Vehicle line up to board a Bolivar Ferry ahead of Tropical Storm Edouard in Galveston, Texas, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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A fisherman who goes by the name "Jellybean" casts his line along the ship channel before landfall of Tropical Storm Edouard in Galveston, Texas, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech.
A lawyer for The Associated Press asked a federal judge Thursday to reinstate the agency’s access to the White House press pool and other official events, saying the Trump administration’s ban is a fundamental attack on freedom of speech and should be overturned. The government insisted there was no evidence that AP had been harmed irreparably.
A federal judge on Monday refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press’ access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not demonstrated it had suffered any irreparable harm. But he urged the Trump administration to reconsider its two-week-old ban, saying that case law “is uniformly unhelpful to the White House.”
The planned departure of the historic SS United States from Philadelphia’s Pier 82 has been delayed. The boat was originally expected to pass through the Delaware Bay Nov. 15, past Sussex County's coast.