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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 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 […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story At a hearing on Wednesday organized by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the chair of the House subcommittee linked to the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts, congressional Republicans criticized PBS and NPR over what’s been perceived as institutional […]

☀️ 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 recently signed an executive order making major cuts to several federal agencies, including the Agency for Global Media – which funds Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. These news […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Ruth Marcus, a longtime editor and columnist for the Washington Post opinion section, resigned on Monday after her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos’ changes to the section was scrapped. Bezos announced last month that the opinion section would begin […]