"My hope is that this commitment provides the stability and the spark NPR needs to innovate boldly and strengthen its national network," says Connie Ballmer, who gave $80 million of the $113 million.

Klose led NPR for a decade starting in 1998, a period of incredible growth for the public media network.

Local TV giant Nexstar's $6.2 billion deal to acquire rival Tegna won speedy approval from Trump administration regulators. But it faces a tough challenge from a pair of antitrust lawsuits.

Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.

OpenAI is seeking to shape the public narrative about AI with the purchase of a niche talk show popular with Silicon Valley insiders.

Josh Owens spent four years as a video editor and field producer for Jones' Infowars media company. "It was all about making things look cinematic," he says. Owens' memoir is The Madness of Believing.

At issue was the 2017 arrest in Texas of a journalist who published news stories about a border agent's public suicide and a car crash.

Voice of America staffers are suing Trump administration official Kari Lake, alleging she put pro-Trump propaganda on its airwaves. She has lost numerous rulings of late.

The policy required media organizations to pledge not to gather information unless Defense officials formally authorized its release. A U.S. judge said the rules are at odds with the First Amendment.

A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations.