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Members vote 51 to 48 in favour of president’s request to slash $9bn in spending already approved by Congress
The US Senate has approved Donald Trump’s plan for billions of dollars in cuts to funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, handing the Republican president another victory as he exerts control over Congress with little opposition.
The Senate voted 51 to 48 in favour of Trump’s request to cut $9bn in spending already approved by Congress.
Dan Rather said it was ‘sad day for journalism’ after the company settled for $16m over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris
A former CBS News anchor and 60 minutes correspondent, Dan Rather, has blasted the $16m settlement between Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, and Donald Trump, calling it a “sad day for journalism”.
“It’s a sad day for 60 Minutes and CBS News,” Rather, a veteran journalist who was a CBS News anchor for over 20 years, told Variety in an interview published Wednesday. “I hope people will read the details of this and understand what it was. It was distortion by the president and a kneeling down and saying, ‘yes, sir,’ by billionaire corporate owners.”
Kristi Noem says ‘we’re working with [DoJ] to see if we can prosecute them’ while president fumes over Iran reporting
Donald Trump and administration officials have threatened CNN over what they said was its promotion of a new app that allows users to track and try to avoid Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.
Speaking to reporters in Florida on a trip to visit a new Ice detention center in Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem said her department and the Department of Justice were looking at prosecuting CNN over its reporting on the app, called IceBlock.
Moyers, who served as Johnson’s press secretary for two years, became one of television’s most revered journalists
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died on Thursday at age 91.
Moyers died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former chief executive of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B Johnson’s administration.
Public spat reflects fracture among Trump’s coalition over whether US should join Israel’s escalating conflict with Iran
Ted Cruz, the US senator from Texas, and conservative media personality Tucker Carlson have clashed over US military involvement in the Middle East, with the latter shouting: “You don’t know anything about Iran!” in a heated interview that exposes a sharp division within Donald Trump’s coalition as the president considers joining Israel in attacking Iran.
In the confrontation, a short excerpt released ahead of an approximately two-hour interview set to air today, Carlson – an acolyte of the Maga movement which generally argues for American isolationism from foreign wars – challenged Cruz’s knowledge of Iran, which the Republican hawk has advocated attacking.
Journalists condemn slew of incidents and call on authorities to ensure ‘press freedom is respected’
Several journalists covering the protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown have reported being attacked by law enforcement over the last several days, prompting condemnation and a call on authorities to do “more to ensure press freedom is respected”.
Some were struck by rubber bullets and fired at with pepper balls while one crew was briefly detained while broadcasting live.
Lawsuit challenges president’s move to cut federal funding as station says it is ‘matter of necessity and principle’
In the Trump administration’s unprecedented war on the American media, a lawsuit brought by public broadcasters could mark a much-needed strike back for press freedom.
The lawsuit, brought by NPR and three Colorado-based public radio stations, challenges an executive order that cut federal funding to what Donald Trump described as “biased media”, with lawyers arguing that the order violated the first amendment right to free speech.
Tapping a TV host to lead one of the key US prosecutor’s offices? For image-obsessed Trump it’s a well-worn path
When Donald Trump launched a series of scathing attacks on Fox News after the network in effect called the general election for Joe Biden in 2020, it seemed that one of the most enduring relationships in politics could be over.
Now, in 2025, it’s clear that the relationship between rightwing news channel and the mercurial president is firmer than ever. Trump’s hired nearly two dozen Fox News hosts – most recently Jeanine Pirro – to create an administration stocked with television personalities able to spout his message and acquiesce to his every demand.
Despite owners and networks forsaking journalistic independence, Trump continues to threaten journalists
In the telling of Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues, the US media is fake news, stocked with “radical-left monsters” who are guilty of “illegal” reporting on the president.
The reality is different.