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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 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last week issued an executive order to freeze spending on all federal loans and grants, which has since been rescinded after major backlash.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 […]
Americans feel more “warmly” toward Trump today than after the 2020 or 2016 elections, and he draws broad confidence on the economy.
☀️ 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 Newsrooms across the country are incorporating artificial intelligence into their reporting practices, causing tensions at news organizations like the Associated Press. As local newsrooms continue to shrink, AI tools provide a low-cost way to assist with reporting tasks. But Cleveland newspaper The Plain […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to President Donald Trump in order to settle his lawsuit against CBS News, which arose over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice […]
Americans’ ratings of Donald Trump on some dimensions have ticked up modestly since preelection surveys. For example, 59% now express confidence in Trump to make good decisions about economic policy, up from 55% in September. On other evaluations, such as whether Trump is a good role model, public views are identical or nearly identical 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 BBC apologized to President Donald Trump on Thursday for the way a 2024 documentary edited a speech he gave before the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Two top BBC executives had already resigned […]
