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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 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 […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, so do concerns about the health information Americans are encountering. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the recently confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, has offered some public comments in […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday that the White House will now select which news outlets cover the president in the press pool, a smaller group of reporters who have […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story In the wake of President Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, Democrats and left-leaning influencers are grappling with the changing digital media ecosystem and its role in the election outcome. A recent Pew Research Center study of […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story This week, Elon Musk claimed that journalists reporting on his Department of Government Efficiency and its employees are “doxxing” his staff, or publishing private personal information about them. As they have for the past four decades, most Americans say criticism from news […]
☀️ 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 last week issued an executive order to freeze spending on all federal loans and grants, which has since been rescinded after major backlash. News of the spending freeze was initially […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story DeepSeek, a Chinese technology company, recently introduced a new AI chatbot system with similar capabilities to major U.S. models like ChatGPT. But DeepSeek built its model with much less investment and computing power […]
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