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National Security reporter @Reuters. Reported from 60+ countries including Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, China [email protected] Signal: philstewart.23
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Joined August 2010
Today marks the first day without the press corps inside the Pentagon because Pete Hegseth and this Administration can’t tolerate the constitutional scrutiny owed to the American people. Another chip taken out of the foundation of our democracy.
As of today, America no longer has a resident press corps at the Pentagon. Here is the statement from the Pentagon Press Association. Please read and share.
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As of today, America no longer has a resident press corps at the Pentagon. Here is the statement from the Pentagon Press Association. Please read and share.
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How the Houthis rule in Yemen: prisons, a personality cult, and pilfered food aid -
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Yemenis who fled Houthi areas of this divided country paint a grim picture of life under the militant group. People are forced to attend rallies and chant death to America and Israel, pay crippling...
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Starting Wednesday, for the first time since the Pentagon opened in 1943, there will be likely no major news outlets accredited to cover the dept, the one spending nearly $1 trillion of taxpayer money. Why? This Pentagon Press Association explains it best. Please read.
Strong statement from the Pentagon Press Association, noting that most members on Wednesday will have their credentials confiscated by the Pentagon and won’t be given new ones because the reporters can’t and won’t “acknowledge a policy that gags Pentagon employees and threatens
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Reuters isn't signing. Here is the statement: Reuters is bound by its commitment to accurate, impartial and independent news under the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. We also steadfastly believe in the press protections afforded by the U.S. Constitution, the unrestricted flow
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Strong statement from the Pentagon Press Association, noting that most members on Wednesday will have their credentials confiscated by the Pentagon and won’t be given new ones because the reporters can’t and won’t “acknowledge a policy that gags Pentagon employees and threatens
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NPR joins NYT, CNN, WaPo, WSJ and Newsmax in rejecting Pentagon press policy NPR Editor in chief Tommy Evans: "NPR will never be party to limitations on the independence of the press and the objective, fact-based reporting of our journalists." MORE: https://t.co/v4VlUBGufT
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NPR reporters will not sign the Pentagon's rules issued on Friday, September 19
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As Pentagon prepares to confiscate reporters' badges, White House and State Department reporters' associations issue statement in strong solidarity with national security correspondents: "The public has a right to know how the government is conducting the people's business."
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CAIRO - Three Qatari diplomats were killed in a car crash near Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, two security sources told Reuters on Sunday.
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(Reuters) - Egypt will host an international summit in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday to finalise an agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza, an Egyptian presidential spokesperson said on Saturday. The summit will be attended by more than 20 leaders,
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(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Joe Biden is receiving radiation therapy for his prostate cancer diagnosed in May, a spokesperson for the former president said on Saturday.
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The New York Times will no longer have accredited journalists at the Pentagon because of threats "to punish them for ordinary news gathering."
A statement from The New York Times on the Pentagon’s press pass policy:
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Colombia's President Petro says last vessel bombed by US was Colombian, not Venezuelan
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Very strong and important statement from the Pentagon Press Association about how its members may soon lose their credentials. Please read and share. A free press matters.
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(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has called off efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Venezuela and told his special envoy Richard Grenell to stop all outreach, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing officials. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has
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Trump says US will start striking drug traffickers on land because, after yet another strike last night on a boat off Venezuela, "they're not coming in by sea anymore, so now we'll have to start looking about the land because they'll be forced to go by land."
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(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has signed a decree granting him additional security powers in case of a military incursion into the country, the nation's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, said on Monday.
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(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday not to attack Qatar again in the future during a phone call with the Qatari prime minister and U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a readout from the Qatari foreign ministry.
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Listening with dismay to discussions in Europe about blithely creating a drone wall to protect against Russian drones. An impervious wall cannot be created; it is a dangerous illusion. Military drones could be built and launched from a warehouse in Germany. There must be a
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