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3:20 PM ET, November 18, 2025

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In a meeting with Mohammed bin Salman, Trump says “a lot of people didn't like” Jamal Khashoggi, adding, “things happen, but [MBS] knew nothing about it”  —  The de facto Saudi ruler was branded an outcast after the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
During an Air Force One gaggle, President Trump said “Quiet, quiet, piggy” to a female Bloomberg reporter when she asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein emails  —  That came on Friday, when one female reporter attempted to ask the president about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Trump calls for ABC to lose its broadcast license and says Brendan Carr “should look at that” after an ABC reporter asked questions about Khashoggi and Epstein  —  Donald Trump called for ABC to lose its broadcast license after he grew irate at correspondent Mary Bruce …
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Jem Bartholomew / Columbia Journalism Review:
How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC using a single incautious Panorama edit, after years of attacks by UK conservatives on the BBC  —  How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC.  —  On Friday, reporters aboard Air Force One asked President Donald Trump about his intention to sue the BBC.
Ryan Lizza / Telos News:
Ryan Lizza discusses his relationship with Olivia Nuzzi, reveals her affair with politician Mark Sanford, and details her earlier ties to Keith Olbermann  —  Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that's what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko steps down from the decentralized social network as part of its transition to a nonprofit structure governed by a board  —  Mastodon's creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X rival …
Martin Arnold / Financial Times:
The UK CMA opens probes into StubHub, Viagogo, and others over allegedly deceptive online pricing practices; the UK plans to ban above face value ticket resales  —  CMA opens investigations into eight companies including ticketing websites StubHub and Viagogo
David Folkenflik / NPR:
CPB agrees to fulfill a $36M, multi-year contract with NPR, resolving litigation filed by NPR accusing CPB of illegally yielding to Trump's demands  —  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
Riddhi Setty / Columbia Journalism Review:
The three-year strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ends after a Third Circuit court panel ruled the paper had acted in bad faith; the paper plans to appeal  —  Journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are ready to return to work.  —  After three years on strike, twenty-six employees …
 
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Source: OANN fired Vish Burra, a producer of The Matt Gaetz Show, after he posted a cartoon that executives deemed “highly offensive” and “antisemitic”
 

 
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Will Knight / Wired:
Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation

Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever

Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite Trump allowing their export to China, as it pushes to achieve chip self-sufficiency
 
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