Tag: press freedom
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The Department of Homeland Security released a final rule on July 16, 2026 imposing fixed admission periods on foreign students, exchange visitors and journalists, ending the longstanding practice of admitting them for...
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...
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, 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...