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Bureau: Berlin
The Trump administration filed its appeal of Judge Lin's injunction on the final day of the stay, signaling it will fight to preserve power to blacklist AI companies from contracts.
Judge Moss permanently struck down Trump's executive order as viewpoint discrimination, but the $1.1 billion congressional defunding of CPB means public broadcasting lost the war it won in court.
Tech companies fired 963 people per day in Q1 2026, totaling 52,050 -- and AI was cited as the reason in one out of every five cuts.
Freedom House at 81/100, V-Dem dropping the U.S. to 51st and reclassifying it as an 'electoral democracy,' and Bright Line Watch at 57/100 -- three reports, one verdict.
The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists on February 4 -- the largest single-day wipeout of a newsroom in a generation -- and has now begun quietly rehiring some of them.
A grand jury indicted Lemon and Georgia Fort this week on conspiracy charges, but the government's legal theory has only weakened since the magistrate's initial rejection in January.
Judge Friedman asked 'Is it Catch-22? Is it Kafka?' as the Pentagon ignores his court order on press access -- the Correspondents' Corridor is now in its 15th day of closure.