Katie Benner
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Reporter at the New York Times. Send tips to [email protected].
Joined September 2009
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler https://t.co/74HrgaAs92 via @NYTimes
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The child was later reunited with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed immigrant rights groups. The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a gun possession charge.
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Trump: “People don't care if we send in our military, if we send in our National Guard, if we send in Space Command…If we need more than the National Guard, we'll send more than the National Guard…And whether people like that or not, that's what we're doing.”
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Democrats plan to sue over food aid as GOP splits on legislative patch
politico.com
The lawsuit will challenge a Trump administration decision not to tap a key SNAP contingency fund amid the shutdown.
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VT Sen Peter Welch becomes first & only Democrat to sign on Sen Hawley's proposal to fund SNAP benefits for Americans during the shutdown Either way, GOP Leader Thune did not sound inclined to put it on the floor for a vote today
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Rubio promised to betray US informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal @John_Hudson @jeremyrroebuck @schmidtsam7
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To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. https://t.co/xfwp2zPzln
propublica.org
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
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Trump is preparing to make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments. - It’s part of his overhaul of the safety net for poor, older and disabled people. - Hundreds of thousands of people could lose benefits
washingtonpost.com
Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.
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Full track change comparison of Trump's Gaza proposal as shared with diplomats last week vs. final version made public yesterday. I.e. How it was further bent to Netanyahu's needs.
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Trump deploys troops to Portland and to immigration detention facilities around the country, and authorizes the use of full force. “escalating a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent”
washingtonpost.com
President Donald Trump authorized the use of troops in Portland, Oregon, in a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent.
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“She never said Mr. Kirk deserved to be killed, but she is now among scores of people across the country who have been fired, suspended, reassigned or pushed to resign in the past two weeks for things they said about Mr. Kirk” https://t.co/DxHuUyVi9e via @NYTimes
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“She never said Mr. Kirk deserved to be killed, but she is now among scores of people across the country who have been fired, suspended, reassigned or pushed to resign in the past two weeks for things they said about Mr. Kirk” https://t.co/DxHuUyVi9e via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
More than 145 people in a wide range of occupations have been fired or disciplined after they made statements about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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New: @EagleEdMartin has withdrawn his request to an attorney for a retired FBI agent who he suggested he could be under criminal investigation for testifying at the defamation trial of conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones. Confirming @CNN
Under Justice Department masthead, @EagleEdMartin sent a letter this month suggesting he was investigating an FBI agent who was among the first to respond to the scene of the Sandy Hook massacre over his decision to join the defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones. (1/4)
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Most companies chase no-code. These guys did the opposite. Instead of replacing engineers, @timgdelisle & @chriscrane, Co-Founder Fiveonefour, built tools that make devs 10x faster. Here’s what we discussed: • Why “developer-first” beats “no-code” • How simplifying code
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BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here https://t.co/hmhO1ttNGc
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I want to say how much I value my partnership with Apple. They’ve been incredible collaborators and I deeply respect their team. That said, I wanted to reach out and let you know that we’re not aligned on the decision to pause the release of The Savant. In the last five years
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Q: "At any government level or in the private sector, are you comfortable having someone fired for an utterance about Charlie Kirk's death?" Sen. Lankford: "This is about protecting individual businesses. Cancel culture still persists...What they say online can get connected to
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The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to the identification and arrest of the person or people responsible for the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.
cnn.com
A manhunt is underway for the shooter who killed Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative political activist. The FBI released photos of a person of interest and has offered a $100,000 reward for...
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The FBI has created a digital media tip line seeking information regarding the shooting at Utah Valley University that took place on September 10, 2025:
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Kamala Harris: "'It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.' We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to
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The first excerpt from 107 Days
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Submit tips regarding today's shooting at Utah Valley University at https://t.co/K7maX81lub
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