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Washington Post reporter, author Simon & Schuster's "The Rise of Marco Rubio"
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Andrew Baggarly
7 months ago
Duane Kuiper always sent postcards from every road city to his wife and two kids. He’s still doing it for his granddaughters, Andy and Kit. (Pic courtesy of his daughter, Dannon.)
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Newhouse School of Public Communications
7 months ago
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025
#MirrorsAwards
, who were announced at a ceremony tonight in New York City. The awards honor the best in media industry reporting.
#newhousenetwork
#journalism
Read more:
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Newhouse School Announces Winners of 2025 Mirror Awards
The awards recognize the best in media industry reporting in 2025.
https://newhouse.syracuse.edu/news/newhouse-school-announces-winners-of-2025-mirror-awards/
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Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey
7 months ago
Particular congratulations from the Higgins family to the team of Manuel Roig-Franzia & Hope Hodge Seck, whose work in the WASHINGTON POST (
@washingtonpost.com
) won them the John M Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting. The
#HigginsAward
is named for my late brother.
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Trump says he’s fired the head of the National Portrait Gallery - she’s defying him.
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Defying Trump, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet is still at work
The president said he had fired the museum leader — setting up a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/06/04/national-portrait-gallery-kim-sajet-trump/
8 months ago
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Happy Opening Day to those who observe
www.washingtonpost.com/news/voracio...
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Baseball season always means my mom’s chicken. Without the games, it’s filling a void.
I jostled the pieces in a paper bag with flour and spices, baked — and the result took me back to my childhood and the sights and sounds of the game.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/05/01/baseball-season-always-means-my-moms-chicken-without-the-games-its-filling-a-void/
10 months ago
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Trump’s dramatic re-make of the Kennedy Center enters a new phase - and more staffers are getting axed. Via
@travismandrews.bsky.social
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Kennedy Center guts social impact team; more layoffs expected
It marks the first major reduction in workforce since President Donald Trump’s takeover of the center.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/03/26/kennedy-center-social-impact-team-trump/
10 months ago
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An absolute delight from
@timcarman.bsky.social
who went to see Jacques Pepin for an omelet lesson and also got a lesson in how to live a good life.
www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/03...
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Column | What Jacques Pépin taught me about omelets and life
Beloved chef Jacques Pépin, 89, is the master of the classic French omelet and more. “There’s no failure,” he said. You eat your mistakes and move on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/03/25/jacques-pepin-french-omelet-lessons/
10 months ago
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“Elvis sells better as a dead man.”
@travismandrews.bsky.social
got audio of Donald Trump laying out his plans for the Kennedy Center. And, believe me, there’s lots of wow
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At Kennedy Center, Trump envisions remaking Honors, suggests he could host
Trump and his board suggested several artists for Kennedy Center Honors including Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Bocelli, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2025/03/17/trump-kennedy-center-honors-board-meeting/
10 months ago
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“You feel like you’re closer to the moon.” You won’t want to miss this great
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meander along the Gulf of America or is it still the Gulf of Mexico?
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Trump wants it known as the Gulf of America. How American is the gulf?
Oil! Rockets! Migrants! Margaritavilles! Meet us at the edge of a nation on the brink.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/03/12/gulf-of-america/
10 months ago
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Welp you can take Sean Spicer off the Naval Academy board but it seems you can’t keep him off…
11 months ago
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Several top career officials ousted at Justice Department, via @PerryStein @shaynajacobs @CarolLeonnig & @amarimow
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Several top career officials ousted at Justice Department
The terminations are the latest upheavals at an agency where the administration has removed several high-ranking officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/07/justice-department-trump-firings/
11 months ago
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10 Democrats take the unusual step of censuring one of their own after a protest during Trump's speech to Congress, via
@mariana-alfaro.bsky.social
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Unusually, 10 Democrats join in censuring their own after Trump protest
Most of the Democrats who voted with House Republicans to rebuke Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s address to Congress won reelection by slim margins last year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/06/al-green-censure-democrats/
11 months ago
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White House mum on price-relief measures as inflation stings Trump’s ratings, via @iarnsdorf
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White House mum on price-relief measures as inflation stings Trump’s ratings
“The president knows his plans,” a White House official said, while Donald Trump presses ahead with tariffs that economists warn will push prices higher.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/06/white-house-inflation-trump-approval/
11 months ago
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Reading
@travismandrews.bsky.social
on “Simpsons” legend Hank Azaria is exactly what I needed today - and, I promise, you will, too.
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Who is the real Hank Azaria? For a while, even he didn’t know.
Hank Azaria has made a career twisting his vocal cords into the voices of various “Simpsons” characters. Now he’s twisting them in the shape of the Boss as the frontman of a Springsteen cover band.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/03/04/hank-azaria-simpsons-voices-bruce-springsteen/
11 months ago
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BREAKING: Trump officials are reopening a sprawling detention center in Texas to hold migrant children and their parents, @mariasacchetti @arelisrhdz @dmac1 report.
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Trump officials to reopen Texas detention center for migrant families
Four years after the Biden administration stopped detaining migrant children, a private prison contractor says it has reached an agreement with ICE to reopen the South Texas Family Residential Center ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/05/dilley-texas-family-detention-center-ice/
11 months ago
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Love this annual tradition -
@mrdanzak.bsky.social
&
@amyargetsinger.bsky.social
with the list of which films should have won the best picture Oscars over the years.
www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta...
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Perspective | The Oscars are usually wrong. Here are the real best pictures.
What are the real best pictures? Let’s look at a half century of Oscars, going from “Chinatown” to “The Brutalist.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/02/06/oscars-what-should-have-won-best-picture/
11 months ago
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Lawyers for Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer call Donald Trump’s lawsuit claims frivolous and liken it to suing a meteorologist for a wrong weather forecast, via @maeganvaz
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Trump’s lawsuit barred by the First Amendment, pollster’s team argues
Lawyers for Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, who was sued after the election, call Donald Trump’s claims frivolous and liken it to suing a meteorologist for a wrong weather forecast.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/22/ann-selzer-poll-trump/
11 months ago
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This is a wild, wild story about DC’s “graffiti beef” from
@anthonyjrivera.bsky.social
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Graffiti beefs are settled on walls. This one is in court.
A “Wizard of Oz” mural loomed over a D.C. park for 23 years. When other artists painted over it, one of the creators — a prominent street art curator — did something surprising: He sued.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/02/06/humanity-mural-gastman-stowers-lawsuit/
11 months ago
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Fact Checker on Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine: In remarks and social media posts, the president echoed Russian talking points, by @GlennKesslerWP
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine
In remarks and social media posts, the president echoed Russian talking points.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-ukraine-fact-checker/
11 months ago
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Many of Trump's early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds, by @danbalz @sfcpoll @EmGusk
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Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds
Reviews from Americans on President Donald Trump’s second term are mixed to negative, and 57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-poll-unpopular-post-ipsos/
11 months ago
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In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency. In the initial stretch of his second term, Trump has pursued a different vision than virtually any of his 44 predecessors, by @NaftaliBendavid
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency
In the initial stretch of his second term, Trump has pursued a different vision than virtually any of his 44 predecessors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-executive-power-expand/
11 months ago
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How Joe Biden opened the gates for Trump to remove board/commission members at the Kennedy Center and elsewhere
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How did Trump so easily take over the Kennedy Center? Ask Sean Spicer.
An obscure court decision involving former President Joe Biden’s presidential board appointments was the key to seizing control of the Kennedy Center.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/02/14/trump-kennedy-center-sean-spicer-lawsuit/
11 months ago
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The administration asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for Trump to fire the leader of an independent agency -- seeking backing for efforts to expand the power of the presidency, via @amarimow
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire independent agency leader
President Donald Trump wants the justices to allow him to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower reports.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/16/trump-supreme-court-executive-power/
11 months ago
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The inspector general and acting archivist at the National Archives are out. The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts to recover documents from Mar-a-Lago, via @maeganvaz
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out
The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts recover documents from Mar-a-Lago.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/16/trump-national-archives/
11 months ago
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Michael A. Shea
11 months ago
Great reporting by
@roigfranzia.bsky.social
@travismandrews.bsky.social
in WaPo on how Biden firing Sean Spicer - pointless and petty move - led to the Kennedy Center leadership having zero legal options to push back against the Trump takedown of the Kennedy Center.
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How did Trump so easily take over the Kennedy Center? Ask Sean Spicer.
An obscure court decision involving former President Joe Biden’s presidential board appointments was the key to seizing control of the Kennedy Center.
https://wapo.st/41eDCZG
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The mass resignation of prosecutors marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era. The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further confrontation, by @NaftaliBendavid
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Mass resignation marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era
The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further defiance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/15/mass-resignation-marks-new-kind-defiance-second-trump-era/
11 months ago
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An oh-so Washington-y of Washington stories: How Joe Biden helped make it easier for Donald Trump to take over the White House.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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How did Trump so easily take over the Kennedy Center? Ask Sean Spicer.
An obscure court decision involving former President Joe Biden’s presidential board appointments was the key to seizing control of the Kennedy Center.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/02/14/trump-kennedy-center-sean-spicer-lawsuit/
11 months ago
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Rubio nomination complicated by attack on Musk’s Tesla and China’s ban, via @PostKranish
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Rubio nomination complicated by attack on Musk’s Tesla and China’s ban
The Florida senator’s criticism of Chinese “genocide” led country to forbid his entry, and his attack on Elon Musk’s company could rile Trump’s key adviser.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/11/marco-rubio-china-tesla-trump/
about 1 year ago
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Interviewing Jimmy Carter at his home in Plains in 2010. Photo by my friend, @washingtonpost legend @olearypix
about 1 year ago
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Sergio Gor is an amateur DJ, a book publisher and Matt Gaetz’s wedding officiant. And now he might be the most powerful man in Trump’s transition .By @bterris and @marianne_levine:
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Is this publisher/DJ the most powerful man in Trump’s transition?
As incoming director of the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, Sergio Gor is managing the appointment of some 4,000 Trump loyalists into the federal government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/12/12/sergio-gor-trump-transition-personnel-office-hiring-white-house/
about 1 year ago
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Joby Warrick
about 1 year ago
Two Marines forged a friendship on the battlefields of World War I. One died in combat. A century later, the survivor’s recorded memories bring a long-delayed closure. A personal story for me and my family, new today.
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A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death
I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I. Now we know about the man who was with him when he died.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/11/18/foster-stevens-wwi-armistice-belleau-wood-meuse-argonne-offensive/
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He said he is “Boris F---ing Epshteyn,” the internal report says. More from Josh Dawsey and
@iarnsdorf.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
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Trump aide sought payments from job seekers, internal legal review found
Boris Epshteyn used his proximity to the president-elect to benefit himself, a Trump legal review found. He denies the allegation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/11/25/trump-epshteyn-legal-review-conflicts/
about 1 year ago
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The Washington Post
about 1 year ago
Sebastian Gorka, the pugilistic commentator who leveraged fears about Islam as a threat to Western civilization into a short-lived role in the first Trump administration, is poised for a second run inside the White House.
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Gorka and his hard-right views on Islam head back to the White House
Sebastian Gorka ruffled feathers among even reverent Trump loyalists and other Republicans, who have described him as fringe and underqualified.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/23/sebastian-gorka-trump-islam/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Washington Post
about 1 year ago
When the next pandemic strikes, Americans will again depend on a cadre of senior health officials to steer the nation’s response and reassure the public. But the team rapidly assembled by President-elect Donald Trump is largely untested.
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Trump health picks largely untested in fighting disease outbreaks
They have questioned vaccines and other interventions overseen by the health agencies they have been tapped to lead.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/24/trump-cdc-fda-surgeon-general/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Washington Post
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Frank Rubio’s experience – leave Earth in one vehicle, return much later in another – gives him an intimate understanding of the ordeal of two other NASA astronauts.
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Two astronauts are stuck in space. This NASA veteran knows their pain.
Frank Rubio’s experience – leave Earth in one vehicle, return much later in another – gives him an intimate understanding of the ordeal of two other NASA astronauts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/24/nasa-astronauts-stuck-space-starliner-boeing/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Washington Post
about 1 year ago
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are interviewing job candidates and seeking advice from experts in Washington and Silicon Valley — pushing a sweeping vision for the “DOGE” team past the realm of memes and viral posts into potential real-world disruption.
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Musk and Ramaswamy race to build a ‘DOGE’ team for war with Washington
The Tesla executive and the former presidential candidate are meeting with staff and interviewing experts as they plan for massive federal cuts.
https://wapo.st/3Or0pdw
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The Washington Post
about 1 year ago
Hundreds gathered in a D.C. park to observe and judge who looked most like Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy. For some in the deep-blue city, the contest was a balm in a dreadful climate.
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Washington’s fantasy look-alike contest finds its subject: A Kennedy
Hundreds gathered in a D.C. park to observe and judge who looked most like Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/24/jack-schlossberg-lookalike-contest-dc/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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An Edward R. Murrow Award had never been rescinded for journalism reasons before. But it has now happened to National Geographic's Matthew Heineman directed documentary "Retrograde" following a
@washingtonpost.com
investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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Murrow Award rescinded for acclaimed ‘Retrograde’ documentary
The Radio Television Digital News Association decision follows a Washington Post report on warnings “Retrograde’s” filmmakers received about endangering Afghans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/11/10/retrograde-documentary-murrow-award-rescinded/
about 1 year ago
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Mike Eckel
about 1 year ago
Inside an American reporter’s Russian prison ordeal
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Inside an American reporter’s Russian prison ordeal
Russian authorities put Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Alsu Kurmasheva behind bars, but they couldn’t outsmart her.
https://wapo.st/4i6GKxd
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Sharp elbows and raised voices: Inside Trump’s bumpy transition. His freewheeling team has returned to the patterns of his first term in office — with shouting matches, expulsions from meetings and name-calling, by @AshleyRParker @jdawsey1 @michaelscherer
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Sharp elbows and raised voices: Inside Trump’s bumpy transition
His freewheeling team has returned to the patterns of his first term in office — with shouting matches, expulsions from meetings and name-calling.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/23/trump-team-rivals-mar-a-lago/
about 1 year ago
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Russia imprisoned
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’s Alsu Kurmasheva but couldn’t break her. A story of courage and smarts in the imperiled world of international journalism
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Inside an American reporter’s Russian prison ordeal
Russian authorities put Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Alsu Kurmasheva behind bars, but they couldn’t outsmart her.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/11/22/alsu-kurmasheva-journalist-russian-prison-release/
about 1 year ago
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Following our reporting on the “Retrograde” documentary, the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award has been stripped from a winner for the 1st time.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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Murrow Award rescinded for acclaimed ‘Retrograde’ documentary
The Radio Television Digital News Association decision follows a Washington Post report on warnings “Retrograde’s” filmmakers received about endangering Afghans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/11/10/retrograde-documentary-murrow-award-rescinded/
about 1 year ago
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