The conservative pundit Glenn Beck took the lectern at a conference center on Manhattan’s East Side last Thursday to accept the Freedom of Speech Award for his commentary on TheBlaze television network ... Read more
AMMAN, Jordan — The Jordanian government has blocked local access to 300 news Web sites under a new law that the sites’ editors and international journalism experts have derided as dangerous ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., under fire over investigative tactics in leak cases, has opened internal discussions over tightening rules on when prosecutors may seek phone logs and ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., a lightning rod of Republican attacks during President Obama’s first term, is now contending with a new round of criticism over the Justice ... Read more
President Obama’s conciliatory gesture toward the press this week — a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists — struck some national security reporters as closing the ... Read more
WASHINGTON — President Obama ordered a review on Thursday of the Justice Department’s procedures for legal investigations involving reporters, acknowledging that he was “troubled” that ... Read more
The White House on Monday defended President Obama’s support for aggressive investigations into national security leaks despite new disclosures about a 2009 case in which the Justice Department searched a ... Read more
The head of The Associated Press said on Sunday that the Obama administration’s secret seizure of two months of its phone records, revealed this month, was “unconstitutional,” and had already ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators secretly seized two months of phone records for reporters and editors of The Associated Press in what the news organization said Monday was a “serious interference ... Read more
Despite pleas from press freedom groups and stalwarts of the struggle against apartheid, South Africa’s Parliament on Thursday passed a much-criticized secrecy bill that will increase the ... Read more