Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

Hollywood actors began their strike against movie, TV and streaming companies.

As impires Mandelita Barco reports, they joked striking screenwriters on picket lines.

There were chance picket signs and high spirits outside Netflix headquarters and other studios.

Hundreds of actors joined screenwriters who've been on strike since early May.

Among them was actor Christian McLaughlin, who says studio executives don't want to give them a fair contract.

The CEOs that are making millions and millions of dollars and they think that we're being ridiculous,

asking to have fair wages.

We're not asking for an obscene amount.

We're just asking to be able to survive.

This is the first double strike by Hollywood actors and writers since 1960.

Their work stoppage is already shut down productions in LA and elsewhere nationwide.

Mandelita Barco in P.R. News, Los Angeles.

Some employees of NPR are members of SAG After a but work under a different contract and are not part of the strike.

A federal judges order limiting the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies has been put on pause.

Impiracianan Bond reports an appeals court has granted a temporary stay while the government appeals the order.

The judges order came down last week in a case brought by Republican attorneys general.

The AGs accused the Biden administration of illegally pressuring companies like Facebook and Twitter

to take action on misleading claims about the COVID pandemic, vaccines and elections.

The judge, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, issued a sweeping injunction

barring federal agencies and officials from communicating with social media platforms about most posts.

The Justice Department appealed the ruling, saying it could hurt the government's ability to respond to online misinformation

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