Brett Bachman

CNNCNN anchor Kaitlan Collins caught Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) flat-footed Wednesday night with a misdirection in her line of questioning on the current pro-Palestine protests roiling college campuses across the country.In a segment to kick off The Source, Collins quizzed the pro-Trump senator on his views regarding the relative value of free speech versus the safety and well-being of students whose lives have been disrupted by the protests on campus—to which Vance replied that police should only become involved if protesters are breaking the law.“My view on this is that Israel’s our ally, that we should support them, but you can’t police people for being anti-Israel or pro-Israel,” he said. “You can police people for violating the law, and we have seen some of that with some of these protests.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Fox NewsFormer Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway had some advice for her colleagues during a Fox News appearance Sunday morning, telling conspiracy theorists in the Republican Party that their repeated suggestion that former President Barack Obama is pulling the strings in the current White House may actually be counterproductive.She began her appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend by reflecting on the White House Correspondents dinner Saturday evening, where Trump was a popular target.Joe Biden, however, took his own share of the shots, something Conway seemed to revel in.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Zach Wilkinson-Pool/Getty ImagesBryan Kohberger has an alibi.That’s what lawyers for the accused quadruple murderer said in a court filing Wednesday, claiming he was “out driving” in order to “see the moon and stars” on the night four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death at a house near the school’s Moscow, Idaho campus in 2022.They plan to use cellphone tower data to argue that Kohberger was not at the home in question on the night of the murders, and was instead driving down a nearby road at the time.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Scanpix/Vegard Wivestad Grott/via ReutersConan O’Brien is set to make his triumphant return to NBC’s The Tonight Show for the first time since his firing from the program in 2010. He is making the April 9 stop to promote his new series on Max, called Conan O’Brien Must Go, which features the 60-year-old comedian traveling the world and speaking with “regular people he previously met on his podcast,” Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, according to the show’s description. O’Brien was unceremoniously cut from the late-night show more than a decade ago after the previous host, Jay Leno, was asked by NBC executives to return. O’Brien was originally offered to keep The Tonight Show name with a new, 12:05 a.m. time slot—which would have made way for Leno to reclaim his original show time. But O’Brien balked at the offer and left the network shortly after.Read more at The Daily Beast.