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From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen
WASHINGTON — After Lenny Pozner’s six-year-old son Noah died at Sandy Hook, he briefly contemplated showing the world the damage an AR-15-style rifle did to his child. His first thought: “It would move some people, change some minds.” His second: “Not my kid.” Grief and anger over two horrific mass shootings in Texas and New […]
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Defense Team for Democratic-Linked Lawyer Won’t Call Ex-Times Reporter to Testify
WASHINGTON — The defense team for Michael Sussmann, a lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, has dropped its plans to call a former New York Times reporter to testify in a trial that centers on Mr. Sussmann’s motives in meeting with the F.B.I. in 2016. Testimony in the case has underlined the role […]
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Trump-Era Prosecutor’s Case Against Democratic-Linked Lawyer Goes to Trial
WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration assigned a prosecutor in 2019 to scour the Russia investigation for any wrongdoing, President Donald J. Trump stoked expectations among his supporters that the inquiry would find a “deep state” conspiracy against him. Three years later, the team led by the special counsel, John H. Durham, on Monday will […]
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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Daughter and That Photo
When Sarahbeth Maney was tapped to photograph the confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, she knew she could be witnessing history. What she did not know was that she would create one of the event’s most widely shared images. “I did not expect it to […]
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Palin Libel Case Isn’t Likely to End Efforts to Weaken Press Protections
Sarah Palin’s loss of her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times has reaffirmed, for now, more than a half-century of legal precedent that protects journalists when they make inadvertent — even sloppy — mistakes. But her case still may have achieved another aim that she and her lawyers said they had all along: to […]
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Sarah Palin Has Covid, Delaying Libel Case Against The New York Times
Sarah Palin has tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing the delay of her defamation trial against The New York Times until next week. The trial, which was set to begin with jury selection on Monday morning, is now scheduled to start on Feb. 3. Ms. Palin’s in-person testimony in a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan […]
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Judge Says New York Times Can Retain Project Veritas Memos, for Now
A New York State appeals court on Tuesday temporarily lifted a judicial order requiring The New York Times to turn over or destroy copies of legal memos prepared for the conservative group Project Veritas, in a case that has drawn the focus of First Amendment and journalism advocates. The stay, issued by the Appellate Division […]
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The Time Archbishop Tutu Was Searched at the Airport
Alan Cowell was the South Africa bureau chief for The New York Times from 1983 to 1987, when the apartheid government expelled him from the country. At Johannesburg’s main airport, around 400 people were preparing to board flights for Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. Nearly all of them filed past the security scanners without incident […]
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Judge Upholds His Block on New York Times Coverage of Project Veritas
The leader of Project Veritas, Mr. O’Keefe, often uses surreptitious cameras and faked identities in videos that are meant to embarrass news outlets, Democratic officials, labor groups and liberals. In a statement on Friday about the judge’s ruling, Mr. O’Keefe wrote: “The Times is so blinded by its hatred of Project Veritas that everything it […]
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