Jennifer Berry Hawes
@JenBerryHawes
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Pulitzer Prize team winner & finalist, South reporter at ProPublica, wrote Grace Will Lead Us Home about the Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, SC
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Joined May 2011
š§µ As hurricane season approaches, I want to tell you why I spent the past 4 months reporting this new story about Hurricane Helene. In 1999, I spent 13 hours in a car on a gridlocked interstate with my 3-week-old baby during the disastrous mass evacuation from Hurricane Floyd.
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Nancy Mace has told people she is so frustrated with Johnson and sick of the way he has run the House ā particularly how women are treated there ā that she is planning to huddle with MTG next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early.
nytimes.com
A small group of G.O.P. women has been among the most vocal in raising what their colleagues say is a broader frustration with the speaker.
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. š¤ https://t.co/gtIExKIRqK
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The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing...
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ā¦@propublicaā© found Trump once did the very thing he called ādeceitful and potentially criminal.ā
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The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing...
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Check out this story from @USATODAY: You can get free entry to national parks on Trump's birthday NPS changed its free admission days in 2026, removing MLK Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday. https://t.co/VcMrtvomaH
usatoday.com
NPS changed its free admission days in 2026, removing MLK Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday.
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In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests. Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here." It's part of growing religious blowback to ICE.
religionnews.com
(RNS) āĀ 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.
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Hi @DHSgov, Weāre the folks who reported the facts youāre now dismissing. So just a reminder: We found 170+ cases of immigration agents detaining U.S. citizens this year. In dozens of cases, charges have never been filed or the cases were dismissed. Among the detained: nearly
propublica.org
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally ā almost certainly incomplete ā includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And...
Stop fear-mongering. ICE does NOT arrest or deport U.S. citizens. If a U.S. citizen is arrested, it is because they have obstructed or assaulted law enforcement. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is if they are illegally in the U.S.āNOT their skin color,
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It was one of the most extraordinary pardons in recent history. How an unusual group of Trump allies helped a convicted cocaine trafficker walk free.
wsj.com
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando HernĆ”ndezās unusual network of Trump allies and MAGA influencers helped deliver an extraordinary pardon to him.
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Fact check: Strikes during the Obama administration were scrutinized at length. In fact, The Washington Post and New York Times both were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for their work on the issue. https://t.co/JmTum5pcM8.
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Obama authorized over 500 strikes and the PRESS said nothing. Meanwhile, an admiral with a strike package and intel report protects AMERICANS from narco terrorists and all of a sudden people decide to virtue signal? The mental gymnastics of politics by those who lack critical
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I don't just work at @propublica, I'm also a donor. And today your donation is doubled PLUS free swag. https://t.co/cQ5lJW4wY0.
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While the Trump team defends killing suspected drug dealers who have not been convicted of anything, the convicted drug trafficking former president of Honduras is released from prison by a Trump pardon. @WRashbaum @maggieNYT @Jonesieman
nytimes.com
Juan Orlando HernƔndez was convicted of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Hegsethās tenure has been characterized by conflict, missteps and a run of chaos that is unmatched in the recent history of the Defense Department (which he now calls the Department of War). https://t.co/hoFa9mzOoX
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Investigations are mounting into the legality of strikes that have killed scores of people in the waters off Venezuela.
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āThe combat decisions he has madeā¦ā Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout https://t.co/3Ppf0xuxP1 w/ @noahjrobertson
washingtonpost.com
As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander ā not the defense secretary ā who directed the engagement.
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A stat worth knowing: McKinsey the consulting firm has more employees than there are journalists of any kind in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rateāover the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://t.co/fZqNYFMo1O
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To think my kids grew up watching Franklin, a show that celebrated the joys of childhood.
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I've done a deep dive into the Trump family's global moneymaking campaign. The White House says there's no conflict of interest. But from Serbia to Vietnam to crypto it's being called "pay to play" on a vast scale. If you have info, get in touch @guardian
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theguardian.com
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trumpās family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
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Why would we pardon this guy and then go after Maduro for running drugs into the United States? Lock up every drug runner! Donāt understand why he is being pardoned. https://t.co/o6Owzskkca
foxnews.com
President Trump announced he will grant a full pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando HernƔndez, who was sentenced to 45 years in the U.S. for drug trafficking conspiracy.
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We spent a whole year, 2018, investigating the crimes these āZero Unitsānurtured by the CIA committed against Afghan civilians, rushing to scene after scene of their carnageā¦ https://t.co/ff6dxowZW7
DC shooter appears to have been a member of one of Afghanistan's notorious Zero Units, CIA partners frequently accused of serious abuses, who were used in the final days of the US withdrawal to conduct clandestine missions and guard the airport gates and received preferential
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Update: The White House media trackerāintended to name and shame journalists for bias and errorsāincorrectly attributed questions in a press conference to a Fox News reporter. Fox News asked the White House to correct it and now there's a 404 error where the page once was.
NEW >> President Donald Trump and his staff escalated their attacks on journalists with a new media bias tracker on the White House site. The tracker comes after the president insulted female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times and Bloomberg. https://t.co/5Nw2R5caZz
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The White House launched a page on its website, titled the āHall of Shame,ā devoted to naming and shaming media outlets and reporters that publish stories President Trump disagrees with. āMisleading. Biased. Exposed,ā the site reads.
washingtonpost.com
A new White House webpage presents a āHall of Shameā for news reports that the president disagrees with, coming after Trump voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times...
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Under Trump, 591 books by Black authors have been banned from Pentagon-run schools and libraries, according to Onyx Impact. @DelanoMassey
axios.com
In the last year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted pillars of America's civil rights protections.
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