior who's secured major victories against the establishment, the corrupt Biden Administration, and woke corporations. Now, I'm ready to take that same toughness to the U.S. Senate." The backstory Paxton has not been shy about discussing a potential run for Senate. The attorney general openly considered the possibility in an interview shortly after he was acquitted in his 2023 impeachment trial. During his time as attorney general, Paxton has made a name for himself nationally, with several high-profile lawsuits against the Biden administration, and companies like Meta and Google. Prior to becoming attorney general, Paxton was a member of the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate. Paxton will be allowed to continue as attorney general while running for Senate. Ken Paxton has been a controversial figure in Texas politics. Timeline Paxton was indicted on state securities fraud charges in 2015. He was accused of duping investors in a tech startup near Dallas before he was elected attorney general. In 2024, Paxton reached a deal to have the felony counts against him dropped. In exchange, Paxton was required to full restitution to victims — roughly $300,000 — and must also complete 100 hours of community service and 15 hours of legal ethics education. In Oct. 2020, some of Paxton's aides went to the FBI, alleging that the attorney general used his office to help his friend and donor, Austin real estate developer Nate Paul. Paul also employed a woman with whom Paxton acknowledged having had an extramarital Justice Department made the decision not prosecute Paxton during the final weeks of the Biden administration, according to the Associated Press. The allegations were at the center of Paxton's impeachment by the Texas House in 2023 on articles of bribery and abuse of public trust. He was acquitted by the Texas Senate in the political trial. Last week, a Travis County judge ordered Paxton to pay the aides that reported him to the FBI $6.6 million for violating the Texas Whistleblower Act. The whistleblowers were fired a month after they made the report. Paxton is expected to appeal the ruling. What they're saying Cornyn's campaign responded to Paxton's announcement on Tuesday night. "Ken Paxton is a fraud. He talks tough on crime and then lets crooked progressive Lina Hildago off the hook. He says his impeachment trial was a sham but he didn't contest the facts in legal filings which will cost the state millions. He says he's anti-woke but he funnels millions of taxpayer dollars to lawyers who celebrate DEI. And Ken claims to be a man of faith but uses fake Uber accounts to meet his girlfriend and deceive his family," said a spokesperson for the Cornyn campaign. "This will be a spirited campaign and we assure Texans they will have a real choice when this race is over." In an interview with FOX 4's Steven Dial last week, Cornyn said he has always had a contested primary and looks forward to the challenge. The backstory Senator John Cornyn announced he was running for a fifth term in the Senate late last month. Cornyn has not lost an election in Texas. He was elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1990, won an attorney general race in 1998 and then defeated a crowded field to become US Senator in 2002. Paxton and Cornyn have publicly taken shots at each other in recent years. Cornyn spoke out against Paxton ahead of the attorney general's political trial, saying he was troubled by the allegations against the attorney general. After his acquittal, Paxton turned his sights against Cornyn. Paxton has consistently referred to Cornyn as a RINO, or a "Republican in name only." "I've seen how guys like John Cornyn have represented the State of Texas and not represented us, I think it's time somebody needs to step up and run against this guy that will do the job and do it the right way," Paxton told former FOX News host Tucker Carlson. In his campaign announcement video in March, Cornyn touted backing President Trump more than 95 percent of Senators during his first term. Paxton responded to the video, asking Cornyn "Are you delusional?" Cornyn replied saying, "I'm not." In February, Paxton called Cornyn "anti-Trump" and "anti-gun" in a post calling for primary challenge to Cornyn on social media. "Hard to run from prison, Ken," Cornyn responded. Paxton hit back at Cornyn after news came out that the Justice Department had stopped pursuing charges against him. The attorney general shared a screenshot of the article from the AP saying "Care to comment now, John?" What's next The 2026 elections will be important in Texas. In addition to voting for US Senate, Texans will have an opportunity to vote for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, among several other positions. Primary elections will be held in March with runoff elections in May. The Source Information in this article comes from the Ingraham Angle, Ken Paxton and US Senator John Cornyn.
