The New York Times accused Ben Shapiro of trying to &#8220;stoke outrage&#8221; after The Daily Wire host criticized the newspaper for prominently featuring stories about Islamophobia on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
“If you were an alien who landed on Earth this morning, and you were reading the top headlines on the NYT&#8217;s webpage, you would immediately assume that 9/11 was an attack on Muslims,” Shapiro wrote on <a href="https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2098415852722794594">X</a>.
The Times <a href="https://x.com/NYTimesPR/status/2098448121348984960">responded directly</a>, calling Shapiro&#8217;s post &#8220;a disingenuous attempt to seek attention and stoke outrage by misrepresenting The New York Times&#8217;s journalism.&#8221;
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This misleading statement is nothing more than a disingenuous attempt to seek attention and stoke outrage by misrepresenting The New York Times&#8217;s journalism covering the anniversary and commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks. In the 25 years since that day, we have led the way on… <a href="https://t.co/varsZ83uv7">pic.twitter.com/varsZ83uv7</a>
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) <a href="https://x.com/NYTimesPR/status/2098448121348984960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
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“In the 25 years since that day, we have led the way on reporting on the event, its human toll, and resulting societal shifts,” the Times X account added.
Shapiro was unimpressed. 
“Are you f***ing kidding me right now?” he <a href="https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2098462618683916656">responded</a>. “This was the top of your homepage about three hours ago.”
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Are you f***ing kidding me right now? This was the top of your homepage about three hours ago. <a href="https://t.co/Lold1CAiHK">https://t.co/Lold1CAiHK</a> <a href="https://t.co/zVzS6DZ7Vw">pic.twitter.com/zVzS6DZ7Vw</a>
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2098462618683916656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The story drawing Shapiro&#8217;s criticism was headlined “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/nyregion/mamdani-sept-11.html">Facing Islamophobia, Mamdani Keeps Focus on 9/11 Victims</a>,” and it focused heavily on New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor, and the alleged backlash he has faced because of his religion.
The Times described Mamdani as having to navigate “a delicate dynamic” because he is both New York’s mayor and a Muslim, and quoted Muslim community leaders discussing what they characterized as continuing anti-Muslim hostility. The article was published at the top of the Times’ website Friday morning alongside the paper’s broader 25th-anniversary coverage.
The article documented Mamdani’s appearances at 9/11 memorial events and his efforts to honor victims and survivors. But it also devoted substantial attention to Islamophobia, quoting Husein Yatabarry, executive director of the Muslim Community Network, claiming there is “a right-wing angst to bring back that level of Islamophobia against prominent Muslims in political life.”
The piece cited Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who lost his nephew in the September 11 attacks and has called Mamdani “un-American.” It also highlighted a <a href="https://x.com/SenTuberville/status/2032087973810901496">social media post</a> from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) that juxtaposed an image of Mamdani at an iftar dinner with an image of the burning World Trade Center.
“The enemy is inside the gates,” Tuberville wrote.
Conservative pundit Stephen L. Miller also <a href="https://x.com/redsteeze/status/2098404795682083055">posted a screenshot</a> of the Times&#8217; homepage without adding any commentary. The newspaper responded with the same statement it had sent Shapiro.
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The New York Times on 9/11. <a href="https://t.co/kTeQMPmqtS">pic.twitter.com/kTeQMPmqtS</a>
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://x.com/redsteeze/status/2098404795682083055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
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“Highlighting what the New York Times chooses to publish on 9/11 is divisive and disingenuous, but the pieces themselves are not divisive and disingenuous according to the New York Times,” Miller <a href="https://x.com/redsteeze/status/2098450444108656962">responded</a>.
“I didn&#8217;t editorialize, or put up an opinion,&#8221; he later <a href="https://x.com/redsteeze/status/2098452129539387515">added</a>. &#8220;I simply posted what the New York Times chose to publish on 9/11. And the NY Times Comms is struggling with it.”
Another Times article, “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/nyregion/911-attacks-muslim-sikh-new-yorkers.html">After 9/11, Islamophobia Shaped a Generation of Muslim New Yorkers</a>,” focused on the alleged backlash experienced by Muslim Americans after the attacks and the subsequent growth of Muslim political and civic organizations in New York.
The Times defended its coverage as a “deep and diverse set of journalism” about the anniversary.

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As Americans grapple with what artificial intelligence could mean for the economy, The New York Times examined one of the technology&#8217;s early casualties: a Kenyan industry built on writing college essays for cheating Western students.
The outlet <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/technology/kenya-college-essays-ai.html">published a piece</a> over the weekend describing how third-party essay writing became a thriving business in Kenya, employing an estimated 40,000 people in Nairobi at its peak.
Teresios Bundi began writing essays on topics he’d never heard of, earning $7 for three hours&#8217; work on his first assignment. He eventually opened his own operation, renting a house that he filled with desks, high-speed internet, and mattresses for the students he hired to write between classes.  
“That was a lifeline for me. I needed the money,” he said of his first gig.
 As demand increased, so did the pay. Bundi charged between $40 and $70 per paper and sometimes banged out up to three per day. Bundi said the work paid him at least “five times” what he could have earned in public health, a subject in which he held a college degree. 
The Times described how the social status of the essay writers became noticeable, noting that they “drove new Subarus, carried the latest smartphones, and booked exclusive tables at clubs.” 
Then ChatGPT debuted in 2022 and everything changed. Suddenly, would-be cheaters had a cheaper, faster, easier way to get their papers written, and men like Bundi saw themselves out of work. He issued a warning for everyone about the oncoming threat of AI in other industries.
“A.I. is coming for bankers, for accountants, it’s coming for engineers, and A.I. will come for architects,” he told the outlet. “It’s coming for everybody.”
This all led to Kenyans being forced to return to work that doesn’t pay as well, if they find work at all. 
“Some have gone back to the villages,” Alex Munyua, a former essay writer, said. “There are those that tried other sectors, but they were frustrated because they couldn’t get formal jobs.”
Reactions online mostly focused on how bizarre the article&#8217;s framing was, with most sympathy for the Kenyans who could no longer help students cheat.
“The New York Times should be razed. ‘Here’s is [sic] an article on how the admirable &#8211; checks notes &#8211; essay writing cheating business of Africa &#8211; has been disrupted by evil AI.’ These a**holes should have been bullied more in high school,” one commenter <a href="https://x.com/Kazanjy/status/2096615229283266608">wrote</a>.
“We’ve reached the point where ‘AI destroyed jobs that only existed because students were cheating’ is treated as a tragedy,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/A_Panigrahi23/status/2097067366148698518">said</a>.

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Never interrupt your enemy when they&#8217;re making a mistake. And never, ever interrupt the Left when they’re being spectacularly, self-immolatingly stupid.
On Thursday, the New York Times published a piece that was supposed to manufacture outrage. Instead, it handed the entire country a gift-wrapped argument for deportation.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/nyregion/transgender-migrants-ice.html">“Trans Migrants in ICE Detention Are Losing Their Rights and Medical Care”</a>
Translation: Biological men who entered the country illegally, some with criminal records at home, some with criminal records here, who had been receiving taxpayer-funded cross-sex hormones, are now no longer receiving those hormones… and are being removed.
I’m struggling to locate the tragedy.
The Department of Homeland Security responded with this clarity:
<blockquote>[The NYT] is more concerned about us not providing hormone therapy for these criminals than the countless Americans who have been victimized by illegal aliens. To be clear: we are NOT wasting taxpayer dollars to provide hormone therapy to illegal aliens seeking to change their sex.</blockquote>
The national debt just crossed $40 trillion. Saving money by declining to medically cosplay for foreign criminals seems, to the average Joe, like basic adulting. But to the Times it is a human-rights crisis.
The article’s star is a 25-year-old Venezuelan illegal who had been living in New York, drawing hormones through a combination of Medicaid, city clinics, and the city’s $15 million gender-affirming care fund. The Left is currently having a collective nervous breakdown because this individual is now housed with other men and no longer receiving magical girl drops on the American taxpayer’s dime.
Woke 1.0 never left. It simply mutated into something uglier.
But the Times conveniently avoided answering some questions: How many of the hundreds of ICE facilities are still providing this care? How much have taxpayers already spent? Under Obama alone, hundreds of thousands of dollars went to hormone therapy for the small number of transgender detainees. Across the Obama and Biden years, when you include the much larger population free in sanctuary cities, the total for gender-related treatment for illegal immigrants climbs into the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4477659/doj-new-policy-save-tax-dollars-previously-spent-transgender-procedures/">tens of millions</a>.
This ridiculous reality is in large part why the Left lost so terribly in the 2024 elections: The Left is for “they.” Republicans are for you.
Yet progressives keep choosing the 10 percent side of every 90/10 issue. They will fight harder for free hormones for foreign sex offenders than they will for American women locked in the same prisons as biological males who identify as women — men who, according to multiple state and federal datasets, commit a wildly disproportionate share of sexual assaults inside women’s facilities. But if they want to continue to alienate voters and sane humans? Be our guest.
Meanwhile, the same outlets that weep for Camila Toro de Paula have little interest in Leah Kahare, the 29-year-old Massachusetts woman killed by an illegal alien from Brazil in a hit-and-run. Or the mother stabbed to death on a Great Falls jogging trail by a Salvadoran illegal. Or the 18-year-old illegal from El Salvador who racked up nine counts of assault and battery for groping underage girls at a Fairfax County high school. Those stories somehow never make the front page.
Instead, we are treated to the poignant declaration: “I want to be heard. Women like me have been disrespected enough. No more.”
Funny. I feel rather disrespected every time someone insists my tax dollars should underwrite estrogen regimens for criminals, that biological males belong in my locker rooms and sports, or that a man who started identifying as a woman last Tuesday possesses a deeper understanding of womanhood than I do.
Yes. That was an actual thing that was <a href="https://x.com/NotTheirScript/status/2087032954224521368/video/1">said</a>.
ICE is unpopular right now, thanks to a handful of high-profile deaths earlier this year — but it&#8217;s still operating quietly and effectively to keep Americans safe. The job is being <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2090188978003513669/video/1">done</a>. What&#8217;s in question is how the public perceives it.
Republicans win the messaging war on this the same way they win most political battles: by getting out of the way and letting the Left keep talking.
It’s a good thing to remove criminal illegal aliens from our nation who are slaughtering American citizens. It’s a good thing to save taxpayer dollars from going towards trans treatment for confused criminals. And it&#8217;s a good thing to let the Left keep marinating in a metastasized Woke 1 — curated by the most online, most anxious demographic in American politics (young liberal women, half of whom report a mental-health diagnosis) while they simultaneously romanticize mothers who kill their children and men who demand the rest of us pretend they are ladies.
That&#8217;s how you win the ICE battle. Just get out of the way, and let them make fools of themselves.
And if the gender-confused illegal aliens are shopping for a more affirming environment, I hear Gaza and Iran are doing wonders for women’s rights these days. According to the uniparty, anyway.

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A federal jury on Thursday ordered The New York Times to pay a former University of Alabama men’s basketball player <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/business/media/new-york-times-defamation-lawsuit-alabama.html">$9.25</a> million in damages for falsely reporting that he was at the scene of a murder in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 
The Times falsely claimed in March 2023 that Kai Spears was in former Alabama basketball star Brandon Miller&#8217;s vehicle at the scene of a January 2023 shooting that killed 23-year-old Jamea Harris. 
Spears was not in the vehicle. 
&#8220;We&#8217;re disappointed the jury found The Times liable for an honest mistake,&#8221; Times spokesman Charlie Stadtander <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/20/ny-times-loses-defamation-suit-brought-by-college-basketball-player/">said</a>. &#8220;We thank the jury for its service, but believe the verdict and award of damages are contrary to law and not supported by the evidence. We are reviewing our legal options.&#8221;
The Times later added an editor&#8217;s note acknowledging that the original article had &#8220;erroneously identified&#8221; Spears as the passenger based on information from a person familiar with the case. The newspaper noted that Alabama&#8217;s athletic director and Spears&#8217; father had denied that Spears was present after the article was initially published.
Spears sued the Times in 2023, accusing the newspaper of libel and “false light” invasion of privacy. He argued that the article caused him emotional distress and has permanently linked his name to the murder. On the witness stand, Spears said a day after the article was published, he had been heckled at a game. 
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The eight-person federal jury in Alabama awarded Spears $9.25 million in damages Thursday following a nine-day trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Spears&#8217;s attorneys had asked jurors to award him $15 million.
When misinformation about public figures is published, plaintiffs must prove &#8220;actual malice,&#8221; meaning the misinformation was knowingly included, or the defendant acted with reckless disregard for the truth. Even though Spears was a college basketball player, the court said he was a private figure. Because the court said Spears was a private figure, he only needed to show the claim was false and negligently published.
The Times argued that the article was not defamatory because it had not reported that Spears had been involved in the fatal shooting.
The verdict marked the New York Times’s first loss in a U.S. defamation lawsuit over one of its articles in 50 years, according to the newspaper. 
During the trial, Times sportswriter Billy Witz, who wrote the 2023 article, apologized to Spears from the witness stand. Witz had relied on a confidential source for the erroneous information identifying Spears as the person in Miller&#8217;s vehicle.
Witz said he trusted his source, who told him the passenger was &#8220;a white guy on the basketball team.&#8221;
Attorneys for The Times argued that the report was an honest error rather than defamation and said Witz had made significant efforts to verify his reporting.
&#8220;There was a mistake, an honest mistake,&#8221; said Michael Bell, a lawyer representing The Times.
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Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) bid a sad farewell to his longtime vacuum cleaner on Saturday, and even The New York Times took a moment to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/us/politics/beth-vacuum-chuck-grassley-iowa.html">eulogize</a> the legendary piece of machinery.
Grassley shared the sad news in a pair of posts on X — including a photo of his beloved &#8220;Beth&#8221; that showed damage to the cord from electrical sparks.
&#8220;U willl see Beth no more. See black that’s from electrical sparks. It’s not safe to use anymore. GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse. Ur namesake still is hard worker. I will miss u,&#8221; the senator wrote.
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It’s a sad day at Grassley household…. For my 34 years and 15 yrs before that at my mother in law’s home Beth has worked dependably….
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&#8220;It’s a sad day at Grassley household … For my 34 years and 15 yrs before that at my mother in law’s home Beth has worked dependably …&#8221; he added.
The New York Times took note of the occasion, publishing a brief tongue-in-cheek obituary for &#8220;Beth&#8221; on Saturday.
&#8220;Beth, a trusty tan Hoover vacuum cleaner with a burgundy cloth dust bag that for years tended to the floors of the Iowa farmhouse of Senator Chuck Grassley, earning admirers in both parties, has died. She was believed to be 49,&#8221; the obituary began — and then proceeded to document Beth&#8217;s history as portrayed by Grassley on social media.
In 2018, as others in the household prepared food for Thanksgiving, Grassley shared a photo of Beth and said that he&#8217;d be doing his part to get ready for guests as well: &#8220;Mrs G and daughter Wendy hv started big job of preparing meal for30 at farm Thxgiving. So my housework contribution begins. This is my machine (Beth).&#8221;
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Mrs G and daughter Wendy hv started big job of preparing meal for30 at farm Thxgiving. So my housework contribution begins. This is my machine (Beth😄) <a href="https://t.co/DYJCkdrqzk">pic.twitter.com/DYJCkdrqzk</a>
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Beth made follow-up appearances in later social media posts, and even found a &#8220;fan&#8221; in Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV).
The Times also noted that Beth, at the time of her &#8220;passing,&#8221; was older than several lawmakers currently serving in the U.S. Senate — a group that includes Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Katie Britt (R-AL), and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) — and had long outpaced the average eight-year lifespan of a Hoover upright vacuum.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have descended on airports across the country, expanding enforcement operations to target illegal immigrants who overstayed their visas, according to The New York Times.
Federal immigration officers have been seen arresting individuals at the check-in counters and boarding gates and are said to be operating at 15 airports, the outlet <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/ice-arrests-airports-visa-overstay.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing documents and interviews with immigration attorneys.
&#8220;This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,&#8221; a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told The New York Times.
The latest operation builds on a TSA-ICE partnership launched in May 2025 to arrest individuals with outstanding deportation orders at airports, The Times reported.
It also comes as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on ICE to increase arrest numbers, agency sources have recently told The Daily Wire.
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Several recent airport arrests have gone viral on social media.
ICE arrested Chantal Alejandra Morales Rojas on July 20 while she attempted to board a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Oakland, <a href="https://www.9news.com/article/news/latest-news-ott/immigration-judge-grants-bond-woman-ice-dia/73-a462eafa-ef1f-4fc1-af6e-60be892e77ba?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to 9News. The incident was captured on video, appearing to show plainclothes officers intercepting her on the jetway before escorting her away.
All the while, the woman behind the camera was repeatedly calling for &#8220;help&#8221; and crying out &#8220;ICE is here&#8221; and &#8220;f*ck ICE,&#8221; according to the video.
A GoFundMe set up for Morales Rojas said she has a valid work permit and a pending asylum application, 9News reported.
ICE said she entered the United States on October 20, 2024, and that her visa expired on January 4, 2025, according to the outlet. The agency added that having a pending case or work authorization doesn&#8217;t keep ICE from making an arrest.
&#8220;A &#8216;work permit&#8217; and/or a pending asylum case does NOT confer any type of legal status in the United States or prevent ICE from arresting or deporting an illegal alien from the country,&#8221; ICE said.
An immigration judge has since granted bond to Morales Rojas, <a href="https://www.9news.com/article/news/latest-news-ott/immigration-judge-grants-bond-woman-ice-dia/73-a462eafa-ef1f-4fc1-af6e-60be892e77ba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to 9News.
As a result of the Trump administration&#8217;s latest arrest effort, immigration lawyers say they are instructing their clients awaiting decisions on pending immigration applications to avoid travel.
&#8220;Before, I was saying, ‘As long as you have an ID, you can travel domestically.&#8217; Now I am turning around and saying, ‘If you are in the process of changing status, avoid any travel,'&#8221; Shannon Shepherd, an immigration lawyer who is vice chair for the Chicago chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told The Times.

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CBS News unveiled its first major slate of &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; hires under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss on Tuesday, tapping New York Times columnist Ross Douthat as the network presses ahead with its overhaul of the iconic news magazine.
Executive producer Nick Bilton announced in a memo that Douthat will join the program as a correspondent, while bestselling author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger, former VICE News and CNN journalist Gianna Toboni, and British broadcaster Trevor Phillips will serve as contributors. Former CBS Evening News anchor Norah O&#8217;Donnell, who has contributed to &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; for more than a decade, has also been elevated to full correspondent.
&#8220;An exceptional lineup of journalists will be joining &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;, carrying on its tradition of fearless, independent and impartial reporting,&#8221; Bilton wrote. &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait for them to get started.&#8221; 
The hires are the first major on-air additions since Weiss took control of CBS News and began restructuring &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; after several longtime correspondents and senior producers departed earlier this year.
Douthat joined the Times in 2009 and has become one of the paper&#8217;s best-known conservative opinion writers. Bilton praised him as &#8220;one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor and a journalist of deep empathy.&#8221;
Bilton also announced that Junger, the author of &#8220;The Perfect Storm&#8221; and co-director of the Oscar-nominated Afghanistan war documentary &#8220;Restrepo,&#8221; will join the program as a contributor
Toboni, whose reporting has included investigations into ISIS, Mexican cartels, mass shootings, and the death penalty, will also join as a contributor, while Phillips — recently hired as CBS News&#8217; senior global affairs correspondent — will contribute to 60 Minutes from London. 
Bilton praised the whole group as &#8220;entrepreneurial journalists who understand how to reach modern audiences.&#8221;
Earlier this year, Weiss removed longtime executive producer <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/28/bari-weiss-ousts-tanya-simon-60-minutes-favor-nick-bilton/">Tanya Simon</a> and several senior producers before dismissing veteran correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/longtime-60-minutes-reporter-fired-after-attacks-on-new-leadership">Scott Pelley</a>. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/celebrating-anderson-cooper-60-minutes/">Anderson Cooper</a> later departed the program voluntarily.
The personnel changes followed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/longtime-60-minutes-reporter-fired-after-attacks-on-new-leadership">years of criticism</a> that &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; had abandoned its reputation for impartial journalism, including backlash over its heavily edited 2024 interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which ultimately contributed to CBS parent company Paramount settling President Donald Trump&#8217;s lawsuit for $16 million.
Since taking over, Weiss has pledged to restore trust in the network while broadening the program&#8217;s appeal. Bilton, a former technology journalist and author who was tapped to lead &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; has likewise promised to modernize the nearly six-decade-old broadcast without sacrificing its journalistic standards.
&#8220;My responsibility is not just technological transformation,&#8221; Bilton previously told staff. &#8220;It is also our trust with the public. Above all, that means a commitment to fairness—in story selection, in the edit room, and in the broadcast.&#8221;
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A shareholder revolt against The New York Times is gaining serious legal muscle, with a growing bloc of law firms now threatening to drag the paper of record into court unless it hands over internal records probing whether its board has been asleep at the wheel while the newsroom churns out coverage slanted against Israel.
On Tuesday, the National Center for Public Policy Research, backed by the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) and two heavyweight firms, fired off a fresh <a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Renewed-and-Supplemental-Demand-for-Inspection-of-Books-and-Records-of-The-New-York-Times-Company.pdf">demand letter</a> giving Times brass until July 21 to cough up board materials or face a lawsuit in Manhattan&#8217;s Supreme Court, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/exclusive-two-new-law-firms-threaten-new-york-times-with-shareholder-suit-over-gaza-rape-story-and-softball-investigation-of-platner-accuse-times-of-push/">reported</a> on Tuesday.
&#8220;The inclusion of two new prominent law firms — Grant &amp; Eisenhofer and Schall, Brown &amp; Schwartz — on NJAC&#8217;s campaign suggests that the Times may face difficulty dismissing their fresh concerns, which extend past mere anti-Israel bias to now encompass velvet-gloved reporting on two high-profile, anti-Israel Democrats,&#8221; the Free Beacon noted.
This is round two. The coalition first came knocking in May, furious over a widely panned Nicholas Kristof column that accused Israeli forces of using dogs to sexually assault Palestinian detainees — allegations that leaned heavily on sources tied to Hamas and that the paper&#8217;s own executive editor later admitted his newsroom &#8220;probably wouldn&#8217;t have&#8221; run &#8220;that exact piece.&#8221;
Now the group says things have only gotten worse. Its new target: the Times&#8217; soft-touch June investigation into Senate candidate Graham Platner, who was accused by ex-girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield of a horrifying pattern of abuse. The paper said it couldn&#8217;t corroborate her account — even though, Fifield says, she handed reporters witnesses, screenshots, diary entries, and more. Platner&#8217;s campaign didn&#8217;t implode until a second woman, this time a Democrat, told POLITICO he&#8217;d raped her.
The lawyers argue the Times gave shifting, contradictory explanations for its reporting standards — telling one outlet the story met &#8220;our standards,&#8221; and another that it only included facts that were confirmable — and say that inconsistency alone justifies letting shareholders peek behind the curtain.
&#8220;Stockholder seeks to investigate whether the Board is engaging in any form of oversight to ensure that the New York Times remains a news reporting agency worth anything to its stockholders, rather than becoming viewed by the public as a simple propaganda arm that selects its articles and reporting in a way that ignores truth in favor of pushing false narratives,&#8221; the letter states.
The letter also revives an ugly side-by-side: a March story that framed New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman&#8217;s wife as courting controversy over pro-Israel social media likes, versus a far gentler piece days later about democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s wife, who&#8217;d liked posts celebrating the October 7 massacre. Critics say the paper bent over backward to protect one and pounce on the other.
Beyond the Israel-related complaints, the filing dredges up the Times&#8217; long history of humiliating corrections — from the Wen Ho Lee <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/26/nyregion/the-times-and-wen-ho-lee.html">spying debacle</a> to the &#8220;Caliphate&#8221; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retracts-hit-podcast-series-caliphate-on-isis-executioner">podcast hoax</a> to a <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-times-retracts-massive-exaggeration-163906675.html">wildly inflated</a> child COVID hospitalization figure — arguing it all points to a board that looks away until public embarrassment forces its hand.
The Times, for its part, isn&#8217;t budging, with a spokeswoman dismissing the campaign, saying, “As we told the National Jewish Advocacy Center and National Center for Public Policy Research in response to an earlier demand letter, while positioned under corporate law, it is a clear attempt to chill First Amendment-protected journalism.”
But the shareholders insist this isn&#8217;t about politics or the First Amendment — it&#8217;s about whether the people overseeing America&#8217;s most influential newspaper are actually doing their jobs. If the Times doesn&#8217;t blink by July 21, the fight moves to a courtroom.

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that the Department of War and the Department of Justice have created a joint task force to identify and prosecute government officials accused of leaking sensitive national defense information.
<a href="https://x.com/SecWar/status/2076673841913344136">In a video posted on X</a>, Hegseth said unauthorized disclosures can endanger American troops, compromise military operations, and cause &#8220;exceptionally grave damage&#8221; to national security.
&#8220;The unauthorized disclosure of sensitive War Department information has the very real potential to cause exceptionally grave damage to our national security and the operational integrity of our armed forces,&#8221; Hegseth said. &#8220;To leak sensitive national defense information and secrets betrays the men and women who wear our nation&#8217;s uniform.&#8221;
Hegseth said that when a leak occurs, it is critical for the department to quickly provide the Department of Justice, FBI, and other federal law enforcement agencies with actionable information.
According to Hegseth, the new directive expands the authority of the War Department&#8217;s Office of General Counsel to obtain records and other information related to leak investigations and requires department personnel to respond within 48 hours. 
&#8220;The security of our nation cannot be a bargaining chip for those who seek momentary headlines,&#8221; Hegseth said. &#8220;Access to confidential and secret information is a sacred trust. And those who betray that trust will be met with the full force of the law.&#8221;
The announcement comes as the Trump administration continues pursuing multiple investigations into leaks involving sensitive national security information. 
The announcement follows several recent investigations in which Trump administration officials said unauthorized disclosures threatened national security.
One recent investigation centered on media reports that two U.S. service members had gone down inside Iran during U.S. military operations earlier this year. One airman had been rescued while search efforts continued for a second.
President Donald Trump later said those reports placed the rescue operation &#8220;at great risk&#8221; because they alerted Iran that an American service member remained inside the country.
&#8220;All of a sudden, the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land that was fighting for his life,&#8221; Trump said.
Trump also said the disclosure made the rescue <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/furious-trump-threatens-jail-for-reporters-targets-sick-leaker-who-risked-rescue">mission more difficult</a> for American personnel. According to Trump, the second service member was eventually rescued during an operation involving 155 U.S. aircraft. Trump said his administration was attempting to identify the source of the leak.
Another investigation involves a New York Times report detailing why Trump departed Turkey aboard the older Air Force One instead of the newly accepted Boeing 747-8 donated by Qatar.
According to<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-nyt-story-that-just-triggered-doj-subpoenas"> The Daily Wire</a>, citing federal law enforcement sources, a senior FBI official urged the New York Times not to publish the story, warning that it contained highly sensitive national security information. The news outlet ultimately published the report, citing unnamed sources discussing the aircraft&#8217;s security protocols.
The Justice Department later issued grand jury subpoenas to four New York Times reporters connected to the story. A DOJ spokesman told The Daily Wire, &#8220;Reporters are not the targets, those leaking classified information are.&#8221;

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Second Lady Usha Vance delivered a rare rebuke to The New York Times over an article essentially claiming that women within President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration were using maternity fashion to weaponize pregnancy.
Vance, who is pregnant with her fourth child with husband and Vice President JD Vance, mocked the outlet&#8217;s attempt to make her wardrobe political and made it clear that her maternity fashion choices were typically born of just three things: necessity, comfort, and economy.
&#8220;Now that we know the political significance of my $8.75 coral maternity dress from Old Navy, can’t wait to hear what the New York Times has to say about my elastic-waistband pants and compression socks!&#8221; Vance posted via X. &#8220;In the meantime, enjoy my pregnancy fashion (or lack thereof) and a good story with your kids on &#8216;Storytime with the Second Lady.'&#8221;
Along with her caption, Vance shared a video — also featuring the vice president — of herself wearing the dress in question as he read aloud from A. A. Milne&#8217;s classic, &#8220;Winnie the Pooh.&#8221;
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For good measure, Vance followed up with a screenshot of her receipt showing that she had, in fact, purchased the dress from Old Navy. It also showed that the coral-colored &#8220;Asymmetrical Shoulder Maxi Dress,&#8221; originally $49.99, had been marked down to $12.99 and she had saved an additional $3.74— making her final total $8.75.
And while that choice may have been one of convenience and economy, Vance said in March that being pregnant as the Second Lady of the United States meant that she necessarily had to change her style, mainly because her position dictated a number of events that she would have to attend — and many of those would not be held in places where leggings and sweatpants were considered appropriate.
&#8220;I have to dress up a lot more. I enjoyed my last pregnancy — there were a lot of sweatpants. I was working from home and sometimes put a blazer on over what was under,&#8221; she told NBC at the time.
The article to which Vance was responding was published on Wednesday and was titled, &#8220;The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image.&#8221; If that did not paint a clear enough picture of the tone, the sub-headline removed all doubt: &#8220;Usha Vance, along with Katie Miller and Karoline Leavitt, shows how much is said by an expectant silhouette, without anyone saying a word.&#8221;
The article proceeded to accuse women within the Trump administration of flaunting their pregnancies to make a political point: this is what women are supposed to do — and how they are supposed to look.
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Together, the women have created a notably consistent, and somewhat paradigm-shifting, picture of the White House’s family and fertility platform.
If the bare-chested, muscled mixed martial arts fighters of the U.F.C. match that President Trump hosted on Flag Day were the poster guys for MAGA’s image of masculinity, then the pregnant women of Trump world are one half of their feminine counterparts. Along with the sheath-clad, lip-filled, pageant-haired Mar-a-Lago set, they offer an image of idealized womanhood that gives literal shape to the pronatalist movement.
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Jill Filipovic, the host of the “<a class="css-yywogo" title="" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-week-in-women/id1632915204" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week in Women</a>” podcast, suggested that even though it&#8217;s highly unlikely that the pregnancies were coordinated, the presentation appeared to be: &#8220;It almost feels like a memo went out. They have quite intentionally opted to present themselves as, ‘I am really pregnant, and this is what women were chosen to do,’ and they are happy to say that both with their looks and their mouths.”
Vance, quite clearly, said otherwise.
Miller, whose fourth child with longtime Trump adviser Stephen Miller was born just days before Father&#8217;s Day, <a href="https://x.com/KatieMiller/status/2069874153717395901">weighed in</a> as well — and said that maternity fashion had been made more difficult as American birth rates had fallen.
&#8220;Over the last few years, many clothing brands have largely stopped producing maternity clothes that most women actually want to wear. @SLOTUS has done a phenomenal job curating affordable, fashionable options that make pregnancy fashion accessible. The root cause is sadly straightforward: with fewer women having babies, it’s likely become unprofitable for brands to invest in dedicated maternity lines,&#8221; she said.

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According to the New York Times, the apotheosis of fatherhood is getting your tits chopped off.
On Sunday, while the majority of the Western world paused to honor the men who provide, protect, and show up, the Times was busy lionizing women who underwent double mastectomies, injected themselves with testosterone, and are now passing themselves off as dads to impressionable young children.
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/opinion/trans-dad-parenting-fathers-day.html">piece</a>, titled &#8220;To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated,&#8221; was written by Zach Ellams — born Clair Ellams — a London-based editor and motion designer, and a biological woman performing the role of father for an audience that eats it up.
The whole thing was a three-pronged disaster: a belittlement of actual fathers, a disturbing window into child confusion manufactured by adults, and a stark exposé of the New York Times&#8217; true priorities.
The essay&#8217;s illustrations were unintentionally the most honest part of the piece. The <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/21/opinion/21jacobs-1/21jacobs-1-superJumbo-v4.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp">first</a>, captioned &#8220;you need a thick skin to be a parent,&#8221; showed Ellams&#8217; daughter, Elliot, shouting back: &#8220;You&#8217;re slow because you&#8217;re old.&#8221; A thick-skin moment, apparently.
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Bless her. It only gets harder from here. Real thick skin between mothers and daughters is earned through war; fights over boys, curfew violations, outfit standoffs at the front door. That&#8217;s tough love, and it’s coming. Getting teased about your pace on a jog is just another Tuesday.
The illustrations also fixated, obsessively, on body hair. Ellams’ beard appeared in every frame: spotty, coarse, and uneven, with the leg hair cutting off at the knees in some panels and disappearing entirely in others. It reads less like confident self-expression and more like a woman overcompensating in ink what biology refused to provide.
As a female, I can confirm: when I don&#8217;t shave, I look like <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/21/opinion/21jacobs-12b/21jacobs-12b-superJumbo-v3.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp">Figure A</a>. When I do, <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/21/opinion/21jacobs-13/21jacobs-13-superJumbo-v3.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp">Figure B</a>.
You can change the body of a woman, but you can’t take the woman out of the body.
Novelist Lionel Shriver once <a href="https://x.com/bdomenech/status/2068760284857036874">remarked</a> that &#8220;masculinity as an ideal is pretty ridiculous&#8221; — a sentiment the Times appears to have taken as editorial policy. They didn&#8217;t just celebrate a woman pretending to be a father; they did it on Father&#8217;s Day, with full illustrations, treating the demolition of fatherhood as a gift to their readership.
The Gray Lady’s Weapon of Mass Emasculation, engaged.
The hair became a problem beyond the page. On the playground, little Elliot told her friends she wanted a beard when she grew up. Her classmate, in the blunt, unimpeachable logic of childhood, replied: &#8220;You can&#8217;t grow a beard, you&#8217;re a girl.&#8221; Elliot&#8217;s answer: &#8220;My dad did, and he was a girl.&#8221; The illustration showed surrounding parents shooting glares at ‘Zach’. Not at the child — at the adult who manufactured that confusion and sent it to school with her.
Earlier in the piece, Elliot asked her biological mother, “How did you grow a mustache if you were a lady?&#8221; Good question, sweetheart.
Children are not confused about biology. They are made confused by adults projecting their confusion or mental illness. Even in their earliest years, kids understand what their eyes tell them. The rewiring requires repetition; tell them again and again that what they see isn&#8217;t what&#8217;s real, that the rules of nature are negotiable, that it&#8217;s not only okay to defy common sense but courageous.
As Mr. Rogers famously and plainly sang, “Boys are boys from the beginning. Girls are girls right from the start.” Children know this. The project of confusing them is deliberate.
And this carries <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK610258/">documented</a> costs. Trans-identifying adults carry psychiatric burdens at rates that dwarf the general population: depression in up to 76% versus 29%, anxiety disorders in 62% versus 20%, autism spectrum traits around 11% versus 1%, and suicidality four to 13 times higher. These burdens are transmitted through genetics, through modeling, through the daily ambient chaos of a household built on an identity crisis to the children within them.
When Elliot tells her classmates her dad &#8220;was a girl,&#8221; she isn&#8217;t just confused about biology. She&#8217;s absorbing the full emotional weight of her parent&#8217;s pathology and carrying it onto the playground.
The New York Times didn’t run this piece just to mock the 74 million fathers in this country. They ran it because they hardly think about those fathers at all. What they do think about, deeply and devotedly, is the extreme minority of some 130,000 biological females cosplaying as dads.
And they think those women deserve a Sunday spread. Because to them, fatherhood isn&#8217;t sacred. It&#8217;s a problem to be solved.
They have genuine contempt for fathers and want the institution dismantled. When the father is minimized or replaced by a simulacrum, it&#8217;s easier to usher in perverse ideology and capture young minds. Children without anchors are easier to redirect, and for the progressive Left, the grooming and sexual mutilation of your children is the end that justifies every means. That same calculus allowed more than a quarter-million British girls to be raped, groomed, tortured, and abused in the Rotherham and Rochdale scandals, while progressive leaders looked away for years and let the rot spread.
This is the ideology being taught in schools today: children can explain stolen land theory but can&#8217;t pass algebra, why birth rates are collapsing, marriages are cratering, pornography is mainstreamed, and the family is quietly dismantled.
And it&#8217;s why the Times featured four Father&#8217;s Day <a href="https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/2068771487452897357">pieces</a> written by six people — three women, a trans &#8220;man,&#8221; and two childless men — with not a single fathering father among them. The themes were: &#8220;My father&#8217;s death was the start of my life.&#8221; &#8220;My father was an addict who failed me.&#8221; &#8220;The pain of caring for a parent who abused you.&#8221;
That&#8217;s what they think fatherhood is. A wound.
I feel sorry for the dads.
Because fatherhood is so much more than whatever grievance theater the Times is packaging for its perpetually aggrieved readers.
My father is everything to me. He is the reason my sisters and I are who we are. He is a sounding board, an equalizer, the calm in our chaotic female storm. He sends Bible verses and spontaneous motivational texts, always followed by &#8220;I love you.&#8221; When I come to him with a car question, a finance question, a &#8220;how do I do this&#8221; — he responds in seconds, putting down his own work without a second thought. In return for my thanks that can never adequately be expressed, he shoots back the simple thumbs-up emoji. Because his unending support isn’t a favor. It’s just part of the job.
He taught us patience. He taught us kindness. He once told me his whole philosophy was to just &#8220;smile at people — makes them feel good.&#8221; He is most content after a day tending to his chickens and his yard, gathered around the dinner table with all his girls.
He is our everything. He is needed and he is wanted. And I will never — not for one solitary minute — allow a loveless, liberal newspaper to belittle his glory.
Thank you, dads. We love you.

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