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Hegseth's Response to Outlets Upset With New Policy: an Emoji

Secretary of defense issues a simple 'goodbye'

(Newser) - When leading news organizations refused to sign the Pentagon's new press policy , Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a pointed response—waving them off with a simple goodbye emoji on social media. After outlets including the Associated Press, Reuters, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, NPR, and...

AP Says the Credit for This Photo Stands
Group Pulls Credit
for Famous War Image
updated
May 17, 2025 1:35 PM CDT

Group Pulls Credit for Famous War Image

Documentary shown at Sundance in January had claimed Nick Ut didn't take the photo

(Newser) - After conducting its own investigation, World Press Photo has suspended attribution for a Vietnam War image it once honored as its photo of the year. Nick Ut has been credited with the photo of a girl running from a napalm attack first published in 1972, but a documentary has questioned...

There Were No Wire Reporters on Trump's Flight to Saudi Arabia

WHCA protests unprecedented exclusion

(Newser) - The group representing White House journalists said Monday it was disturbed that the Trump administration barred any wire service news reporters from traveling with the president on Air Force One to the Middle East. No reporters from the Associated Press, Bloomberg, or Reuters were on the plane, where presidents often...

After AP Ruling, White House Makes a Big Press Pool Change

Newswires will no longer have a reserved spot

(Newser) - The White House has responded to a judge's ruling calling for a "level playing field" for the Associated Press by changing the playing field. The Trump administration says it will no longer reserve a slot in the White House press pool for a reporter from the AP, Reuters,...

White House Not Backing Down From Its Fight Against AP

It filed a notice of appeal Wednesday afternoon

(Newser) - The Trump administration said Wednesday it would appeal a federal court decision that ordered it to re-admit Associated Press journalists to White House events on First Amendment grounds. The AP reports the government filed a notice of appeal early Wednesday afternoon on behalf of the three officials sued by the...

AP Wins Reinstatement to White House Events

Judge says administration can't punish news organization for not following Gulf of Mexico order

(Newser) - A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore the Associated Press ' full access to cover presidential events, ruling on a case that touched at the heart of the First Amendment and affirming that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech....

Judge Declines to Restore AP's White House Access

But he urges Trump administration to reconsider ban

(Newser) - A federal judge on Monday declined to immediately order the White House to restore the Associated Press' access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not demonstrated it had suffered any irreparable harm. But he urged the Trump administration to reconsider its two-week-old ban , saying that case law "...

The AP Sues 3 Trump Staffers Over Freedom of Speech
The AP Sues 3 Trump Officials
Feb 22, 2025 9:01 AM CST

The AP Sues 3 Trump Officials

The news agency has been banned from attending press events at the White House and Mar-a-Lago or flying on Air Force One

(Newser) - The AP sued three Trump administration officials Friday over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal judge to stop the blocking of its journalists. "We'll see them in court," responded White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is named in the lawsuit...

AP, Trump in Scuffle Over 'Gulf of America'

Reporter, photographer denied access to Air Force One after news agency didn't change the name

(Newser) - The White House barred a credentialed AP reporter and photographer from boarding Air Force One on Friday, citing the news agency's stance on how to refer to the Gulf of Mexico. It represented a significant escalation by the White House in a four-day dispute with the AP over access to...

White House Says It's Holding Reporters Accountable for 'Lies'

AP has been shut out twice over its style on the Gulf of Mexico

(Newser) - An Associated Press reporter again was prevented from covering an Oval Office event on Wednesday, after the White House press secretary said the Trump administration will hold media outlets accountable for "lies"—such as calling the body of water to the southwest of Washington, DC, the Gulf of...

In Adoptions Out of Korea, a 'Huge Tree of Deception'

AP looks at disturbing fraud allegations tied to a 'baby pipeline' out of the South

(Newser) - Her greatest fear, dormant for decades, came rushing back in an instant: Had she adopted and raised a kidnapped child? Peg Reif's daughter, adopted from South Korea in the 1980s, had sent her a link to a documentary detailing how the system that made their family was rife with...

A Look at How the AP Calls Elections
Inside How the AP
Calls Elections
Nov 5, 2024 9:45 AM CST

Inside How the AP Calls Elections

A breakdown of the process involving more than 4K reporters

(Newser) - You'll know who your next president is soon—meaning hours or days. Newser will announce winners in various races when they're declared by the Associated Press, which has been calling US elections for 176 years. All about the AP's process:
  • How counting is done: Some 4,000
...

He Captured the Shooting of the President
He Captured the
Shooting of the President
OBITUARY
Jun 5, 2024 1:55 PM CDT

He Captured the Shooting of the President

AP White House photographer Ron Edmonds dies at 77

(Newser) - Ron Edmonds was on the White House beat for the AP for 28 years, but the biggest moment came on his second day. Edmonds, who died Friday at age 77, was the only photographer to capture the shooting of Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, the New York Times reports....

Israel Gets Into Scuffle With the AP, Shuts Down Live Video

Says news org is violating foreign media law by giving images to Al Jazeera, confiscates equipment

(Newser) - Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to the AP in southern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera. The Qatari satellite channel is among thousands of clients that receive live video feeds from the AP...

One of the Longest-Held US Hostages Dies at 76

Terry Anderson was kidnapped in Lebanon and held for almost 7 years

(Newser) - Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting AP correspondent who became one of America's longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76, the AP reports. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants...

World Press Photo of Year Comes From Gaza

No faces, but plenty of pain in the image from Mohammed Salem of Reuters

(Newser) - Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem captured this year's prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award Thursday with a depiction of loss and sorrow in Gaza, a heartrending photo of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her young niece. The photograph, taken in Khan Younis just days after Salem'...

US Food Chain Rides Heavily on Backs of Prison Labor
US Food Chain Rides Heavily
on Backs of Prison Labor
INVESTIGATION
Jan 29, 2024 1:17 PM CST

US Food Chain Rides Heavily on Backs of Prison Labor

Major companies are making bank off forced labor: AP

(Newser) - In a sweeping two-year investigation, the AP found that goods linked to the forced labor of US prisoners wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola beverages. They're on the...

World Press' Photo of Year Is Heartbreaking

AP photog wins for picture of pregnant woman being carried out of shelled Ukraine hospital

(Newser) - AP photographer Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo of the year on Thursday for his harrowing image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through the shattered grounds of a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the chaotic aftermath of a Russian attack. The Ukrainian photographer’...

AP Reporter Canned Over Story on Deadly Missile in Poland

James LaPorta cited anonymous US official who suggested missile was Russian; it was Ukrainian

(Newser) - The world held its breath last week after a report suggested two missiles had been fired by Russia amid its war in Ukraine and killed two people in Poland—an incident that could have qualified as a breach against a NATO nation and possibly triggered a military response from western...

Judge Rules Newspaper Must Turn Over Confidential Memos

Decision: New York Times can't publish project Veritas legal memos

(Newser) - A New York judge has upheld an order preventing the New York Times from publishing documents between conservative group Project Veritas and its lawyer and ruled that the newspaper must immediately relinquish confidential legal memos it obtained. The decision Thursday by state Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood in Westchester County,...

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