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Back to news homeKansas Newspaper Raid: Seized Items to Be Returned to Marion County Record
The top prosecutor in Marion County, Kan., said on Wednesday that there was not sufficient evidence to support a raid on a local newspaper last week, and that all the […]
Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Wisconsin News Site Out of Business
The county board meeting in Wausau, Wis., on Aug. 12, 2021, got contentious fast. Nobody disputes that.But what happened about 12 minutes in, as members of the north-central Wisconsin community […]
Police Raid Kansas Newspaper Office
A small town in Kansas has become a battleground over the First Amendment, after the local police force and county sheriff’s deputies raided the office of the Marion County Record.Raids […]
Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Source, Had Uneasy Relationship With The Times
The relationship between The New York Times and its most famous source, Daniel Ellsberg, reads like a thriller, replete with clandestine meetings, top secret documents and a war raging in […]
How Local Officials Seek Revenge on Their Hometown Newspapers
Two of the most powerful women in the village of Delhi in central New York sat face to face in a brick building on Main Street for what would become […]
A Reporter Investigated Sexual Misconduct. Then the Attacks Began.
One drizzly Saturday in May last year, a slender man in a blue raincoat approached a house in the Boston suburb of Melrose. It was just before 6 a.m., and […]
Landmark Trial Against Fox News Could Affect the Future of Libel Law
Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox News, which goes to trial in Delaware next week, is expected to stoke hot-button debates over journalistic ethics, the unchecked flow of misinformation, […]
Judge Limits Fox’s Options for Defense in Dominion Trial
WILMINGTON, Del. — A judge ruled on Tuesday that Fox News could not argue that it broadcast false information about Dominion Voting Systems on the basis that the allegations were […]
Journalist Detained by Russia Was Reporting Stories That ‘Needed to Be Told’
The reporting job in Moscow had everything Evan Gershkovich was looking for, his friends said: experience in a far-flung location with the chance to connect with his Russian roots.Mr. Gershkovich, […]