Longtime CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour, who began as an entry-level assistant and rose to become one of the most visible ...

As the number of local journalists declines across the United States, state and local governments and officials are making it ...

The Everett (Wash.) school district has approved a settlement agreement with LifeWise Academy, a religious-education nonprofit that had sued the district on First Amendment grounds. LifeWise runs ...

The press pool is a proxy for the wider fight over whether the president, or anyone, can control the content of news reports ...

Since 2021, state laws that lead to book challenges and bans in K-12 schools have proliferated. In total, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans from July 2021 to June 2023 found 5,894 book bans ...

Defending the integrity of elections is so important that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed laws that restrict speech, such as in Burson v. Freeman when limiting campaign speech near polling places.

When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in government and a bit of a mess. The country’s two political parties – ...

Although advertising revenue largely sustained the news media in the 20th century, it’s been harder to come by in the digital age. News-media outlets just aren’t as important these days for ...

In 1988, two mushroom enthusiasts took their trusty copy of The Encyclopedia of Mushrooms out foraging. Using descriptions from the book, they harvested and later cooked mushrooms it identified as ...

Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr stirred up a controversy this weekend by threatening broadcasters with the loss of their licenses over their coverage of the current war in Iran. In an X post ...