Nearly every Pentagon reporter from almost every major media outlet in America turned in their press badges Thursday, after refusing to endorse the Defense Department's new rules that they say would make it impossible to do their jobs independently.
The Associated Press will provide its U.S. election results data to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News and CNN on election night, the not-for-profit news organization said Wednesday.
Why it matters: The 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election will be the first time since 2016 that all of the major broadcast networks, and most of the major cable networks, will use the same data vendor to inform their election coverage.
