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CBS News appears likely to settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump in a case that legal observers say it should win.

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Why CBS stands at the epicenter of Trump's assault on the media

CBS News appears likely to settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump in a case that legal observers say it should win. The network is caught up in Trump's assault on the media and an owner intent on finalizing a sale.

February 06, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
<em>Los Angeles Times </em>owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire medical inventor, says it's "cynical" to believe his support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or his decision to kill a planned endorsement of then-Vice President Kamala Harris stem from ulterior motives.

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LA Times owner boosts RFK Jr. online, as writer says paper cut his critique

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong has become a fierce champion online for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

February 03, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says NPR and PBS may be "broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements." The networks say their broadcasts comply with federal regulations and law.

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Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS

Brendan Carr, the new head of the Federal Communications Commission under President Trump, says the public broadcasters are being investigated for allegedly running commercials.

January 30, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
President Trump says he wants L. Brent Bozell III, Founder and President of the Media Research Center, to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, or USAGM. In this 2016 photo, Bozell speaks during a "Climate Hustle" panel discussion at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC.

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Trump taps conservative media critic to lead global news agency

President Trump plans to nominate a conservative critic of the mainstream media, L. Brent Bozell III, to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America.

January 23, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Prince Harry pursued a legal case against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids for years, saying he wanted to hold them accountable for invasions of privacy.

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Prince Harry settles with Murdoch's British tabloids as trial is about to begin

Prince Harry has agreed to settle his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids. The deal ends a years' long battle to hold the newspapers accountable for invasions of privacy.

January 22, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Prince Harry said his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids was about holding the media accountable, during the <em>New York Times</em> DealBook summit in December.

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Murdoch's News Corp offers Prince Harry settlement to resolve years-long lawsuit

Rupert Murdoch's team made the offer to resolve the hacking suits from Prince Harry and a British lawmaker as a trial was to begin. A settlement could help Washington Post CEO Will Lewis.

January 21, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Pete Hegseth, President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, and his wife Jennifer Rauchet depart after inauguration ceremonies in the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025. The couple met while working for Fox News.

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Trump taps 19 Fox pundits, personalities and producers for second term

President Trump has proposed 19 former Fox News hosts, journalists and commentators for senior positions in his second White House term.

January 20, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
A jury found CNN defamed security contractor Zachary Young in a November 2021 report, shown above, about Afghans' fears of exorbitant charges from people offering to get them out of the country after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.

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CNN settles lawsuit after $5 million defamation verdict

CNN settled with a security consultant after a Florida jury found the network had defamed him in a story that suggested he was charging "exorbitant prices" to evacuate people from Afghanistan in 2021.

January 20, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends a candlelight dinner for President-elect Donald Trump at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2025, a day before his inauguration ceremony.

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News site focused on Elon Musk to launch

Musk News, a new twice-weekly news site, will focus on the billionaire and Trump advisor's influence and actions over the course of the new presidency.

January 20, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Prince Harry is suing Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids, saying they illegally obtained personal information about him over many years. He has blamed the media, and particularly Murdoch's papers, for an increasing divide among the royal family.

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Prince Harry's case against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids goes to trial

A trial begins Tuesday over complaints filed by Prince Harry and a senior British lawmaker against Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers. The trial carries high stakes on both sides of the Atlantic.

January 20, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Allen Media Group Founder Byron Allen speaks at the Allen Media Group upfront presentation on April 26, 2023, in New York City.

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Local meteorologists could face layoffs amid new initiative with The Weather Channel

The new initiative will be rolled out across 27 stations and feature "additional visual storytelling capabilities," Allen Media Group says.

January 19, 2025
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  • Chandelis Duster
Outgoing FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, ruled against four petitions seeking to punish television networks for how they cover and satirize presidential politics. The FCC "should not be weaponized in a way that is fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment," she says.<br>

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As Trump inauguration nears, FCC chief dismisses complaints against TV networks

Outgoing FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has rejected petitions to rebuke four local TV stations. She says they were efforts to punish broadcast networks' coverage of presidential politics.

January 16, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
<em>The Washington Post</em> has endured subscriber cancellations, newsroom departures and mounting internal frustration in the first year of CEO and Publisher Will Lewis.

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Will Lewis' first year at 'Washington Post': Cancellations, red ink and an exodus

Subscribers and star journalists have fled the Post in its first year under CEO and Publisher Will Lewis. Now staff have signed a petition asking owner Jeff Bezos to intervene.

January 16, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, Thursday, May 6, 2021, in New York.  The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, seeking to end the practice of using published material to train chatbots.

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  • Business

'The New York Times' takes OpenAI to court. ChatGPT's future could be on the line

In three consolidated suits, publishers allege that OpenAI broke copyright law by copying millions of articles without permission or payment. OpenAI counters that the fair use doctrine protects them.

January 14, 2025
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  • Bobby Allyn
Wang Jingyu speaks during an interview in Ukraine on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Wang told reporters that the Chinese government constantly harassed and threatened him. But an NPR investigation linked Wang to an elaborate con involving false claims of Chinese Communist Party repression. Wang insists he is a genuine victim and had no involvement in the scheme.

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  • News

Bomb threats shadowed international reporters who covered Chinese celebrity dissident

Reporters covering a Chinese dissident in Europe were accused of making bomb threats. An NPR investigation now has them wondering if it was the work of the Chinese government or someone else.

January 14, 2025
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  • Frank Langfitt
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