False or misleading claims, access restrictions, attacks on press independence and erosion of democratic norms.
In a primetime address from the White House on July 16, 2026, President Trump said his administration was declassifying intelligence documents that he described as brand new and irrefutable evidence of election...
During his July 16, 2026 primetime address, President Trump said ABC and NBC had declined to carry the speech live and added that fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses. CBS and Fox were the only...
The White House scheduled a rare primetime address by President Trump for the evening of July 16, 2026, which Trump said would include a "very big announcement" about election security. According to reporting by Reuters...
Twelve state attorneys general, led by California's Rob Bonta, filed an antitrust suit in the Northern District of California on July 13, 2026 to block Paramount's roughly $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros...
On July 13, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a joint Defense Department and Justice Department task force to identify and prosecute unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information to the news media. Under...
The White House directed FBI Director Kash Patel to oversee a leak investigation into New York Times reporting about security gaps in the Qatari-donated Air Force One, according to people with knowledge of the matter...
The New York Times filed a countersuit on July 10, 2026 in the Southern District of New York against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that the agency's discrimination suit against the paper was...
On the evening of Friday, July 10, 2026, federal agents delivered grand jury subpoenas to New York Times journalists at their homes, the newspaper said. The four reporters bylined on a July 8 article about the...
On July 7, 2026, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, under Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, sent letters to election officials in at least 14 states — including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan...
On July 7, 2026, U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber ruled in favor of The Washington Post, dismissing a $3.8 billion defamation lawsuit that Trump Media and Technology Group had filed in 2023 over an article about a...