By Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 1-22-26 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is changing its rules exempting certain late-night and daytime talk shows from being required to provide equal airtime to opposing political candidates. “Importantly, the FCC has not been presented with any evidence that the interview portion of any late night or daytime television [...]

By Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck, washingtonpost.com, 1-14-26 The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning, Jan. 14, at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, was at her home in Virginia at the time of the [...]

CPB Press Release, 1-5-26 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress to steward the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting, announced today (Jan. 5) that its Board of Directors has voted to dissolve the organization after 58 years of service to the American public. The decision follows Congress’s rescission [...]

By Joey Cappelletti and Matt Sedensky, APnews.com, 12-17-25 Democratic senators on Dec. 17 hammered the Federal Communications Commission’s leader for pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air, suggesting that Brendan Carr was politicizing an independent agency and trampling the First Amendment. The FCC chairman refused to disown his comments about [...]

By Scott Nover, washingtonpost.com, 12-4-25 The New York Times sued the Defense Department over its press policy prohibiting journalists from soliciting any information not explicitly authorized for release by the government. In a complaint filed Thursday morning (Dec. 4) in federal district court in Washington, the Times alleged that the press rules violated the [...]