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Former leaders of the ACLU of Florida have written a letter to the editor of The Palm Beach Post calling the firing of its editorial page editor “shameful and dangerous.”

Karine Jean-Pierre is the first Black spokeswoman to take questions from the White House podium since the 1990s.

Beijing ordered certain staff at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to halt reporting inside China, in retaliation for a State Department move against Chinese outlets.

The U.S. journalist decried the accusation as an "obvious attempt to attack a free press in retaliation for the revelations we reported." A judge will decide whether the case moves forward.

In far eastern Oregon, a small weekly newspaper is bucking an industry trend. The Malheur Enterprise was languishing, but it has recently won several national awards and circulation is surging.

The federal judge said the White House cannot revoke reporters' access without due process, as apparently happened in Jim Acosta's case. President Trump said the administration was writing up rules.

CNN is calling the action unconstitutional. However, the White House argues that a president gets to select who interviews him and that a news conference is just "an interview with 100 people."

Winner, a former NSA contractor, pleaded guilty in June. Prosecutors say her 63-month sentence will be the longest ever served by a federal defendant for leaking to the press.

Jarrod Ramos is accused of entering the Annapolis, Md., newsroom armed with a shotgun on June 28 and murdering John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters and Rebecca Smith.

ICE agents arrested Emilio Gutierrez Soto last December — two months after the National Press Club recognized him with its Press Freedom Award.

Tronc cited financial pressures in gutting the newsroom of the punchy New York City tabloid, a major force in local coverage. It has won Pulitzer Prizes and been a thorn in President Trump's side.

Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman says the president and Fox News host Sean Hannity "speak almost daily, after Hannity's show, sometimes before, and sometimes for up to an hour a day."