False or misleading claims, access restrictions, attacks on press independence and erosion of democratic norms.
A whistleblower complaint made public Sept. 1 alleges the Postal Service built the ballot-verification portal required by Trump's March executive order through a "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process." The...
Reuters reported Aug. 31 that the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor plans to spend $4 million to bolster right-wing media in Europe, citing four people familiar with the funding. Three...
Overnight after the Aug. 30 exchange of strikes with Iran, Trump posted what NPR described as an apparently AI-generated video of a large oil facility being hit by missiles, captioned "Kharg Island being blown to...
The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon has placed several retired officers with large social-media followings into undisclosed government roles while they amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's positions and...
Trump wrote on social media Sunday that Kristen Welker, moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," would be "reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment" after she described his primary endorsement record as producing "mixed...
Google said in a blog post Saturday that Google Maps would begin showing Lake Ontario as "Lake America" for users in the United States, following Trump's Thursday executive order directing the Interior Department to...
Gov. Mark Gordon said he has asked Wyoming Attorney General Keith Kautz to look into the conduct of two Justice Department Civil Rights Division attorneys who monitored the Aug. 18 primary in Laramie County, which...
The Justice Department on Aug. 28, 2026 edited a press release it had issued two days earlier about a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group it calls QTFY. The original Aug. 26 release described the Senate, the Federal...
The Pentagon agreed on Aug. 28, 2026 to keep three Stars and Stripes employees on administrative leave for another week so a court could consider their wrongful-termination suit. Editor in Chief Erik Slavin, Middle East...
Documents obtained by the Associated Press and The Guardian through a Reporters Committee lawsuit include a Jan. 20, 2019 letter from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of Children's Health Defense, to Samoa's prime...