☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story X (formerly Twitter) is piloting a new use for its Community Notes feature: flagging posts that generate agreement from users who normally have differing views, Axios is reporting. The end goal is to […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The tensions between President Donald Trump and U.S. public broadcasters continued to play out this week with two major developments:  About a quarter of U.S. adults (24%) say Congress should remove federal funding […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story There were continued developments at CBS News this week as Paramount executives reportedly forced out CBS News President Wendy McMahon, who told staff that “it’s become clear the company and I do not agree […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Hasan Piker, a popular progressive streamer with millions of followers across YouTube and Twitch, said he was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently after flying back to the U.S. Piker said […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was selected today as the first American leader of the Roman Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The first conclave since 2013 prompted discussion […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Swedish journalist Joakim Medin received an 11-month suspended sentence in Turkey for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Medin, affiliated with the Swedish newspaper Dagens ETC, was arrested at Istanbul airport on March 27 […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, announced this week that he would step down from the CBS news program, citing a loss of journalistic independence and telling staff that he is […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Trump administration is shuttering the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub, a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. Republican lawmakers have previously […]

☀️ 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 ordered the Trump administration to restore The Associated Press’ access as the media outlet’s lawsuit against the White House proceeds. The administration had barred the news agency from some spaces […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Trump administration said this week it plans to take control of reporters’ seating arrangement in the press briefing room, which has long been determined by the White House Correspondents’ Association. This change would represent yet […]