The wire service sued three of them for denying its reporters access to press events. The White House has objected to The A.P.’s references to the Gulf of Mexico in articles.

Amid the Trump administration's flurry of executive orders in the first month of U.S. President Donald Trump's second term came a rumor of the existence of a memo ordering that the word "felon" no longer be used on the White House grounds.

The AP sued Trump officials over the White House ban on the news org because of its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."