As the number of local journalists declines across the United States, state and local governments and officials are making it ...

On Sept. 19, President Donald Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. This event emphasizes what’s now becoming an unprecedented and shocking discussion — the growing threat ...

The press pool is a proxy for the wider fight over whether the president, or anyone, can control the content of news reports ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the decision of the White House television press ...

Since 2021, state laws that lead to book challenges and bans in K-12 schools have proliferated. In total, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans from July 2021 to June 2023 found 5,894 book bans ...

Although advertising revenue largely sustained the news media in the 20th century, it’s been harder to come by in the digital age. News-media outlets just aren’t as important these days for ...

When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in government and a bit of a mess. The country’s two political parties – ...

The legal action centered on the “recruitment” clause, involving sharing information about how to obtain abortions legally in other states.

Congress has overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called “revenge porn.” Known as the Take It ...

In 1988, two mushroom enthusiasts took their trusty copy of The Encyclopedia of Mushrooms out foraging. Using descriptions from the book, they harvested and later cooked mushrooms it identified as ...

There was a time when it would have been hard to imagine the word “controversial” applying to the American Library Association. The ALA’s purpose statement goes like this: “To provide leadership for ...