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President Donald Trump identified The New York Times and The Washington Post as the next news outlets in his sights Friday, in the aftermath of banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House and warning that other outlets would follow.

Asked what he meant by others to come, Trump named both papers immediately.

"The New York Times is fake news. Washington Post is fake news," he said. "They're crummy papers, both doing very poorly."...

A New York Times photographer on Wednesday revealed several suspicious new details in President Donald Trump's plane swap amid a threat.

Douglas Mills, a photojournalist who was on Air Force One with the press corps as the group headed back from Turkey after a NATO summit in July with Trump and several administration officials, told CNN's Erin Burnett the incident was "alarming" after learning Trump had left the plane in a catering truck.

Burnett mentioned that Mills and other reporters were asked to lower their window shades. And in an interview with reporters after that flight, Trump had commented specifically on window shades....

The Department of Justice is stunning journalists and advocates with another subpoena in its "escalating" series of attacks.

According to reporting by The New York Times, the DOJ subpoenaed one of its freelancers in an attempt to identify his sources for a story about a failed top-secret mission in North Korea.

"It's another step toward chilling free speech and press freedom," journalist Karly Kingsley wrote in an X post reacting to the news. "There is no democracy without a free press."...

Americans living in Trump country are furious about his luxurious lifestyle as they sell their own blood, hunt for free toilet paper, and try not to break down in tears, according to a New York Times report.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof spoke with multiple red-state Americans who say they have pennies in the bank and struggle to buy basic necessities.

"You do not know what you're doing to people who are struggling to live," Oklahoman Trinity Goodman said in comments directed at Trump. "You got money in the bank. You don't know how it feels to struggle. Live in my shoes for one day. You wouldn't be able to handle it."...

The Trump administration's threat to a program meant to pull kids out of poverty is alarming advocates, the New York Times reported.

According to reporting by The Times, the Trump administration is teeing up a "major rollback" of the federal requirements for Head Start, an early education and antipoverty program created in 1965. Advocates and experts told The Times that the rollback threatens to upend the 60-year-old program.

Ruth Friedman, a child care policy expert, told The Times that the proposed changes to Head Start are a "massive gutting." The Times noted that the program currently serves about 700,000 kids under the age of 6 and has served more than 30 million children since 1965....

The Justice Department made a major retreat this week, withdrawing its controversial subpoenas against New York Times journalists intended to root out a leak.

But the federal judge who strong-armed them into backing down isn't finished with them quite yet.

According to Lawfare's Anna Bower, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian of New York issued an order on Friday demanding the DOJ turn over a number of documents pertaining to their operations....