FTC and over 20 states sue Amazon, alleging it secretly bid in its own ad auctions since 2018 to overcharge sellers more than $20 billion.
Trump personally asks Apple to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps, Interior Secretary Burgum says, days after Google complied and MapQuest refused.
Pentagon quietly installs 3 retired colonels turned conservative influencers, 1 million X followers combined, in undisclosed civilian roles as they defend Defense Secretary Hegseth online, the Post reports.
Treasury Department denies credentials to New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reporters for the G20 finance meeting it hosts in North Carolina, offering no explanation.
Trump vows to report NBC’s Kristen Welker to the FCC “for rebuke or punishment” over calling his endorsement record “mixed,” after 6 of his picks lost Republican primaries this month.
Google Maps switches to “Lake America” 2 days after Trump’s order, splitting from Apple and MapQuest, as the name starts showing on Canadian government websites using Google.
Homeland Security uses a customs-import law to obtain a Minneapolis journalist’s phone records without court approval, weeks after a judge twice rejected its warrant request.
ICE deports far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos to Britain 2 days after his airport arrest, as conservative activist Laura Loomer claims she exposed the Trump critic’s overstay.
Pentagon pauses the firing of 3 Stars and Stripes journalists until September 4 after a judge asked for more time to weigh their First Amendment suit.
Stars and Stripes’ editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Karoline Leavitt ends 585 days as White House press secretary and returns to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. to work the midterms, with no successor named.
Meta agrees to pay states up to $17 billion and cap minors at 2 hours daily to settle the landmark child safety trial midway through testimony.
Arbitrator orders the Washington Post to rehire columnist Karen Attiah, ruling the paper failed to prove her posts refusing to mourn Charlie Kirk were misconduct.
CMS chief Oz breaks with Trump three questions in, telling Face the Nation “the MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine.”
Trump moves to block BBC subpoenas of his children in the $10 million defamation suit he filed, after the Secret Service stopped servers at their homes.
Pentagon fires the Stars and Stripes editor in chief and a reporter for insubordination after both defended the paper’s independence in CBS interviews.
Trump tells Michael Cohen he was weaponized and forced to testify in the hush money trial, as Cohen’s pardon application awaits White House action.
Stars and Stripes publisher retires after 19 years citing fundamental differences with Hegseth’s Pentagon, months after it fired the paper’s editorial independence ombudsman.
Disney sues the FCC and Chair Carr to halt the early license review of all eight ABC stations, calling it retaliation for speech Trump dislikes.
4 states seeking up to $1.4 trillion take Meta to federal trial over claims it deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children.
Official White House account tells CNN’s Kristen Holmes her children will someday be “sickened and embarrassed” after she asked Trump to respond to Ossoff criticism.
BBC tells a court Trump refused to accept subpoenas on his family’s behalf in his $10 billion defamation suit, with Secret Service blocking service.
Trump posts 21 times in a Saturday spree, mixing AI images of himself with George Washington and a “Trump 2028” photo captioned “We are going to win.”
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt leaves at the end of August to spend more time with family, opening Trump’s most visible spokesperson role.
The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation sue Trump over Truth API, arguing the $100,000 monthly feed sells early access to official statements.
Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn settles with the city of Marion, Kansas, for $850,000, three years to the day after police raided her newspaper.
Rep. Lisa McClain falsely claims on Fox Business that 82% of women vaccinated in early pregnancy miscarried, citing a debunked misreading showing normal rates.
Florida AG Uthmeier demands six years of New York Times board records, wielding the state pension’s 160,000 shares and threatening suit within two weeks.
Trump Media signs high-frequency trading firms at up to $100,000 monthly for millisecond access to the president’s market-moving posts, its first customers.
White House staged a decoy Air Force One with press aboard as Trump secretly flew from Turkey after an Iranian assassination threat, the Washington Post reveals.
Pentagon strips former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s security clearance, blaming him for reports that Trump’s Qatari jet lacks antimissile defenses.
FCC votes 2-1 to eliminate the 39% TV ownership cap Congress wrote into law in 2004, claiming authority to repeal the statutory limit itself.
Trump calls Washington Post reporting on his Camp David clash with Hegseth over depleted missile stockpiles treasonous and completely false.
New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $567 million to abate youth harms, finding Facebook and Instagram created a public nuisance connecting predators to children.
Watchdogs demand ethics probes of FCC chair Carr and Commissioner Trusty for accepting luxury Paramount gala tickets hours before it launched a merger they must approve.
Trump floods Truth Social with more than 40 posts including AI images of himself kissing a Jesus statue, arresting an alien, and looming over Greenland.
DOJ demands a New York Times freelancer’s testimony and 2 years of notes to unmask sources on a botched SEAL mission that killed unarmed North Koreans.
California’s first-in-the-nation AI transparency law takes effect, requiring AI-generated content to carry embedded origin data users can trace.
Trump tells a right-wing radio host to bet that Greenland falls under U.S. control before he leaves office, dismissing the territory’s own stake as irrelevant.
ABC argues in an FCC filing that early license review of eight stations is retaliation for Trump coverage, warning every network faces the same choice.
Trump posts more than 40 AI images over six hours, mixing depictions of strikes on Kharg Island and seized Iranian tankers with mockeries of comedians and a CNN anchor.
Trump returns to the rescheduled correspondents’ dinner three months after the shooting, insults journalists for an hour, and dons a Trump 2028 cap.
Paramount agrees to delay its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger for months after 12 states suing to block it won a restraining order.
Judge orders Trump to open financial records of 400-plus family trust companies to the BBC in his own defamation suit over Jan. 6 editing.
Federal judge pauses Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. takeover for 14 days after 12 states sue, one month after Trump’s Justice Department approved it.
Justice Department seeks phone records of New York Times reporters’ spouses and one reporter’s mother in its hunt for Qatari jet story sources.
Appeals court lets the Pentagon keep requiring government escorts for journalists, overturning a judge who found the restrictions defied his prior order.
Trump demands ABC and NBC lose their broadcast licenses for declining to air his election address live, while merger-seeking CBS carried it.
Trump’s media company will sell Wall Street firms high-speed access to his Truth Social posts, letting traders profit from presidential announcements before markets react.
New York Times moves to quash grand jury subpoenas FBI agents served at three reporters’ homes demanding they name confidential sources.
