Hannah McCarthy

Opinion | Trump Is Turning the F.C.C. and F.T.C. Against Free Expression Trump appointees have transformed the F.T.C. and F.C.C. into instruments of ideological enforcement.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Under President Trump, the FTC and FCC are “engaged in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas,” writes the editorial board.

The killing of cartel kingpin Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera should relieve pressure from Donald Trump. But Sheinbaum's move has also created political and security hazards at home. ft.trib.al/jfKLYXo

‘We could see the smoke rising’: Irish family on holiday in Mexican resort town engulfed in violence Paul Kenny’s planned route home showed burnt-out cars along the side of a highway

‘We could see the smoke rising’: Irish family on holiday in Mexican resort town engulfed in violence

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Former ICE instructor says agency slashed training for new officers A former instructor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the agency has cut “vital classes” from mandatory training for new officers.

Breaking news: A former ICE instructor accused the agency of dramatically slashing training standards for new officers and lying to Congress about it as the Trump administration seeks to rapidly expand its mass deportation operation.

‘I want to see the final chapter of this’: Cubans demand change but fear US military action Cubans face hyper-inflation, crumbling homes and social services, mass emigration, and now fuel shortages triggered by a Trump administration focused on regime change

‘I want to see the final chapter of this’: Cubans demand change but fear US military action

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‘The city is like a ghost town’: Inside Cuba’s tourism collapse as fuel runs dry Cuba has received no oil or fuel for a month after US president Donald Trump cut off Venezuelan supplies and pressed Mexico to stop shipments

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I spoke to Cubans hoping for change as the fuel crisis grinds daily life to a halt in Havana. In today’s @irishtimes.com

How an Embittered Brit Decimated the Washington Post Inside Will Lewis’s disastrous attempts to revitalize the paper.

must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...

‘The city is like a ghost town’: Inside Cuba’s tourism collapse as fuel runs dry Cuba has received no oil or fuel for a month after US president Donald Trump cut off Venezuelan supplies and pressed Mexico to stop shipments

My latest from Havana for @irishtimes.com

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‘The city is like a ghost town’: Inside Cuba’s tourism collapse as fuel runs dry Cuba has received no oil or fuel for a month after US president Donald Trump cut off Venezuelan supplies and pressed Mexico to stop shipments

‘The city is like a ghost town’: Inside Cuba’s tourism collapse as fuel runs dry

I will be on the 6.1 news on @news.rte.ie talking to Tommy Meskil about the crisis in Cuba.

Electricity cuts exacerbated by US measures against fuel exports to Cuba have also reduced the opening hours of many banks.

High inflation, limited high-denomination banknotes, and fewer deposits being made at Cuban banks have forced residents to wait hours to withdraw of up to the Cuban peso equivalent of ten US dollars.

This trash accumulation, combined with a shortage of fuel for trucks and a lack of insecticide, has caused a surge in infectious diseases and some pretty bad smelling streets in Havana. #Cuba

Havana is currently facing a public health hazard driven by a collapse in regular waste collection, resulting in large accumulations of garbage on streets and sidewalks.

Over the past few months, video footage circulating on social media has repeatedly shown US citizens who have tried to film ICE agents on their phones being pushed, pepper sprayed, threatened with arrest and occasionally detained. ft.trib.al/q3kzNQC

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

A fire tore through a mall in Karachi this past weekend, leaving at least 23 people dead and dozens missing. The fire, which burned for nearly 24 hours, is the latest tragedy that urban planners and shopkeepers blamed on mismanagement in Pakistan’s largest city. nyti.ms/4pQZB1D

We are going to need to see that wedding video

An Irish woman living in a kibbutz in Israel remembers Jewish life in Dublin Trudy Davis’s grandfather settled in Cork in 1903 after a Yiddish-speaking family told him he was in Ireland, not the US

An Irish woman living in a kibbutz in Israel remembers Jewish life in Dublin

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Inside Schillings’ Dublin expansion and its bet on reputation, tech and defamation - The Currency It’s a busy mid-week evening at Peploe’s on St Stephen’s Green. I’m sitting at a table with several lawyers from media law firm Schillings after attending a legal conference earlier that day. Two tabl...

I spoke to lawyers and consultants at Schillings about the media law firm's expansion into Ireland and the business of reputation management for The Currency.

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Black gold: How did Maduro and Venezuela become a target of Trump? “They took our oil away from us,” Donald Trump said.

Black gold: How did Maduro and Venezuela become a target of Trump?

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Venezuela: There will be few tears for Maduro but Trump’s military gamble risks bloody chaos “Even George W. Bush sought and received congressional approval for America’s disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003.”

Venezuela: There will be few tears for Maduro but Trump’s military gamble risks bloody chaos

My piece for @thejournal.ie

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I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.

The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)

A visit to the Éamon de Valera forest in northern Israel.

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A visit to the Éamon de Valera forest in northern Israel.

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Inside Israel’s forgotten Éamon de Valera forest and a vanished chapter of Irish-Israeli relations A neglected woodland in northern Israel offers a window into Éamon de Valera’s legacy and a lost moment of Irish-Israeli goodwill

A stone sign near Kfar Kana once identified the Éamon de Valera Forest. No one can say what happened to it.

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How Éamon de Valera came to be honoured with a forest in Israel — and why it’s now forgotten A neglected woodland in northern Israel offers a window into Éamon de Valera’s legacy and a lost moment of Irish-Israeli goodwill

As a debate in Ireland raged over re-naming Herzog Park in Dublin, I visited the 'Éamon de Valera Grove' in northern Israel.

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