On August 17, 2026, President Trump told CNN's Kristen Holmes to 'be quiet' after she asked about North Korea and Sen. Jon Ossoff's remarks on aide Natalie Har…
Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the banking crisis directly to a national radio audience, eight days after taking office. It was the first technology letting a president…
An estimated 65 million Americans watched John F. Kennedy take live, unedited questions from reporters, adding a watching public as a second audience alongside the press…
Washington Post reporting by Woodward and Bernstein, aided by a confidential FBI source, ran alongside a Senate investigation, a special prosecutor and a unanimous Supre…
Ted Turner's Cable News Network became the first all-news, 24-hour channel, replacing the once-a-day newspaper deadline with a continuous cycle every White House since h…
At his first press conference since winning the election, Trump refused to take Jim Acosta's question, telling him 'You are fake news' — an early, widely covered use of…
After the White House suspended Acosta's hard pass on November 7, 2018 following a contentious exchange, CNN sued. Judge Timothy Kelly ordered it restored, finding the a…
For the first time in decades, the White House itself began deciding which outlets fill the small rotating pool with access to the Oval Office and Air Force One, a chang…
After Holmes asked about North Korea and read Trump Sen. Jon Ossoff's remarks about aide Natalie Harp, Trump told her repeatedly to 'be quiet' and called her a 'fake rep…
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