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Bureau: Berlin
Tuesday's dismissal hearing arrives after a magistrate called the prosecution 'unacceptable' and a wrong-person charge was dropped — the DOJ's credibility is already in tatters before the merits.
The Times's Sunday portrait of Trump at war — 'Wild Ultimatums and Bombing Our Little Hearts Out' — reads as a novel's villain-chapter rather than political journalism.
The March 20 White House AI framework, built around innovation and preemption, was outpaced within days by AI's role in active military conflict.
NewsGuard's First Amendment lawsuit against the FTC survived early dismissal, keeping alive a direct legal challenge to alleged government retaliation against a press accountability service.
After a federal judge vacated the Pentagon's October 2025 media access policy, the DoD responded by closing the Correspondents' Corridor and moving press to an external annex.
Freedom House, V-Dem, and the EIU each released 2026 reports showing significant democratic backsliding — all three converge on the U.S. recording its steepest single-year declines on record.