Earlier this week, the White House tried to pressure the Associated Press into referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” in its coverage; the AP said the move “plainly violates the First Amendment,” noting that Donald Trump doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally rename the body of water.
Nieman Lab asked major newsrooms what language they’d use. Most are sticking with Gulf of Mexico, unlike tech companies.
Donald Trump suspended a 100-year-old law this week that companies shipping online orders directly from China depended on. The de minimis exemption was used as a loophole by Temu, Shein, Amazon, and countless drop shipping operations. Check out my explainer below.
Federal employees face a flood of executive orders, termination notices, and a breakdown in communication.
The New York Times reunited with the subjects of a 2022 story about a group of teenagers who had traded iPhones for flip phones and sworn off social media. Two years later, some of them have defected as they transitioned to college — but the movement seems to be growing.
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