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Former President Donald Trump's White House asked Twitter to censor one of Chrissy Teigen's tweets after she referred to him as a "p---y ass b---h," an ex-Twitter employee told a congressional hearing Wednesday.
“My management believes they did the right thing as service to the American people,” Amanpour told the crowd during her Columbia Journalism School commencement speech.
On the Christmas morning of 2018, Trump at the time had an impromptu news conference at the White House and was clearly lacking the holiday spirit.
Hillyard had questioned Elise Stefanik about the E. Jean Carroll case.
Former White House aide and CNN contributor David Axelrod on Friday criticized President Biden for snapping at a reporter for the network who earlier asked about concerns regarding his memory and age. “Donald Trump is a gaffe-machine himself, but because he is energetic these questions are not as profound for him,” Axelrod said Friday. More…
The New York Times has been criticized over the past several months for its constant coverage of President Joe Biden and his age without giving Donald Trump the same treatment despite what other reports categorize as mental decline. But over the weekend, it got considerably worse when the Times did ...
A journalist was reportedly ejected from a Colorado Republican event after the state GOP chairman determined her reporting was "unfair."Ernest Lee Luning, who covers politics in Colorado at coloradopolitics.com, flagged the development involving Sandra Fish of the Colorado Sun. According to the Sun'...
Former President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson's Mar-a-Lago press conference Friday was met with almost immediate scorn from a slew of social media skeptics. Trump and Johnson's national address focused on an "election integrity" bill the two Republicans argued was necessary to prevent "hund...
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked.
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden delivered an election-year roast on Saturday night at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as protesters outside criticised his support...
TV talking heads — reading word for word off their prompters — are dissecting, excoriating Donald: liar, narcissist, etc., etc., blah, blah.
With no cameras recording Donald Trump’s criminal trial, anchors and producers are improvising to animate dramatic moments like Michael Cohen’s testimony.
The White House Correspondents' Association criticized CNN for not including White House pool reporters in the studio during the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Despite requests, CNN only allowed one print reporter to observe briefly during a commercial break. Both campaigns had agreed to the request.
The White House Correspondents' Association criticized CNN for denying requests to include White House pool reporters in the studio for the Biden-Trump presidential debate. Despite CNN allowing limited access to one print reporter and photographers, the exclusion raises concerns about press freedom and future debates.
Those with an interest can find several exhaustive, independent fact checks of claims made by Joe Biden and Donald Trump during their televised debate on Thursday night.
President Joe Biden has left many Democrats concerned that he is not their best chance to defeat Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Audience number is about 30% lower than the 73 million people who watched the candidates’ first face-off in 2020
CNN did the country no favors on Thursday night.
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Staying the course may risk handing the election to Trump
It's a DefCon 1 level of panic throughout the party as Democrats process that, if the presidential election were held today, Donald Trump would win in a landslide — but Joe Biden refuses to bow out.
Former President Donald Trump has inched ahead of President Biden in the first national poll since the incumbent’s disastrous CNN debate.
MSNBC viewers took to social media on Sunday to slam the network, as well as one of its hosts, for letting a Donald Trump surrogate "steamroll" through an interview without much pushback. Jason Miller, senior advisor to the 2024 Trump campaign, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he was in...
It was his first public appearance since Ms Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris will face off in a US presidential debate on 10 September, according to television network ABC.
U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Kamala Harris will debate on September 10th. This marks their first face-to-face encounter in a close race. Harris's rapid rise in the polls has reshaped the contest, as both candidates prepare for additional debates and recalibrate their campaign strategies.
ABC News says that both Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic counterpart, Kamala Harris, have agreed to meet in a debate on Sept. 10.
As expected, Biden and former President Donald Trump cruised to victory in their respective primary campaigns to set up an election rematch in 2024.
Wiles, who will be the first woman to serve in the role, helped to manage Trump’s successful run for the US presidency
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday offered a public show of support for Pete Hegseth, his embattled choice to lead the Defense Department, whose confirmation by the Senate is in doubt as he faces questions over allegations of excessive drinking, sexual assault and his views on women in combat.
US president-elect Donald Trump says he has appointed British TV producer Mark Burnett as his special envoy to the UK.
The Trump administration has blocked The Associated Press from traveling with President Trump on Air Force One and also from covering an Oval Office event.
A TOP Trump official has suggested Volodymyr Zelensky may have to quit as President of Ukraine to get peace talks back on track.It comes as the UK’s
The New York Times on Monday denounced "intimidation tactics" by President Trump against its reporters after days in which the administration assailed the newspaper's...
President Trump suggested Wednesday that the Signal messaging platform his top national security brass used to discuss the Houthi strike may be "defective."
Instead of restoring access to The Associated Press newswire, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration is removing the wire position in the daily press corps rotation altogether.
No wire service reporters, who supply reports to news outlets around the world, were on the plane to the Middle East with President Trump.
A federal appeals court is allowing the Trump White House to ban the Associated Press from the Oval Office and other restricted spaces for now.
The White House had restricted the AP’s access over its choice to continue referring to the Gulf of Mexico instead of the Gulf of America
California senator Alex Padilla was pushed out of the news conference by authorities after he interrupted Noem.
Palantir has never had a great reputation. Even before it teamed up with Trump to create a massive, abusable database of American residents’ information, it was working with forward-looking cop shops, that wanted similar massive, abusable databases of their o…
Democrats have reacted with outrage to Senator Alex Padilla's rough removal from a conference about the LA protests.
California Sen. Alex Padilla continued to defend himself Friday and refute the claims that he crashed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters the President will see through negotiations before deciding whether to strike.
At Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity this week, the tech vendor has been working to convince advertisers — and skeptics — that it can help fix the brand safety system, which many say it helped break.
The news conference is scheduled for 9 a.m. ET at the conclusion of the summit in the Netherlands as the world watches to see whether a ceasefire between Israel and Iran will endure.
The White House said The Wall Street Journal would not be in the press pool traveling with Trump to Scotland due to its report on the Epstein letter.
A reporter from The Wall Street Journal was removed from the press pool for Donald Trump’s trip to Scotland this weekend because of the publication’s recent story on the president’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt …
The host noted that he was having "real comms problems" just minutes after the uncomfortable, on-air moment.
ABC announced Wednesday that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be off the air indefinitely following comments regarding speculation swirling around the suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk.
The move follows an appearance by the FCC commissioner, who criticized Kimmel's recent monologue.
President Donald Trump celebrated ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air over Charlie Kirk comments and urges NBC to cancel its late-night hosts.
ABC said it pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air "indefinitely" over his comments about Charlie Kirk's killing.
"Maybe their licence should be taken away," Trump said of broadcasters that he argued covered him unfairly.
The earliest reports of his initial public response to Kimmel’s censoring aren’t impressive
Three current Pentagon insiders told The Intercept that new Department of War rules are an egregious assault on press freedom. The post Unnamed Pentagon Officials Ridicule Hegseth’s Plan to Stop War Department Leaks appeared first on The Intercept.
The Walt Disney Company said that it had suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country”
By Carly Tennes Published: September 22nd, 2025
The flood of outrage at the Disney/FCC cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel ultimately forced the company to retreat and put Kimmel back on the air. Disney apparently didn’t much like the wave of folks cancelling their Disney+ streaming video subscriptions in respons…
Our great national censorship nightmare is over — but only for about three-quarters of the ABC stations in America. Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air Tuesday night after Disney, the parent company of ABC, reversed its decision last week to suspend his talk sho…
The outrage machine has moved on.
Paramount is acquiring The Free Press, an independent media publication started on Substack. As part of the deal, Paramount is installing The Free Press’s founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor-in-chief of CBS News, according to an announcement on Monday. Before …
Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.
Even Fox News is fed up with the Pentagon’s new press restrictions
The Pentagon said that more than 60 correspondents signed on to its new restrictions, with major news outlets as well as conservative sources like Newsmax and The Washington Times shunning the new policy. Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, wrote in a…
Rob Weisbord, COO and President of Local Media at Sinclair, insisted that the local TV station giant’s recent clash with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was “never about the First Amendment.” In meetings with ABC after pulling the show from its affiliates, the c…
At a Senate hearing Wednesday on government censorship of tech platforms, a Meta executive expressed regret to Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out more against the Biden administration's requests that it remove health and election misinformation, in…
Reporters blocked from key White House area without prior approval, citing structural changes and security concerns.
The station that endlessly covers all of Trump's insane rallies across the country from end to end cut away after just a minute of President Obama campaigning in Virginia for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger. The Fox Report host Jon Scott…
Limiting access of journalists to the White House is a possibility
The BBC’s chairman is planning to apologize after a documentary edited Donald Trump‘s January 6 speech to make it appear as if the president was encouraging the 2021 Capitol riot. On Monday, Samir Shah will write to UK Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Co…
The BBC's director general and head of news both resigned on Sunday after criticism of the programme.
MSNBC will rebrand as MS Now on Saturday, a reflection of the cable news network’s separation from Comcast and sister network NBC News. As the new Versant network sets out on its own, it has been building up its own newsroom, with two major hires with a focus…
You might recall that right wing propaganda broadcaster Sinclair Broadcasting recently tripped over its own ass after working with the Trump administration to try and censor Jimmy Kimmel for criticizing the President. The flood of outrage at the Disney/FCC/AB…
"I think the license should be taken away from ABC," Trump told an ABC reporter. "Because your news is so fake, and it's so wrong."
Donald Trump isn’t just content this week with personally demeaning female journalists, POTUS has now decided to make his war on the so-called “enemy of the ...
Coverage of a video by six Democratic lawmakers urging members of the military not to obey illegal orders sparked an angry response from the White House
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The Trump administration is using the "lügenpresse" strategy to push back against negative coverage.
The new website features sections categorizing media coverage under labels including "Bias," "Lie" and "Left-wing Lunacy."
Race To The Bottom: White House Launches 'Media Offenders' Leaderboard Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump White House unveiled a scathing new website Friday, “Media Offenders,” complete with a “race to the bottom” leaderboard ranking out…
President Donald Trump's White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from “everyday Americans." Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the...
The Associated Press has long been a fixture in the White House press pool, but earlier this year the entire organization found itself locked out over a dispute that stemmed from the correct name for the Gulf of Mexico -- President Donald Trump wants it to be…
Weiss' town hall of Kirk with faith-driven language and limited journalistic pushback leaves some unsettled
Weiss addressed the backlash during a network-wide editorial call, saying she held the segment because “we simply need to do more,” according to a recording ...
The venerable CBS newsmagazine canceled plans to present a story that took a tough look at the administration's decision to deport Venezuelans to a notorious...
Yesterday, Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, censored a segment of its newsmagazine 60 Minutes about men who had been deported to an El Salvador prison. Today, it's popping up online. 60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now-censored segm…
As "60 Minutes" finalized its "Inside CECOT" report last Thursday, CBS sent the White House a request for comment. A WH spokesperson responded within a few hours. The quote was not included in the "60" report – so, judge for yourself whether it should have be…
CBS News aired the Kennedy Center Honors on Tuesday using a sharply edited Donald Trump monologue and dodging his controversial “Trump Kennedy Center...
The president uses digital media to get his message across — but he really loves old media like newspapers and cable TV.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt completely lost it at a columnist who challenged administration claims that ICE was doing everything by the book...
After Donald Trump gave a 13-minute interview to new CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a message to the anchor and his news team with a message from POTUS: Air the complete intervie…
Vinson Cunningham on media briefings involving Donald Trump, Karoline Leavitt, J. D. Vance, Venezuela, oil executives, and the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good.
ABC News' Mary Bruce asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt if President Donald Trump agrees with administration officials who labeled Alex Pretti a "domestic terrorist."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was visibly stunned when CBS Reporter Ed O'Keefe asked for examples of President Donald Trump being...
Trump Russia Iran question controversy: US President Donald Trump called a Fox reporter’s question "stupid" during a White House roundtable.
It is day 13 of America's surprise war with Iran - by sheer coincidence, it's Friday the 13th - and I am delirious. I haven't had a coffee since I woke up at 5AM, because I'm not allowed to bring outside beverages into the Pentagon (the security screening cut…
In his ruling, Judge Paul Friedman ruled the Trump administration sought to force out 'disfavoured journalists'.
Pete Kegseth is going to need an extra shot of tequila tonight to soothe his hurt fee fees after losing a big court case today regarding press access to the Pentagon. Here is what happened: In October 2025, Hegseth attempted to force news organizations to sig…
The Trump admin wants to criminalize a key part of journalists doing their jobs — a broadside attack on a free press. The post Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions appeared first on The Intercept.
Trump demanded the journalist who reported on the rescue of the US airman in Iran reveal their source.
This will either be the best or the worst thing to happen to the American people.
Journalists should ditch dining with an administration committed to hobbling the press and the constitution.
The Federal Trade Commission and Media Matters have settled their litigation following a court ruling that the federal agency violated the First Amendment when it issued a civil investigative demand to the media watchdog. The Media Matters lawsuit was dismiss…
According to MS NOW, the FBI has launched an investigation into an Atlantic reporter.
Media freedom advocates condemn move as latest effort to curtail independent reporting on the US military.
Press freedom advocates, however, have warned that the dinner could give Trump a podium to attack the news media.
ABC is taking to the airwaves to warn viewers of the FCC’s crackdown on The View and the agency’s unusual demand that the network’s stations seek early renewal of their broadcast licenses. The spots, which will start airing on Monday, are the latest pushback …
Earlier this week we noted how ABC has been asking its audience to give the Trump FCC an earful about its clumsy efforts to censor journalists, comedians, and daytime talk show hosts: The ad only hints at the fact that FCC boss Brendan Carr has launched a fak…
You might recall that one of the conditions of the FCC’s approval of The Ellison family’s $8 billion acquisition of CBS was that the agency would install a “ombudsman” at the network to ensure CBS journalism was appropriately feckless and deferential to our m…
A federal judge handed another victory to The New York Times in its challenge to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s more restrictive press policies, this time sidelining a rule that any journalist must have an official escort in visits to the Pentagon. In grant…
A federal judge has ordered the Defense Department to temporarily halt its requirement that New York Times journalists be accompanied by an official escort,...
Back in February, Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr launched a fake “investigation” of ABC because the network’s comedians and daytime talk show hosts hadn’t adequately kissed Republican ass. Five months later and ABC’s The View is wimping out when it comes to host…
The New York Times said that a group of its journalists received subpoenas from the Justice Department after their report on the lack of certain security features on Donald Trump’s new Air Force One. The Times said that those who received subpoenas included J…
The Justice Department subpoenaed a group of New York Times journalists who reported on security problems with the new Qatar-donated Air Force One.
Veteran and former journalists are renewing their calls on the White House Correspondents’ Association to speak out on the Trump administration’s attacks on reporters and press freedom when he attends its rescheduled dinner on Friday. A letter to the WHCA, or…
Attorneys for the New York Times will be in court Thursday to fight a series of subpoenas they allege were to attempt to retaliate against and intimidate reporters.
Just last week we had the story of the Trump DOJ issuing very questionable subpoenas of NY Times journalists while trying to track down who leaked information to those reporters regarding the potentially catastrophic security flaws of the “gift” 747 plane he …
The reporters had covered why Trump left Turkey on an older Air Force One: the donated Qatari plane lacked antimissile defenses. Prosecutors backed off in court, but told the judge they could come after the journalists again.
The press didn't just cover Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner meltdown — it enabled it
A federal judge in Minnesota will probe this week whether grounds exist to toss the Justice Department’s case against journalist Don Lemon. It’s the latest e...
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In his White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech on July 24, 2026, President Donald Trump made his usual diatribes against the news medi…
The Pentagon clamps down on Stars and Stripes as questions about the USS Abraham Lincoln arise
The U.S. Treasury Department is preventing certain journalists from covering a finance meeting among the world's most powerful countries, the latest example...
WASHINGTON — President Trump raged at "Meet the Press" anchor Kristen Welker Sunday for casting aspersions on his endorsement record — saying she should be reprimanded by the FCC.
President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 12 that one of his "most trusted aides, Karoline Leavitt," was departing the role of White House press secretary after 19 months so that "she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family." Leavitt, …
Administration officials conveyed to the network that the firing was “totally unacceptable,” White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said.
The president chalked the ban up to what he called unfavorable coverage, and he threatened that bans on other media companies could be coming.
Trump said the ban was "effective immediately."
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Donald Trump is escalating his fight with the media. …
Donald Trump announced on Friday that he is banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House, calling them "fake news."
Critics call it an "unprecedented assault on press freedom"
The President of the United States has banned CNN, MS Now and others from the White House. Floundering in the polls and in the war with Iran, the notoriously thinned skinned and authoritarian former Apprentice host just posted on his Truth Social: “I am proud…
Donald Trump announced Friday he was banning several of America’s most prominent national news institutions from the White House, claiming that the prohibition was the result of “FAKE NEWS.”He specified that he would bar CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, though it i…
Three reporters were blocked from the White House grounds Saturday morning, a day after President Trump said CNN, Politico, and MS NOW would be banned for reporting "FICTION and LIES."
President Donald Trump said on Friday that CNN, MS NOW, and Politico would be banned from the White House.
NEW YORK (AP) — MS NOW said its journalists were denied access to the White House Saturday morning, a day after President Donald Trump said he would ban the network and two other news outlets from the complex. There was no immediate word about access for the …
Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, accusing them of ‘fake news.’
The ban is the latest attack by Trump on media outlets that he perceives as unfavourable to his administration.
Reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were denied access to White House on Saturday.
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico lose access to the grounds over coverage Trump calls "fake news" and threatens more bans
Two reporters found out at the gate. MS NOW’s Akayla Gardner walked through two White House checkpoints Saturday morning, and when she reached the point where her badge needed to be scanned, …
President Donald Trump is following through on pledge to ban journalists he doesn’t like from the White House: This morning, MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, announced that its journalists had been denied access to the White House grounds. In a statement posted on soc…
Two major news networks' journalists said they were denied access to the White House on Saturday morning, with reporters from CNN and MS NOW both going live to report about the circumstances of the ban imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
On "This Week," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise discussed the partial White House press ban and upcoming midterm elections.
Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico have been denied White House access after Donald Trump banned the three outlets.
On ABC's This Week, Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise had his clock cleaned by host Jonathan Karl trying to defend Trump's 1st amendment violation by banning many credible news outlets, when Scalise lied and claimed Pres. Biden had banned "400 pr…
Journalists from three major news organizations are being denied access to the White House after President Donald Trump followed through on his threat to ban Politico, CNN and MS NOW from covering him. Some lawmakers are pushing back and a new statement from …
POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW to seek restraining order to restore reporters' access.
Three news organizations whose journalists were banned from the White House last week are suing President Trump and three of his top advisers in federal court, demanding that access for their reporters be immediately restored.“This morning, we notified the go…
Three news organizations whose journalists were banned from the White House last week are suing President Donald Trump and three top advisers, calling the abrupt lockout a "direct assault on the First Amendment."POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW said in a joint stat…
The outlets said they plan to file a lawsuit against the government on Monday.
Camera operators working for MS NOW were turned away from the White House over the weekend after the U.S. Secret Service confiscated their press badges at a security gate. [Read More]
Apparently autumn is when President Donald Trump feels free to admit to his anti-free speech, anti-free press ways. For a guy who constantly lied about being in support of free speech, despite regularly suing people and news organizations for their speech, he…
Trump says ban targets ‘fake news’, which poses a ‘threat to our National Security’.
US President Trump unveiled a new White House helicopter pad as major US TV networks stayed away in protest.
MS NOW, CNN and Politico said they filed suit against the federal government following a decision by President Donald Trump to ban the three news organizations from newsgathering at the White House, the latest fracture in the relationship between the presiden…
When Donald Trump travels to New York on Monday, there will be no primary TV pool, after major networks declined to replace CNN in the regular rotation after it was banned from White House and other coverage of the president. CNN was scheduled to serve as the…
The president's ban on CNN, POLITICO and MS NOW is the latest in a long line of press defeats
CNN, Politico and MS NOW are suing Donald Trump and other White House officials after the president banned him from the complex. In the lawsuit, the news outlets are asking a federal judge to immediately restore their access, which was denied on Saturday, a d…
Donald Trump has vowed to appeal a judge’s ruling in the networks’ challenge of his ban on their access to the White House, even though a federal judge has yet to issue a ruling in the case. Shortly after CNN, Politico and MS NOW filed suit on Monday against …
Moments before Donald Trump banned three of America’s biggest news organizations from the White House Friday, he was chatting with Natalie Harp.His beloved executive aide had reportedly shown Trump a compilation of coverage from MS NOW in which several broadc…
CNN, MS Now, and Politico jointly filed a lawsuit on Monday to overturn President Trump’s decision over the weekend to bar their reporters from the White House. This is an alarming escalation in the president’s wars against the media, independent institutions…
The entire presidential television press pool has agreed to suspend their coverage in the wake of President Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House. The TV press pool specifically is made up of five networks: Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC,…
Donald Trump’s attempts to silence the media have only turned out to silence him.The president participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for his new helipad on the South Lawn of the White House Monday, speaking in front of a hard-hatted crowd wearing neon yel…
The White House's answer to a rebellion by press pool reporters? Trump speeches on loop.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico have sued Trump after the networks were suspended from the White House. And, Paramount makes concessions to resolve a lawsuit over its massive Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
Days after President Trump barred reporters from three major news outlets from the White House, the administration has launched a 24/7 YouTube channel promising to put its "biggest moments all in one place."
The Orange Menace made yet another strategic blunder, trying to decide which news sources could cover him, and now he has no microphone. Now Donnie Diapers just looks ridiculous, yelling into the wind, his comb-over flowing. Attempting to kick CNN, MS NOW, an…
FILE PHOTO - US President Donald Trump delivers a speech during an event at the Pentagon. (is associated with: «White House launches 'Trump TV' stream as media access row escalates») Andrea Hanks/White House/dpa The White House launched its own online stream…
President Donald Trump lashed out at CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins before his address the U.N. General Assembly in New York amid the White House ban to deny CNN, MS NOW and Politico access.Those three news outlets are suing the president for violating the First Amend…
NEW YORK (AP) — On a day of high-stakes diplomacy on the global stage, President Donald Trump began his United Nations visit by telling a prominent U.S. journalist, "You should not be here.""It's an honor to be here," Trump said as he entered U.N. doors Tuesd…
Regular coverage of the president has been disrupted after he banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.
Major photo agencies and newspapers are temporarily withholding photographs of President Donald Trump’s events in solidarity with news organizations barred from the White House. [Read More]
Jon Stewart took aim at Donald Trump banning news outlets from the White House on the latest episode of 'The Daily Show.'
Days after banning a group of news organisations from the White House, the Trump administration launches 'Trump TV'.
Trump has launched his own channel amid an ongoing rift with the White House press pool.
The White House launched 'Trump TV' as major networks suspended the television pool covering the US president.
The Department of Justice defended President Trump's recent media ban, arguing that reporting by CNN, MS Now and Politico on a wide range of issues jeopardized national security and spread falsehoods.
The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White House. In a court document filed on Tuesday evening, the government…
Three leading US news outlets went to court after being banned from the White House by President Donald Trump (Jim WATSON) CNN, MS NOW and Politico can be shut out from areas of the White House at President Donald Trump's request, the Department of Justice s…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The extraordinary showdown between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes moves Wednesday to a courtroom in the nation's capital, where a judge will hear arguments on whether the president's move banning three ne…
Former President Barack Obama made the remarks Monday at Salem State University, after Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House grounds because of coverage he described as "fake news." Speaking with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Massachuse…
The US Justice Department's response to a lawsuit filed by CNN, Politico and MS NOW also cites national security.
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. A hearing on President Donald Trump’s White House press ban ended without a ruling this afternoon — an admit…
White House banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, after US President Donald Trump complained about coverage.
The news organisations are scheduled to make their case to a US district judge on Wednesday afternoon.
Lawyers for CNN, Politico and MS Now are seeking an emergency court hearing, saying the White House "repeatedly violated" the order.
President Donald Trump announced the ban last week, accusing the outlets of publishing false reporting.
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge's decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process rights of three outlets whose White House access has been rev…
Earlier on Thursday, a POLITICO reporter was denied entrance to the White House despite a judge's order to restore access.
A judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's White House ban on three news organizations, calling it likely unconstitutional and ordering their access restored. Trump announced a ban on reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Sept. 18, saying t…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday, ordering the White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters who had been banned by President Trump.In his 8-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Ke…
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has granted a temporary restraining order reinstating Politico, MS NOW, and CNN to the White House press pool. He doesn't think DOJ has much chance of pulling this off. Reporters immediately reported for work, only to find th…
A federal judge has granted CNN, Politico and MS NOW a temporary restraining order requiring the White House to restore the outlets’ hard-pass press credentials.
After first continuing to bar reporters from the White House, the Trump admin finally seemed to admit defeat on Thursday.
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The media outlets President Donald Trump banned from t…
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico requested an emergency hearing after the White House continued denying access to the grounds despite court order.
Trump-nominated judge rules that outlets are likely to succeed in claim they were denied due process.
A US federal judge had ordered the White House to 'immediately return, reinstate and restore' the three outlets' access.
A federal judge is giving Donald Trump until 12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday to explain why White House credentials are still being denied to CNN, MS NOW and Politico, even after the court’s order to have them restored. The three outlets altered U.S. District Judge…
Journalists for CNN and MS Now were denied access to the White House state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping, China’s president, on Thursday evening, hours after a federal judge ruled the Trump administration must allow them in after imposing a ban last week. “Ab…
There was chaos outside the White House yesterday as photographers from China clashed with American photographers and argued with U.S. officials. [Read More]
On Monday we wrote about Donald Trump’s direct attack on the First Amendment and the free press by banning reporters from the White House. As we expected, a judge on Thursday morning issued a Temporary Restraining Order, blocking the White House from continui…
Video footage of presidential events at the White House returned to TV screens on Friday as five TV networks resumed their pool coverage. Major cable networks showed images of an outdoor ceremony featuring Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, along …
Before this week, only Jim Acosta and I knew what this felt like. It's nice to see some solidarity at last
In the annals of government-press relations, the Trump White House will go down as the first to punish reporters for publishing information it wanted to get out.For those unfamiliar with how Washington works: The only fake news to be harvested inside the Jame…
In the topsy-turvy MAGA world, some of America’s most prominent media outlets are choosing not to cover Donald Trump. In reality, they’re still under the Trump administration’s ban.The president claimed on Truth Social Thursday afternoon that MS NOW and CNN “…
CNN was scheduled to fly with US President Donald Trump for his trip to Tennessee on Saturday.
The White House has signaled that CNN will be left off Air Force One for President Donald Trump's Saturday trip in the latest media restriction in an ongoing dispute with First Amendment implications.
Real America's Voice News replaces CNN on Air Force One amid escalating tensions between President Trump and US media.
One man is waging war against the network from the White House — and it's not Donald Trump
A judge restored the network's White House access on Thursday. By Saturday, it was blocked from Air Force One
The White House has blocked CNN from flying on Air Force One as the TV pool network traveling with Donald Trump on his trip to Tennessee on Saturday. A CNN spokesperson confirmed reports that the network was pulled from its scheduled rotation providing covera…
The White House signalled Friday night that CNN would be left off Air Force One for U.S. President Donald Trump's Saturday trip, the latest media restriction from the administration in an ongoing dispute with First Amendment implications.
The White House on Friday night removed CNN from joining President Donald Trump on his trip to Tennessee on Saturday, where it was supposed to cover the president on behalf of major TV networks.
The White House excluded CNN from Air Force One for Trump's Tennessee trip, replacing it with conservative outlet Real America's Voice News.
The White House has signalled that CNN will be barred from an upcoming Air Force One trip, replacing the news organisation with a conservative network.
Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday addressed the Trump administration's decision to ban three mainstream news outlets from accessing the White House, saying that President Donald Trump had not "denied access" to the organizations and asserting that it is…
Attorney General Todd Blanche's claims to ABC News that certain media outlets have become a national security threat in their reporting on the Trump administration fell flat and sounded moronic in his defense of Trump's media ban. Even after the judge issued …
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 28 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.After we recorded, Trump again did a ban, yet this time it was only CNN and it was more narrow, excluding it from Air Force One. But’s uncle…
CNN will not be the TV pooler covering President Donald Trump’s trip to Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday, despite being listed on the schedule earlier in the week. The change signaled once again that the White House was restricting the network from certain acce…
The Justice Department argued that Donald Trump can legally ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House because he determined that they didn’t meet the “minimum requirements of professionalism.” Last month, a federal judge granted the three outlets a te…
Beni Rae Harmony, 24, has confirmed her new position as Assistant Press Secretary and White House spokesperson after reports she had been poached from Real America's Voice.
The White House blocked Politico from traveling with Donald Trump on Air Force One on Monday for the president’s trip to Nebraska. A Politico spokesperson confirmed that the publication was excluded from the out-of-town travel pool, the handful of reporters w…
The White House also barred Politico from Air Force One to cap off a weekend of media attacks
A federal judge said he will rule by Tuesday on Donald Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds, while he pressed the government’s lawyers on the different justifications offered by the president and in the DOJ’s legal defense. U.S. Di…
The conservative commentator currently works as a communications adviser at Trump Media & Technology Group.
President Donald Trump has offered the job of White House press secretary to Katie Zacharia. Here's what to know about her.
President Trump announced on Friday that he has chosen Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator, lawyer and former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, as his new press secretary. Zacharia replaces Karoline Leavitt, who left the administration in A…
The role has been vacant since former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt left in August.
She will replace the controversial Karoline Leavitt, who resigned in August
The White House had blocked access for CNN, MS Now and Politico, leading them to restrict pool coverage.
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department said on Saturday it is investigating whether television networks violated federal antitrust laws over their decision to boycott covering the White House following its decision to pull the credentials o…
After Donald Trump banned some TV networks from the White House, the others decided not to cover him. Now he thinks that's also illegal.
Department of Justice says it's investigating whether the White House press pool's decision violated antitrust laws.
The Justice Department has launched an investigation of the five major networks that make up the White House TV pool, a probe focused on whether they violated antitrust laws by suspending participation in protest of Donald Trump’s ban on CNN. Emily Covington,…
And it’s not this guy: Trump has brutally snubbed the one-time favorite to succeed Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary. — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) October 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM It’s this gal:read more
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, who has four children, was asked about balancing work and family at her first briefing.
Katie Zacharia responded after criticism of her first White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling Newsweek via email that “I am grateful to serve President Trump as Press Secretary, and I will diligently and effectively amplify his successful agenda.”Durin…
Katie Zacharia has held her first briefing as White House press secretary after replacing Karoline Leavitt.
“The new Propaganda Barbie looks like she’s delivering a class-assigned presentation,” a user trolled Katie Zacharia after her first briefing as the new White House Press Secretary.
Katie Zacharia made her debut as Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary on Tuesday with a very short briefing that nevertheless offered a bit of breaking news as well as a lot of praise and thanks for her new boss. “I have wanted to work for him for a…
News that the Justice Department is investigating five major networks for suspending the White House TV pool last month was met with outcry that it was another example of Trump administration retaliation against the media. Alarming as it may be to First Amend…
A federal judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from banning reporters for three news outlets from the White House, a pivotal operational development for the news organizations as the extraordinary case pitting the president aga…
Several White House officials are questioning how long Katie Zacharia will keep the press secretary job after her first briefing Tuesday, saying her performance was unlikely to satisfy President Donald Trump.Several advisers and officials offered negative rev…
The same judge issued a temporary restraining order last month.
CNN, MS Now and Politico can continue to access White House as judge maintains Trump's ban likely illegal.
Donald Trump filed a notice of appeal of a judge’s ruling that has put on hold the White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the grounds. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, granted the media outlets a preliminary injunction, which pr…
A federal judge prohibited the Trump administration from banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House grounds. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote in his opinion that the news outlets “are likely to succeed not only on their d…