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The Latest: Trump wants to send immigrants who are in the US illegally to Guantanamo Bay

Jan. 29, 2025 18:09 PM EST

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 immigrants who are living illegally in the United States. People who are in the United States illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be...

'Remarkably poor judgment': Wall Street Journal takes a critical eye to start of Trump's 2nd term

Jan. 29, 2025 14:45 PM EST

Amid all of the enthusiasm in conservative media for President Donald Trump's first week back in office, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has notably applied some brakes. The Journal has editorialized against Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, called presidential...

Prince Harry claims court victories. But is he winning the larger war with the British media?

Jan. 23, 2025 15:48 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry 's mission to tame the British media has produced results in court but the jury is still out on whether it will have a broader impact or be just another chapter — or headline — in the long history of tabloids behaving badly. Harry received an...

Murdoch's UK tabloids apologize to Prince Harry and admit intruding on the late Princess Diana

Jan. 22, 2025 15:41 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry claimed a “monumental” victory Wednesday as Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids made an unprecedented apology for intruding in his life for years, and agreed to pay substantial damages to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit. News Group Newspapers...

Prince Harry's lawsuit against The Sun is part of a long saga of alleged tabloid misbehavior

Jan. 22, 2025 07:31 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry’s lawsuit against The Sun ended dramatically on Wednesday with an apology from the newspaper's publisher for “serious intrusion” and unlawful activities over a 15-year period. The settlement, which includes a “substantial” damages payment to...

In full: News Group Newspapers' apology to Prince Harry over phone hacking and intrusion

Jan. 22, 2025 06:18 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids on Wednesday, accepting damages and an apology from News Group Newspapers over years of phone hacking and other unlawful intrusion. The company has also apologized to a second claimant, former...

Last-minute settlement talks stall Prince Harry's high-stakes trial against British tabloids

Jan. 21, 2025 12:38 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry's mission to put the British tabloids on trial for decades of alleged unlawful snooping into his life was in question Tuesday as last-minute settlement talks delayed the start of a high-stakes trial pitting him against Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers. If...

Prince Harry's lawsuit against The Sun is part of a long saga of alleged tabloid misbehavior

Jan. 21, 2025 10:25 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry’s lawsuit against the publisher of The Sun took another twist Tuesday when the trial was delayed by last-minute settlement negotiations. It follows two decades of legal drama over the cutthroat practices of the British press in the days when newspapers...

Today in History: January 19, Howard Hughes sets coast-to-coast flight record

Jan. 13, 2025 03:06 AM EST

Today is Sunday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2025. There are 346 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 19, 1937, Howard Hughes set a new transcontinental air speed record in his H-1 Racer aircraft, flying from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, in seven hours,...