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Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron has fired back at President Trump for threatening to ban two Post reporters from the White House over a story that accused him of “self-sabotage.” "The Washington Post staff is immensely proud to have these two superb journalists on staff," Baron wrote in a statement…

A $250 million lawsuit against the Washington Post for defaming a Kentucky high school teen was dismissed by a federal judge on Friday, who cited the media company’s rights to free speech in the decision. The case drew national attention because of the confusion over the interactions between Covington High School…

Marty Baron, the editor made famous by the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight who is now executive editor of the Washington Post, said the newspaper has expanded without editorial interference under the nearly six-year ownership of Jeff Bezos. Even when the editorial team covers Amazon or Bezos personally, Baron said, “He…

Roseanne Barr is continuing to stir the pot during her ongoing semi-apology, semi-defiant interviews. In the latest edition, Barr spoke to the Washington Post and revealed that she was suicidal and spent time after being fired from her namesake show "holed up in her mom's basement in Utah, chain-smoking and in…

The Washington Post has issued an editor’s note that admits its coverage of the Lincoln Memorial confrontation between Covington, Kentucky teens and a Native American activist was inaccurate in some of its reporting. The newspaper faces a $250 million defamation lawsuit in regard to its coverage of the incident, which…

President Donald Trump lashed out at the press this morning, bragging he personally has “kept many of them in business” and that in six years, which would be the end of his second term, “they all go bust.” Triggering Trump’s Wednesday tweetstorm was a New York Times report, <a…

UPDATE: The video can be viewed below. Tom Hanks stepped up for The Washington Post during a Super Bowl commercial. The veteran actor narrated a 60-second spot airing during the big game about the importance of journalists. The ad featured images of some of the biggest stories since World War II, with Hanks talking…

If revenge is a dish best served cold, then President Donald Trump is delivering ice to one of his arch-rivals. The Commander-in-Tweet has capped off a day of online blasts by skewering embattled Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who just happens to own the Washington Post, one of Trump’s biggest critics and a constant source of…

Donald Trump took issue with a Washington Post “Fake reporter” who apparently characterized the White House today as “chaotic.” How, the president seemed to reason in his 10th (and counting) Tweet of the day, can there be chaos when “there’s almost nobody in the W.H. but me….” With a definition of “Chaos” seemingly…

A top ESPN executive has admitted that the network’s move toward politics may have been poison to its ratings. Norby Williamson told the Washington Post in an interview earlier this week that the network has since reversed course on that focus, helping goose its ratings. Still, Williamson told the WaPo that the…

CNN aired surveillance footage showing a body double appearing to wear the clothing of murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi exiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul shortly after Khashoggi’s death. Turkish officials point to this as further evidence the murder had been planned; Saudi royal family said…

Saudi officials confirmed the death of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi this evening, announced in the dead of night, Saudi time. According to the Saudi prosecutor general, a violent altercation broke out while Khashoggi was being interrogated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 4. Yeah, because…