# Timeline: Access ban

Recorded incidents of type access ban, oldest first.

- 2025-02-11: United States: White House exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One, February 2025 (incident 2025-white-house-bars-ap-gulf-of-america) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-white-house-bars-ap-gulf-of-america
- 2025-02-25: United States: White House takes over selection of the presidential press pool, February 2025 (incident 2025-whca-loses-control-of-press-pool) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-whca-loses-control-of-press-pool
- 2026-01-07: Israel: ban on independent entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip, 2023 to 2026 (incident 2026-israel-maintains-ban-on-foreign-press-access-to-gaza) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-israel-maintains-ban-on-foreign-press-access-to-gaza
- 2026-09-18: United States: White House hard-pass deactivations for CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters, September 2026 (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-18: Trump announces CNN, MS NOW and Politico will be banned from the White House (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-19: Secret Service deactivates the three outlets' hard passes; reporters denied entry (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-19: WHCA statement on the White House's position on CNN, MS NOW and Politico (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-20: Other pool networks decline to fill CNN's vacated rotating pool slot (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-21: CNN, MS NOW and Politico file suit against Trump and the White House (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
- 2026-09-23: Hearing scheduled in Cable News Network, Inc. v. Trump (incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico) https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico

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