Biden hands Howard Stern live interview as NY Times melts down over apparent brush-off

President Joe Biden gave a nearly-unannounced, last-minute, live exclusive interview Friday morning to Howard Stern, the SiriusXM radio host who for decades, from the mid-1990s to about 2015, was a top Trump friend, fan and aficionado.

But the impetus behind the president's move appears to be a rare and unsigned statement from The New York Times Company, defending the "paper of record" after months of anger from the public over what some say is biased negative coverage of the Biden presidency and...