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☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The New York Times and book publisher Penguin Random House are on the receiving end of a defamation lawsuit from President Donald Trump. The suit filed this week targets a book by two Times […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Lachlan Murdoch, eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, will maintain corporate control of the family’s media empire in the coming decades, according to a settlement reached by the family this week. Its properties include […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Newsmax is suing Fox News, alleging that the network is monopolizing conservative TV audiences and violating antitrust laws. The lawsuit claims that Fox News is trying to suppress its fellow right-leaning competitors, including […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Pop star Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement this week after two years of dating, breaking a record on Instagram and also spurring widespread media coverage. […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Cable news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million dollars to settle a libel lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over claims that the company had rigged their voting machines in the […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Google has launched a new tool that allows users to personalize their news feed. Users in the U.S. and India can now choose the outlets they want to see featured the most in […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story A federal judge this week struck down a California law that restricted AI-generated video content, also known as deepfakes, related to elections. Elon Musk and X were part of the challenge to the […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story TikTok announced this week that it will begin rolling out Footnotes, a crowdsourced fact-checking system similar to Community Notes on X and Meta. The system will allow users to contribute additional context to […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story President Donald Trump is suing The Wall Street Journal and its owners, including Rupert Murdoch, for $10 billion. The lawsuit accuses the news organization of defamation over a story it published last week reporting […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Overnight, the Senate approved about $9 billion in cuts to federal spending, including over $1 billion in funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which funds NPR and PBS stations). The legislation […]