Malachy Browne
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Visual Investigations @nytimes | Pulitzer team for international reporting (2020 & 2023) | @malachy.bsky.social
Joined March 2009
Our recent video investigation on Sudan now has Arabic subtitles. It charts a command structure for the opaque paramilitary group, the RSF, and links named commanders to some of the war's worst atrocities. Please share with Sudanese friends.
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Using exclusive phone logs, military files and 23TB of video, we unmasked the Russian unit and commander that killed dozens of people on one street in Bucha. By @YousurAlhlou @MashaFroliak @ckoettl @heytherehaley @dim109 @ajcardia @NatalieReneau & more 👇 .
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20 minutes before U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi walked into a deathtrap, the inner circle of “my friend MBS” staff were discussing if the bags they had were strong enough to hold his corpse. 20 mins after he arrived, he was murdered, dismembered and disposed of in short order.
Just spoke to my friend MBS (Crown Prince) of Saudi Arabia, who spoke with President Putin of Russia, & I expect & hope that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels, and maybe substantially more which, if it happens, will be GREAT for the oil & gas industry!.
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“Stop firing” staff at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant pleaded with Russian soldiers as they directed fire on buildings. Video sent to @MarcSantoraNYT and verified by @brenna__smith @dim109 w @anglistories @robinnyc7 . More:
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13 media outlets had offices in these buildings.
"Israeli warplanes bombed and destroyed the Al-Jawhara and Al-Shorouk office buildings in Gaza City, which house more than a dozen international and local media outlets."
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Sunday edition of @nytimes carries the photos of 15 medics and rescue workers shot and killed by the IDF in Gaza in March, collected from their families and colleagues. QR links out to video reconstruct, Six Deadly Minutes
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No cameras captured the final minutes of Breonna Taylor’s life. We used crime scene evidence and testimony to reconstruct what happened and show the mistakes that led to her killing by police. With @singhvianjali @NatalieReneau @DrewJordan_NYT Thread 👇.
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LIVE: Footage played in Thursday’s hearing showed a meeting between Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, and Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the anti-government Oathkeepers militia on the eve of Jan 6.
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Jack Teixeira, the suspected Discord leaker, had been posting sensitive information for almost a year to a second chat group with hundreds of members. He started 48 hours after Russia invaded Ukraine and stopped last month. With @AricToler & @julianbarnes.
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8 Minutes, 46 Seconds: A detailed and infuriating reconstruction of George Floyd's killing by 4 police officers in Minneapolis. Visual Investigation by @evanchill @trbrtc @heytherehaIey @robinnyc7 @tiefenthaeler @DrewJordan_NYT @whitney_hurst @bottidavid .
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1/ Here the steps we took and tools we used for our investigation mapping how the Las Vegas shooting unfolded
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They identified 22 soldiers in the 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment who used the phones of six victims killed along Yablunska Street for weeks.
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Reporters @YousurAlhlou @MashaFroliak spent months in Bucha interviewing residents, collecting security camera & drone footage and reviewing records from Ukrainian officials. In NYC, colleagues analyzed the materials to reconstruct the killings along Yablunska St to the minute.
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Did the Turkish President’s security detail attack protesters in Washington? Here's what a review of 15 videos shows
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New 40-minute short doc. The Visual Investigations team synchronized and mapped thousands of videos and police audio of the U.S. Capitol riot to provide the most complete picture to date of what happened on Jan. 6 — and why.
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Critical evidence were the cell phones of Ukrainian victims — which Russian soldiers used to call home within hours of executions. @YousurAlhlou and @MashaFroliak got call logs, and used the Russian numbers dialed to identify soldiers, speak to some and their family members.
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Un análisis de los videos y las imágenes de satélite realizado por el Times muestra que muchos de los civiles fueron asesinados hace más de tres semanas, cuando el ejército ruso controlaba el lugar. Con @bottidavid y @heytherehaley 🛰️📷
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Mohammed al Bardawil, a young witness to the March 23 attack on medics in Gaza, was killed on Saturday when an Israeli gunboat fired on Rafah beach. His father Saeed asked our colleague @BilalAbuYazan today for a photo of his son when he interviewed them together for our report.
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Christiaan @trbrtc describes how he tracked ships that were "spoofing" their true location as they secretly moved Russian oil to China, partly by finding the Instagram posts of bored seafarers! .
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Evidence places one Russian unit, the 234th Air Assault Regiment, at the scenes of the killings at the time they happened. Call signs we heard in security footage link the highest leaders of the regiment to crimes.
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Mohammed Abu Hatab is the latest journalist to have been killed in Gaza, along with 11 family members reportedly by an airstrike on their home. @pressfreedom counts 36 journalists and media workers killed so far - 31 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and 1 Lebanese
We can’t take it anymore, we’re exhausted… We’re gonna get killed, it’s just a matter of when. There’s no protection, no impunity. These PPEs don’t protect us. Nothing protects journalists. We lose lives, one by one… Mohammed Abu Hatab was here, half an hour ago.
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Our investigation began when we obtained over 1,000 crime scene photos of Breonna Taylor’s apartment. One immediate revelation then was the police fired several more bullets (32) that initially claimed (~18).
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Vehicle numbers and symbols that @ckoettl identified in CCTV along the street also implicate the 234th. They enabled him to trace those vehicles to training exercises of the 234th in 2020, and again as they amassed in Feb. 2022 to invade Ukraine.
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Finding out what happened and who was responsible for the killings in Bucha was the ultimate goal. In the effort to trace phone calls to Russia, Yousur and Masha thru relentless sourcing also obtained 4,000 intercepted calls to Russia. "Putin is a Fool" 👇
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Witnesses to one execution were consistent in their testimony. When we obtained video evidence supporting that, we ran this story in May proving that Russian soldiers executed six prisoners of war and two civilians. It would take more time to ID the unit.
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In @nytimes today, an 8-page section detailing our months-long investigation into the Jan 6. Capitol riot. Design: @clmifsud. Graphics: Guilbert Gates, Mika Gröndahl, @DrewJordan_NYT, @billmarshnyt. Words: @evanhill @heytherehaIey. Reporting by more 👇.
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Our film naming the Russian soldiers who killed civilians in Bucha is nominated for a News Emmy tonight in the investigative category. Natalie, Dima and Alex are nom'd for editing, and @YousurAlhlou, who was in Bucha, for emerging journalist. Watch here:
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We focused on using the crime scene analysis and testimony to visually reconstruct what happened and effectively show what police body cameras should have shown.
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Damning new evidence of Russian war crimes in Bucha. Weeks of reporting on the ground by @YousurAlhlou and @MashaFroliak, in New York by @evanhill @bottidavid @dim109 @msalexkoroleva & more.
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The UN report on Khashoggi's murder is really chilling. Combined with prior reporting, it shows state-coordinated premeditation, intent to kill and cover up. A thread on the chronology - and a helpful video reconstruct - are below
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The investigation relied on the research and extensive translation over months of documents, text messages, social media posts by @msalexkoroleva, Oksana Nesterenko and Milana Mazaeva. Reporting on military units and commanders by @ckoettl @evanhill and @julianbarnes.
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For newcomers, Visual Investigations @nytimes began 5 years ago this week. We've debunked Russian denials of atrocities before. And American, Israeli, Saudi, Nigerian. Our team: Our newsletter: Our work 👇.
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The U.S. aid worker, Pete Reed, was killed by a guided missile that requires the shooter to see and select their target. It was almost certainly fired by Russian troops. 🧵 w/ @Tmgneff.
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Our investigation naming the Russian soldiers who killed dozens in Bucha was among a body of @nytimes reporting across teams that received the Pulitzer in International Reporting today. Grateful that this courageous work was honored. Do read & watch:
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By analyzing photos of debris, structural damage & blood spatter, and video of the crash, we determined that flight #PS752 had turned around and was heading back twd Tehran airport when it crashed, some 10 miles from where its transponder last pinged
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Thanks for the incredible goodwill - we celebrate the recognition with you. Our contribution to this Pulitzer revealed Russia's heinous bombings of hospitals, markets, camps with evidence that may hold them to account. And it gave voice to the victims.
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Indonesian outlet @narasitv reconstructs the stampede and crush at the soccer stadium that killed over 130. Very clear footage in this 20-min documentary of police causing mayhem.
AKHIRNYA TAYANG!. Laporan investigasi visual Peristiwa Kanjuruhan sepanjang 25 menit. Terima kasih utk semua saksi dan penyintas yg mempercayakan raw material yg dimilikinya kepada kami. Ini kerja bersama.
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@MudThief @YousurAlhlou @MashaFroliak @ckoettl @heytherehaley @dim109 @ajcardia @NatalieReneau Here’s a gift link (and the video should be outside paywall if u can search for it.).
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Early on, when someone challenged the info he was transcribing and posting, Teixeira said: “The job I have lets me get privilege’s above most intel guys.”. Another Discord user wrote “dont abuse it.” . “Lmao too late,” Teixeira replied.
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NEW: Video confirms that 2 missiles fired 30s apart downed Ukraine International Flight #PS752, killing all aboard. With @evanchill @john_marquee @babimarcolini @tiefenthaler and thanks to @gianfiorella.
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What exactly happened before Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead in Feb.? I reviewed security and cellphone videos, 911 calls & police reports to retrace his steps, and those of three men who pursued him. More tmw.Video w/ @DrewJordan_NYT @dim109 & @tiefenthaeler.
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In retracing Ahmaud Arbery's final minutes, we found that he ran from two vehicles for 3-4 minutes, over & back along two roads. Thread: Here's how we sequenced videos with 911 calls, & police reports. Video w/ @DrewJordan_NYT @dim109 & @tiefenthaeler.
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When aid to Venezuela was torched, top U.S. officials - incl. Marco Rubio, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo - quickly seized on unverified claims that Maduro supporters did it. The claim went to the UNSC. Our video analysis offers a different explanation. They
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Further evidence of atrocities in Bucha while Russian forces occupied the town in March. An armored vehicle opens fire on a cyclist. Weeks later, after Russia left, the body was discovered beside the bicycle at this precise location. w @dim109 & @johnismay.
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We didn't include these scenes in the full documentary below. But they're chilling.
Several journalists were attacked during the riot on #January6th. A death threat was issued. A photographer was beaten, another thrown over a wall. Equipment was destroyed. This happened throughout the day and was reflective of the hostility to the press that has grown.
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On Friday, Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe shot Rayshard Brooks at a Wendy's drive-thru as he was running away w/ a Taser. Mr. Brooks died in hospital. What happened in the minutes before he was killed? @Tina_Kelso & I broke down the critical moments
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“From the frozen streets of Russia’s Far East and Siberia to the grand plazas of Moscow and St. Petersburg, tens of thousands of Russians rallied in support of the jailed opposition leader @navalny”
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We also examined 911 calls and police interviews with Taylor’s neighbors whose doorways are in the same breezeway. Investigators specifically asked if they heard police announce. None did. Some were asleep and woke to gunfire, not prologued police announcements.
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Some detail on the verification steps we typically take. We also ran it through a forensic video tool we use - it detected no modifications or imprints by video/audio editing software. Metadata was also consistent with the approximate time of the attack.
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The destruction of Gaza, in videos and satellite images. By @Josh_H, @NeilCollier, @NatalieReneau & @hanaansarhan.
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David “YaYa” McAtee, a popular Louisville BBQ owner, was killed by law enforcement on Monday. He was shot within 2 minutes of police and National Guardsmen arriving in west Louisville to enforce a curfew. The steps behind our analysis and findings are 👇
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'Rile up the Normies' — How Proud Boys crafted a specific plan for Jan. 6 and repeated the same tactics to instigate multiple breaches of the Capitol. A monthslong investigation by @NatalieReneau @_stella_cooper @alanfeuer distilled into 17 mins.
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Maher Mutreb, who led the operation, was a security guard who traveled widely with MBS and reported to MBS’s right hand man Saud Al-Qahtani. When Khashoggi was dead, Mutreb phoned Saudi Arabia. “Tell your boss,” he said, and “the deed is done”. Thread:
The UN report on Khashoggi's murder is really chilling. Combined with prior reporting, it shows state-coordinated premeditation, intent to kill and cover up. A thread on the chronology - and a helpful video reconstruct - are below
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My colleague @singhvianjali - who’s an architect and @nytgraphics reporter - used the photos and SWAT videos to precisely model Taylor’s apartment. We then catalogued each bullet hole, trajectory and possible corresponding image.
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A quick recap of the most impactful @nytimes visual investigations from our team in the past 12 months. First up: How bombs made in Italy killed a family in Yemen. With collaborators in both countries, @babimarcolini and I tracked 2 years of shipments +
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In fact, the U.S. has exported the coronavirus to dozens of countries as it allowed it to take hold in ICE detention centers and continued deportations.
Trump insists the Covid situation here would be much worse without his border wall, seemingly totally oblivious to how bad it already is
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Latest: Portland may be a test case for Trump's new federal task force. But their often unprovoked actions inflamed protests that for weeks had remained largely peaceful. With @tiefenthaeler @evanchill @bottidavid @trbrtc @heytherehaIey @DrewJordan_NYT
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Several Israeli shells hit Al Shifa Hospital on Friday during intense fighting in Gaza. Seven people were killed in at least four strikes on different parts of the sprawling complex. Latest with @NeilCollier. 🧵 .
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Long read: The UN may not make its Syria inquiry public or assign blame for attacks. We got their incident list and spent months investigating to determine culpability and make our findings public. The evidence-packed story is here:
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We counted 38 police/SWAT vehicles responding after the shooting. They *did* wear body cameras; we watched many hours of that footage. What stood out was the chaos, how SWAT was shocked the raid happened and the manner in which it did. Vice, ABC have shown more of those scenes.
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Jack Teixeira, accused of leaking classified documents, was fixated on weapons, mass shootings and shadowy conspiracy theories, our review of his chat history shows. By @AricToler @robinnyc7 @GlennThrush @riley_mellen @ishaan_jhavs @johnismay
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Here's the termination letter Detective Jaynes received for being untruthful in the information he provided to obtain the warrant, and not being present on the scene while it was executed. The three officers who fired their weapons that night were not part of the prior intel op.
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Gaza’s Deadly Night: investigating the Israeli military strikes that downed 2 apartment blocks killing 44 innocent people. A big collab. led by @whitney_hurst w/ the VI team, Soliman Hijjy @YousurAlhlou @patrickkingsley in Gaza, weapons expert @johnismay
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We laid out the movements of #JamalKhashoggi and the Saudi officials who reportedly arrived into Istanbul on the day he went missing. Reported and produced by @singhvianjali @trbrtc @carlottagall @simonelandon @aroyalbox @joshkellerjosh
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Sorry, that should be more than a year. 🧮. As he closed off his wider postings, he offered to DM information about other countries with non-U.S. members of the group upon request.
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Take a look inside #Sanafir_Tiran protests in Egypt & calls for end of military rule #جمعه_الارض
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"In the absence of significant military gains, Russian forces on Wednesday continued a campaign of terror against Ukrainian civilians."
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Gregory McMichael, one of the men accused of Ahmaud Arbery's murder last year, previously worked for the DA's office. Minutes after Arbery was killed, he called DA Johnson and said "I need some advice right away." Johnson has now been indicted for unfairly handling the case.
Ex-Glynn County District Attorney Jackie Johnson indicted for obstruction and violating her oath of office during investigation of Ahmaud Arbery's killing. @bradschrade #AhmaudArbery
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This is consistent with interviews The Times conducted and calls into question the assertion of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron who said police did knock and announce. For more on this watch The NYT Presents episode The Killing of Breonna Taylor.
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Our latest visual investigation examines what happened in the moments leading to the fatal shooting of David McAtee in Louisville on Monday by police and National Guardsmen. With @shaneisland @DrewJordan_NYT @CoraEngelbrecht @PatriciaMazzei
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The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam has made 200 documentary films available for free online #COVIDhack.
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"Is this a terrorist? You sons of dogs. You bastards," said the man holding a toddler just decapitated by a Russian airstrike on an IDP camp in Syria. The UN called this & another attack "war crimes." .Story with our video investigation into those strikes:
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A 40 minute visual investigation is publishing tomorrow, our longest yet. Have popcorn ready if you like. But have the sweeping brush handy. Jaws may occasionally hit the floor.
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Our question was simple: How is the Saudi crown prince linked to those accused of killing #JamalKhashoggi? Tenacious sleuthing by @ddknyt @NYTBen and viz. investigation team @bottidavid @babimarcolini @bianelkhatib @trbrtc @ckoettl @singhvianjali & more.
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Meanwhile, @NatalieReneau and I watched over testimony the police officers gave to investigators, and what some told SWAT officers right after, which allowed us to recreate - and question - what they said happened.
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This reconstruction merges exclusive video with Colombian security footage. A molotov rag veers toward the aid truck and most likely started the fire. By @ckoettl @deborahacosta @drewjordanphoto & @singhvianjali. Story with @caseysjournal:
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On @nytimes homepage now: Over 12,000 medical workers in Spain are infected with #Covid19. Facing a grave shortage in protective gear, these “health care kamikazes” show us how they make gowns & shields from trash bags & O.R. supplies. By @tiefenthaeler
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Three doctors and a nurse working intensive care in Lombardy spoke to @babimarcolini about dealing with the covid19 surge. Chilling account of what happened, and a lesson to emerging epicenters.
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1,100 rounds in 10 minutes. A timeline of tragedy in Las Vegas. Our latest visual forensics investigation.
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Louisville - Breonna Taylor’s family to receive $12m settlement for her killing by police in a botched raid in March. Police reforms to also be announced at 2pm. @rcallimachi with the story:
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1. For more than half a year, @babimarcolini and I have worked with tipsters in Italy and Yemen to follow bombs made in Sardinia to Saudi's Air Force and attacks on civilians in #Yemen.
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You can see all of our investigations on Bucha — and sign up for email alerts — on the Visual Investigations homepage here 👇.
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How tankers in a "dark fleet" spoof their true locations as they move $1bn in Russian oil to China, possibly running their western insurers afoul of sanctions. By @trbrtc @BlackiLi @ajcardia @muyixiao @bottidavid @markscheffler w/ Samir at @TankerTrackers
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Our team is grateful for the recognition. The work relies on witnesses, sources, collaborators & @nytimes colleagues who make visual investigations possible. Props @ckoettl @babimarcolini @trbrtc @evanchill @heytherehaIey @whitney_hurst @markscheffler @ndgauss @DrewJordan_NYT.
Polk Award for International Reporting: Mark Scheffler, Malachy Browne and the Visual Investigations Team of The New York Times for masterful mix of technology and ground reporting to bring important stories about Russia, Venezuela, North Korea, etc.
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LIVE: What is often thought of as a tipping point in the Capitol riot began when Ryan Samsel, a Trump supporter from Pennsylvania, approached Proud Boy leader Joe Biggs. The two men had a brief exchange immediately before Mr. Samsel confronted police.
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Cockpit tapes prove Russia bombed hospitals in Syria. Four in just one day. Our latest, with @trbrtc @evanchill @whitney_hurst @dim109 @DrewJordan_NYT @bottidavid @markscheffler @ndgauss & more
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Message from Idlib, Syria. After a hospital was destroyed, medics are rebuilding in a new neighborhood. But local residents don’t want it there - it will draw airstrikes. Such is the depravity of the military campaign.
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The missile that the IDF, US intel and several others believe caused the hospital blast was not launched from Gaza, but from Israel, our team found. Moreover, it exploded 2 miles away from the hospital and likely didn't cause the blast. Gift 🔗 & 🧵
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Moscow and Kyiv has each accused the other of war crimes after 11 Russian soldiers were killed at close range during an encounter in Makiivka, Luhansk. We examined the gruesome aerial and cellphone videos & spoke with legal experts. Here's what we know.
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LIVE: USCP officer Caroline Edwards is describing the arrival of Joe Biggs and the Proud Boys at the Peace Circle by a Capitol entrance. Biggs "started turning the tables on us," she said. Footage shows how she suffered a head injury as she was attacked.
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Rhetoric demonizing the press results in death threats and violence toward journalists, as witnessed on #January6th.
Del Bigtree once again invoking the Holocaust at the antivaxx rally in D.C., using it to threaten journalists and Dr. Fauci. "Unlike the Nuremberg Trials that only tried those doctors that destroyed the lives of those human beings, we're going to come after the press."
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USCP officer Caroline Edwards is describing an attack on officer Brian Sicknick. "He turned about as pale as a sheet of paper." Our investigation at the time showed how rioters attacked Officer Sicknick.
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We examined the autopsy reports and photos of Breonna Taylor. They were, of course, disturbing and heartbreaking. And the ballistics analysis in LMPD reports, evidence bags and the FBI reports.
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Six months ago today, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Our 40-minute investigative doc shows the riot for what it was - a violent assault encouraged by the president on a seat of democracy that he vowed to protect.
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Today in @nytimes print: 4 data-filled pages on hospital & civilian attacks in Syria, the UN's limited inquiry into these, and the perpetrators, which the UN will likely withhold. Design by @talasafie, @cgee and @gianordoli. Interactive here:
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Further info on Jack Teixeira, the Guard’s intelligence unit Airman who for months shared classified information online, according to group members and law enforcement officials.
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. at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi.
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