On September 18, 2026, President Trump announced that CNN, MS NOW, and Politico would lose access to the White House. Within two days, Secret Service officers had confiscated three reporters’ credentials at the gate. The outlets sued, arguing the ban breaks both the First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment. Their case revives a question the … Read more
Minnesota’s first-in-the-nation restriction on AI nudification tools faces a federal lawsuit over privacy, free speech and the law’s scope.
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The Justice Department withdrew subpoenas seeking testimony and phone records from New York Times reporters after a federal judge questioned the process used to obtain them.
A federal judge temporarily blocked a policy that could impose immigration consequences on noncitizen researchers and advocates working on online misinformation, content moderation and trust and safety.
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On July 6, 2026, the Supreme Court denied two emergency applications, in dockets 25A1389 and 25A1390, asking it to block enforcement of Texas Senate Bill 2420, the App Store Accountability Act, while a legal challenge to the law continues. The applications came from Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT), a youth advocacy group, and the … Read more
