Hannah Knowles
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Reporter covering politics @WashingtonPost //[email protected] // hannahknowles.34 on Signal
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Joined June 2016
NEW: Our look at one of the most important players in the school choice debate: Jeff Yass, the billionaire funding campaigns across the US + in his home state of PA. Got a chance to talk with him at length and he had lots of provocative things to say 1/x
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How one of the richest people on the planet presses his pet issue: school choice
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“There was wreckage. There was no radio,” said one lawmaker familiar with the video shown at Thursday’s briefing. Military leaders told lawmakers that they assessed the survivors might “look” for a radio. Via @noahjrobertson @maeganvaz
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The footage was shown on Capitol Hill, where Adm. Frank M. Bradley, who oversaw a deadly attack on alleged drug smugglers, faced a day of difficult questions about the operation.
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The inspector general report for "Signalgate" includes some messages from the "small group" chat, including one sent after @JeffreyGoldberg from The Atlantic departed the group and published an initial story on it. "This chat's kind of dead," Vance wrote. "Anything going on?"
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Can't make this up: A raccoon got drunk at a Virginia ABC store in Ashland and then passed out in the bathroom https://t.co/tYe0aN3gGj
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Two National Guardsmen were shot just outside the White House complex. One of them is in critical condition. D.C. police have one suspect in custody. A big team at @washingtonpost is covering this tragic incident, find our updates here: https://t.co/gLPxhZAY1g
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The suspect, who was also shot, was taken into custody, according to D.C. police. The suspected shooter is said to be an Afghan national.
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AOC built her own political machine. Now she’s deciding her next move. Seven years after she leapt onto the national stage as an outsider, she’s learned an inside game and is considering a run for Senate or president. Read @lizcgoodwin @yabutaleb7:
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Seven years after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leapt onto the national stage as an outsider, she’s learned an inside game and is considering a run for Senate or president.
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UPDATE2: Late this evening the Coast Guard published a new policy, dated Nov. 20, that re-establishes that it specifically sees swastikas and nooses as hate symbols - not as just “potentially divisive” and states that they are expressly prohibited. Importantly, it says the new
UPDATE: In a phone call with the @washingtonpost, the Coast Guard said it disagreed with the story and that it considers the swastika a hate symbol -- and that it would look into the new policy changes -- which remove it as a hate symbol. “We will be reviewing the language,"
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More than 80 percent of the federal campaign spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans in 2024 went to Republicans, The Post found.
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Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times, well outpacing the growing costs of campaigns, a Washington Post analysis found. Via @bethreinhard @NaftaliBendavid @ccemorse @aaronjschaffer
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The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
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One local GOP chair in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district has started describing the clash with Trump this way: “Mom and Dad are separated.” “I love Mom, and I love Dad, and I know that deep down they love each other. I want Mom and Dad to make up.”
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The message was clear at a county GOP meeting this week in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district: Even Trump couldn’t turn these MAGA voters against their star in Congress.
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In Greene’s Georgia congressional district, much of the MAGA base has her back against Trump, who has called her a “traitor.”
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NEW: Indiana Senate Pro Tem Rod Bray says Republicans don’t have votes for redistricting. The Senate will not reconvene in December.
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“We’re disappointed. And we want to lead him to a better place.” MAGA pushes back on Trump:
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MAGA leaders erupted over the president’s assertion that the U.S. needs foreign workers. That rift and others have raised GOP concerns about enthusiasm ahead of the midterms.
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Trump officials have a new target: the Dulles “people movers.” White House calls them “notorious,” citing accident this week. And a Trump nominee to Dulles board says he has a plan to kill the shuttles. https://t.co/veGh6LCKdt
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The unique shuttles, which have been in operation since 1962, have been blamed for delays and accidents. A White House official Tuesday called them “notorious.”
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Democrats have lost the shutdown battle, but the fallout over Obamacare subsidies could damage the GOP longer-term
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Democrats are embroiled in a new round of infighting, while Republicans are bracing for longer-term consequences if they continue to oppose an extension of Obamacare subsidies.
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More on the shift among Latino voters with @sabrod123 @teoarmus It wasn’t just turnout: exit polls showed 18 percent of NJ Latino voters who backed Trump last year ended up casting a ballot for Mikie Sherrill https://t.co/hCPz08t9hh
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The president’s deportation policies, along with high prices and changes in who turned out to vote propelled a shift in this year’s election.
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The New Jersey counties that swung the most toward Dems were also the ones with the most Latino voters, per this graphic by @ccemorse and Eric Lau
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She held five passports and, to keep her various identities straight, would memorize birth dates and other personal information of people she knew. How Abigail Spanberger went from undercover CIA officer to the first woman governor of Virginia. @ktumulty
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The former House member ran a centrist campaign focused on affordability, health care and education, providing a potential road map for other Democrats.
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A Heritage staff meeting Wednesday included calls for Kevin Roberts to resign and a squabble over whether Christian employees would be forced to participate in Jewish rituals. Lots more on the drama at Heritage via @iarnsdorf @jacobbogage
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At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
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The unregulated industry that coaches veterans to pile on benefits via @FedGirlWapo @CraigMWhitlock @CaitlinSGilbert AaronSchaffer https://t.co/MhhLSqWdqr
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The number of vets receiving 100 percent disability ratings has surged in recent years. For-profit firms, influencers and the VA play a large role in the trend.
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