“You cannot have a free society, a free government, a democracy without a free press.” From war zones to political cover-ups, journalists exposing truths have become targets. The role of the free press has never been more critical – yet never more under threat. Watch the film, Silenced: The War on Journalism: https://aje.me/silenced | Al Jazeera English

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House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered the oath of office to U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva on Nov. 12, winding down a nearly seven-week-long standoff that became a flashpoint for Democratic complaints and teeing up a politically sensitive vote on the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. At the ceremony, held on the floor of the U.S. House, Democrats tore into Johnson, R-Louisiana, for refusing to swear in the congresswoman-elect for more than a month. "This is an abuse of power," Grijalva, D-Arizona,