Free fallout / Thought police? / Reshaped

Free fallout. Journalists and teachers have lost their jobs after harshly speaking out publicly or through social media about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

■ News outlets practiced restraint when it came to showing video of the killing of Charlie Kirk but with nearly instantaneous online images did it make any difference?
■ You can minimize the risk to your employment from social media posts, offered Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, with “10 Ways You Can Use Your Free Speech Without Losing Your Job.”

■ A day before the Utah Valley University shooting a survey of college students revealed that a majority of them oppose having controversial speakers on campus.

■ China and the United States have reached a tentative deal on a sale of TikTok, pending further negotiations.

Thought police? A proposed House bill could give Secretary of State Marco Rubio the power to strip passports from U.S. citizens solely based on what they think or say.
■ First Amendment lawyer Jenin Younes, who once sued former President Joe Biden over censorship, is guilty of making enemies on both left and right, The Washington Post reported.
■ Infowars’ Alex Jones, saying his First Amendment rights were violated in his Sandy Hook libel case, has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to upend the $1.4 billion judgment.
■ Whistleblowers told a U.S. Senate panel that Meta placed virtual-reality profits over the safety of children who used the platform.

Naming rights. The reinstatement of a Confederate general’s name on a Virginia high school violated its students’ First Amendment rights, a federal judge ruled. 
■ Three states are leading the push to legally display the Ten Commandments in public schools while court rulings have blocked those efforts for now.
■ President Donald Trump, in a speech at the Bible Museum, announced that the U.S. Department of Education will issue guidance on prayer in public schools.
■ A classroom argument about teaching gender ideology captured on video has led to the dismissal of a professor at Texas A&M University.
■ For the second year in a row, Columbia University has placed near the bottom of the College Free Speech Rankings reported annually by The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

Reshaped. Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery would alter the shape of the media industry, effectively putting CNN and CBS News under the same corporate umbrella.
■ A proposed merger of two major television owners in Tennessee could have huge implications for national markets, including station duplication and shrinking newsrooms, argued Mark Harmon, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville journalism professor, in a recent commentary.
■ Meet Kenneth Weinstein, CBS News’ new ombudsman, not the same as the old ombudsman.
■ Following a complaint from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, CBS News will longer edit “Face the Nation” interviews.

Press protection. Citing an “avalanche of evidence” that ICE and Border Patrol agents violated the rights of reporters covering protests, a federal judge has barred officers from using crowd-control weapons against journalists.
■ A family succession fight has ended after media mogul Rupert Murdoch buys out three of his children and dissolves the family trust.
■ Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son, Lachlan, now has the power to decide the fate of News Corp’s newspapers.
■ Written and edited behind bars by Tennessee State Prison inmates in 1981, Nashville’s The Interim instigated change and set the blueprint for prison newspapers of today.

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Burning issue / Plate rattle / Foxfire

Burning issue. President Trump’s executive order on flag burning may fly all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
■ An Army veteran was arrested for burning an American flag near the White House, calling his actions a “direct challenge” to Trump’s executive order criminalizing flag burning.
■ Republicans attack symbolic speech because they know it is an effective protest tool, a British-American author asserted in a recent commentary.
■ A California baker in a long-running religious freedom case has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify at what point are her wedding cakes deserving of First Amendment protections.

Plate rattle. A Tennessee woman who had a personalized license plate revoked wants to drive home a point about free speech with the U.S. Supreme Court.
■ U.S. internet forums 4chan and Kiwi Farms have filed a lawsuit against a British media regulator arguing that its new online safety law violates Americans’ right to free speech.
■ Salt Lake City has changed its application process for special-event permits following a fatal shooting at a June “No Kings” protest.
■ Legislators in Michigan want to criminalize the obstruction of traffic as an act of protest.

On account of teens. OpenAI and Meta reportedly are adjusting how their chatbots respond to questions from teenagers who are exhibiting signs of distress.
■ The Walt Disney Co. will pay a $10 million fine to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that contends Disney allowed data collection on children.
■ Public schools in Conway, Ark., had to remove any display of the Ten Commandments, after a federal judge’s ruling.
■ A Kansas nurse is fighting accusations of practicing without a license after she gave speeches on the subject of dementia while on leave to care for her ailing husband.

Foxfire. Right-wing media network Newsmax has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News over “an exclusionary scheme” that suppresses competition.
■ A right-wing podcaster promoted falsehoods about Washington, D.C., crime and the Trump administration embraced him.
■ The Trump administration’s decision to block $2 billion in federal funding from Harvard University was unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.
■ A Boise State professor has examined the landmark Supreme Court ruling Times v Sullivan that makes it hard for public officials to sue the press. President Trump wants it gone.
■ A Texas curfew law that bans certain “expressive activities” on college campuses after dark is being challenged in court by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

Healthy topic. The news media has once again been forced to revisit protocols for reporting on the health of a sitting president.
■ Journalism groups have teamed up to launch a network designed to protect the rights of reporters.
■ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will cease its print edition at the end of the year, leaving the city as the largest in the country without a printed daily newspaper.
■ Emmy-winning correspondent and host of CNN’s “Newsmaker Saturday,” Charles Bierbauer, has died.  

■ Mark Knoller, a veteran White House correspondent for CBS News, is remembered as hard-working and “prolific” following his death at age 73.

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Unsocial / Dr. Right? / Duck and cover

Unsocial. Meta’s AI rules allowed its chatbots to give false medical information and permit “romantic” conversations with children, Reuters reported.
■ The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed, for now, Mississippi’s social media age-verification law to take effect.
■ The deepfake of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was bad, but the proposed solution is delusional, a Princeton University professor contended in a New York Times opinion piece.

■ Newsmax has agreed to settle its defamation case with Dominion Voting Systems for $67 million.
■ A foreign election-interference law in Maine violates the First Amendment, an appeals court ruled.

Fight fear with FIRE. Stanford University’s student newspaper has filed a lawsuit with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression against the Trump administration claiming that weaponizing immigration law to silence political dissent is unconstitutional.
■ A woman facing charges stemming from a pro-Palestinian demonstration had her case dismissed by a Utah judge.
■ Indiana University has sanctioned an outspoken professor under its new intellectual diversity law.
■ An Alabama law banning DEI initiatives in public schools remains in place after a federal judge refused to block it.

■ As state redistricting proposals generate headlines, constitutional scholar John R. Vile sheds light on how First Amendment rights of association can make a case against partisan gerrymandering.

Dr. Right? Former daytime-TV icon Dr. Phil is seemingly building his own MAGA-friendly news and entertainment network.

■ MSNBC will become MS Now as the network moves away from Comcast’s NBCUniversal TV empire.

■ The Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into Media Matters for America has been temporarily halted by a federal judge who called it a “straightforward First Amendment violation.”
■ University of Tennessee professor Stuart Brotman suggested that the country needs a National News Council now more than ever in an Editor & Publisher commentary.
■ Political leanings of Supreme Court justices are getting greater scrutiny in the press, contend a pair of judicial scholars.

Religious immunization. The former county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue a same-sex marriage license has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court claiming freedom of religion should have protected her.
■ Supreme Court justices likely will hear a long-running Florida football-prayer case, predicted a University of Dayton law professor.

■ A President Trump-appointed federal judge tossed out an Oklahoma schools chief’s lawsuit apparently designed to silence a religious-freedom organization.
■ The Trump administration cannot restrict access to public information about federal spending, a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ruled.
■ A Department of Justice request to unseal grand jury testimony in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case was denied by a New York federal judge.

Duck and cover. Navigating a less-cooperative Pentagon under the Trump administration has journalists at Stars and Stripes keeping a low profile while continuing to publish.
■ The police raid on a Kansas newspaper two years ago was a “massive failure,” the reporter who covered the story declared in an interview with the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ News Media Corp.’s closures of newspapers across five states leave many communities without a local news source.
■ A Palestinian journalist living in the United States shared his story about his friend and mentor, Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

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Cell service / Too late / Feline blue

Cell service. The same president who broadly used the term “fake news” is now answering calls from reporters directly on his personal phone, the Associated Press reported.
■ News icon Dan Rather has called ‘BS’ on the decision by CBS parent company Paramount to appoint a “bias monitor” who would report directly to President Donald Trump.

■ After Meta dismissed its fact-checkers, the crowdsourced replacement to combat falsehoods has been a failure, a tech writer for The Washington Post has deduced.

■ C-SPAN executive and former “Crossfire” producer has unveiled a template for a television program that aims to find common ground in a divisive America.
■ The N-word has been banned at Los Angeles City Council meetings, and the threat of a hefty free-speech lawsuit followed.

‘‘Really scary stuff.’’ Donald Trump’s latest moves against free speech call for defensive maneuvers from news outlets, contended media writer Tom Jones in a Poynter commentary.

■ A federal judge said the Trump administration violated his order mandating that Voice of America news programming be restored.
■ NBC News examined the ripple effect of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s decision to cease operations after the loss of government funding.
■ Some journalists have found ways to survive in a new media world after years of legacy news experience.
■ Tennessee middle-school cheerleaders were arrested after posting a video on TikTok that depicted a school shooting.

Too late. Regardless of whether politics or money killed Stephen Colbert’s show, late-night television just isn’t what it used to be, explained media writer David Bauder.
■ The Arizona Republic’s Bill Goodykoontz called FCC chair Brendan Carr the “second-most dangerous man” in America.

■ FCC’s Carr has been hit with an ethics complaint from the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ Felony rioting charges against two Ohio journalists stemming from coverage of a bridge demonstration have been dropped by prosecutors.

Feline blue. A Seattle woman has sued the Blue Angels for blocking her Instagram account after she posted complaints that the “sonic barrage” from flyovers terrified her dying cat.
■ A Tennessee media group has challenged the state’s new law-enforcement “buffer” law.
■ A Pennsylvania man who filmed an officer driving his police cruiser at him on a sidewalk has filed a First Amendment complaint.
■ Glendale, Ariz., residents have sued the city over a panhandling ordinance that they claim violates the First Amendment.

Which craft? The parallels between spreading false information today and during the witch trials from the 1400s are striking and instructive, a Wellesley College professor has found.
■ A Israeli claim without evidence that Hamas was stealing Gaza aid from the U.N. was reported regularly by The New York Times before sources contradicted it, according to an analysis by The Intercept.
■ Jewish students and a Jewish professor reached a $6 million settlement with UCLA over campus protests.
■ A Washington law that required priests to report abuse disclosed during confession was blocked by a federal court as a violation of religious liberty.

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Unraveled / Showstoppers / Controllers

Unraveled. NPR’s David Folkenflik has examined how bipartisan support for public media came undone in the President Trump era.
■ Major news media settlements made to Donald Trump have undermined the First Amendment, Variety reported.
■ Donald Trump has sued The Wall Street Journal over a story about his ties to financier Jeffrey Epstein years ago.

■ The Trump administration is withholding more than just Epstein files. Public records requests are being ignored, Dave Levinthal argued in a MSNBC opinion piece.
■ On behalf of a prominent First Amendment scholar, a clinic at Vanderbilt University Law School is challenging a Tennessee open-records law that restricts access to state residents only.

Face it. The wearing of masks in public has become a constitutional matter that could test free-speech rights in this country.
■ A protest against ICE on an Ohio River bridge leads to felony charges against two Cincinnati journalists.
■ Arkansas can enforce its ban on critical race theory in public schools, a federal appeals court has ruled.
■ Wisconsin can institute its ban on conversion therapy, after a ruling by the state’s supreme court.

Showstoppers. Washington Post reporters have explained how the Steven Colbert and Donald Trump relationship illustrates the shifting power dynamics between broadcasting and streaming.
■ CBS/Paramount gave Steven Colbert a crash course in what freedom of speech really means, opined comic actor and Fox Nation’s host Rob Schneider.
■ A museum event meant to recognize local journalism was postponed after death threats were directed at a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist.
■ Press Forward, an initiative to help meet the needs of local newsrooms, presented a $1.25 million funding grant to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Protect and serve. The judge who lifted the gag order in the quadruple-murder case in Idaho said that doing so would protect the First Amendment rights of the public and the press.
■ A federal judge ruled that an executive order by President Trump to punish people working with the International Criminal Court violates the First Amendment.
■ Non-citizens in the country legally likely share the same First Amendment rights as U.S. citizens, a federal judge has surmised.
■ An NRA free-speech lawsuit against a former New York state official was dismissed by a federal appeals court.

Controllers. The years-long fight to take control of U.S. video streaming devices has come down to two giant video-company combatants, The New York Times reported.

■ Mark Zuckerberg and Meta investors settled claims seeking $8 billion over alleged Facebook users’ privacy violations.
■ Blackstone has withdrawn from a consortium seeking to invest in U.S. operations of TikTok.
■ Claiming defamatory information is being used in news coverage about the company, UnitedHealth is using an aggressive campaign to silence critics, according to an analysis in The New York Times.

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Scopes at 100 / Lesson plan / Betting man

Scopes at 100. A century ago, the ‘‘most famous trial in America’’ helped tackle questions about free speech and freedom of religion. They remain today.
■ After waiving a press-freedom defense, Paramount’s settlement with President Trump is examined by Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University.
■ A senior editor at MSNBC says in an opinion piece that he is both proud of America and ashamed of what has happened to it.

■ Next term, the U.S. Supreme Court will review whether federal spending limits on campaign finances violates the First Amendment.

Access impact. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Texas law blocking children under the age of 18 from online porn sites.

■ The Supreme Court’s decision came while a federal court was considering another age-verification case.
■ First Amendment advocates express concern that government can require Americans to identify themselves before viewing constitutionally protected pornographic material.

■ Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has raised concerns that courts are misapplying the First Amendment in cases regarding political speech.
■ The high court ruled that Maryland parents can pull their children out of public-school classrooms where LGBTQ+ storybooks are being used in lessons.

Lesson plan. To survive, universities must acknowledge the importance of civic friendship, contended the authors of an opinion piece in The Washington Post.
■ A federal judge heard testimony from professors and students before ruling on whether the University of Alabama’s anti-DEI law violates the First Amendment.
■ Punishing universities for their viewpoints is unconstitutional, director Thomas A. Berry argued for the Cato Institute.

New suit. Efforts by President Trump to deport pro-Palestinian activists are being challenged in federal court.
■ A man barred from publicly evangelizing in Mississippi could have his case heard by the nation’s highest court.
■ A group of authors have asked major publishers to promise that “they will never release” books that were created by artificial intelligence.
■ The First Amendment implications of AI-generated speech should be recognized by federal courts, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

Betting man. Google and PayPal made him rich, now Michael Moritz is placing his money on the news business.
■ Kari Lake’s take on the fate of Voice of America: ‘‘Scrap the whole thing and start over.”

■ An immigration judge grants bond for a Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering Atlanta protests.

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Targeting / Face up / Silent Voice

Targeting. President Trump vowed to be a First Amendment champion but now free speech is measurably under attack, according to an analysis by The Guardian.
■ Texas legislators are on the verge of rolling back a 2019 law that protected campus speech.
■ Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-rights activist and legal permanent resident of the United States, won his freedom despite the efforts of Homeland Security Investigations, The Intercept reported.
■ As millions peacefully rally against authoritarianism, the Trump administration wrongly portrays the protests as threats, a political science professor explained in The Conversation.

Face up. Mask-wearing protesters that drew the ire of the president have sparked a debate that tests free-speech rights. 

■ A First Amendment group has sued the city of Los Angeles and its police department over its officers’ violating the press rights of journalists covering immigration protests.
■ Journalism advocates have questioned whether reporters are becoming targets of law enforcement while covering demonstrations.
■ A Spanish-language journalist documenting immigration raids in Atlanta was taken away and detained by ICE agents.

Striking Ten. Louisiana’s law for requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools was ruled “plainly unconstitutional” by a U.S. court of appeals judicial panel. 
■ Likely facing a legal challenge, the governor of Texas signed a bill stipulating that public schools display the Ten Commandments.

■ Families in Arkansas have filed a lawsuit challenging a state measure requiring display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
■ The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a faith-based pregnancy center over releasing sensitive information.

Silent Voice. More than 600 Voice of America employees were given layoff notices, effectively shutting down the news outlet that has served listeners since World War II.
■ On social media, Donald Trump has attacked the press on average once a day for the last decade, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
■ Oil companies have been citing free speech when fighting lawsuits that accuse them of spreading misinformation about climate change.
■ Four experts in artificial turf on playgrounds and sports fields were sued for defamation before a planned discussion about potential health risks for children even took place.

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Road work / No redress / Backfired

Road work. The soon-to-be lone Democrat on the FCC has embarked on a “First Amendment Tour” to speak out against President Trump’s threats on free-speech rights.
■ The latest White House travel ban undercuts free speech and restricts the flow of information and ideas, creative-expression groups have declared.

■ Were First Amendment protections ignored in President Trump’s decision to send troops to quell protests in California?

■ Trump has asked Congress to eliminate $1.1 billion earmarked for public broadcasting.

Gulf widens. The free-speech battle with the Trump administration produced an incremental loss for The Associated Press at the hands of the three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals.
■ The latest attempt by President Trump to block international students from attending Harvard University has been halted by a federal judge.
■ A report by The Intercept detailed how the Trump administration’s attempt to search Instagram accounts of Columbia University student protesters was blocked by federal judges on First Amendment grounds.
■ Americans expressed concern that government efforts to regulate artificial intelligence may lead to limits on free speech, according to poll results from FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression).

No redress. A Massachusetts student’s “Only two genders” T-shirt appeal has been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
■ Supreme Court justices sided with a Wisconsin Catholic charity in a religious-rights tax case.
■ Federal agencies cannot punish Catholic health-care providers that refuse for religious reasons to assist transgender patients, a federal judge has ruled.
■ Four states have used the First Amendment right of petition to get the Food and Drug Administration to lift its restrictions on abortion pills.

Backfired. President Trump’s retribution crusade against Harvard University, law firms, and others, is ironically being thwarted in large part by a 2024 NRA First Amendment decision.
■ Florida’s ban on social media accounts for young children has been delayed by a federal judge.
■ A push by Texas lawmakers to ban social media for those under 18 failed to become law before the state legislative session ended.
■ A University of California-San Francisco professor has sued the university, alleging that her 2024 suspension over Gaza comments she made online violated her First Amendment rights.

Win some, lose some. It is much more than bad luck that makes some hometown newspapers disappear, a university researcher found.
■ A Pentagon reporter for One America News discovered there were limits to expressing her opinions.

■ ABC News has suspended news correspondent Terry Moran following online comments where he called Trump official Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.”

■ Purdue University announced it has ceased distribution assistance for The Exponent, the school’s 135-year-old campus newspaper.
■ Ronnie Dugger, the crusading editor of a small but influential Texas publication, has died at 95.

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Free country? / Art speech / Prez vs. prez

Free country? The biggest threat from the Trump administration is the push to silence the speech of political adversaries, declared law professor Jessica Levinson in an MSNBC commentary.
■ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has implemented new press restrictions at the Pentagon, NPR reported.

■ Press-freedom organizations have launched a network to give legal assistance, resources, and training to U.S. journalists and newsrooms.

■ An ad campaign against an airline that operates flights for deportees has set off a free-speech legal fight.

Unprotected bots. In a trial over the cause of a teen’s death, a judge ruled against an argument that AI chatbots have free-speech rights.
■ Two major daily newspapers published summer reading lists that were filled with AI-generated imaginary book titles.
■ In an era of banned books, a wave of new shop owners has embraced independent bookselling, the Associated Press reported.
■ A patron-led challenge over the removal of books from a Texas library was struck down by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

■ A Colorado couple was found guilty in a cross-burning hoax that was meant to generate voter sympathy for a mayoral candidate.

Art speech. After three years of legal wrangling, a U.S. District judge ruled that a New Hampshire bakery’s rooftop mural is a constitutional display.
■ A rare tie vote in the U.S. Supreme Court has ended Oklahoma’s efforts to create the nation’s first religious charter school.

■ Texas is one step closer to having the Ten Commandments displayed in all public-school classrooms.

■ Court justices ordered the Maine Legislature to restore the votes of a representative who was censured for identifying a transgender teen athlete online.

■ A new Tennessee law is a deliberate threat to the First Amendment, a senior legal fellow at Vanderbilt University contended in a Tennessee Lookout commentary.

Breaking news… literally. Nine months pregnant, a local TV news anchor did the morning newscast after labor contractions began and her water broke.
■ President Trump again blasted Harvard University over international students just days after a federal judge declared his administration’s ban on enrolling foreign students was unconstitutional.
■ The Trump administration cannot fight censorship with censorship, declared the executive vice president of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression).

■ Columbia University’s acting president heard boos and shouts of “Free Mahmoud” during her commencement speech.

■ A Nevada school district has been sued by the ACLU for failing to adhere to a law allowing students to wear certain regalia at graduation ceremonies.

Prez vs. prez. Tensions with President Trump, clashes over editorial principles with Paramount, led to the resignation of CBS News president Wendy McMahon.
■ In case you missed it, the publisher of The New York Times penned an opinion piece declaring that a free people need a free press.
■ School newspapers from opposite ends of the country teamed up to heal from wildfires by getting individual stories out.
■ Archives from punk rock fanzine Maximum Rocknroll have been donated to the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University.

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Freed-om / Bear witness / Fighting back

Freed-om. The Tufts University doctoral student incarcerated for writing an op-ed on the school’s failure to condemn Israel’s war in Gaza has been released from federal custody.
■ A federal judge in Boston questioned whether non-citizens have the same free-speech protections as U.S. citizens.
■ President Donald Trump’s attack on a fundraising platform for Democratic candidates violates the First Amendment, an Amherst College professor explained in The Hill.

■ The Trump administration's hostility towards journalists is getting tougher and louder, the Associated Press reported.

No game. A civil lawsuit filed in Florida could determine whether AI chatbots share the same free-speech rights that people do.
■ The president has targeted Mexican drug cartels but now he’s also after the musicians who sing about them.

■ A Michigan school’s insistence that a third-grade student remove a hat adorned with the image of an AR-15 rifle and the message, “Come and take it,” did not violate any free-speech rights.
■ The elimination of public-records staff at health agencies has threatened access to government data under the Freedom of Information Act.

Bear witness. Media companies, including the Associated Press, argued in a federal lawsuit that an Indiana ban on reporters at state-sanctioned executions is unconstitutional.
■ Pope Leo XIV, in his first public meeting with media members, called for “the precious gift of free speech” to be protected.

■ Journalists have to band together in defending the First Amendment, a University of Iowa professor proposed in a PEN America commentary.
■ Funding for public and nonprofit media outlets is being threatened by an executive order from President Trump.

Censorial hammer time. A free-speech double-standard is hiding in plain sight on library shelves, postulated conservative author Connor Boyack.
■ North Dakota’s Republican governor has vetoed bills that would further restrict library content and create a private-school voucher program.
■ The Ten Commandments can go up, and pride flags will come down, after Alabama lawmakers approved a slew of conservative-sponsored bills.
■ Chief Justice John Roberts has emerged as a swing vote in whether the U.S. Supreme Court will allow the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school.

Fighting back. A former White House reporter is leading the charge to save Voice of America and calling on media to resist attacks from the Trump administration.
■ Can the far-right coverage of One America News fuel Voice of America? Kari Lake thinks so.
■ Axios has compiled a winning list of 2025 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism.

■ Sen. Bernie Sanders has asked Paramount’s Shari Redstone not to settle a Trump lawsuit against CBS News.
■ Kenneth Walker, whose reporting on apartheid South Africa for ABC’s “Nightline” helped the show win an Emmy, has died.

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