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Trump’s media enforcer is relishing his Jimmy Kimmel momentSep 20, 2025 3:16 pm - Naming Brendan Carr to chair the Federal Communications Commission in November, President-elect Donald Trump heralded him as a “warrior for free speech.”Now, after spearheading the Trump administration’s successful push for ABC to take comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air, Carr has become a gleeful avatar of what critics say is a sweeping government crackdown on speech — and his backers see as an overdue reckoning with an instinctively liberal broadcast industry.
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Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized materialSep 19, 2025 8:44 pm - The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon, saying it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey.
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Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York TimesSep 19, 2025 7:51 pm - A federal judge in Tampa struck down President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, saying that the 85-page complaint was “decidedly improper and impermissible” under the rules governing civil proceedings in federal court.
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Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group saysSep 19, 2025 4:51 pm - Thirty-one journalists and media workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a report released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists.The attack was the deadliest against journalists since the Magindanao massacre in the Philippines 16 years ago and the second-deadliest the New York-based press freedom group has ever recorded.
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More employers fire workers over Kirk posts as pressure from right mountsSep 19, 2025 10:50 am - The wave of companies and other institutions firing or suspending employees over what they’ve said in reaction to the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has expanded in recent days, as some of his supporters in and outside the government amp up a push against speech they say crosses lines.
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Chronically sleepless? New study suggests it might cause your brain to age.Sep 19, 2025 9:09 am - Persistent sleeplessness may be far worse than a passing annoyance — gradually unraveling memory and mental sharpness, according to new research.
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Scrolling while on the toilet? You could be risking hemorrhoids.Sep 19, 2025 8:58 am - Prolonged smartphone use on the toilet could be linked to a higher risk of hemorrhoids, not because of increased straining, but because of how much longer people sit, according to recently published research.
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Russia leverages Kirk shooting for propaganda as false claims surgeSep 18, 2025 8:54 pm - Russian state-controlled media outlets and allied social media accounts have seized on the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to push narratives that favor the...
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Turning Point USA appoints Charlie Kirk’s widow as his successorSep 18, 2025 8:53 pm - Turning Point USA, the organization founded by conservative activist Charlie Kirk, announced Thursday that Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, was unanimously elected to succeed he...
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Trump, allies seek to punish speech they dislike following Kirk killingSep 18, 2025 8:12 pm - A week after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump and his allies are attacking critics of the right-wing activist who they say have gone too far, a ...