Annah Aschbrenner
@AnnahBackstrom
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Deputy White House editor for @washingtonpost. Previously: @USATodayDC @DMRegister. Always: Michigander. Spartan. Pressure is a privilege.
Joined March 2012
My beautiful sister Kate left this world this week. She was my North star, the origin of everything good about me. If you didn’t know her, you surely would have loved her. Those who did know her are forever changed.
obits.mlive.com
View Katherine M. Smart's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
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RT @okayhenderson: If @joniernst doesn’t run in 2026, it would be first open US Senate seat in Iowa since 2014 (Tom Harkin D-IA did not see….
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RT @MattPaulIA: 2026 going to be something in ole Iowa. We are in uncharted modern political territory with an open race for the US Senate….
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RT @zackstanton: Absentee votes are not unverified. And anonymous ballots are. also what are cast in person.
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RT @SpiegelPeter: Two @washingtonpost teams named finalists for the big 2025 @LoebAwards: in International category, "Money War" series on….
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RT @bylenasun: NEW: Interviews w CDC leaders who resigned said RFK Jr. undermined vaccine science, risking lives. Me @LaurenWeberHP @Dav….
washingtonpost.com
As the CDC reels from departures, the White House appoints Jim O’Neill as acting director.
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RT @ddiamond: Scoop - the White House is tapping JIM O'NEILL to serve as acting head of CDC. O'Neill has been serving as RFK Jr's deputy se….
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The decision comes a day after Trump fired Susan Monarez, the Senate-confirmed CDC director, prompting a series of resignations of other top officials at the agency.
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RT @JosephSzymanski: If Mark Teixeira wins, Republicans are winning every congressional baseball game for the next decade.
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RT @JasonMurray117: An investigation by @PostSports into Jim Irsay's relapses that he and team executives hid from the public and the docto….
washingtonpost.com
As a recovery doctor provided ketamine and opioids, Colts owner Jim Irsay spent his final years suffering through a relapse that he and executives hid from the public.
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Really incredible reporting here from the @PostSports team.
washingtonpost.com
As a recovery doctor provided ketamine and opioids, Colts owner Jim Irsay spent his final years suffering through a relapse that he and executives hid from the public.
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RT @benpauker: NEW: Trump, Gabbard purged top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit. The CIA officer was due to take a plum assignm….
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Days after the Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump ordered the security clearance revocation of a top CIA official and Russia expert.
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RT @MichaelRWear: For anyone who prays, or is even vaguely familiar with prayer as understood by people who are not terminally online, this….
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RT @ddiamond: Scoop - SUSAN MONAREZ, nation’s newly installed CDC director, is being ousted, people familiar tell @lenasun @LaurenWeberHP +….
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Susan Monarez was confirmed as the CDC’s director in July. Three top agency officials announced resignations as the Trump administration moved to oust her.
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RT @patrickdmarley: An 8-year-old and a 10-year-old were killed, police said. Fourteen children and three adults were injured; two are in c….
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The shooting occurred at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Gov. Tim Walz said.
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“Just know that somebody’s baby was in there, somebody’s mother, father, sister, brother.”.
startribune.com
Two children were killed in a shooting Wednesday at Annunciation Church in south Minneapolis, a source confirmed to the Minnesota Star Tribune. The shooter is also dead, the law enforcement source...
Every single update from the Star Tribune is an absolute gut punch. How we've managed to come to live this way.
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RT @NickBaumann: "A federal magistrate judge said an arrest in Northeast Washington was preceded by the 'most illegal search I’ve seen in m….
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RT @IsaacDovere: as detailed on the Amtrak website, the improvements that Secretary Duffy says are all part of Trump's "vision to Make Trav….
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RT @sgrubermiller: Democrat Catelin Drey has won a special election in Iowa Senate District 1, flipping a Republican-held seat and breaking….
desmoinesregister.com
National and state support from Republicans and Democrats poured into the race for Iowa Senate District 1 with the GOP supermajority in the balance.
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RT @John_Hudson: Top Dem on the Armed Services Committee: “I believe it is time for the United States government to stop the sale of some o….
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