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    Fox News draws 5 million viewers for Rittenhouse interview; Nielsen week in review

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    In this image from undated video, Kyle Rittenhouse, right, sits for an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Rittenhouse was acquitted on charges stemming from killing two men and wounding another during the unrest that followed the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer, in Kenosha, Wis. (Courtesy of Fox News via AP)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Tucker Carlson reached 5.05 million viewers for his Kyle Rittenhouse interview on Monday, the Fox News Channel opinion host's largest audience since the night of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

    Rittenhouse was acquitted on murder charges last week  and Carlson was given the chance for the post-trial interview because of the support he had shown him, according to the 18-year-old's family.

    Carlson has averaged 3.16 million viewers on a typical night this year, the Nielsen company said.

    ABC News and Diane Sawyer had strong ratings for her Friday night interview with members of a California family held captive for many years by their parents. That "20/20" episode reached more than 7.4 million viewers.

    Fox broadcasting was the top-rated network in primetime last week, averaging 5.4 million viewers. NBC had 4.8 million, CBS had 4.5 million, ABC had 4.1 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Telemundo had 1 million and Ion Television had 880,000.

    Fox News Channel was the most-watched cable news channel in prime time, averaging 2.89 million viewers. ESPN had 2.31 million, Hallmark had 1.58 million, MSNBC had 1.18 million and HGTV had 893,000.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.3 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.2 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.4 million.

    For the week of Nov. 15-21, the 20 most popular programs in primetime, their networks and viewerships:

    1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh at L.A. Chargers, NBC, 14.55 million.
    2. NFL Football: New England at Atlanta, Fox, 13.52 million.
    3. "The OT," Fox, 11.6 million.
    4. "NFL Pregame," NBC, 11.2 million.
    5. NFL Football: L.A. Rams at San Francisco, ESPN, 10.7 million.
    6. "NFL Pregame," Fox, 8.59 million.
    7. "Football Night in America, Part 3," NBC, 8.54 million.
    8. "FBI," CBS, 7.61 million.
    9. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.58 million.
    10. "Yellowstone," Paramount, 7.42 million.
    11. "20/20," ABC, 7.41 million.
    12. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 6.95 million.
    13. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.78 million.
    14. "The Equalizer," CBS, 6.59 million.
    15. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 6.56 million.
    16. "FBI: International," CBS, 5.96 million.
    17. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.79 million.
    18. "Survivor," CBS, 5.77 million.
    19. "FBI: Most Wanted," CBS, 5.64 million.
    20. "NFL Pregame," ESPN, 5.5 million.

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    Weinstein rape accuser tells jury that “he just treated me like he owned me”

    Tuesday, April 28, 2026
    Jessica Mann arrives for Harvey Weinstein's trial in criminal court, in New York, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

    The woman at the center of Harvey Weinstein 's repeatedly retried rape case testified — for the third time — Tuesday that the former Hollywood honcho trapped her in a New York hotel room and assaulted her, ignoring her pleas not to do anything sexual.

    "I said 'no' over and over, and I tried to leave," Jessica Mann told jurors, sobbing. "He just treated me like he owned me."

    Mann, 40, is a hairstylist and actor. She's testifying six years after she first gave jurors her account of a consensual, if complicated, relationship that veered into rape.

    Weinstein — the Oscar-winning movie producer who became a symbol of the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct — looked on steadily, sometimes sipping water, as Mann detailed what she says he did to her in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013.

    Weinstein, now a 73-year-old prison inmate, denies sexually assaulting anyone and is appealing sex crime convictions stemming from other women's accusations on two U.S. coasts. His attorneys haven't yet had their chance to question Mann at this retrial but have argued that everything that happened between the two was consensual.

    He was convicted in 2020 of raping Mann, got the conviction overturned, then saw a jury deadlock on it at a retrial last year.

    Jurors watched intently, several with pens poised to take notes, as Mann delivered a second day of testimony that sometimes brought her to tears, as it did at the twoprior trials. At points Tuesday, she was asked whether she wanted a break, but she declined.

    Mann met Weinstein at a Los Angeles-area party around early 2013, when she had done some acting work but was hoping for a big break.

    He expressed interest in her career and followed up with get-togethers that bounced... Read More

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