Democratic presidential candidates held a town hall on LGBTQ issues on Thursday night with most candidates focusing on transgender rights. 
CNN moderator Chris Cuomo on Thursday night mocked the practice of sharing one's personal pronouns during an exchange with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) at a town hall on gay rights. 
Protesters interrupted South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg (D., Ind.) during his appearance at CNN’s Equality town hall Thursday night.
CNN is refusing to air a new Donald Trump campaign ad that spotlights former vice president Joe Biden's role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating an energy company that hired Hunter Biden, with the network complaining that the ad "disparages" CNN employees. 
CNN counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd called Rep. Jamie Raskin’s (D., Md.) press conference a “hot mess.”
Rodents are raining from the ceiling of the White House press room. Maybe it's a metaphor for how the media, especially of the cable news variety, has become a plague of absurdity, an endless circle jerk of extraneous "analysis" and soul-crushing tedium. 
The family of a young girl who claimed to be the victim of a hate crime at a Virginia Christian school admitted Monday that she invented the incident. 
This week on the Sunday news shows: Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif) explained the impeachment process will not take long, Hilary Clinton said Trump knows he's an illegitimate president, and Robert De Niro said '"f— 'em" about Fox News critics during a CNN interview. 
Actor Robert de Niro cursed out critics on Fox News of his past strident language against Donald Trump on Sunday, saying "f—" them during a CNN interview. 
Presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) blamed oil sanctions for Iran's attack on vital oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, justifying it as a "retaliatory attack." 