Michael Standaert
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Correspondent with North Dakota News Cooperative. @NDNewsCoop As of April 2022, back in the US after 16 years in China. Reach out at [email protected]
Bismarck, North Dakota
Joined September 2008
Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to https://t.co/ngHEzRoJGa via @NiemanLab
niemanlab.org
For a new report released Wednesday, the Pew Research Center surveyed 3,560 U.S. adults in December 2025 about their relationship to the news and how they perceive its value in everyday life. Pew...
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IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS
washingtonpost.com
The tax agency only recently discovered it improperly disclosed tax information on thousands of the wrong people to immigration enforcement.
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Jeffrey Epstein Arranged Employment for Romantic Partner at Top U.S. Think Tank https://t.co/i0BDvG5NqT via @OCCRP
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Emails show Epstein helped a girlfriend obtain roles at the International Peace Institute, a New York-base think tank, and may even have subsidized her salary at one point.
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She bounced a $25 check in 2014. ICE tried to deport her.
washingtonpost.com
A Missouri grandma and lawful resident spent months in detention for a decade-old misdemeanor, underscoring the massive scope of the administration’s deportation efforts.
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Proud to be American? Enten runs the numbers https://t.co/PgAVWcTvHR via @YouTube
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Talks pick up ahead of DHS shutdown deadline
semafor.com
Democratic leaders criticized the White House’s latest offer as “incomplete and insufficient.”
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Report: U.S. added nearly $700 billion to national debt in four months https://t.co/MM6iUFoRo5 via @thecentersquare
thecentersquare.com
(The Center Square) – The U.S. government added $696 billion to the national debt over the past four months, borrowing $94 billion in the month of January alone, the Congressional
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4 reasons China and other foreign investors may retreat from the U.S. https://t.co/2uZXpS1XTd
#axiosmarkets
axios.com
China is reportedly telling its banks to cut back on buying U.S. Treasury securities.
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Podesta joins others to "reimagine" public lands policy https://t.co/rAiOCYIIv8
#axiosfutureofenergy
axios.com
Ground Shift is quite different from existing groups working to sway management of vast swaths of public lands.
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Trump wants to run the economy hot, as midterm elections approach
washingtonpost.com
The administration predicts an economic boom that will lift Republicans in November’s congressional elections, driven by big tax refunds and investment incentives.
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ICE activity is pushing readers to nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities https://t.co/256kpXjYrN via @NiemanLab
niemanlab.org
From Somalis in Minneapolis to Nepalis in New York City, immigrant communities turn to trusted local news sources. Here's our regular ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States.
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3 Policy Moves Likely to Change Health Care for Older People
nytimes.com
Two regulatory rollbacks, along with a new A.I. experiment in Medicare, raise some worrisome questions.
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
nytimes.com
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S....
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Famine is threatening more of war-torn Sudan’s Darfur region as an attack in the south kills 22
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A global hunger monitoring group says that famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region, where acute malnutrition has been registered in two more towns there.
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Sons of top Trump administration officials made billions for their families in crypto ventures, but their investors didn’t always fare so well. https://t.co/mla2guCeJQ via @WSJ
wsj.com
Sons of top Trump administration officials made billions for their families, but their investors didn’t always fare so well.
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