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Exec. Dir., Jordan Ctr. for Journalism Advocacy & Innovation @olemissjourimc. Ex White House bureau chief, @VOANews; Author: Behind the White House Curtain
Washington, DC
Joined December 2008
As I told Al Jazeera, President Trump's long-term goal has been to have the media bend to his will, if not break.
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Scripps News - DoJ requests a federal court unseal grand jury transcripts in the criminal case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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I'm on Al Jazeera momentarily to discuss the Trump administration's assault on the news media. Livestream:
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(Reuters) - El Salvador's government will send detained Venezuelans to Caracas in exchange for Americans held in Venezuela.
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KNBC - At least three deputies are dead in an explosion at an LA County Sheriff's Department training facility in East Los Angeles.
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BBC Verify - Israel has demolished thousands of buildings across Gaza since it withdrew from a ceasefire with Hamas in March, with entire towns and suburbs - once home to tens of thousands of people - levelled in the past few weeks. …
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OpenAi announces ChatGPT “now thinks and acts, proactively choosing from a toolbox of agentic skills to complete tasks for you using its own computer.”
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USA Today - House passes Trump's $9 billion in cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid; next stop president's desk.
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Media reports say Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in talks about a merger that would create a $200 billion US transcontinental railroad behemoth.
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Austrian skydiver and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has died in a paragliding accident in Italy.
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CBS News - Stephen Colbert's show to end in May 2026 as the network retires The Late Show franchise, which it says is "purely a financial decision."
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WSJ - Trump’s letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday has the outline of a naked woman, small arcs denoting breasts with a squiggly ’Donald’ signature below her waist, mimicking pubic hair. It concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another won…
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(Reuters) - A federal judge rules the firing of FTC member Rebecca Slaughter by President Donald Trump earlier this year was illegal.
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The White House press secretary says President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency which has caused bruising of his right hand and swelling of the legs.
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Washington Post national columnist Philip Bump's last column for the newspaper is online with the NYC-based writer announcing he "was offered and accepted a buyout."
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Politico - Senate Republicans approve and send back to the House the president’s proposal to claw back billions in global health and public media funding.
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CNN - Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been fired from her job. Comey was a prosecutor in the case against Jeffrey Epstein and more recently against Sean “Diddy” Combs. …
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President Trump tells reporters it's "highly unlikely" he will fire the Federal Reserve chairman "unless he has to leave for fraud." Trump also declared was "surprised" Jerome Powell was appointed to the position. (Trump in 2017 nominated Powell to run t…
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NYT - President Trump showed off a draft of a letter firing the chair of Federal Reserve, Jerome H. Powell, during a meeting with roughly a dozen House Republicans on Tuesday night, polling them as to whether he should do it and indicating that he likely…
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