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The Justice Department on Tuesday filed court papers backing OpenAI's argument that training its AI models on internet content is protected by copyright law's fair-use doctrine. The filing marks a formal intervention by the Trump…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department has filed a court statement backing OpenAI in the company's copyright fight with the New York Times and other publishers, arguing that training AI models on news content is fair use under U.S. copyright law. In the…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READDolly Parton, the country music star and philanthropist, died this week at age 80. Her Imagination Library literacy program, launched in 1995 in her home Sevier County, Tennessee, had distributed more than 300 million free books to…
2026-08-29 · 3 MIN READMax D. Lederer Jr. announced Tuesday he will retire as publisher of Stars and Stripes at the end of September, ending a decades-long career at the military newspaper, the Associated Press reported. In a memo to staff obtained by the AP,…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READAn anonymous UK secondhand bookseller says orders for 6,000 books since January have shipped to freight warehouses near Heathrow airport, with buyers paying full price and not seeking bulk discounts. The orders are part of a months-long…
2026-08-15 · 3 MIN READRandall Lane, Forbes' editor and chief content officer since 2017, has departed the company after The New York Times reported he received $6 million from RJ Shook — whose firm, Shook Research, worked with Forbes since 2016 to publish…
2026-08-13 · 6 MIN READNew York Times shares fell more than 13% on Tuesday despite the publisher reporting higher second-quarter profit and revenue, as the company forecast slower subscriber growth in the current quarter. The stock declined even as the company…
2026-08-05 · 3 MIN READFederal court documents from a copyright lawsuit in northern California have revealed that AI company Anthropic used vendors, staff and a warehouse to dismantle and scan printed books as training data for its Claude language model, after…
2026-08-05 · 3 MIN READLiterary agency Europa Content withdrew support for debut novelist Jerry Falade after concerns arose about the author's possible use of artificial intelligence in his manuscript, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move leaves a…
2026-07-31 · 3 MIN READA growing number of major media companies are re-evaluating their relationships with Google, including potentially blocking its search crawler entirely, as the tech giant's AI-powered search features sharply reduce traffic to their…
2026-07-22 · 4 MIN READThe Associated Press on July 7 released a quiz testing readers' knowledge of American food as part of its America at 250 series.
2026-07-07 · 3 MIN READThe Atlantic on Saturday republished a 2016 essay by then-private citizen JD Vance that described Donald Trump's political appeal as "cultural heroin," bringing renewed attention to Vance's shift from Trump critic to running mate. Vance is…
2026-07-05 · 3 MIN READFormer first lady Jill Biden, in a memoir set for release next Tuesday, reflects on former President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump in 2024 and wonders whether it would have been better to acknowledge the…
2026-05-29 · 3 MIN READMichael Scurr, a volunteer at Britain's National Archives, discovered a rare 1776 Exeter printing of the Declaration of Independence while cataloguing Royal Navy correspondence in late May, just weeks before America's 250th anniversary.…
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing criticism from public health advocates after he sent a letter demanding answers from a medical journal that retracted a flawed study linking vaccines to infant death, with…
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READSarah Longwell, a former Republican operative turned never-Trump media founder, has built the Bulwark into a profitable digital news outlet that has attracted investor interest from Melinda French Gates and Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson…
2026-06-13 · 3 MIN READThe UK government published a second tranche of documents on Peter Mandelson's appointment as ambassador to the United States, releasing more than 1,000 pages of internal government communications, text messages, and WhatsApp logs to…
2026-06-01 · 3 MIN READDang Van Phuoc, a former Associated Press combat photographer who lost his eye to an explosion during the Vietnam War and returned to the frontlines, died Saturday in Southern California at age 91, his nephew said.
2026-05-27 · 3 MIN READDonald E. Newhouse, who led Advance Publications’ 35 newspapers for nearly half a century and served as chairman of the board of The Associated Press, died Tuesday at his home in New Jersey at the age of 96, his family said. Anna Wintour,…
2026-05-27 · 4 MIN READThe Associated Press on Saturday republished a 1996 report describing how Cuban fighter jets shot down two small planes flown by members of the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue from Miami in international waters off Havana. The…
2026-05-21 · 3 MIN READMedia scion James Murdoch has struck a deal with Vox Media to acquire New York magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network and the Vox editorial brand, according to a report by the Associated Press. The transaction, expected to close within…
2026-05-21 · 3 MIN READRachel Maddow is writing a history of the U.S. Justice Department that will be published Nov. 10 by Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, according to an announcement Monday. The book, titled “Department of Fate,” will examine the…
2026-05-19 · 3 MIN READRachel Maddow, the liberal MSNBC host and bestselling author, will publish a history of the U.S. Department of Justice titled “Department of Fate” on Nov. 10, Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, announced Monday. The book, arriving…
2026-05-18 · 4 MIN READRachel Maddow will publish a new book on the U.S. Justice Department, Penguin Random House’s Crown announced May 19. ‘Department of Fate’ is set for release Nov. 10, one week after this year’s midterm elections.
2026-05-18 · 3 MIN READUSA Today Co., owner of the Detroit Free Press, announced on January 26, 2026, that it plans to acquire The Detroit News, consolidating two major Detroit newspapers under a single owner. The deal ends an almost 40-year joint operating…
2026-05-18 · 3 MIN READThe Associated Press laid off 20 U.S.-based journalists on Friday, completing a restructuring announced last month that shifts the news organization’s focus away from print journalism and toward visual journalism and technology clients,…
2026-05-16 · 3 MIN READThe Associated Press laid off 20 U.S.-based journalists on Friday, according to the News Media Guild, as part of a restructuring announced last month that shifts the news organization away from print journalism and toward visual journalism…
2026-05-16 · 3 MIN READResearchers in Ireland have uncovered what they say is the oldest surviving English poem inside a medieval manuscript being held in a Roman library, according to researchers involved in the discovery. The poem, composed in Old English,…
2026-05-16 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Postal Service on Thursday unveiled special edition stamps featuring the bald eagle as the nation marks its 250th birthday. The stamp designs, displayed at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minnesota, depict the bird across…
2026-05-14 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Postal Service unveiled special edition bald eagle stamps for America’s 250th birthday Thursday at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minnesota, and made them available for purchase across the United States. The stamps depict…
2026-05-13 · 3 MIN READThe UCLA Asian American Studies Center on Saturday launched "Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook," a free digital resource aimed at giving high school and college educators a more inclusive…
2026-05-10 · 4 MIN READThe UCLA Asian American Studies Center on Saturday launched “Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook,” a free online, multimedia resource for educators that aims to broaden how schools teach Asian…
2026-05-10 · 4 MIN READThe U.S. Postal Service is releasing eight Route 66 centennial postage stamps, drawn from the work of photographer David J. Schwartz, who has documented the highway on 42 trips. USPS unveiled the stamp series Tuesday in Springfield,…
2026-05-09 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday released eight Route 66 centennial stamps, with each stamp highlighting a state the highway passes through. The project is based on photographs taken by David J. Schwartz, who said he has made 42 trips…
2026-05-08 · 3 MIN READThe Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting on Monday for a global investigation that revealed how U.S. technology companies helped build China’s mass surveillance apparatus and how American agencies secretly…
2026-05-05 · 3 MIN READThe Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for its scrutinizing coverage of the Trump administration’s overhaul of federal agencies, and The Associated Press won the prize for international reporting about…
2026-05-05 · 5 MIN READThe Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service on Monday for scrutinizing the Trump administration’s overhaul of federal agencies. The Associated Press won the prize for international reporting about surveillance. The…
2026-05-05 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Postal Service unveiled Tuesday eight Route 66 centennial postage stamps, each representing one of the states the highway runs through, with photos by David J. Schwartz. The stamps come as Route 66 marks its 100th year since its…
2026-05-04 · 3 MIN READOprah Winfrey’s podcast is moving deeper into Amazon, after Harpo Entertainment struck a multiyear deal giving Amazon-owned Wondery exclusive distributing and advertising rights to “The Oprah Podcast.” Under the agreement announced Monday,…
2026-04-28 · 3 MIN READFormer Library of Congress director Carla Hayden was honored with the Authors Guild Champion of Writers Award at the guild’s annual dinner-gala Monday in New York, nearly a year after President Donald Trump abruptly fired her as librarian…
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