U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a cabinet meeting at the White House

Pentagon Can Require Reporters To Be Escorted During Appeal Process, Judges Rule

The panel’s majority opinion said the administration is likely to succeed in showing that the policy’s escort requirement is legally valid.

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Trumps Call for ABC To Fire Jimmy Kimmel — Again — After Morbid Joke About First Lady

Kimmel has long targeted the president in his comedy, and he doubled down after a run-in with the administration last fall.

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Appeals Court Overturns $8.2 Million Defamation Win for Roy Moore

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Moore failed to prove the organization acted with malice, one of the legal standards for cases involving public figures.

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Trump’s Planned Appearance Bringing Renewed Scrutiny To Annual Correspondents’ Dinner

Between berating individual reporters, fighting news organizations in court and restricting press access to the Pentagon, the administration’s animus toward journalists has been a fixture of Trump’s second term.

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Vermont Prosecutor Declines To Charge Six Protesters Arrested at South Burlington ICE Raid

State’s Attorney Sarah George said in a statement that in making her decision, she analyzed the cases to find where the harm was and who contributed to it.

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[The] right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
-James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, 1800
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