Peter Baker
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Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1 and proud father of @tab_delete. Co-Author of "THE DIVIDER."
Joined March 2010
As Trump opens his 2nd term it’s important to understand his 1st. “THE DIVIDER” w/@sbg1 now in paperback or Kindle goes behind the scenes of his first four years in the White House and helps explain what he will do in the next four https://t.co/xVuTRx700C
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The bestselling authors of argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired. brings us into the Oval Office for...
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After months of holding steady, Trump’s approval rating has slid to the lowest of his second term in recent weeks as voters sour on his handling of the economy, according to a @nytimes analysis of public polling. @RuthIgielnik @tylerpager
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The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump’s approval rating.
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Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record. https://t.co/Xfj2t7FGUv
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In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
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Trump national security strategy says US should stop "hectoring" repressive nations in the Middle East about human rights then goes on to hector democratically elected European nations about their domestic policies. @shearm @jeannasmialek @jakesNYT
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America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National Security Strategy.
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Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site. @Katmarwong
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NPS changed its free admission days in 2026, removing MLK Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday.
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In a victory for RFK Jr. in his war against vaccines, a federal panel ends the decades-old recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease. @apoorva_nyc
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In a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee decided to limit at-birth hepatitis B shots to babies whose mothers are infected with the...
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How the self-styled "President of PEACE" held an event bringing together Congo and Rwanda "in the midst of a full-blown Washington scandal over the conduct of his newly renamed Department of War and the former TV host who leads it, Pete Hegseth." @sbg1
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The outcry grows over Trump's undeclared war in the Caribbean.
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Supreme Court clears the way for Texas lawmakers to use newly redrawn congressional maps favoring Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections, once again overturning a lower court to hand victory to Trump. @AbbieVanSickle
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Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.
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Grand jury in Virginia refuses to re-indict Letitia James, another embarrassing setback for Trump's campaign of retribution against his political enemies. @DevlinBarrett
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After a judge dismissed the Trump administration’s first attempt to indict the attorney general of New York State, a new grand jury effort failed, according to people familiar with the matter.
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"America's diplomatic capacity is being decimated from within": Survey finds that 98% of America's professional diplomats say that workplace morale has fallen since Trump took office again in January. @michaelcrowley
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A new survey found that 98 percent of Foreign Service officers felt lower morale. Only 1 percent reported an increased ability to carry out U.S. foreign policy.
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The @nytimes and @julianbarnes sue Hegseth's Pentagon over its new set of rules seeking to stifle independent reporting on the military, arguing that it "violates the Constitution’s guarantees of due process, freedom of speech and freedom of the press." https://t.co/rqDw2Hsq10
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The lawsuit said the Defense Department’s new set of rules for journalists “violates the Constitution’s guarantees of due process, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”
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Trump's White House gutted the Institute of Peace, fired its staff and called it a "bloated, useless entity." Now Trump has renamed the institute he tried to destroy after himself. @aishvaryakavi
nytimes.com
Workers installed the president’s name on the Washington institute, thrusting it back into the spotlight as it is set to host the signing of a peace deal between Rwanda and Congo.
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Herseth endangered troops by using the unsecure Signal app to discuss plans to attack the Houthis early this year, inspector general concludes after months of investigation. @RobertJimison @meganmineiro @johnismay
nytimes.com
An inspector general report to be released on Thursday examined the defense secretary’s use of a private messaging app to discuss airstrikes in Yemen.
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Republicans hang onto House seat in Tennessee special election but their 9-point margin of victory in a deep-red district that Trump won by 22 points underscored the party's weakened position. @ShaneGoldmacher @ESCochrane
nytimes.com
Matt Van Epps fended off a Democrat to protect Republicans’ slim House majority, but the relatively close margin in a red district sent the party a warning shot before the 2026 midterms.
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Trump unleashes xenophobic tirade against Somalis, branding them "garbage" in an outburst that was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry even for a president known for his history of insulting Black people, write @KannoYoungs and @ShawnMcCreesh
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President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.
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While the Trump team defends killing suspected drug dealers who have not been convicted of anything, the convicted drug trafficking former president of Honduras is released from prison by a Trump pardon. @WRashbaum @maggieNYT @Jonesieman
nytimes.com
Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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A stat worth knowing: McKinsey the consulting firm has more employees than there are journalists of any kind in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://t.co/fZqNYFMo1O
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He was regular beaten with a plastic pipe and survived on a paltry diet of ground-up fish heads: The horrors of Ukraine's "civilian hostages" seized and held in Russia's modern gulag. @gettleman
nytimes.com
Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.
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Trump’s job approval rating has fallen five percentage points to 36%, the lowest of his second term, while disapproval has risen to 60%, per @Gallup
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President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
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Under Trump, 591 books by Black authors have been banned from Pentagon-run schools and libraries, according to Onyx Impact. @DelanoMassey
axios.com
In the last year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted pillars of America's civil rights protections.
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