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View More NewsOn Tuesday, a federal judge in Georgia quashed a grand jury subpoena aimed at validating President Donald Trump’s counterfactual claim that massive fraud deprived him of his rightful victory in the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge William M. Ray II, a Trump appointee, noted that the breadth of the subpoena, which sought “private and sensitive” information about thousands of Fulton County employees and volunteers who were involved in collecting, processing, counting, or recounting ballots that year, was “staggering.” That demand, he ruled, could not be justified by “any valid prosecutorial need,” since the statutory deadline for criminal charges related to…
Berlin, July 8, 2026—German authorities must conduct a swift and transparent investigation into attacks on at least four journalists who were covering protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party during its annual conference on Saturday in Erfurt, eastern Germany, and bring all perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Three reporters working for news website Apollo News— Jonas Aston, Marius Marx, and a third whose name the outlet did not disclose — needed medical treatment after being chased, hit, kicked, and pelted with objects while documenting the protests outside the July 4 conference. They were…
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The Committee to Protect Journalists stands unequivocally in defense of a free press and in support of Catherine Herridge, a former Fox News reporter,…
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An excerpt from Sunar v. Gray Local Media, Inc., decided today by Judge Kenneth Bell (W.D.N.C.): Defendants Gray Local Media, Inc. and Gray Media,…
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