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Investigative reporter @GuardianUS📱Signal: 929-486-4865 | Previously @THECITYNY @WNYC 📧👇🏾 “Each one says: ‘It will last my time and after me, the deluge!’”

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@georgejoseph94
George Joseph
6 months
New @guardian investigation—UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to slash hospitalizations for elderly residents. Company tactics resulted in delayed/avoided hospitalizations for seniors who needed care. One suffered permanent brain damage: https://t.co/XELkQ3HazW
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theguardian.com
A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents
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@David_J_Bier
David J. Bier
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ICE to US citizen: Don't make this complicated. Get on the ground. https://t.co/M0bgqWCwjm
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@CGasparino
Charles Gasparino
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SCOOP: A Trump official tells @nypost that the administration favors Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery – and a number of rival bidders are likely to face stiff hurdles from US regulators in the blockbuster auction. “Who owns Warner Bros. Discovery is very important
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WBD CEO David Zaslav, meanwhile, believes he can make a case to the Trump administration that they should allow deals outside of Paramount Skydance, appealing to free market types in the...
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@CelsiusOfficial
CELSIUS Energy Drink
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Limited time. Lasting impression.
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@dorajfacundo
Jarod Facundo
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NEW: UnitedHealthcare’s ($UNH) proposed cuts to mental health services are hurting small behavioral health hospitals who treat extremely vulnerable patients relying on Medicaid. This move is part of a larger cost cutting effort that similar in ways to denying claims.
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@jangelooff
Jake Offenhartz
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An immigration raid on Chinatown vendors drew fierce confrontations earlier, with angry New Yorkers spontaneously surrounding ICE agents, blocking their vehicles and urging them, repeatedly, to “get the fuck out of here” https://t.co/aXOBKB82wg
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@nytimes
The New York Times
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Breaking News: President Gustavo Petro of Colombia accused the U.S. of killing an innocent fisherman in a boat attack. President Trump said he would slash aid in response.
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President Gustavo Petro said a U.S. strike in the Caribbean had killed a fisherman. President Trump said he would cut aid and impose new tariffs on Colombian imports.
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@nytimes
The New York Times
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Breaking News: The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said. https://t.co/YTpRT3lkxY
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Two men rescued by the U.S. military after it attacked a boat in the Caribbean Sea were being sent to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador, President Trump said.
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@evadou
Eva Dou
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New: Recent official remarks & federal contracts reflect ICE intends to use some of its growing, powerful surveillance tools to probe what the administration defines as ‘Antifa’. Civil-rights watchdogs say ICE may now have broad authority to surveil dissenting Americans
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@JCColtin
Jeff Coltin
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“Oh, Tupac!” Curtis Sliwa says, noticing a man’s shirt on 125th Street in Harlem. “You know Assata Shakur, Joanne Chesimard… she was his kin. I have Guardian Angels in Baltimore. I know a lot of his kinfolk.”
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@jimsciutto
Jim Sciutto
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NYT: “One of the U.S. officials, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats.” https://t.co/qQXtQCLt4z via @NYTimes
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Adm. Alvin Holsey is leaving less than a year into his tenure, and as the Pentagon escalates attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea.
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@KenRoth
Kenneth Roth
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Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, the man most capable of leading negotiations for a Palestinian state, was beaten unconscious by eight Israeli prison guards on September 14 as he was being transferred between prisons.
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theguardian.com
Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons
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@JaneMayerNYer
Jane Mayer
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Over 170 American citizens were dragged off and held by U.S. Immigration Agents Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds — ProPublica
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The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And...
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@byaliceyin
Alice Yin
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A Chicago woman who was adopted carries around a copy of her passport but was still detained by federal agents who didn’t believe that was her last name bc she’s Latina. Latest dispatch from @royalpratt: https://t.co/mq2FaVddra
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@kos_data
kos_data
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🇺🇸🇦🇱 NYC Mayor Eric Adams in Albania: "New York is the Albania of America"
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kos_data
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🇺🇸🇦🇱 NYC Mayor Eric Adams is traveling to Albania for an official visit, one week after dropping his reelection bid. (Via: NBC New York)
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@ReichlinMelnick
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there, not doing anything remotely illegal, and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball.
@jackmjenkins
Jack Jenkins
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Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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SCOOP: FBI began probing @RealTomHoman for bribery after @ICEgov colleague told undercover agents that Homan could get them lucrative U.S. contracts in Trump administration for $1M. It conflicts with WH claim of targeting. me w @DilanianMSNBC https://t.co/Erle10IulS
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msnbc.com
A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.
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@seungminkim
Seung Min Kim
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Trump tells reporters as he wraps up his gaggle on Air Force One: "Fly safely. You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight ... otherwise I wouldn't care."
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@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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Palestinians continue to stream out of Gaza City, as Israel presses on with its ground offensive to take control of the city. The UN says the situation on the ground there is “nothing short of cataclysmic”. Around 99 Palestinians were reportedly killed in Gaza yesterday.
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@georgejoseph94
George Joseph
2 months
“As UnitedHealth Group faces government investigations and changes in federal payments that have hurt its results, it is turning to an increasingly common Washington playbook: hiring Donald Trump’s allies” https://t.co/qtzpRgR8MM
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wsj.com
The largest U.S. health insurer’s Medicare business faces investigations and policy threats.
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@AJEnglish
Al Jazeera English
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to over 27 years in prison for plotting a coup after his 2022 election loss. The historic trial has deepened political divisions in the country and triggered a sharp backlash from US President Donald Trump.
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@Reuters
Reuters
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The CIA has been waging a secret fight against drug lords south of the border, working hand-in-glove with elite units inside Mexico’s military. That effort has gone largely unreported — until now https://t.co/7eQybcvbQ1
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