Erika D Smith

California Governor Gavin Newsom has said he’ll drop his lawsuit if Fox News issues a retraction and Watters apologises. That’s a sign the governor is trying to make a broader point about misinformation – not just to collect millions of dollars in damages.

Expect more US politicians to sue the news media

This is a troubling era in which politicians of both parties use lawsuits as weapons against media outlets in the war to...

Wildfire burns in Willamette National Forest, in Oregon, US. Many federal employees do the grunt work of preventing, mitigating and fighting wildfires.
LIFE & CULTURE

Cuts to national parks couldn’t have come at a more dangerous time

In 2018, Trump said US forests needed more ‘raking and cleaning’ to prevent wildfires. He just laid off a lot of those...

The split screen told the story. On one side was Trump, squinting, glowering and snarling through his sentences. On the other side was Harris, alternately smiling and incredulous over whatever falsehood Trump happened to be delivering at the moment. 

Harris knew exactly how to rattle Trump at the debate

She needled the former president about the size of the crowds at his rallies and insisted that global leaders have told her that...