MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories: He’s Doing It Again! George Soros Drops $50 Million to Buy 2026 Midterms Shocker: NPR Finds Liberal Billionaires to Bail Them Out to the Tune of $113 Million Comedy Shows Tell Zero Swalwell Jokes After Sexual Assault Allegations Special Report: 83% Left vs. 15% Right—Yahoo News Was Most Bipolar Big Four News App in March     He’s Doing It Again! George Soros Drops $50 Million to Buy 2026 Midterms George Soros has funneled another $50 million through his Fund for Policy Reform into Democracy PAC—the largest single donation for the 2026 midterms so far—continuing his role as the top Democratic kingmaker. Despite nominally handing control of his empire to son Alex, Soros remains the active force behind $170+ million spent in 2022 and $32 billion invested in “open society” causes that explicitly transcend national sovereignty. His money also bankrolls controversial outfits, including $80 million to pro-terrorism groups and $20 million to the “fake news” Courier Newsroom that organized radical anti-Trump boycotts.   Shocker: NPR Finds Liberal Billionaires to Bail Them Out to the Tune of $113 Million After Trump and Republicans ended federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR immediately landed a record $113 million in private gifts—the biggest since the 2003 Joan Kroc bequest—including $80 million from Microsoft co-founder Steve Ballmer’s wife Connie. The cash will upgrade NPR’s technology and help affiliates chase audiences and donations, proving the network thrives on liberal billionaire money without taxpayer support. NPR’s swift pivot to wealthy Democratic-aligned donors confirms what conservatives long argued: the “independent journalism” label was always a grift for guaranteed left-wing funding.   Comedy Shows Tell Zero Swalwell Jokes After Sexual Assault Allegations Late-night shows (Kimmel, Colbert, Daily Show) told zero jokes about Eric Swalwell’s rape allegations even as he was forced to drop his California gubernatorial bid and resign from Congress. Jimmy Kimmel’s only mention of Swalwell was a throwaway line used to tee up mockery of Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert—turning the Democrat’s scandal into a Republican punchline. The total silence stands in sharp contrast to the nonstop jokes these same hosts made about Trump, Kavanaugh, and every GOP sexual-misconduct claim, exposing their “speak truth to power” rule only applies to conservatives.   Special Report: 83% Left vs. 15% Right—Yahoo News Was Most Bipolar Big Four News App in March In March 2026, Yahoo News promoted 479 AllSides-rated stories in its top 20 daily stories, with 83% from left-leaning outlets and only 15% from right-leaning ones (almost entirely Fox News). Yahoo heavily featured radical left sources like Salon (56 stories) and The New Republic (11 stories), while virtually ignoring the top 50 right-leaning outlets except for minimal Fox coverage and just 2% center-rated stories. Compared to other major news apps, Yahoo offered the least balanced feed, with far fewer center stories than MSN (41%), Apple News (26%), or Google News (27%), raising concerns about shaping public opinion with a one-sided view.      

Sunday on CNN's State of the Union, Host Jake Tapper, grilled New York GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik on what he called genocidal remarks made by Donald Trump to Iran, attempting to equate them to the 'From The River To The Sea' chants which terrorized Jewish college students after October 7th.  Stefanik, author of Poison Ivies, a book about moral rot at our elite universities, who famously grilled college Presidents about anti-Semitism, and fresh off her appearance on CNN's The Situation Room, refused to be pushed around by Tapper, who spent the last 7 minutes of a nearly 16 minute interview on the same subject. He set it up this way.   TAPPER: You were praised by many in the Jewish community when you criticized the college presidents who refused to condemn students for chanting from the river to the sea, which many Jews interpret to be, and you agreed, you characterize as genocide a call for genocide to wipe out all the Jews in Israel from the river to the sea. So just to be clear, you believe that wiping out an entire civilization is genocidal, and nobody should make a call to do such a thing? STEFANIK: Yes of course. And they were off. TAPPER: What did you think when President Trump threatened to obliterate the entire Iranian civilization? STEFANIK: He was focusing on the Iranian regime And what did it do? It brought the Iranians to the table. It led to the cease fire. We know that President Trump has very strong statements when it comes to his tweets, but it has been targeted towards the Iranian terrorist regime.  TAPPER: He said the entire Iranian civilization will die. STEFANIK: He was focused on the Iranian terrorist regime....And President Trump is correct to call out the Iranian terrorist regime, which has financed Hamas and Hezbollah. Then came this outrageous comparison. TAPPER: It's interesting that a 20-year-old college kid on a campus yelling 'from the river to the sea,' that's worthy of condemnation. But a president of the United States who actually has.. Tapper had just attempted to diminish what Jewish college students had gone through, and Stefanik wasn't going to have it.  STEFANIK: Jake, you don't think it's worthy of condemnation of students that are targeting Jewish students, that are physically assaulting them, that are spitting in their face, that are drawing swastikas on their doors. These Jews who have to hire security. TAPPER: I don't need a lesson on what it's like to be a Jewish student.  Did Tapper ever suffer what Stefanik described in his years at Dartmouth? If he did, he should have specified. Stefanik and Tapper then accused each other of equivocating,  STEFANIK: I am not equivocating. I have been crystal clear in my condemnation. TAPPER: When it comes to college kids, but when it comes to a President threatening to wipe out an entire civilization, I'm saying you're applying two different standards here. STEFANIK: I've condemned genocide across the board....  President Trump didn't call for genocide Jake, you were putting those words in his mouth. Then Tapper then appeared to be wrapping the interview, as he held up her book: "Okay, agree to disagree, the book is..." But Stefanik wasn't ready to give in and say goodbye yet, taking another shot, "This is typical CNN." And she continued.    Tapper would then make a hard to believe claim about past guests on the show. TAPPER: We have people who actually supported the strikes against Iran. Iranian Americans and Iranian advocates on the show all the time. And they all were horrified when President Trump called for a genocide of the Iranians to, quote unquote, wipe out your entire civilization. These guests are on all the time? Who, when? He didn't say. Then Tapper again appeared to downplay what had taken place against Jewish students on campus.  TAPPER: I'm saying it's all bad. Calling for genocide, calling for wiping out civilizations. Whether it's some knucklehead on a college campus or Mahmoud Khalil or this person or that person or President Trump, all of it's bad. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, thanks so much. "Some knuckleheads" that were terrorizing Jewish students? Stefanik would not allow it to end on Tapper's terms. STEFANIK: President Trump was not calling for genocide, shame on CNN for saying that. TAPPER: I read the quote, thank you so much. Tapper referenced Trump's quote 11 times in a 7 minute interview, referring to it as a call for genocide 3 times in an attempt to equate terrorist supporting thugs on college campus's to our President's war strategy. He revealed himself further by belittling the suffering of Jewish students, and badgered his more than capable guest. Yes, this is CNN. 

On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW hosts Antonia Hylton and Charles Coleman Jr. combined for a remarkable escalation—from stylistic nitpicking to smearing an entire group of Christians as extremists. After opening with a polished aside about Trump’s recent use of "God is good," which she said had not previously been part of his ‘linguistic repertoire,’” Hylton quickly pivoted to a jaw-dropping—and wholly unsupported—claim: that Trump is surrounded by religious advisers who are “telling him that he is God,” or effectively God’s representative on Earth. Hylton offered no evidence for the assertion, presenting it instead as her personal “read” based on following “extremist” Christian figures. But she didn’t name a single adviser making such a claim—let alone anyone literally telling Trump he is God. The segment only escalated from there. Substitute co-host Charles Coleman Jr. took Hylton’s premise and broadened it into a blanket indictment, declaring that this supposed “brand of Christianity” is “undergirded with the notions of white nationalism and white supremacy.” Hylton agreed: “Oh yeah.” MS NOW: Trump’s Christian Advisers Tell Him ‘He Is God’ pic.twitter.com/1EcVVQ3A1K — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) April 19, 2026 So in the span of a single segment, MS NOW went from parsing Trump’s phrasing to portraying his Christian advisers as both blasphemous and racially extremist—without offering concrete evidence for either charge. The charge is also hard to square with reality. Trump’s most prominent faith adviser, Paula White, has long been associated with a racially diverse network of Pentecostal and Charismatic leaders, and for years pastored a congregation in which non-white members made up a majority. Hylton's supposed proof point? A lighthearted remark from Rep. Troy Nehls—who is not a spiritual adviser to Trump—saying the president is “better than sliced bread” and “almost a second coming.” “Almost,” of course, means not. And paired with a “sliced bread” setup, the line reads as obvious hyperbole, not theology. But Hylton treated it as evidence of “blasphemy,” asking, “Does it get any more blasphemous than that?” Back in the MSNBC days, no one blinked when Newsweek published a provocative Obama the "Second Coming" cover story in 2013, or when MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson suggested "Obama is Jesus" to many of his followers. From there, the conversation spiraled into broader claims about exclusionary, “white” Christianity supposedly threatened by the Pope’s more “inclusive” message. Lost in the rush to condemn was any attempt to substantiate the core accusation—that Trump’s advisers are telling him he is God—or to justify branding them as proponents of white supremacy. Here's the transcript. MS NOW The Weekend: Primetime 4/18/26 6:32 am EDT ANTONIA HYLTON: I've noticed in recent weeks that he has, just the way he speaks about himself has actually shifted. He started saying things like, God is good. Anyone who has actually spent their life going to church is familiar with that phrase.  CHARLES COLEMAN JR.: All the time.  HYLTON: All the time. That is not something that's been part of Trump's, you know, linguistic repertoire, I'll say, for the last several decades of his life. And so my read of it, because I follow a lot of the extremist sort of right-wing Christian figures around him, is that he's surrounded by people who are telling him that he is God. That he is basically their representative of God on Earth. Almost that he is their Pope, because the Pope is the vicar of Christ for for Catholics. And so, it's sort of filled his head with all of this, and so it he doesn't see this as something that actually is risky with that base. He sees it as very consistent with the message that he's sort of like symbiotically fed to and received back from that base that he has so depended on.  And I think evidence of that is like, listen to Congressman Troy Nels talking about the president on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Listen to this.  TROY NEHLS: I believe that Donald Trump is better than sliced bread. I think he's he's almost a second coming, in my humble opinion. I think he's done a fantastic job. He's got a very difficult job. Pope's got a tough job. You know, got issues in the church. But Donald Trump has a very, very difficult job to do. The toughest job in the world.  HYLTON: The second coming. That is a reference to the second coming of Christ. Yeah. I mean, does it get any more blasphemous than that?  . . .  COLEMAN: I think that there's also another really important point that a lot of people don't necessarily want to touch on, and that is, Antonia, you talked about the sort of connection that he has to this community. But it's important to understand that this is a brand of Christianity, if you want to call it that, that is very much so undergirded with the notions of white nationalism and white supremacy -- HYLTON: Oh yeah. COLEMAN: Which is how it goes, which is how it works.  And so that's one of the very, very ugly parts of what's not being discussed here. Is that for everything that you want to talk about in terms of how sanctimonious you might feel you are being, or how blasphemous he may be being in this moment, the underlying theme here is that this is a ideology that is intended to push out other and to other as many people as possible for a very select group of people in the United States.  HYLTON: And I think that's part of why they find the Pope's message so disturbing to them, because they are putting forward a version of Christianity that is white, very male-centered, whereas the Pope is incredibly inclusive, and he's traveling through Africa right now. 

With the clock ticking on the two week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, and the 10 day halt to hostilities between Israel and Lebanon, the leftist media has been working overtime to convince viewers that Trump will cave, and in the end, Iran will be able to claim victory, Israel dragged Donald Trump into the war, and has been gratuitously bombing Lebanon. But Friday on Fox News's Hannity, fellow Host Mark Levin was unafraid in destroying those narratives and looking into the future. After being introduced by Sean Hannity, Levin went on an extended monologue, starting with Iran. LEVIN: Only Donald Trump could do this, only Donald Trump could bring us to this point and he's the only one who did. The Iranians are on their back, and they're gonna cut a deal with Donald Trump, and he's gonna cut a very tough deal with them. My concern is when Donald Trump leaves. You hear these Democrats....if they become president who's gonna uphold the deal? I'm very worried about that. They're not gonna send the military in, they're isolationist, they're anti-American, and their base won't allow them to do it. What about if it's another Republican? We have an isolationist wing among the Republicans. I don't see anybody doing what Donald Trump has done, they didn't do it before and they're not going to do it after. And I'm worried about that and I think the Iranians are thinking about that too.  Levin then made this analogy, and urged that Trump himself finish the job. LEVIN: You know at the end of WWll,  Patton, after we defeated Germany and all, he said, let's finish off the Russians. They said why, because our military is here, we're gonna have to do it one day anyway. Our military is there.  I'm a  commentator and that's why I will never be president like Donald Trump. I say we're there, let's finish them off. People can call me whatever they wish. In the next breath, Levin turned to Israel's battle with Hezbollah, first giving viewers a short history lesson. LEVIN: Lebanon is a surrogate of Iran. That is Hezbollah, I should say. Hezbollah in 1982 was basically sent to Lebanon to populate it, to secrete itself into its culture, into  government, into its politics, to destroy it. Lebanon was a majority Christian country, now it's majority Muslim country. Hezbollah controls Lebanon. If there's a cease fire between Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel and the Lebanese government and their President, that's fine but that has nothing to do with the problem which is Hezbollah, in my opinion. Why is Israel in Lebanon? Because they like to bomb buildings? No they don't want to bomb buildings, There was a ceasefire in 2024. Hezbollah violated it. They've shot 6700 rockets and missiles into Israel. Next he presented a perspective that the left wing media will never speak to. LEVIN: They've (Israel) had to relocate over 100,000 of their citizens and that's what Hezbollah is doing they're a terrorist organization. Iran has desperately lobbied to protect Hezbollah from the Israelis, who are trying to wipe it out and are close to wiping it out. So if we tell Israel, you're not bombing any more buildings, I'm Hezbollah, where do I go Sean? Into the buildings. If we say, no more, no more, then somebody's going to  have to disarm Hezbollah, who's going to do it?....And Israel's done a tremendous amount to degrade them. But if they're not going to disarm and defeat them, and the Lebanese army isn't going to disarm them and defeat them then it's on us. Levin finished with a dose of reality. LEVIN: And I'm just curious, is that really what we want to do and how are we gonna accomplish that? And furthermore, if I'm another country like Israel and they keep firing missiles into my country, I don't care what anybody says. Would we? If missiles were flying into our country from Canada, what would we do? We'd go and take care of business once and for all, wipe them the hell out. With all of the one-sided anti-Trump, anti-Israel coverage that permeates MS NOW, CNN and occasionally Fox News's The Five, Mark Levin's educational, unafraid, and refreshing rant is a slap in the face to them all.  

USA Today was mocked as “McPaper” when it debuted in the 1980s, that it was News Lite, an easy read for easily distracted people. Sometimes, it lives up to that, like in a gushy “you go-girl” profile of CNN host Abby Phillip. The headline was “Abby Phillip remains calm amid political chaos on CNN's NewsNight.” But the introduction from young reporter Jay Stahl was a sugar overload, as she was allowed to compare her primetime pundits with her four-year-old's behavior: Abby Phillip prefers to lead a life of softness. She bakes homemade sourdough bread and dreams of attending culinary school. Her favorite dish to prepare is beef short rib à la Martha Stewart. Phillip longs to play the piano again, a hobby she first took up at 5. Now 37, she spends any free time she can grasp away from the swarm of New York City’s bar-crawling social scene. On one recent March morning, she compared her role managing a rotating panel of liberals and conservatives on her sometimes-combative CNN show to her off-air priorities: raising her 4-year-old daughter, Naomi. "One of the things that you learn pretty early on is that if you match their energy with your energy, things just spiral out of control," Phillip told USA TODAY from her New York abode last month. "So sometimes you have to just sort of get people's attention calmly." Later, that promotional theme repeats. "It helps that I'm the person who's not doing what everybody else is doing at the table and is remaining calm ... It's just how I actually go through the world," Phillip said. She loved this article: Thanks for this great feature @USATODAY and Jay Stahl! https://t.co/GZ0JwrI9UF — Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) April 18, 2026 The McPaper's Reporter of Color is here to celebrate the Woman of Color, but they really go hard in noting that Phillip's 10 p.m. show is in "primetime," unlike the other black women hosting programs. This was the subheadline:  Phillip – the only Black woman to helm a primetime news program in the most coveted block of news programming – garners praise for keeping her cool as host amid the show's heated hour-long runtime. Then, in Stahl's story, they admit there are other black women hosting TV shows at night:  Phillip – the only Black woman to helm a primetime news program in the United States – has garnered praise for keeping her cool amid the show's heated hour-long runtime. Symone Sanders Townsend co-anchors The Weeknight on MS NOW at 7 p.m. and Laura Coates Live follows Phillip's program at 11 p.m. ET. But Phillip's show NewsNight occupies the most coveted three-hour block of evening programming to viewers. Stahl can't mention Fox News host Harris Faulkner in daytime. Maybe young Jay doesn't know who that is. Somehow, Phillip is held out as the Marquee Talent/Role Model for black girls:  It is rare for somebody like Phillip to become marquee talent on a broadcast like "NewsNight." There are no others who look like her – a Black woman – and none in her age bracket except Kaitlan Collins, 34, a CNN counterpart and personal friend. Ava Thompson Greenwell, a Northwestern University journalism professor whose research explores Black women behind the scenes in the TV industry, said, "The reality is she is representing for a lot of Black women, and I think she does a great job."