Geoff Bennett
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@NewsHour Co-Anchor | @NBCNews Contributor | @colonialwmsburg Trustee | Forever @Morehouse
Washington, D.C.
Joined January 2009
Thank you @WABJDC for this incredible recognition and for celebrating our work!
We are proud to present the WABJ 2025 Journalist of the Year Award to Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett), Co-Anchor of PBS News Hour (@NewsHour)! 🏆 Click the link in the bio for the full announcement.
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AP: Head of workplace rights agency urges white men to report discrimination
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The head of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has urged white men to report workplace discrimination based on race or sex.
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Inflation is showing fresh signs of cooling, ticking up 2.7% year-over-year, lower than many economists had expected. The new data follows the release this week of a long-delayed jobs report that showed weak growth and the highest unemployment rate in four years. The numbers
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Are we trading in the 21st century or 19th? @IOHK_Charles argues global commerce is restricted by antiquated paper-based regulations. We can fly globally, but our money can't flow globally. It’s time to move past fragmented markets.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police are investigating connection between shooting at Brown University and killing of MIT professor, AP sources say.
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The Navy quietly disciplined 18 Navy SEALs after investigators found a private group chat in which they shared racist memes targeting a Black SEAL who was also in the chat
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Military investigators found more than a dozen Navy SEALs had been in a group chat containing racist memes targeting a Black SEAL.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump's hand-picked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says.
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JUST IN: The U.S. government now *admits failures* by Army helicopter pilots and a DCA air traffic controller in a court filing on the January 29 midair collision disaster.
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The US government now admits failures by the pilots of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a controller in Reagan National Airport tower during the January 29 midair collision over the Potomac River...
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Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy says he "clearly" disagrees with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on immunizations, as the Trump administration continues to change U.S. vaccine policy. "They're safe, they do not cause autism," he tells PBS News Hour's
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LATEST: Rebelling against their leaders, four House Republicans sign onto a “discharge petition,” giving Democrats the 218 signatures needed to force a vote on a three-year extension of the Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire for millions of Americans on Dec. 31.
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The Affordable Care Act subsidies are still expected to expire at the end of this year, however, raising insurance premiums for millions of Americans.
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🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS JEFFRIES OBAMACARE DISCHARGE PETITION HAS REACHED 218 PENNSYLVANIA REP. RYAN MACKENZIE has signed the discharge petition. THE HOUSE will now vote on a clean, three-year extension of the Obamacare premium subsidies.
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PBS News/NPR/Marist poll: Americans are more dissatisfied with Trump’s handling of the economy than ever
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Fifty-seven percent of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the economy, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.
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"The Obamacare exchanges have become unaffordable for too many," says Sen. Bill Cassidy. "If you give the money to the insurance companies, they take 20 percent for profit and overhead. They have to give you permission to get the care you know you need."
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Sen. Bill Cassidy is a key player in the Capitol Hill debate on health care subsidies, and he's also a physician. The Louisiana Republican joined Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest.
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WaPo: Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas and nooses ‘potentially divisive,’ not hate symbols
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The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
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Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy says he "clearly" disagrees with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on immunizations. "They're safe, they do not cause autism," he tells @GeoffRBennett. "It is clear that we're having an outbreak of vaccine-preventable diseases, and even death,
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The U.S. labor market is showing further signs of cooling as the latest jobs report shows unemployment rising to 4.6%, the highest level in the last four years. There was some good news as payrolls climbed by 64,000 new jobs last month. But the report also showed a net loss of
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NEW: FAA chief says the agency was *not consulted* on defense bill language critics say undercuts safety reforms needed after the DCA midair collision.
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I asked Sen. Bill Cassidy about the GOP’s health care alternative -- and whether he still supports RFK Jr. as Health Secretary after casting the decisive confirmation vote. His answer: "It is what it is. We have to live life going forward." Our conversation airs tonight on the
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Pauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98. She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years https://t.co/WSa5SbFELT
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LATEST: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won't call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended.
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MIAMI (AP) — FIFA slashes price for some World Cup tickets to $60 for teams’ most loyal fans after global backlash.
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