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

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…

Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94
|

Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later as its executive editor during eight years of changing fortunes and technology, died on Sunday…

How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill
|

How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When President Trump announced on Friday that the United States would move ahead with a long-debated project to build a stealthy next-generation fighter jet, the message to China was clear: The United States plans to spend tens of billions of dollars over the…

As Trump Dismantles Voice of America, Some Broadcasts Are Replaced With Music
|

As Trump Dismantles Voice of America, Some Broadcasts Are Replaced With Music

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For more than 80 years, Voice of America transmitted the news into countries, many of them authoritarian, where reliable sources of information about the outside world were often hard to come by. Now those broadcasts — long viewed as an important part of…

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent
|

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump signed an executive order on Friday seeking to dismantle seven additional federal agencies, including the one that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded media outlets around the world. Mr. Trump directed the heads of the agencies, largely obscure entities that…

In Japan, a Journalist Takes a Stand by Striking Out on His Own
|

In Japan, a Journalist Takes a Stand by Striking Out on His Own

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Makoto Watanabe has never forgotten the day when his previous employer, one of Japan’s biggest newspapers, retreated from its biggest investigative scoop about the Fukushima nuclear disaster: that workers had fled the plant against orders from the plant’s manager. It was 11 years…

Ron Nessen, Ford’s White House Press Secretary, Dies at 90
|

Ron Nessen, Ford’s White House Press Secretary, Dies at 90

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Ron Nessen, who as President Gerald R. Ford’s press secretary from 1974 to 1977 pledged a new era of openness after the Watergate scandal but had an often rocky relationship with the White House press corps, died on Wednesday in Bethesda, Md. He…

Tom Llamas Named Anchor of ‘NBC Nightly News’
|

Tom Llamas Named Anchor of ‘NBC Nightly News’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tom Llamas will take over as the anchor of NBC’s flagship news program, “NBC Nightly News,” the company said on Wednesday. Mr. Llamas, 45, has been the anchor on the company’s streaming news outlet, NBC News Now. He succeeds Lester Holt, the longtime…

He’s the Face of a White House Press Corps Under Attack by Trump
|

He’s the Face of a White House Press Corps Under Attack by Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Eugene Daniels didn’t plan on being the face of the White House press corps in the dawn of a new administration hostile to the news media. But because of a clause in the bylaws of the White House Correspondents’ Association, an 800-strong group…

‘Why Don’t You Wear a Suit?’: A Right-Wing News Outlet With Coveted Access Questions Zelensky
|

‘Why Don’t You Wear a Suit?’: A Right-Wing News Outlet With Coveted Access Questions Zelensky

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A voice from the press section joined the chorus of people demanding answers from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Friday, during a meeting with President Trump and his associates. “Why don’t you wear a suit?” a man asked Mr. Zelensky. “You’re at…