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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."

Is the Epstein Scandal Trump’s Kryptonite? Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 11/15/2025 · 39m

Just the person to talk to this week for our @newyorker.com pod w/ @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social about Trump, Epstein, and the changing Washington scandal — the legendary @misikoff.bsky.social

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.

Updated: Our tracker on the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, with 20th strike disclosed by Southcom, the Pentagon outpost in Miami.

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NO ONE, EVER: "What I really want is a car that can sense my key and open the trunk whenever I'm within six feet of it."

CAR DESIGNERS: "Oh that's a great idea."

Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants

GIFT LINK: America’s Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday rebuked the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in a rare and near-unanimous statement that framed the immigration crisis in starkly moral terms. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.

NEW: How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters, by @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Cleto Escobedo III, Jimmy Kimmel’s Bandleader, Dies at 59

Kimmel said that he and Escobedo, who led Cleto and the Cletones on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” had been “inseparable since I was 9 years old.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/a...

Executions and Mass Casualties: Videos Show Horror Unfolding in Sudan

The videos surfacing online from Sudan are horrifying, and I say this as a journalist who has sadly become an expert on violent videos and images uploaded to the internet over the last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions

Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fruit.

NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food.

“It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.

Bishops With Ties to Trump Commission Criticize Treatment of Immigrants

Two bishops with ties to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, including Bishop Robert Barron, criticized the administration’s treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Live Updates: New Jersey Elects Sherrill Governor as Democrats Pick Up Key Wins

Mikie Sherrill elected governor of New Jersey after a campaign that pounded away at her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, for his allegiance to Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Opinion | Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness? Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill are strong contenders to be the next governors of Virginia and New Jersey.

Re-upping my column from last year on @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA. A really fun interview. -- Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Virginia Governor Election Results 2025: Abigail Spanberger, Winsome Earle-Sears Get live results and maps from the 2025 Virginia Governor election.

Follow live results from the Virginia governor election.

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Our forecasting model now sees Spanberger finishing with around 57 percent of the vote.

Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103

“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.”

We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

Opinion | Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level The Young Republicans’ Telegram chat was revealing in so many ways.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The private conversations in the Young Republicans’ Telegram chat were only marginally more racist and hateful than the language that’s out in the open, common on the most popular podcasts in America,” our columnist David French writes.

I love this story 😊

Scenes From a Day of Mass Protests

GIFT LINK: Scenes from a day of mass protests. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played. Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.

Save money during Amazon's Prime Days? Not so much. "I would have saved, on average, almost nothing during Amazon’s recent fall “Prime Big Deal Days” — and for some big-ticket purchases, I would have actually paid more," @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social found. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Greetings from Printers’ Row Lit Fest in Chicago. Please join me at 4 PM CT today, when I will be discussing my book, “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.”

The great @mikeallen remembers the same: "After a Bush speech, the newspaper reporters would be struggling with their leads when suddenly the gym (or wherever we were filing) was engulfed with the voice of Knoller ... with an efficient, insightful take." www.axios.com/newsletters/...

In Secret Diaries, the Church Shooter’s Plans for Mass Murder

The diaries of the Minnesota school shooter go for over 250 pages. I've spent the last few days reading them. The writing is full of self-hatred, detailed planning, and obsessions with inflicting pain & suffering.

From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...

How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions (Gift Article) The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.

Trump is using emergency powers more than his predecessors. On average, presidents have declared about seven national emergencies per four-year term. Trump declared that many during his first month in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions (Gift Article) The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.

Trump is using emergency powers more than his predecessors. On average, presidents have declared seven national emergencies per four-year term. Trump declared that many in his first month. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...