Disgraced ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather condemned the $16 million settlement between his former outlet’s parent company and President Donald Trump on Wednesday. In an interview with Variety, the former anchor said that Paramount paying Trump $16 million was the media company groveling to the president.

Within CBS news, anger over a $16 million settlement widely seen as a capitulation to Trump was tempered by a sobering reality: the outcome could have been worse.

Dan Rather, who worked at CBS News for 44 years before his 2006 departure, is speaking out against the settlement his former network's parent company reached with President Donald Trump. Trump had sued Paramount over the way CBS News edited a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the administration of President Donald Trump to stop implementing a proclamation to expel asylum seekers at the border that he had signed shortly after beginning his second term.

A federal judge blocked a Trump administration policy barring migrants who cross the US-Mexico border from seeking asylum, issuing a major blow to President Donald Trump, who has sought to seal off access to protections on the border.