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Full transcript of “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 13, 2026

On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Weijia Jiang:  Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat  Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican  CBS News executive director of news and surveys Anthony Salvanto  CBS News executive director of news and surveys Anthony Salvanto, CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed…

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Judge lets Pentagon move forward with firing Stars and Stripes journalists

A federal judge on Friday allowed the Pentagon to move forward with terminating three employees of the Stars and Stripes military newspaper.  In a 24-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden turned down a request by the newspaper’s publisher, editor-in-chief and Middle East reporter to halt their firings while a lawsuit challenging the terminations works…

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Fired Stars and Stripes journalists sue Hegseth and Pentagon spokesperson

Washington — Three fired Stars and Stripes journalists sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell in federal court Thursday, claiming the Trump administration is attempting to fire them illegally as part of its “extraordinary censorship efforts” against the military news outlet. The plaintiffs — publisher Max Lederer, editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and reporter…

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Former Stars and Stripes editor says firing was “real shock,” hopes paper “can remain independent”

Days after his sudden firing by the Pentagon, the former editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes told CBS News that “time will tell” whether the military newspaper will remain editorially independent from the government agency it covers.   The Defense Department delivered termination notices last week to Stars and Stripes Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer…

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Fired Stars and Stripes reporter says paper’s editorial independence “has to be instituted in practice”

Washington — Lara Korte, one of three editorial employees of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes who were dismissed last week after speaking to CBS News, said Monday that the paper’s editorial independence remains paramount.  “I’ve certainly been bolstered to see comments from the Stripes’ leadership and from the Pentagon that the Stripes is editorially…

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Update: The battle over Stars and Stripes

This past July, “Sunday Morning” reported on concerns voiced by staff members at Stars and Stripes (a publication partly funded by the Department of Defense) regarding its editorial independence. On Friday, the Pentagon fired the paper’s editor-in-chief, publisher, and a reporter. [The separation notices are subject to appeal.] Steve Hartman has the details. Source link

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AI companies accused of hoarding and destroying millions of books

More than a dozen public interest and consumer advocacy groups are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate leading artificial intelligence developers for allegedly buying, scanning and destroying books used to train their large language models, a practice the organizations described as “destructive” and anticompetitive. In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner…

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