The War On News

A record of government actions against journalism and fact-based reporting, from the first press laws to today

By time

Timeline

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Every recorded incident and dated development, oldest first.

Years: 1901 1909 1913 1914 1917 1918 1922 1925 1926 1927 1933 1934 1937 1938 1939 1941 1942 1944 1948 1950 1951 1953 1955 1959 1960 1962 1968 1969 1971 1972 1973 1975 1976 1977 1980 1981 1983 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1995 1997 1998 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Types: Access ban Arrest or detention Credential revocation Funding cut Lawsuit against the press Legislation Other Regulatory action Subpoena or seizure
Countries: AR AU AZ BD BR BY Canada CL CN CU CZ DE EC EG ER ES ET United Kingdom GE GR GT Hong Kong HT Hungary ID Israel India IR JP KH KP KR KZ MA MM MT MX MY NG NI PE PH PK PL PT RS Russia SA SK El Salvador TH TN Türkiye TZ United States VE VN ZA ZW

1901

1901
Philippines: United States colonial government's libel law is used to close the newspaper El Renacimiento

1909

4 March 1909
United States: President Theodore Roosevelt seeks criminal libel indictments against the New York World and the Indianapolis News over Panama Canal reporting

1913

9 March 1913
Ottoman Empire bars lawmakers and officials from editing newspapers and jails a leading editor

1914

27 August 1914
Britain's Official Press Bureau controls newspaper coverage of the First World War

1917

1917
United States convicts Mother Earth editor Emma Goldman of draft conspiracy and bars her magazine from the mail
1917
United States Postmaster General Burleson strips the Milwaukee Leader of its mailing rate
July 1917
United States postmaster bars the magazine The Masses from the mail under the Espionage Act

1918

26 June 1918
United States convicts newspaper editor Jacob Frohwerk under the Espionage Act, June 1918

1922

1922
Glavlit created: Soviet censorship office, 1922

1925

8 June 1925
United States: Supreme Court upholds Benjamin Gitlow's conviction under New York's Criminal Anarchy Law, 1925

1926

1926
Dutch East Indies: Colonial authorities end publication of the communist newspaper Mawa under Penal Code Article 153 bis, 1926
May 1926
United Kingdom: Government requisitions newsprint and restricts rival newspapers during the 1926 General Strike

1927

1927
Minnesota closes The Saturday Press in 1927; the Supreme Court strikes down the law in 1931

1933

1933
Portugal's Salazar government formally establishes press controls under a new constitution
28 February 1933
Germany: Reichstag Fire Decree suspends freedom of the press, February 1933
4 October 1933
Nazi Germany's Editors Law bars Jewish journalists, 1933

1934

12 July 1934
United States: Louisiana taxes large newspapers' advertising revenue; the tax is struck down in Grosjean v. American Press Co.

1937

July 1937
Japan: government requires clearance to publish war news under the Newspaper Law, 1937

1938

28 March 1938
United States: Supreme Court strikes down a Georgia city's permit requirement for distributing literature, 1938
April 1938
Franco's Spain requires state permission to be a journalist under a wartime Press Law

1939

1939
Brazil's Vargas government creates a state messaging department with broad press powers
3 September 1939
Canada: War Measures Act regulations authorize review of hundreds of newspapers and ban political organizations

1941

8 May 1941
Greece: collaborationist government creates a Directorate-General for Press and Radio to review films and publications before release
19 December 1941
United States creates an Office of Censorship and a wartime code for the press

1942

August 1942
United States: Justice Department investigates the Chicago Tribune under the Espionage Act over Battle of Midway coverage

1944

16 April 1944
Australia's wartime government seizes a Sydney newspaper edition under press controls rules

1948

1948
Israel retains a British-era law giving the military the power to review and restrict the press

1950

17 July 1950
South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act lets the government ban publications and restrict individuals

1951

October 1951
Argentina: President Juan Perón's government hands the expropriated newspaper La Prensa to the CGT labor federation, October 1951

1953

1953
United States: Senator Joseph McCarthy's subcommittee questions New York Post editor James Wechsler, 1953

1955

19 September 1955
United States: Tallahatchie County, Mississippi sheriff segregates Black reporters at the Emmett Till murder trial, September 1955
November 1955
United States Senate panel subpoenas dozens of New York Times journalists over Communist ties

1959

28 September 1959
Cuba: Prime Minister Fidel Castro publicly criticizes Havana newspapers that questioned his government, September 1959

1960

1960
United States: Montgomery, Alabama commissioner sues The New York Times for libel over a civil rights advertisement
24 May 1960
Egypt's Nasser government nationalizes every newspaper and magazine in the country

1962

24 September 1962
United States: Texas judge allows televised pretrial hearing in the Billie Sol Estes case; Supreme Court later limits cameras in criminal courtrooms
26 October 1962
West Germany: police raid Der Spiegel's offices and arrest its editors over a defense article

1968

21 August 1968
Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia is followed by the return of government press controls
13 December 1968
Brazil's military government decrees the Fifth Institutional Act and moves to control the press

1969

1969
United States Supreme Court rules reporters have no privilege to refuse grand jury subpoenas

1971

12 April 1971
United States police search a student newspaper's offices for photographs of a protest
15 June 1971
United States government seeks an injunction to stop The New York Times publishing the Pentagon Papers
16 August 1971
Nixon White House compiles an enemies list naming journalists for official pressure
9 September 1971
United States: Nixon White House "enemies list" naming journalists, September 1971

1972

21 September 1972
Philippines President Marcos closes every major news outlet under martial law
17 November 1972
United Kingdom court bars The Sunday Times from publishing an article on thalidomide

1973

11 September 1973
Chile's military government shuts opposition radio stations and newspapers after the 1973 coup

1975

26 June 1975
India imposes pre-press controls on every newspaper during the 1975 Emergency
27 October 1975
United States judge bars the press from reporting a murder suspect's confession before trial

1976

24 March 1976
Argentina's military junta threatens journalists with prison for reporting on its opponents

1977

19 October 1977
South Africa bans The World and Weekend World newspapers and detains editor Percy Qoboza

1980

31 July 1980
South Korea's martial-law government purges journalists who resisted press controls
1980
Haiti's Duvalier government arrests and deports Radio Haiti-Inter staff, driving its director into exile

1981

13 December 1981
Poland's martial law government shuts nearly all newspapers and interns journalists overnight

1983

25 October 1983
United States military bars journalists from the invasion of Grenada

1985

1985
United States: Espionage Act conviction of Samuel Loring Morison for leaking satellite photographs to Jane's Defence Weekly, 1985 to 1988
2 November 1985
South Africa bans television and photographic coverage of unrest under a state of emergency

1986

30 August 1986
Soviet Union: arrest and seven-week detention of American correspondent Nicholas Daniloff in Moscow, 1986

1987

1987
Malaysia: Printing Presses and Publications Act amended to bar court review of publishing permits, 1987

1988

18 September 1988
Burma's new military government tightens pre-publication press controls after seizing power
October 1988
United Kingdom bars broadcasters from airing Sinn Féin members' own voices

1989

14 June 1989
China expels foreign journalists and restricts coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests
20 December 1989
United States: Pentagon press pool kept from the opening hours of the Panama invasion, December 1989

1990

21 March 1990
United States Supreme Court strikes down Florida law barring a reporter from discussing his own grand jury testimony
8 November 1990
United States federal court bars CNN from broadcasting recordings of Manuel Noriega's calls with his lawyers

1991

17 January 1991
United States military restricts reporters to escorted press pools during the Gulf War

1995

July 1995
Nigeria's military government convicts journalists by special tribunal over coup-plot reporting

1997

1997
Belarus jails journalist Pavel Sheremet over his reporting for Russian television station ORT
July 1997
Peru strips television station owner Baruch Ivcher of his citizenship after critical reporting

1998

20 September 1998
Malaysia pressures domestic media and monitors foreign correspondents after arresting former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim
20 October 1998
Serbia's Public Information Act lets courts fine independent newspapers into financial danger

2001

14 April 2001
State-controlled Gazprom takes formal control of Russia's independent NTV television network
18 September 2001
Eritrea: independent press closed and journalists jailed without trial

2002

15 March 2002
Zimbabwe enacts a law requiring all journalists and media houses to hold government licenses

2003

10 February 2003
Pentagon sets ground rules for journalists embedded with United States forces in Iraq
12 September 2003
Zimbabwe: police close the Daily News under the media registration law

2005

12 May 2005
Zimbabwe: the High Court refuses to accredit Daily News journalists under the media registration law
6 July 2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for refusing to name a confidential source in the Valerie Plame affair

2006

7 October 2006
Investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya is shot dead in Moscow; a former police officer is later convicted of organizing the killing

2007

27 May 2007
Venezuela: the government declines to renew RCTV's broadcast concession

2009

8 June 2009
North Korea: American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are sentenced to hard labor
21 June 2009
Iran expels a BBC correspondent and restricts foreign journalists after a disputed 2009 election

2010

June 2010
Israel: a court bars any mention of the 'Prisoner X' case
5 July 2010
United States charges Army analyst Chelsea Manning under the Espionage Act for leaking to WikiLeaks
21 December 2010
Hungary's parliament gives a government-appointed media council power to fine outlets for unbalanced coverage

2013

24 January 2013
Thailand: magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk is sentenced to 11 years under the lese-majeste law
25 January 2013
United States prosecutes former CIA officer John Kiriakou under the Espionage Act for identifying a covert colleague to a journalist
13 May 2013
United States Justice Department secretly seizes two months of Associated Press phone records
20 May 2013
United States search warrant names Fox News reporter James Rosen a possible co-conspirator in a leak case
25 June 2013
Ecuador's Organic Communication Law creates a regulator that issues hundreds of sanctions against journalists and outlets
18 August 2013
United Kingdom detains journalist's partner under terrorism law and oversees destruction of Guardian hard drives holding Snowden files
September 2013
Vietnam: Decree 72 restricts blogs to personal information
10 October 2013
United States: Espionage Act prosecutions of sources for leaks to the press, 2009 to 2013
29 December 2013
Egypt arrests and later convicts three Al Jazeera journalists on terrorism-related charges

2014

17 October 2014
United States pursues New York Times reporter James Risen's testimony for years before dropping its demand for his source

2015

1 September 2015
Azerbaijan: investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova sentenced to 7.5 years
31 December 2015
Poland's new government gains power to replace public broadcaster leadership, and journalists are dismissed

2016

4 March 2016
Türkiye: court installs trustees at Zaman newspaper
27 July 2016
Turkey closes more than 100 media outlets by decree after a failed coup attempt

2017

February 2017
Malta: minister orders reporter's bank account frozen
19 June 2017
Mexico: journalist Carmen Aristegui receives Pegasus spyware through phishing texts
1 September 2017
Venezuela expels or denies entry to dozens of foreign journalists covering anti-government protests
4 September 2017
Cambodia's government forces the closure of The Cambodia Daily with a disputed multimillion-dollar tax bill

2018

21 February 2018
Philippines: a Rappler reporter is barred from the presidential palace
16 March 2018
Tanzania requires bloggers and online publishers to register and pay an annual government fee
21 March 2018
Türkiye: Dogan Holding sells its media outlets to Demiroren
3 September 2018
Myanmar sentences two Reuters journalists to seven years under the Official Secrets Act for reporting on a massacre
September 2018
Nicaragua: freelance correspondent detained and deported after online campaign
1 October 2018
Saudi Arabia: spyware on an associate's phone precedes Jamal Khashoggi's killing by one day
October 2018
Egypt: a license requirement leaves an independent news site unable to operate legally for years
2 October 2018
Saudi Arabia's government kills journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside its Istanbul consulate
26 October 2018
Russia: outlet fined $338,000 under the foreign agents law
7 November 2018
White House revokes CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential after a news conference exchange with President Trump
7 November 2018
United States: White House suspension of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's hard pass, November 2018
29 November 2018
Hungary: formation of the KESMA pro-government media foundation

2019

17 January 2019
Türkiye: Dutch freelance journalist Ans Boersma deported
13 February 2019
Philippines: Rappler's Maria Ressa arrested over cyber libel case
7 March 2019
Russia: new laws penalize online "fake news" and "disrespecting authorities"
22 March 2019
Egypt: media law used to fine and block news site al-Mashhad
23 May 2019
United States indicts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act
5 June 2019
Australian Federal Police raid the national broadcaster over reporting on alleged war crimes in Afghanistan
5 August 2019
India imposes a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir after revoking the region's special status
7 November 2019
India: journalist Aatish Taseer's overseas citizenship revoked
16 November 2019
Iran: near-total internet shutdown during fuel-price protests

2020

19 February 2020
China: three Wall Street Journal correspondents expelled over an opinion headline
17 March 2020
China expels American journalists from three major U.S. newspapers
18 March 2020
China: press credentials and visas withheld from correspondents at three American newspapers
30 March 2020
Hungary criminalizes false coronavirus information and grants Orban decree powers
15 April 2020
Australia's High Court invalidates warrant for raid on journalist Annika Smethurst
14 May 2020
China: citizen journalist Zhang Zhan imprisoned for Wuhan reporting
29 May 2020
Minneapolis police projectile permanently blinds photojournalist Linda Tirado
29 May 2020
Minnesota State Patrol arrests CNN crew live on air in Minneapolis
15 June 2020
Philippines: Maria Ressa convicted of cyber libel
5 July 2020
Morocco: investigative journalist Omar Radi's phone is infected with Pegasus spyware and he is later detained
23 July 2020
Federal officers restrict press access to Portland protests; judge orders them to stop
24 July 2020
Hungary: editor fired and staff resign at Index.hu
29 August 2020
Belarus: accreditation withdrawn from 17 journalists working for foreign outlets
12 September 2020
Political appointees alter CDC coronavirus guidance before public release
November 2020
Ethiopia: internet and phone service cut across Tigray

2021

February 2021
Myanmar: military cuts mobile internet after seizing power
14 February 2021
Hungary: Klubradio loses its terrestrial broadcast license over its tender application
8 March 2021
Myanmar junta revokes five outlets' licenses and raids newsrooms after coup
April 2021
Poland: state oil company Orlen buys the Polska Press newspaper group
1 April 2021
Türkiye: the presidency's press card system is found restrictive by the country's top administrative court
23 April 2021
Russia: independent outlet Meduza designated a 'foreign agent'
18 May 2021
Belarus blocks Tut.by and arrests its editors as 'extremist'
24 June 2021
China (Hong Kong): Apple Daily closes after its assets are frozen under the national security law
July 2021
Hungary: investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi's phone is infected with Pegasus spyware
19 July 2021
Justice Department bars seizing reporters' phone and email records
20 July 2021
Court orders RCMP to stop restricting press access at Fairy Creek logging blockades
6 November 2021
FBI raids Project Veritas founder's home over Ashley Biden diary investigation
14 December 2021
Vietnam: journalist Pham Doan Trang is sentenced to nine years for anti-state "propaganda"

2022

14 January 2022
Türkiye: journalist Sedef Kabas tried for insulting the president
22 January 2022
Türkiye: journalist Sedef Kabas is arrested for a proverb about President Erdogan
4 March 2022
Russia: regulator blocks BBC Russian, Deutsche Welle and other outlets
4 March 2022
Russia criminalizes 'fake' reporting on the military, up to 15 years in prison
9 March 2022
Belarus: Deutsche Welle and other outlets labeled 'extremist'
13 May 2022
Ethiopia: Economist correspondent Tom Gardner expelled
18 May 2022
Russia: CBC/Radio-Canada bureau closed and journalists' visas cancelled
16 June 2022
Russia: entry bans, visa restrictions and bureau closures for foreign correspondents
5 September 2022
Russia: journalist Ivan Safronov is sentenced to 22 years for treason
5 September 2022
Russia: a Moscow court suspends Novaya Gazeta's print license

2023

8 February 2023
Belarus: journalist Andrzej Poczobut sentenced to eight years
8 February 2023
Belarus: journalist Andrzej Poczobut is sentenced to eight years for inciting hatred
13 February 2023
Cambodia: Prime Minister Hun Sen orders Voice of Democracy's license revoked over one article
14 February 2023
Indian tax authorities search BBC offices weeks after Modi documentary ban
15 February 2023
Russia: journalist Maria Ponomarenko is sentenced to six years for reporting on a Mariupol strike
15 February 2023
Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents, including journalists, of citizenship
22 February 2023
Türkiye: the broadcast regulator fines and suspends channels for earthquake coverage
29 March 2023
Russia: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years
14 June 2023
Guatemala convicts investigative journalist Jose Ruben Zamora on money-laundering charge
14 July 2023
Zimbabwe's Patriotic Act criminalizes journalists' contact with foreign governments
21 July 2023
Federal court strikes down Arizona's law banning recording police within 8 feet
11 August 2023
Police raid Marion County Record newsroom and publisher's home in Kansas
21 August 2023
India: Gaon Savera's Facebook and X accounts blocked
1 November 2023
Turkish authorities detain three journalists under 'disinformation' law
20 December 2023
Hungary: National Sovereignty Protection Act and Sovereignty Protection Office, December 2023

2024

17 January 2024
Iran: journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi are sentenced to 13 and 12 years
March 2024
Bombay High Court strikes down India's government 'fact check unit' rule
4 March 2024
Milei's government shuts down Argentina's state news agency Telam
24 May 2024
United States (Louisiana): 25-foot buffer zone law around police officers, May 2024
28 May 2024
Georgia 'foreign influence' law for media, 2024
20 June 2024
Slovakia's parliament dissolves public broadcaster RTVS, replaces it with STVR
28 July 2024
Venezuela detains, expels and restricts journalists after disputed 2024 election
20 August 2024
Kazakhstan: new accreditation rules let officials withdraw a journalist's pass for off-topic questions
29 August 2024
Hong Kong court convicts Stand News editors of sedition
November 2024
China: editor Dong Yuyu is sentenced to seven years for espionage over meals with a diplomat
16 December 2024
Trump sues Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over final Iowa poll

2025

1 January 2025
United States (Florida): Halo Law buffer zone around first responders, January 2025
16 January 2025
Tunisia's cybercrime decree pushes jailed-journalist count to highest since 1992
22 January 2025
FCC chair reopens 'news distortion' complaints against CBS and NBC
29 January 2025
Pakistan amends cybercrime law to create new agency policing 'fake' online content
31 January 2025
United States (Louisiana): Federal court order blocking enforcement of the police buffer zone law, January 2025
3 February 2025
Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws
6 February 2025
Border czar Tom Homan says ICE media ride-alongs may end over leaks
11 February 2025
United States: White House exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One, February 2025
25 February 2025
United States: White House takes over selection of the presidential press pool, February 2025
15 March 2025
United States: U.S. Agency for Global Media action to shut down Voice of America operations, March 2025
19 March 2025
Türkiye: detention, injury and deportation of journalists covering protests, March 2025
15 April 2025
White House ends wire services' guaranteed seat in the press pool
22 April 2025
60 Minutes executive producer resigns, citing lost editorial independence
25 April 2025
United States: Department of Justice rescission of rules limiting subpoenas of journalists, April 2025
1 May 2025
United States: Executive Order 14290 directing an end to federal funding for NPR and PBS, May 2025
9 June 2025
Officer shoots Australian journalist with rubber bullet during Los Angeles immigration protests
1 July 2025
United States: Paramount settlement of Donald Trump's lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview, July 2025
18 July 2025
Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein birthday letter story
18 July 2025
Congress cuts $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting
24 July 2025
FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger after CBS ombudsman and anti-DEI pledges
3 September 2025
Ethiopia arrests at least six journalists including Sheger FM staff over election-year coverage
5 September 2025
Serbian police strike, detain and disarm journalists covering anti-government protests
15 September 2025
Trump files, then refiles, $15 billion defamation suit against the New York Times
17 September 2025
United States: Federal Communications Commission chairman's remarks and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2025
19 September 2025
United States: Department of Defense press credential rules requiring approval before release of information, September 2025
15 October 2025
United States: News organizations turn in their Pentagon press credentials, October 2025
29 October 2025
Tanzania shuts down internet access on election day amid unrest
31 October 2025
White House closes 'Upper Press' section of West Wing to reporters
15 December 2025
China (Hong Kong): conviction and 20-year sentence of the media owner Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law, 2025 to 2026

2026

7 January 2026
Israel: ban on independent entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip, 2023 to 2026
10 February 2026
India: one-year prison sentence for the journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case, February 2026
10 March 2026
Hungary: a ruling-party mayor forcibly removes Telex reporters from a campaign event
April 2026
El Salvador: freeze on assets of shareholders in El Faro's parent company, February to April 2026
28 April 2026
Appeals court orders FCC to respond to challenge over 'news distortion' policy
10 July 2026
Customs officers seize Grayzone editor's phones at Virginia airport over Iran reporting
4 August 2026
Russia: asset freezes on exiled "foreign agents", Aug 2026
20 August 2026
Kazakhstan: fabricated copyright complaints used against journalists
18 September 2026
CNN, MS NOW, Politico hard passes deactivated, 2026
18 September 2026
Trump announces CNN, MS NOW and Politico will be banned from the White House claim (announcement)
19 September 2026
Secret Service deactivates the three outlets' hard passes; reporters denied entry claim (action)
19 September 2026
WHCA statement on the White House's position on CNN, MS NOW and Politico claim (statement)
20 September 2026
Other pool networks decline to fill CNN's vacated rotating pool slot claim (action)
21 September 2026
CNN, MS NOW and Politico file suit against Trump and the White House claim (filing)
22 September 2026
Trump administration files opposition to the outlets' motion for a temporary restraining order claim (filing)
23 September 2026
Hearing scheduled in Cable News Network, Inc. v. Trump claim (hearing)
24 September 2026
Access restored after the order; CNN and MS NOW reporters denied entry to the state dinner arrival for Xi Jinping claim (action)
24 September 2026
Outlets tell the court the White House has repeatedly violated the order; reporters regain entry around noon claim (filing)
24 September 2026
Judge Timothy Kelly grants a temporary restraining order; White House told to reinstate the three outlets' hard passes claim (ruling)
25 September 2026
Network television pool resumes with CNN taking part claim (action)
25 September 2026
White House guidance replaces CNN with Real America's Voice News on Air Force One for the September 26 trip to Tennessee claim (action)
26 September 2026
No television pool travels on Air Force One to Tennessee after CNN is left off; the other pool networks decline to take its place claim (action)
27 September 2026
Network television camera crew films the president's public events again, a day after no TV pool traveled claim (action)
27 September 2026
Attorney General Todd Blanche says press access to the White House and Air Force One is a privilege claim (statement)
28 September 2026
CNN, MS NOW, Politico and three reporters file a motion for a preliminary injunction claim (filing)
29 September 2026
TIME reports that the network television pool is resuming its coverage of the president claim (action)
30 September 2026
White House removes CNN from the press pool for the October 1 Texas and Oklahoma trip claim (action)
30 September 2026
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 77 media organizations move to file an amicus brief claim (filing)
1 October 2026
Court sets the hearing on the preliminary injunction motion for October 8, 2026 claim (hearing)
1 October 2026
Judge grants the Society for the Rule of Law and Democracy leave to file an amicus brief claim (ruling)
2 October 2026
Defendants file opposition to the preliminary injunction motion claim (filing)
2 October 2026
NAACP moves to file an amicus brief supporting the preliminary injunction motion claim (filing)
2 October 2026
Judge grants Reporters Committee and 77 media organizations leave to file an amicus brief claim (ruling)
5 October 2026
White House does not allow Politico on Air Force One for its print pool turn claim (action)
5 October 2026
Plaintiffs file reply in support of the preliminary injunction motion claim (filing)
8 October 2026
Court hears preliminary injunction motion and extends temporary restraining order to 2026-10-13 claim (hearing)
10 October 2026
Justice Department says it is investigating whether the White House television pool's halt of coverage violated antitrust law claim (statement)
13 October 2026
Judge Timothy Kelly grants a preliminary injunction barring the administration from banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House complex while the lawsuit proceeds claim (ruling)
14 October 2026
Defendants file a notice of interlocutory appeal to the D.C. Circuit from the preliminary injunction order and opinion claim (filing)
19 October 2026
CNN's outside counsel sends the Justice Department a demand letter over CNN's exclusion from Air Force One and pool duties claim (statement)
24 October 2026
Trump says in a social media post he may move the White House press corps to a different location claim (statement)
28 October 2026
CNN, MS NOW and Politico file an amended complaint seeking access to the Oval Office and Air Force One claim (filing)
4 November 2026
Plaintiffs file a further motion for a preliminary injunction and request an expedited hearing claim (filing)
5 November 2026
Court sets briefing deadlines and a December 2, 2026 hearing on the further preliminary injunction motion claim (hearing)
6 November 2026
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press moves to file an amicus brief on the further preliminary injunction motion claim (filing)