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I went on @nprfreshair.bsky.social with Terry Gross to lay out what we know and don’t know about the administration’s second deadly strike on Sept 2, which killed two survivors in the Caribbean www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

Lead Post reporter on that story Alex Horton served in the infantry in Iraq.

new from @alexhorton.bsky.social and @ellenwapo.bsky.social

The CIA concluded MBS ordered the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Biden began his rehabilitation. Now he's getting a White House meeting with Trump @sgreports.bsky.social and @mbirnbaum.bsky.social report www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Peter Hujar’s day is a very good film about attention span

Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes" wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Internal docs obtained by WaPo detail how Indian officials drafted and pushed through a proposal to steer abt $3.9 billion in investments to Adani’s businesses from a state-owned entity primarily responsible for providing life insurance to poor and rural families. by @pranshuverma.bsky.social

NEW: News organizations including the @washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, @theatlantic.com, and @cnn.com said their reporters will NOT sign the Pentagon's restrictive press policy. Outlets said that the policy infringes on their First Amendment rights. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users. Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social wapo.st/4obueib

Satellite imagery indicates Iran is continuing construction of a deeply buried military site at “Pickaxe Mountain,” just south of the Natanz nuclear facility hit by Israeli and U.S. strikes in June. New from Warren Strobel and me, read our full story in @washingtonpost.com

It's bittersweet to see beloved colleague Hajar Harb's byline on this harrowing piece — the kind of work at which she excelled with Ruby Mellen @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @arturgalocha.bsky.social @davidovalle.bsky.social and @joshuaqyang.bsky.social wapo.st/3H3GBNc

Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise

"The Trump administration and its allies have launched a multipronged effort to gather data on voters and inspect voting equipment, sparking concern among local and state election officials about federal interference ahead of the 2026 midterms." Scoop by Patrick Marley + @yvonnewingett.bsky.social

235 people were killed in April when the roof of the Jet Set nightclub came crashing down during a packed concert. We found that for years before the collapse, structural issues and warning signs went unaddressed. w/ @stepozzebon.bsky.social and @averyschmitz.bsky.social for CNN youtu.be/H5UpgvxSc1A

on the dozen+ agencies operating at the Los Angeles anti-immigration raids protests www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How yesterday’s L.A. protests of ICE and law enforcement response unfolded, a visual timeline www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Here is what the visual evidence reveals abt Pakistan’s strikes on Indian aircraft, from @imogenpiper.bsky.social, me, @evanhill.bsky.social, and Maham Javaid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

WaPo's Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News coverage of the Trump shooting merged traditional + forensic reporting from @samueloakford.bsky.social Aaron, Shawn, Jabin, @jonathanbaran.bsky.social @evanhill.bsky.social @iarnsdorf.bsky.social @carolleonnig.bsky.social @jonswaine.bsky.social, me, + more

scoop from wsj

#ViktoriiaRoshchyna was reporting on Russian prisons when she disappeared into one herself. When her body was returned, her eyeballs and brain had been removed. We picked up where she left off and reconstructed the last place she was seen alive: Taganrog SIZO-2 prison🧵 wapo.st/3YNw5PF

Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna died investigating thousands of Ukrainian civilian prisoners illegally held by Russia. 🚨 Revelations tomorrow. @spiegel.de @derstandard.at @zeit.de @france24.com IStories @lemonde.fr @papertrailmedia.de @theguardian.com @washingtonpost.com @pravda.ua@zdfde.bsky.social

These are tense times. Want to reach out encrypted? I'm on Signal. danlamothe.30

New from WashPost Visual Forensics: 3D investigation of the DCA crash @imogenpiper.bsky.social @evanhill.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social @megkelly.bsky.social Frank Hulley-Jones, Irfan Uraizee, @abtran.bsky.social @samueloakford.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, removing the “T” in references to LGBTQ+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

the majority of the 98 migrants sent to GITMO are being held at the Camp 6 prison under U.S. military guard from @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

“Camp 6 is inextricably intertwined with military detention,” Dixon said. “I don’t think you can unwrap Camp 6 from military detention.”
Dixon said the prison was made for suspected terrorists: “It was designed to break detainees psychologically.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story. wapo.st/3EF3aWN

Come sit behind me (also cover the State Department at the Washington Post) washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/washin...

NEW: 90 new structures visible at GITMO as Trump admin moves forward with deportation operations

Very emotional and excited to share a little preview of FOR THE SUN AFTER LONG NIGHTS -- A book I've been cowriting for the past year. It's a look at the 2022 #WomenLifeFreedom movement in #Iran 🧿💛 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741909...

Footage of the incident that just occurred at Washington’s DCA airport. This was taken by the Kennedy Center webcam.

Trump fired Inspectors General for: Defense State Transportation HHS VA HUD Interior Energy Commerce EPA Social Security SBA Agriculture Treasury in apparent violation of federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed IG wapo.st/4azdaNb

huge scoop by @danlamothe.bsky.social

COLLATERAL DAMAGE The Trump administration is moving to defund and possibly close a Pentagon office tasked with reducing unintended civilian deaths in U.S. military operations, five people familiar tell @megkelly.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social and Missy Ryan (Gift link) wapo.st/4h7AtQH

"President Donald Trump’s plan to grant temporary security clearances to anyone he chooses opens the door to breaches and even espionage, experts and former officials say." from @mbirnbaum.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The former staffer... told The Post: “Looking back, I will go to the grave believing that she lied to us. Her claim is that it just sort of happened. How did you just happen to meet with the leader of [a police state] not once, but twice?” from @jonswaine.bsky.social + @ellenwapo.bsky.social

Enrique Tarrio’s prison release:

NEW: major security lapses preceded the attack that left 14 dead on Bourbon St: +multiple times that night the police SUV left a gap over 14' wide. the truck was 7' wide +hydraulic metal barrier was intended to be raised but was left down +no anti-vehicle barriers beyond that point wapo.st/3C9HrWd

For nearly two years, a shadowy paramilitary group – the Rapid Support Forces – has been terrorising Sudan. We spent months collecting evidence that identified commanders and revealed potential war crimes happening under their watch. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

from @pranshuverma.bsky.social :

[National Security Council spokesman John Kirby ] said the evidence went beyond widely circulated images of the damaged aircraft but did not provide details. By Mary Ilyushina and Missy Ryan www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Mass graves shed a light on Assad’s ‘killing machine’ www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

The visual evidence shows almost half of Jabalya refugee camp was demolished or cleared between Oct. 14 and Dec. 15, connecting a preexisting road in the west to an expanded vehicle track in the east — carving out a military axis that stretches from the sea to the border fence with Israel.

reporting by Dana Hedgepeth, Sari Horwitz, @joyceshlee.bsky.social, @abtran.bsky.social, @ntabrizy.bsky.social, @jaheezy.bsky.social graphics by Natalie Vineberg

that number, visualized

More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures a massive investigation by @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

nice forensic deep dive on what has been flying in the New Jersey sky by @rileymellen.bsky.social and co

Our story draws on testimony and verifies videos to trace acts of violent retribution and extrajudicial killings across Syria post Rebel takeover. w/ @ntabrizy.bsky.social, @leloveluck.bsky.social, Loveday Morris, Susan Haidamous and Mustafa Salim wapo.st/49IXjeO