Pentagon can require reporters to be escorted during appeal process, judges rule

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge’s decision to block its enforcement of a press access policy challenged by The New York Times, an appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling by a divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit isn’t the final decision in the newspaper’s lawsuit over a new Pentagon press credential policy. But the panel’s majo