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Chief photographer for The Associated Press in the Deep South. Winner 2021 Pulitzer prize also part 107 drone pilot.

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Trump considers cutting US refugee intake to 7,500, focusing on white South Africans, officials say President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugee into the U.S. this year – as few as 7,500, and mostly white Afrikaners.

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07.10.2025 02:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency

‘Bow to the Emperor’:We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

06.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore.

Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

05.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

04.10.2025 13:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gig Drivers Win the Right to Unionize in California

Gig Drivers Win the Right to Unionize in California www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

04.10.2025 04:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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03.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

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03.10.2025 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored.

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03.10.2025 02:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants' This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

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02.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside Georgia governor's response to federal raid at Hyundai battery plant As an unprecedented federal immigration raid descended on Georgia’s most prized economic project, Gov. Brian Kemp and his staff scrambled to get a handle on the crisis.

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01.10.2025 13:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Georgia's highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community Georgia's highest court is siding with Black landowners in a zoning dispute affecting a historic Gullah-Geechee community.

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30.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump calls for using US cities as 'training ground' for military in unusual speech to generals President Donald Trump is proposing using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces. He's suggesting U.S. military might be deployed against what he describes as the “invasion from with...

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30.09.2025 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gunman opens fire at Michigan church and sets it ablaze, killing at least 4 and wounding 8 The shooting happened Sunday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about 50 miles north of Detroit.

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29.09.2025 10:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FACT CHECK: AP's director of climate news breaks down Trump's remarks at the UN on climate change This week, addressing the United Nations, President Donald Trump made several false claims about climate change, including that it didn’t actually exist.

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26.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FACT CHECK: AP's director of climate news breaks down Trump's remarks at the UN on climate change This week, addressing the United Nations, President Donald Trump made several false claims about climate change, including that it didn’t actually exist.

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26.09.2025 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Will Slap Tariffs on Imported Drugs, Trucks and Household Furnishings

Trump Will Slap Tariffs on Imported Drugs, Trucks and Household Furnishings www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

26.09.2025 17:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UN adds 68 companies to blacklist for alleged complicity in rights violations in Israeli settlements The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Isra...

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26.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump's team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter President Donald Trump used an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter at the United Nations to paint the global body as dysfunctional.

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26.09.2025 02:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Microsoft reduces Israel's access to cloud and AI products over reports of mass surveillance in Gaza Microsoft said it has disabled services to a unit within the Israeli military after a company review had determined its artificial intelligence and cloud computing products were being used to help car...

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26.09.2025 02:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Will Slap Tariffs on Imported Drugs, Trucks and Household Furnishings

Trump Will Slap Tariffs on Imported Drugs, Trucks and Household Furnishings www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

26.09.2025 01:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle Claims It Tricked Prime Customers

Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle Claims It Tricked Prime Customers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

25.09.2025 15:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

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24.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism.

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23.09.2025 05:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More experts are calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide. But others note that's a court's call A growing number of experts have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies.

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23.09.2025 05:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pentagon steps up media restrictions, now requiring approval before reporting even unclassified info The Pentagon is stepping up restrictions on the media by requiring journalists to sign a pledge not to report on information that has not been authorized for release, including unclassified informatio...

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22.09.2025 21:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ABC ends Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and his show will return Tuesday ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after suspending it due to his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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22.09.2025 21:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Supreme Court will weigh expanding Trump’s power to shape agencies by overturning 90-year-old ruling The Supreme Court will consider expanding President Donald Trump’s power to shape independent agencies by overturning a nearly century-old decision limiting when presidents can fire board members.

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22.09.2025 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Silence Dissent, Bit by Bit Until Fear Takes Over

How to Silence Dissent, Bit by Bit Until Fear Takes Over www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

22.09.2025 17:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At Kirk Service, an Extraordinary Fusion of Government and Christianity

At Kirk Service, an Extraordinary Fusion of Government and Christianity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

21.09.2025 22:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump ramps up retribution campaign with push for Bondi to pursue cases against his foes Eight months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s long-standing pledge to take on those he perceives as his political enemies has prompted debates over free speech, media censorship and poli...

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21.09.2025 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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