Maria Caspani
@MariaCaspani85
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Starting a career in mental health counseling. Former (sometimes still) journalist, mostly at @Reuters. NY via London via Milan. Made in 🇮🇹. She/They🌈
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Joined January 2011
Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC say, "No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer."
Signature Bank in New York was closed today by its state chartering authority, according to a joint statement from the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC. All depositors of this institution will be made whole
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BREAKING: Biden will announce new protections tomorrow for more than 16 million acres of land and water in Alaska. The move comes even as he prepares to approve the massive #Willow oil drilling project in Alaska's North Slope. https://t.co/GMS6cVJSSK
washingtonpost.com
The administration will approve three pads for the Willow drilling project, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes after announcing a new ban on U.S. oil and gas leasing in the...
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“Rihanna — one of the crucial pop hitmakers of the 21st century — needs the Super Bowl less than the Super Bowl needs her, and her performance was a master class in doing exactly enough.”
nytimes.com
After seven years largely away from the stage, the singer and mogul used the halftime show to perform a dozen hits, nod to her nonmusical business and announce that she’s pregnant.
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Gets crazier by the day
Months before beginning his first bid for Congress, George Santos appeared at an event urging members of the LGBTQ community to leave the Democratic Party and embrace Republicans and Donald Trump. He used one of his alternate identities — Anthony Devolder.
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George Santos, in a social media post, appeared to admit to check fraud in Brazil, a court record shows. “I know I screwed up, but I want to pay,” he wrote on Orkut. “It was always my intention to pay, but I messed up.” with @gr_ashford:
nytimes.com
Mr. Santos, under scrutiny for lies about his background, is set to be sworn into Congress on Tuesday even as records, colleagues and friends divulge more about his past.
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BREAKING: The Democratic Party will keep control of the U.S. Senate, @NBCNews projects. https://t.co/H6qT72IRew
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1/ After 4 years of debate, New York has passed rules requiring private schools to prove they provide a basic secular education. Hasidic leaders have warned that any govt intervention represents an existential threat to the community https://t.co/bLHb0ecNfl
nytimes.com
The State Board of Regents on Tuesday enacted regulations aimed at holding New York private schools to minimum academic standards.
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“Her reign spanned 15 prime ministers starting with Winston Churchill, born in 1874, and including Liz Truss, born 101 years later in 1975, and appointed by the Queen earlier this week.”
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The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.
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Leaving this here
Members of the South Carolina State Senate Medical Affairs Committee take a vote on removing exceptions for rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban at the state legislature in Columbia, South Carolina. Photo by Sam Wolfe
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Proud of @corinne_perkins @donnaindenver @caitochs and of course Magali for seeing this project through.
Four years ago, Magali Druscovich showed me this haunting photo of Heather Hurley's creased wedding dress laying on her daughter's bed. Heather was killed by her partner.
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Often, such killings follow years of abuse, which six experts interviewed by Reuters said raises questions about how police, courts and society at large support women https://t.co/CyheN7jxqM 6/6
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Since then, Magali, @caitochs @MariaCaspani85 and @donnaindenver have followed the stories of several women who have been killed by their partners. This in depth piece on femicide in America is the result
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Tammy Suomi's Duluth, Minnesota living room is filled with memories of her daughter Jackie Defoe and her grandson Kevin Shabaiash Jr. Teddy bears line the couch. Photos of her smiling loved ones...
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A thread about a project on #DomesticViolence facing women in the US. @MDruscovich @caitochs @corinne_perkins @MariaCaspani85 and @reuterspictures spent years painstakingly piecing together stories of three women whose murders illustrate a persistent American crisis
Four years ago, Magali Druscovich showed me this haunting photo of Heather Hurley's creased wedding dress laying on her daughter's bed. Heather was killed by her partner.
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I recently left journalism to begin a career in mental health counseling but it feels strange not being at work reporting on this today. Glad that journalists like @gabriellaborter at @Reuters are on the ground bearing witness. #RoeVsWade
This is the moment everyone at Jackson Women’s Health Organization realized #RoeVsWade was overturned. The clinic escorts rushed behind the fence to see the news. There are patients inside.
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Last line of the dissent in the Dobbs case: With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent.
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“Swimming's world governing body FINA on Sunday voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women's competitions and create a working group to establish an "open" category for them in some events as part of its new policy”
reuters.com
The federation won't permit women athletes who have gone through male puberty by age 12 to compete, and instead will create an "open" category for some events.
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“More than a dozen of the 33 children and three teachers originally in the two classrooms remained alive during the 1 hour and 17 minutes from the time the shooting began inside the classrooms to when four officers made entry,” per law enforcement.
nytimes.com
More than a dozen students remained alive for over an hour before officers entered their classrooms. The commander feared a risk to officers’ lives, new documents show.
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