President Donald Trump is free to bar the Associated Press from some White House media events after a U.S. appeals court on Friday paused a lower court ruling mandating that AP journalists be given access.

The administration barred the AP from the White House press pool for refusing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” in its news coverage.

Separately, White House aides, after working to persuade the president to temper his public criticism of Musk to avoid escalation, scheduled a call Friday with the billionaire CEO of Tesla to broker a peace.

President Donald Trump’s feud with Elon Musk shows no sign of abating, and inside the MAGA machine the knives are out for one of the president’s closest aides. Axios reported that furious Trump advisers are pointing the finger at Sergio Gor,

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on Republicans’ criticism of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the president’s tax and immigration bill, claiming that the independent agency — which warned that millions could lose health-care access if the measure is signed into law — has been “historically wrong.”