News in Brief Trump’s Lawyer Allegedly Paid Hush Money to Adult-Film Star The Wall Street Journal reports that President Donald Trump's lawyer arranged a payment of $130,000 in 2016 to former adult-film star Stephanie Clifford. Jack Denton
Economics That Time a Newspaper Stared Down the Country’s Largest Advertiser and Won A little-remembered incident helped establish the notion that news organizations could and should preserve their independence from advertisers. Richard Tofel