WASHINGTON — FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter's home on Wednesday as part of an investigation ​into sharing secret government information, officials said, in a move that advocates said threatened press freedom. Attorney General Pam Bondi said federal agents had executed the search at the request of the Defense Department. ‌Trump's Justice Department last year reversed a policy that had barred prosecutors from seizing records from reporters in ⁠most circumstances. The Washington Post said on X that ⁠investigators told Natanson she was not a focus of the probe. Under owner Jeff Bezos, the world's fourth-richest person, the Washington Post has shifted its formerly left-leaning opinion section to the right, but its news coverage remains nonpartisan.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2026 18:24 UTC