Helen Coster
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U.S. Presidential Election Correspondent @Reuters Voracious reader. Intermittent tweeter. DM me for my Signal #. [email protected]
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NEW: My months-long investigation into former President Trump’s new media and tech venture, with exclusive details on how execs struggled to build a tech company without the help of Big Tech. 1/4
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The firebrand former President Trump’s social media firm has struggled to build a competitive platform. One big reason: It has alienated tech talent and corporate partners in the left-leaning...
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A lot of the Reuters news file is heavy. This story is not. Enjoy this end-of-week "bright."
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Isaac Stein makes his living as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, working mostly on his own, writing retirement plan regulations in a Washington office building.
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My dispatch from Mahopac, NY, where 500 people showed up for GOP lawmaker Mike Lawler's Sunday night town hall.
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Topics ranged from the justification of Trump's June 14 military parade to attacks on higher education, to whether ICE agents should wear masks during raids and how to fund social security in the...
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The Trump administration is cracking down on leaks to the press, even those involving unclassified information or the everyday workings of the government. Story w/ @marisaataylor @tedhesson @nanditab1 Alexandra Alper.
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The investigations are intended to plug leaks and purge disloyal workers, sources said.
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Meet the Eternal Word Television Network - an Alabama-based Catholic media conglomerate that has emerged as a beacon for conservative Catholics and a potent voice in Trump-era politics. Story w/ @josephax
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The Eternal Word Television Network was launched by a nun named Mother Angelica in Alabama.
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🔊 Funding cuts. Threats of deportation. White House demands. Universities are under pressure. Reporters @hcoster and @JuliaHarte1 unpack the fight against higher learning on our weekend podcast. Listen now https://t.co/Zmp9a5qGC0
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Trump officials sent letters to 60 schools it said were under investigation for antisemitism, and could risk losing federal $. Yet nearly a third had already resolved earlier complaints or had never been subject to such complaints at all.
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Nearly a third of the academic institutions under investigation for antisemitism by the Trump administration had already resolved earlier complaints or had never been subject to such complaints at...
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"We need to make Tesla a toxic brand." Anti-Trump activists target Elon Musk's Tesla brand to protest DOGE cuts https://t.co/5eHyZ6kwku
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The target of their so-called "Tesla Takedown" protests is the brand at the heart of the business empire controlled by Musk.
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The White House barred Reuters, the AP, HuffPost and German paper Der Tagesspiegel from covering Trump’s first cabinet meeting today, in keeping with its new media policy. https://t.co/gI0nwvEzd4
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The White House on Wednesday denied reporters from Reuters and other news organizations access to President Donald Trump’sfirst cabinet meeting in keeping with the administration’s new policy...
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Trump sued the Des Moines Register and an Iowa pollster last night, soon after vowing to pursue more claims against the media.
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President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register newspaper and its former top pollster, the day after he stepped up his legal threats against news outlets and said he...
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Trump places high-risk, high-reward bet on tariffs to stem fentanyl story w/ @josephax @jamesoliphant
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's vow to impose tariffs on China and Mexico unless they stem the flow of fentanyl and migrants across the U.S. border could impel deeper cooperation from those...
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New: Musk uses X to push his preferred political picks. Trump isn't always swayed. @alexandraulmer and I spoke to sources close to Trump and Musk and reviewed 2,000 Musk X posts to understand how the world's richest man is wielding his influence. https://t.co/alcI7fvkNn
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Billionaire Elon Musk has been using his social media platform X to go to bat for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks and promote his own preferred candidates, advocating for choices he...
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Reuters taps Sally Buzbee to be News Editor for US and Canada
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Sally Buzbee, most recently the executive editor of the Washington Post, will join Reuters as News Editor for the United States and Canada, overseeing the global news agency’s coverage of a second...
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Reuters has tapped Sally Buzbee, ex Washington Post and AP, to be News Editor for US and Canada
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In choosing his team, Trump opts for personal ties and TV chops story w/ @jamesoliphant
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In staffing his incoming administration, President-elect Donald Trump has so far veered from the conventional to the confounding. But his choices all seem to have one thing in common: A bond with...
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The second is based on interviews with Black voters in those states, the majority of whom said they feared a second Trump term, including a rollback of civil rights after his pledge to end federal diversity and inclusion programs.
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Many Black Americans fear a rollback of civil rights under Trump.
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Today we published two stories based on interviews with battleground state voters. The first looks at the reaction by Democrats to Trump’s win, now that their values are firmly a minority among Americans.
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Democrats worry about the future for themselves, family and friends after the electorate's pronounced shift to the political right.
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Decision Desk HQ projects Donald J. Trump wins the Presidential election in North Carolina. #DecisionMade: 9:22 PM EDT Follow live results here: https://t.co/PZocSAoy3P
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We asked over 65 battleground state voters about their choice for president. Two primary issues emerged.
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After months of campaigning, Tuesday's presidential election may have come down to the two signature issues that defined Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump from the start: abortion...
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57% of North Carolina voters cast ballots during early voting, according to the executive director of the NC State Board of Elections. NC has seen an uptick in younger voters in early voting, w/ women outpacing men. Final county results should come in around midnight tomorrow.
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In recent days Reuters correspondents spoke to more than 50 voters in the seven key states that will determine the election, and encountered an electorate on edge. Our story on how voters are coping with election day stress:
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Danielle Trenney, a 39-year-old project manager from western Pennsylvania, is so anxious about the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday that she decided to put up a Christmas tree early this year to...
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