We determined the real damage to U.S. military bases, despite satellite imagery restrictions, swirling misinformation online and little information from U.S. officials.nytimes.com/video/world/mi…
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Robert Libetti
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Robert Libetti
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NY Times Visual Investigations | Nieman '25 Fellow at Harvard | Previously EP WSJ video investigations, documentaries | Pizza-eater, cyclist.
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Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/… via @NYTimes
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Important reporting from @malachybrowne .
Malachy Browne@malachybrowne
Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…
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This is the first official announcement of deaths and injuries of US troops in this war.
U.S. Central Command@CENTCOM
CENTCOM Update TAMPA, Fla. – As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury. Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions — and are in the process of being returned to duty. Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing. The situation is fluid, so out of respect for the families, we will withhold additional information, including the identities of our fallen warriors, until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.
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Commercial ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed sharply. There's a 70% drop per @DimAmpatzidis, who analyzed @Kpler ship-tracking data. The majority of vessels had done U-turns, diverted to alternative routes or begun idling nearby. nytimes.com/2026/02/28/wor…
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This is absolutely nuts. The British Columbia school shooter's ChatGPT messages weren't just flagged by the automated system, but **a dozen OpenAI employees reviewed and debated them**
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Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino said today that Second Amendment protections do not apply when federal officers believe they are being obstructed or assaulted, even as he offered no evidence that Alex Pretti engaged in such conduct before he was shot and killed in Minneapolis yesterday. cnn.com/us/live-news/m…
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NEW and EXCLUSIVE: As we know, Trump's DOJ has reversed a longstanding norm and picked some its targets for criminal investigations based on who the targets were before evidence was collected. Now, we have reporting showing that Trump's DOJ followed a similar playbook for how it decided which universities it should target in its unprecedented war on higher education. w/@MichaelCBender @alanblinder nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/…
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New from the @nytimes Visual Investigations team: Detailed, second-by-second video analysis of all of the video footage of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
From @robinnyc7, @devonjlum, @dim109, @ajcardia, Jeff Bernier, and me.
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The latest careful analysis by NYT Visual Investigations team sheds new light on key moments of the Minneapolis ICE shooting: nytimes.com/video/us/10000…
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NEW: A classified CIA assessment concluded senior figures within Maduro’s inner circle—including VP Delcy Rodríguez—would be better positioned to lead a temporary government in Caracas than Machado’s opposition if Maduro left power.
With @alexbward @dnvolz
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UPDATE: Trump just said on Air Force One that the U.S. is "in charge" of Venezuela, despite Rubio veering away from any suggestion of direct control earlier. Trump also said the post-Maduro leaders must give him "total access" to the oil. Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/01/04/us/…
Edward Wong@ewong
Breaking: Rubio said the US Navy will keep up a "quarantine" of some Venezuelan oil exports to coerce Maduro's allies to open up the oil industry. A White House official said that's what Trump meant when he said the US will "run" Venezuela. It's the new gunboat diplomacy.
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wsj.com/world/russia/r… Bonkers reporting from @WSJ's @drewhinshaw @benoitfaucon @rebeccaballhaus @tggrove @JoeWSJ under the leadership of @csstewart. A must read.
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Hold on, so Steve Witkoff was participating in the Signal group discussing war plans against Houthis while being physically in Moscow, perhaps even in the Kremlin? He met Putin late on March 13.
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News: NPR’s Tom Bowman reports of a Pentagon-wide warning about Signal’s security vulnerability - one week ago 👇🏼
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The Signal app itself has high encryption. But if your phone is inside Russia, and especially if your WiFi and Bluetooth are not disabled, Russia can see what is inside your phone pretty easily.
Yaroslav Trofimov@yarotrof
That particular Signal chat, as per Atlantic’s @JeffreyGoldberg , was set up at 16:28 on March 13. Witkoff was wrapping up his Moscow visit then and his plane departed a few hours later. Of course, we don’t know what other USG Signal and WhatsApp groups were running in parallel.
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It is fair to assume that Russia and China have been monitoring all the USG principals’ discussions on every aspect of national security policy if they are carried out in Signal and WhatsApp groups…
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Trump was regaling donors at Mar-a-Lago about all his administration was doing for the crypto industry when he turned to a more personal element: all the crypto money he is making as president. He marveled at how much $ his memecoin could bring in and asked the audience if they knew what the coin was worth. (The answer: a market cap of $13 billion.)
How Trump came to embrace crypto, politically and personally, w/@jdawsey1 @elizacollins1:
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Hand selecting the media outlets allowed to cover a president is an affront to press freedom reminiscent of the authoritarian tactics I experienced working in Iran.
Eugene Daniels@EugeneDaniels2
WHCA STATEMENT ON WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCEMENT
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