Witnesses in Trump documents case can remain private, judge rules

WASHINGTON: A federal judge decided on Tuesday to allow the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents to shield the identities of possible witnesses in the case for now. US District Judge Aileen Cannon agreed to reconsider a prior ruling that prosecutors argued would have revealed the names of certain … Read more

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Extremely Online’ documents the fleeting and permanent nature of the internet

Everyone assumes the internet is “forever” but, is it? One person who knows how much the internet is both permanent and fleeting is technology journalist Taylor Lorenz. Her 2023 book “Extremely Online: The Untold story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet” is a compilation of a grassroots effort that simultaneously encouraged people to … Read more

Leaked documents expose Iran’s harassment campaign against British-based journalists

RIYADH: “The first casualty of war is the truth,” the old quote states, and even with the global digitization of conventional media, it still stands true to this day. At the start of the third annual Saudi Media Forum in Riyadh on Tuesday, seasoned industry experts took the stage to discuss the role of the … Read more

Special counsel clears Biden on mishandling of classified documents, roasts him on memory loss

Biden angrily pushes back at special counsel’s report that questioned his memory, handling of docs WASHINGTON: A special counsel report released Thursday found evidence that President Joe Biden willfully retained and shared highly classified information when he was a private citizen, including about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, but concluded that criminal charges were … Read more