Stars and Stripes first covered the U.S. military during the Civil War, and has been published continuously since World War II.

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Stars and Stripes first covered the U.S. military during the Civil War, and has been published continuously since World War II. It is owned by the Defense Department but is largely staffed by civilian reporters and editors. By Congressional mandate, it has operated independently since the 1990s.

But under the Trump administration, the Pentagon has appeared to try to end that Congressional mandate.

Pentagon tightens controls over Stars and Stripes after calling it "woke"

The new rules for the independent military newspaper are the Defense Department's latest effort to put extraordinary restrictions on journalists covering the agency.

NPR (www.npr.org)