Overview

• Trump’s personal attorney has labeled reports from CNN and The New York Times as “fake news” and threatened defamation suits over their coverage of an early U.S. intelligence assessment of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
• Paramount Global agreed to pay $16 million to resolve Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CBS News, a move aimed at smoothing the path for its Skydance Media merger and FCC approval.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is working with the Justice Department to explore prosecuting CNN for reporting on an app that tracks Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
• Journalists, including New York Times correspondent Peter Baker, have affirmed that presidential threats have become routine and will not deter their pursuit of sensitive foreign policy reporting.
• The Wall Street Journal editorial board issued a rare conservative rebuke of the administration’s use of government power to intimidate news outlets that publish stories it dislikes.