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Recent Trump investments reignite concerns around potential conflicts of interest

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump purchased up to $2 million in Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery investments days after the announcement of a megadeal between the two media giants, among other purchases, according to a financial disclosure from the White House, renewing questions from ethics experts around potential conflicts of interest.

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Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell

Pentagon moves to turn independent military outlet into a ‘mouthpiece,’ advocates warn

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is exerting political pressure on Stars & Stripes, the independent military newspaper that informs US servicemembers worldwide. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced Thursday that the Department of Defense will “modernize” the outlet and “refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale, and adapt it

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The FBI on Wednesday executed a search warrant on a Washington Post reporter’s home — an extraordinarily unusual move. Inside the Post newsroom

‘Tip of the iceberg’: The FBI search of a reporter’s home has newsrooms bracing for more

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Early on in her tenure as President Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi scrapped a Biden-era policy that banned the Justice Department from pursuing reporters’ phone records and notes while investigating leakers. The message was unmistakable: Trump-era investigators would welcome a confrontation. And now they have one. This week, the

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