"Newspaper archives are at risk around the United States. Sometimes the threat is a natural disaster ... but archives are more commonly lost when newspapers shutter, move to smaller offices, or are purchased." tinyurl.com/2kvryasm

Marilyn Hagerty — who didn’t give a flying breadstick what the cynics thought — became a national celebrity when her review of a North Dakota Olive Garden went viral. She has died at age 99. nyti.ms/3IgHbYF

If you’re still thinking “Thin Mints” when you think “Girl Scout cookies,” you haven’t been paying attention.

President Trump says he want to enter heaven. As a Catholic priest, I take that seriously.
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"Let us disarm communication of all prejudice and resentment, fanaticism and even hatred; let us free it from aggression," Pope Leo XIV told journalists. "We do not need loud, forceful communication but rather communication that is capable of listening.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...

The Washington Post pulled an ad that was set to run in some editions on Tuesday calling for Elon Musk to be fired from his role in government, a group that ordered the ad said. It would have covered the front and back pages of editions delivered to the White House, the Pentagon and Congress.

Our colleagues at the @AP are the best in the business, total professionals and straight as they come. Since I started covering the White House in 1996, no president has punished a mainstay of the press pool to enforce his personal choice of what words they use in their stories.

The @apnews.com was barred from covering the Trump-Musk event in the Oval Office because it has not adhered to Trump's edict renaming the Gulf of Mexico. www.ap.org/the-definiti...

President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had paid Politico and other news media outlets for positive coverage of Democrats. The conspiracy theories appear to have been generated by records showing that agencies paid for subscriptions.

Big news: The @AP is now responding to claims made in a new movie by Gary Knight — that just premiered at Sundance — that raises questions about the authorship of one of the most iconic images in photojournalism, “The Terror of War.”

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White House, retweeting President Trump's Truth Social post on tariffs and sanctions, misspells Colombia

Odd that big British and French and Irish and Israeli news organizations have already posted stories on this, but not yet the @nytimes.com or @washingtonpost.com.

An Iowa politician wants to annex the bottom nine counties of Minnesota. He'll have to take them from our cold, dead hands.

Good article, but it's amazing the media, including the NYT continually gave voters the impression the economy was terrible by always focusing on bad news.

The media failed to fairly cover Joe Biden and in effect, failed this nation into authoritarianism.

A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across the Deep South: Alongside about 200 majority-Black public school districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.

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