Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS
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Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, accusing the outlets of producing biased coverage and “left-wing propaganda.” Mr. Trump instructed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds public broadcasters in the United States,…

Judge Orders Trump Officials to Disburse Funding for Radio Free Europe
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Judge Orders Trump Officials to Disburse Funding for Radio Free Europe

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Tuesday to disburse congressionally approved grant money it has withheld from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a federally funded news organization that provides independent reporting in countries with limited press freedom. The judge, Royce C. Lamberth…

Paramount Board Clears Possible Path For Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
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Paramount Board Clears Possible Path For Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Lawyers for President Trump and Paramount, the parent of CBS News, are set to begin mediation on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by Mr. Trump that accuses “60 Minutes” of deceptively editing an interview with his 2024 Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris. Legal experts…

Washington’s Besieged Journalists Raise a Glass, Darkly
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Washington’s Besieged Journalists Raise a Glass, Darkly

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Usually, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner features Hollywood stars, a zinger-filled comedy set and a public display of comity between the White House and the press corps that covers it. On Saturday, the dinner had no comedian and no president. Among the…

Newsmax Made Defamatory Statements About Dominion, Judge Says
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Newsmax Made Defamatory Statements About Dominion, Judge Says

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A Delaware judge has ruled that the right-wing cable channel Newsmax made defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems when it falsely claimed that the company rigged votes in the 2020 presidential election. Judge Eric M. Davis of the Delaware Superior Court said on…

John Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59
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John Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines John Thornton, a financier who leveraged his wealth and influence to embark on the seemingly quixotic mission of reviving local journalism in a time of crisis, by founding The Texas Tribune, a seminal regional nonprofit news organization, and the American Journalism Project, which…

Who Is Claire Shipman, the New Interim President of Columbia?
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Who Is Claire Shipman, the New Interim President of Columbia?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines On Capitol Hill last April, Claire Shipman, then a co-chair of Columbia University’s board of trustees, testified that she agreed there was a “moral crisis on our campus,” with students and faculty members acting in unacceptable ways that threatened Jewish and Israeli students….

Trump Administration Deflects Blame for Leak at Every Turn
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Trump Administration Deflects Blame for Leak at Every Turn

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines It was a hoax. The information wasn’t classified. Somehow the journalist got “sucked into” the Signal chat, either deliberately or through some kind of technical glitch. In the days since the editor in chief of The Atlantic revealed he had been inadvertently included…

Trump Allies Grill PBS and NPR During Congress Hearing
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Trump Allies Grill PBS and NPR During Congress Hearing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Congressional Republicans laced into PBS and NPR on Wednesday, accusing the country’s biggest public media networks of institutional bias in a fiery hearing that represented the latest salvo against the American press by close allies of the Trump administration. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene,…

Trump Downplays Signal Leak, Backing Waltz and Pointing Finger at Journalist
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Trump Downplays Signal Leak, Backing Waltz and Pointing Finger at Journalist

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump characterized an extraordinary security breach as a minor transgression on Tuesday, insisting that top administration officials had not shared any classified information as they discussed secret military plans in a group chat that included the editor in chief of The Atlantic…