More than 200 journalists at Law360 and its sister publications have signed a letter demanding that their parent company drop its contract with the Department of Homeland Security citing "imminent human rights concerns.”
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Fake and outdated videos and images are circulating on social media misrepresenting the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran’s counterattacks.
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A viral audio clip which claims to reveal a victim’s testimony of abuse by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is not real.
Multiple experts who analyzed the audio told PolitiFact that the clip was AI-generated.
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A majority of Americans disapprove of the United States’ attack on Iran, according to multiple news polls. One poll found that 60% of Americans don’t believe President Donald Trump has “a clear plan for handling the situation.”
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When covering the child welfare system, reporters should center kids and families in ways that give them agency and avoid retraumatizing them.
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President Donald Trump spoke for 1 hour and 47 minutes on Tuesday night, making his 2026 State of the Union address the longest in history.
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President Donald Trump said the State of the Union address will be “a long speech. Because we have a lot to talk about.”
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Former President Barack Obama clarified his podcast remarks, saying, “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. ... I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
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Late-night host Stephen Colbert said CBS insisted that his show not air an interview with Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico. So, the interview was uploaded to the show’s YouTube page.
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Late-night host Stephen Colbert and CBS are at odds over the FCC’s equal time rule after lawyers for parent company Paramount Skydance blocked an interview with Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico.
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The House-passed Save America Act, which would mandate that all states require a photo ID to vote in person or by mail, revived a claim about ID laws.
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On Tuesday, in a dramatic turn of events, the FBI released chilling video and photos taken from a camera on 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie’s front door of a masked man tampering with the camera. Read the full story in today's Poynter Report:
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How can you tell what’s real from fake when your feed is flooded with images and videos that can easily be altered or imagined by AI?
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Don’t feel pressured to sign severance paperwork. Consider a lawyer. Embrace the new beginning.
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Yes, recording law enforcement in public is allowed under the First Amendment. But it’s not legal to obstruct their activities.
In this PolitiFact story, legal experts explain distance rules, who decides obstruction and what happens if agents intervene.
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What sets streaming news apart isn’t the transmission of information, “it's the transmission of the experience,” said “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas on the Season 5 premiere of The Poynter Report Podcast.
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Dozens of metro areas have larger numbers of immigrants in the U.S. illegally than the Minneapolis metro area, including smaller metro areas across the country.
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The Trump administration tried to shape the story after ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent. But videos from bystanders and detailed analysis by visual forensic reporters appear to have forced a rare recalibration. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
Keep the cameras rolling. Stay on the edge of the crowd. Safety first, story second.
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