Overview

• New Pentagon guidance warns reporters who publish unapproved sensitive information could lose credentials and adopts language referring to the department as the War Department.
• Major U.S. outlets including the Washington Post and New York Times condemned the guidance as press suppression and demanded protections for independent reporting.
• White House press secretary Levitt said President Trump will soon sign an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, with details still developing.
• G7 ministers met in New York and agreed to closer coordination on the Middle East and Ukraine, while France recognized a Palestinian state following the UK and Canada, bringing recognitions to about 160 countries.
• Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba departed for the UN General Assembly and said potential contact with President Trump is still being arranged.