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    MSNBC’s Ratings Rise; Nielsen Week In Review

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    This image released by NBC shows Rachel Maddow, host of "The Rachel Maddow Show," on MSNBC. (MSNBC via AP)

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    With President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey the week’s big story, MSNBC had one of its best ratings weeks in memory – perhaps an ominous sign for troubled Fox News Channel.

    MSNBC topped Fox among the 25-to-54-year-old age demographic for the first time since the week of Dec. 29, 2008, just after Barack Obama’s first election, the Nielsen company said. Although the majority of cable news viewers are older than that, the demographic takes on outsize importance because advertisers pay a premium for the younger viewers.

    Fox won the week when everyone is counted, with 2.6 million viewers on the weekdays. But MSNBC has crept much closer, finishing with 2.39 million viewers with the help of a primetime lineup led by Rachel Maddow. CNN had 1.32 million viewers last week, Nielsen said.

    It’s a time of opportunity for rivals of Fox News, long the dominant cable news network, because of last month’s firing of Bill O’Reilly, Fox’s most popular personality, who lost his job after it was revealed the network was paying millions of dollars in settlements to women who charged him with harassment. O’Reilly has denied the charges, saying he was the victim of a determined liberal campaign. Tucker Carlson leads Fox’s new prime-time lineup.

    Between 2008 and 2016, Fox News beat MSNBC by an average of 1.42 million viewers each week – and last week the margin sunk to just over 200,000.

    With the exception of two weeks won by MSNBC during the Democratic conventions in 2016 and 2012 – when Fox’s predominantly conservative audience found reasons to be away from the TV – the closest MSNBC had been to Fox in total viewers was losing by a margin of 178,000 viewers in April 2001, Nielsen said. CNN has beaten Fox in total viewers six times over the past two years.

    In the big picture, below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 8-14. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “NCIS,” CBS, 13.39 million.

    2. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 12.99 million.

    3. “Bull,” CBS, 11.04 million.

    4. “The Big Bang Theory” (special), CBS, 10.16 million.

    5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.961 million.

    6. “Dancing with the Stars” (Monday), ABC, 9.955 million.

    7. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 9.40 million.

    8. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 9.34 million.

    9. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 9.01 million.

    10. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 8.69 million.

    11. “Survivor,” CBS, 8.30 million.

    12. “Hawaii Five-O,” CBS, 8.22 million.

    13. “Mom,” CBS, 8.12 million.

    14. “Criminal Minds,” CBS, 8.11 million.

    15. “Madam Secretary,” CBS, 7.83 million.

    16. “Scorpion,” CBS, 7.52 million.

    17. “Little Big Shots,” NBC, 7.34 million.

    18. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 7.02 million.

    19. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.01 million.

    20. “Empire,” Fox, 6.31 million

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    Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ Murder Trial Heads To Closing In Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Killing

    Friday, August 28, 2026

    The murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur is headed to closing arguments after the defense rested Thursday following testimony from three former Las Vegas police officers.

    Jurors are scheduled to return Monday for closing arguments before beginning deliberations in the only prosecution brought in the killing of the hip-hop icon. The presentation of evidence ended after nine days of testimony.

    Davis, 63, did not take the stand.

    Shakur was riding in a BMW on Sept. 7, 1996, when a white Cadillac pulled up next to it at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip and gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. The driver of the BMW, Marion "Suge" Knight, survived.

    Years later, Davis would say he procured the gun and his nephew, who has since died, fired the shots. Prosecutors say Davis orchestrated the killing, and he faces life in prison if convicted of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. He has pleaded not guilty.

    Defense attorney Michael Sanft has argued that Davis fabricated or embellished his accounts of the killing for money and notoriety and that investigators failed to independently corroborate his claims.

    Retired Las Vegas homicide detective Dan Long, the defense's final witness, testified that he tried unsuccessfully to verify several details Davis provided during a 2009 police interview.

    Davis told Long that his nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, had gone to a Las Vegas hospital after being beaten by Shakur and others in a casino brawl hours before the rapper was fatally shot. Long said he was unable to find hospital records confirming Anderson was treated there.

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