PoliticsU.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Miami on Saturday dismissed with prejudice President Trump's amended defamation suit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters over the paper's July 2025 story on a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein. For the second time, he found Trump had not plausibly alleged 'actual malice.' Trump's legal team says the fight will go on; the defendants have 30 days to seek attorneys' fees.
PoliticsAn FBI affidavit alleges Ian A. Brinksman, a contractor with a Top Secret/SCI clearance, pulled five classified reports outside the scope of his job, and that articles with similar content then appeared on a Substack run by a woman he is in a relationship with. He is charged by criminal complaint with one count of transmitting national defense information. A complaint is an accusation; he is presumed innocent.
PoliticsThe inquiry targets the joint pause in pooled coverage that followed the White House's ban on three outlets. Press advocates call it retaliation; the administration says the networks acted together.
