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Opinion | Stop us if you heard this one before: Trump threatens The New York Times

The president is not happy about the outlet’s recent poll results

January 23, 2026

Stopped by ICE? Here’s what the Constitution says about your rights

Legal experts explain what ICE can do in public, when agents need a warrant, and how recent Supreme Court rulings may be changing the rules

January 23, 2026

Opinion | Trump misspoke at Davos. Karoline Leavitt told reporters not to believe their ears.

During a speech, Trump repeatedly referred to Iceland while talking about Greenland. Then the press secretary denied what the video plainly shows.

January 22, 2026

Even amid setbacks, public funding for local news is expanding at the state level

Steven Waldman of Rebuild Local News is optimistic but warns that action is needed now because ‘the house is on fire’

January 22, 2026

President Trump’s Davos remarks on Greenland misrepresented US and Danish history

Trump cited World War II and US defense of Greenland to justify acquisition, but experts say the US never owned or governed the territory

January 22, 2026

Opinion | One year in, Donald Trump’s war on the press has become relentless

Lawsuits, bans and retaliation now form a steady campaign against journalists and American press freedom

January 21, 2026

In 2020, FiveThirtyEight published a chart that was weaponized to spread election disinformation. It still haunts me.

How a simple chart was stripped of context and turned into a symbol of fraud that outlived the news site that published it.

January 21, 2026

Trump’s Greenland rhetoric includes false claims about the Nobel Peace Prize and NATO

Trump cited the Nobel Peace Prize and his record on wars and NATO to justify his push for Greenland, but key parts of that argument are false

January 21, 2026

The FBI’s search of a Washington Post reporter’s home is rare — and part of a growing pattern

Press freedom experts said the legally dubious search escalates a troubling trend stretching back years

January 20, 2026

Opinion | ‘60 Minutes’ finally aired the story that stirred up a storm inside CBS News

The delayed report aired after weeks of internal conflict over editorial independence between veteran journalists and new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss

January 20, 2026

No, the US vaccine schedule doesn’t call for babies to get ’72 injections’

Under the 2024 schedule, which has been discontinued, babies could have received anywhere from 12 to 30 shots before their second birthday

January 20, 2026

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