# The War On News A dated record of government actions that limit reporting. The War On News is a dated, sourced reference to actions by officials, governments, regulators and legislatures that limit journalists' ability to gather or publish news. It covers the United States first, with incidents from other countries for context. Each entry states who did what and when, quotes the reason the official gave, and links to the reporting and court records it rests on. Every fact is a claim with a verbatim quotation, a source address, a method and a check date. ## Latest from the News Desk The News Desk has not published a note yet. Its first notes follow the editor's review of the first digest. All News Desk notes: https://thewaronnews.com/news ## Latest incidents - September 18, 2026: [White House revokes hard passes of CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico). President Trump announced on Truth Social that CNN, MS NOW and Politico would be barred from the White House. The next day, Secret Service deactivated the three outlets' hard passes and turned their reporters away from the grounds. - August 4, 2026: [Russia enacts law freezing exiled "foreign agent" journalists' assets](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-russia-new-law-targets-exiled-journalists-assets). Russia's State Duma passed, and President Putin signed, a law allowing authorities to freeze bank accounts, block property sales and deny consular services to Russians in exile designated "foreign agents," a group RSF says is overwhelmingl… - April 2026: [Bukele administration freezes El Faro shareholders' personal assets](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-el-salvador-freezes-el-faro-shareholder-assets). El Salvador's government froze the personal assets of individual shareholders of El Faro's parent company between February and April 2026, which CPJ said "marks a dangerous escalation in the Bukele administration's long-standing effort to… - February 10, 2026: [Indian journalist sentenced to prison over posts about Adani Group](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-india-journalist-sentenced-adani-defamation). Investigative journalist Ravi Nair was sentenced to one year in prison over social media posts critical of the Adani Group, part of a documented pattern of arrests and legal pressure on Indian journalists. - January 7, 2026: [Israel maintains ban on independent foreign press access to Gaza](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-israel-maintains-ban-on-foreign-press-access-to-gaza). Israel continued to bar foreign journalists from entering Gaza independently, a restriction press-freedom bodies said forced reliance on Palestinian journalists working under extreme risk; CPJ recorded a record 129 media workers killed in… All 23 incidents: https://thewaronnews.com/incidents. Timeline: https://thewaronnews.com/timeline. Cases: https://thewaronnews.com/cases. ## Data and tools Every page is also published as Markdown (add .md) and JSON (add .json). The full record is a nightly Frictionless Data Package under CC BY 4.0 at /data, and a public MCP server at /mcp lets AI assistants search and fetch it. - datapackage.json: https://thewaronnews.com/data/datapackage.json - MCP /mcp: https://thewaronnews.com/mcp - llms.txt: https://thewaronnews.com/llms.txt - Atom: News Desk: https://thewaronnews.com/news/atom.xml - Atom: Incidents: https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/atom.xml Source page: https://thewaronnews.com/. The War On News, CC BY 4.0.