Associated Press photojournalist Alex Brandon, second from right, is denied entrance by White House staff to an Oval Office meeting on April 14. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

By Frances Vinall

The Trump administration can bar the Associated Press from some official events for now, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.

The administration in February barred the news outlet’s staff from the press pool that covers the president after the AP said it would continue using the name “Gulf of Mexico” despite an executive order signed by President Donald Trump shortly after his inauguration that sought to rename the oceanic basin “Gulf of America.”

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