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US judge allows Trump’s AP Oval Office ban to stand over Gulf of Mexico name

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Donald Trump speaks next to poster with a map captioned ‘Gulf of America’ in the Oval Office in Washington DC, on Friday. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

A federal judge on Monday denied a request by the Associated Press to immediately restore full access to presidential events for the news agency’s journalists.

The US district judge Trevor McFadden declined to grant the AP’s request for a temporary injunction restoring its access to the Oval Office, Air Force One and events held at the White House. The Trump administration barred the outlet earlier this month for continuing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage after the president renamed it the “Gulf of America”.

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