Overview

• New Pentagon guidance says credentials could be revoked for reporters who publish unapproved important information, using the preferred term “War Department” and stressing release only after proper procedures.
• Major U.S. outlets including the Washington Post and New York Times denounced the guideline as press suppression, uniting media criticism of the policy.
• White House press secretary Levitt said President Trump will soon sign an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
• Legal and policy experts cautioned that the Antifa designation and tightened press access risk chilling free expression and political speech.
• Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba departed for New York to deliver a General Assembly address on Security Council reform and to explain Japan’s timing on recognizing Palestine, following Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya’s remark that recognition is a question of when.