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What does the leaked racist conversation tell us about local Los Angeles politics?

5:12am October 11, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Los Angeles Time columnist Gustavo Arellano about the president of the Los Angeles City Council resigning her leadership post after she made racist remarks.

Arts

Sharp-tongued Hollywood columnist Nikki Finke has died at 68

11:46am October 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

The veteran reporter became one of Hollywood's top journalists as founder of the entertainment trade website Deadline.com. She was the most-feared columnist in show business.

Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott warned colleagues not to "give the crazies an inch" after then-President Donald Trump and his allies pressured the network. Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems indicate they to use Scott's words against Fox in its $1.6 billion defamation suit against the network.

Politics & Government

Fox News CEO warned against 'crazies' after 2020 election, Dominion says

4:25pm October 06, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott warned colleagues not to "give the crazies an inch" after the 2020 elections. Dominion Voting Systems revealed her words in its $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox.

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The Onion head writer Mike Gillis submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court this week. He says he hopes it will convince the court to take up an Ohio man's First Amendment case while educating the broader public.

National

The man who wrote the Onion's Supreme Court brief takes parody very seriously

5:29pm October 04, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The satirical site submitted a 23-page brief to the Supreme Court in support of a First Amendment case. Mike Gillis, The Onion writer who authored the brief, tells NPR why parody is worth defending.

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, shown here addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2017, has been placed at the center of a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.

Politics & Government

Fox's Jeanine Pirro is back in the hot seat in $1.6 billion election defamation case

7:08pm September 30, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Dominion Voting Systems' lawyers want to question the Fox News star again over texts they got just hours before she sat for a sworn deposition. Dominion sued Fox over false claims of election fraud.

National

Remembering CBS News' Bill Plante, who protected the public's right to know

4:10pm September 29, 2022

by Mallory Yu

Longtime White House correspondent Bill Plante has died at 84. He was a fixture on CBS News for more than 50 years, covering the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and four U.S. presidents.

World News

How a group of journalists is documenting war crimes in Ukraine

5:14pm September 26, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with war correspondent Janine Di Giovani the Reckoning Project, which is training journalists in Ukraine to collect evidence of war crimes to be used in international court.

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New report finds 'shocking' levels of lead in Chicago water

7:43pm September 23, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with journalists Taylor Moore and Erin McCormick, who analyzed thousands of Chicago water tests which yielded "shocking" results published in an investigation in The Guardian.

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Christiane Amanpour, shown in 2018, said her interview with Iran's president was canceled when she refused to wear a headscarf.

CNN says Iran's president tried to make a hijab a condition for Amanpour interview

3:42pm September 22, 2022

by Merrit Kennedy

CNN's Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour said her interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in New York was abruptly canceled when she refused to wear a headscarf.

Plaintiff's attorney Chris Mattei (left) questions Alex Jones on Thursday at Jones' trial to determine defamation damages in Waterbury, Conn.

National

Alex Jones testifies over damages he must pay families for Sandy Hook hoax claims

3:29pm September 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took the stand at his defamation trial as he tries to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.