Aneeta Mathur-Ashton
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Covering national policy and đź“° author for @usnews, @PressClubDC + @opcofamerica member. đź“§ [email protected].
Washington, DC
Joined November 2018
Came home to perhaps the coolest package ever from @washingtonpost. I am endlessly grateful to have been a part of the team that worked on the Jan 6 project and will always be grateful for this massive life moment.
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Alina habba resigning.
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Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodia as Trump's peace agreement hangs in balance https://t.co/V2NcwKHVPh
cnn.com
Thailand launched air strikes against Cambodia on Monday as a new wave of fighting erupted between the southeast Asian neighbors, marking the potential collapse of a peace plan presided over by US...
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JUST IN: Text of the NDAA agreement is out. Vote expected this week in the House:
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Exclusive: Bruna Ferreira, who shares a child with the White House press secretary's brother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom as she faces deportation. “I asked Karoline to be godmother over my only sister,” she said.
washingtonpost.com
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
nbcnews.com
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling...
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New: Vanity Fair is dropping Olivia Nuzzi, as I first reported would happen on Wednesday. Wednesday: https://t.co/DyjklczlXH Today:
wsj.com
Nuzzi’s contract with Vanity Fair expires at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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The Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship https://t.co/yc4anHfr70
cnn.com
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit...
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A devastating look at the Assad regime's killing machine, where the horrors inflicted on tens of thousands of Syrians were documented in meticulous detail, and without fear of accountability for the crimes. https://t.co/9Tph36m54t by @kfahim and team.
washingtonpost.com
A newly revealed trove of photos depicts 10,000 people who had died in Bashar al-Assad’s brutal prison system during his last decade in power.
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ACIP voted to lift a 30-year-old recommendation that all newborns get the HepB vaccine. Here’s what to know about the changes and what happened at the chaos-filled meeting for @usnews
https://t.co/fBscYL4jtM
usnews.com
A federal advisory committee voted Friday to lift a 30-year-old recommendation that all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine.
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NEW: "George Santos with a Gun" — here is the first in a series of reports based on my nine-month investigation into Rep. Cory Mills. Key findings outlined below.
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Four killed after the US strikes another boat in the Eastern Pacific amid questions about its counter-drug offensive.
cnn.com
The US military carried out a strike Thursday on a suspected drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four people on board, according to a social media post from US Southern Command.
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court cleared the way for Texas lawmakers to use new maps favoring Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. https://t.co/1fC44S9ef0
nytimes.com
Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.
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Breaking on MS NOW: The Trump Justice Department FAILED today to secure an indictment against New York AG Letitia James. DOJ could attempt again to indict James. — via @CarolLeonnig
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This report is now public. Here's one passage: "The Secretary sent nonpublic DoD information identifying the quantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile territory over an unapproved, unsecure network approximately 2 to 4 hours before the execution of those
Secretary Hegseth's actions could have endangered U.S. objectives or pilots, the inspector general found in this report. Hegseth does have the power to declassify. The inspector general did not explicitly address whether Hegseth did so appropriately in this case.
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“While trust in health care institutions at large is at a low, people still trust their doctor, their nurse, their pharmacist. I think we need to encourage people to speak to their local trusted health advisers and not to listen to anyone on social media, TV or in D.C.”
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Dr. Jerome Adams on the need to empower local health providers and public health officials to counter false messaging.
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JUST IN: The NY Times lawsuit names names, saying the Pentagon's new press restrictions violate the First Amendment by forcing out journalists who ask adversarial questions and replacing them with avowed MAGA supporters. https://t.co/kmINBn8ySV
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A BIG DEAL -- FBI makes major breakthrough in pipe bomb investigation - and has arrested suspect this morning after five year probe, according to four sources who talked to me and @KDilanianMSNOW
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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 — particularly how women are treated there — that she is planning to huddle with MTG next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early.
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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's White House gutted the Institute of Peace, fired its staff and called it a "bloated, useless entity." Now Trump has renamed the institute he tried to destroy after himself. @aishvaryakavi
nytimes.com
Workers installed the president’s name on the Washington institute, thrusting it back into the spotlight as it is set to host the signing of a peace deal between Rwanda and Congo.
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