Amanda Holpuch
@holpuch.bsky.social
Reporter at The New York Times. Previously at The Guardian US.
Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say
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November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
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November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Courtney Williams, a Minnesota Lynx all-star, wears sneakers made by Moolah Kicks, a relatively new women’s basketball shoe company. She was fined four times by the WNBA for wearing them.
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A W.N.B.A. Star Loves These Sneakers. She Gets Fined for Wearing Them.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Courtney Williams, a Minnesota Lynx all-star, wears sneakers made by Moolah Kicks, a relatively new women’s basketball shoe company. She was fined four times by the WNBA for wearing them.
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"In March, Mr. Hatch testified, he formed a 'tiger team,' or a specialized task force, to respond to abrupt orders that he rush analysis on thousands of people whose names and identities had been published by Canary Mission." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists
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July 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"In March, Mr. Hatch testified, he formed a 'tiger team,' or a specialized task force, to respond to abrupt orders that he rush analysis on thousands of people whose names and identities had been published by Canary Mission." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
Customer charged $195 for A.I.-detected damage: “It could have been a shadow. We were pulling it up on the app, and we’re like, ‘This is so bananas.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/t...
A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car
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July 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Customer charged $195 for A.I.-detected damage: “It could have been a shadow. We were pulling it up on the app, and we’re like, ‘This is so bananas.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/t...
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Protesters in all 50 states marched against President Trump's policies on Saturday as Trump held a military parade in Washington. Read more: https://trib.al/JnBJSdw
June 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Protesters in all 50 states marched against President Trump's policies on Saturday as Trump held a military parade in Washington. Read more: https://trib.al/JnBJSdw
“It is clear that the bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way,” Ms. Petersen wrote in her farewell email. “While I wish you all the best, I worry for American consumers.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
CFPB Official Quits With Fiery Email
The Trump administration has frozen the agency’s work and abandoned most of its lawsuits against banks and lenders.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“It is clear that the bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way,” Ms. Petersen wrote in her farewell email. “While I wish you all the best, I worry for American consumers.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
Gavin Newsom says the president's claim that the two men spoke by phone yesterday is false. Newsom's spokesman told The Times that he had personally looked through the governor's cell phone and that there was “No missed call. No voicemail. Nothing.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Update from Laurel Rosenhall
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June 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Gavin Newsom says the president's claim that the two men spoke by phone yesterday is false. Newsom's spokesman told The Times that he had personally looked through the governor's cell phone and that there was “No missed call. No voicemail. Nothing.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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National Institutes of Health Workers Denounce Trump Administration's ‘Harmful’ Policies
In a scathing letter, employees accused the administration of illegally withholding money, endangering study participants and censoring research. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
In a scathing letter, employees accused the administration of illegally withholding money, endangering study participants and censoring research. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies
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June 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
National Institutes of Health Workers Denounce Trump Administration's ‘Harmful’ Policies
In a scathing letter, employees accused the administration of illegally withholding money, endangering study participants and censoring research. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
In a scathing letter, employees accused the administration of illegally withholding money, endangering study participants and censoring research. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are "running what amounts to a conspiracy theory fulfillment center with unstocked shelves, critics say." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’
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June 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are "running what amounts to a conspiracy theory fulfillment center with unstocked shelves, critics say." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
"People making over $500,000 on their latest return were more than twice as likely to be audited compared with the same point in the audit cycle in previous years." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...
Biden’s I.R.S. Doubled Audits on the Wealthy, Data Shows
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June 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"People making over $500,000 on their latest return were more than twice as likely to be audited compared with the same point in the audit cycle in previous years." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...
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Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests
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May 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
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Once drawn to the U.S. as a haven, some int'l students find it is not the bedrock of free speech they expected. “That respect in the American system has kind of faded away and been replaced with this bitter animosity."
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For Some International Students, U.S. Dreams Dim Under Trump
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May 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Once drawn to the U.S. as a haven, some int'l students find it is not the bedrock of free speech they expected. “That respect in the American system has kind of faded away and been replaced with this bitter animosity."
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"When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Tried to Derail Our Work. We Banded Together and Moved Forward. (Gift Article)
When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.
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April 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
The N.S.F. said it was terminating awards that were not in line with its priorities, "including but not limited to awards focused on D.E.I. as well as misinformation and disinformation." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
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April 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The N.S.F. said it was terminating awards that were not in line with its priorities, "including but not limited to awards focused on D.E.I. as well as misinformation and disinformation." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
"Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where?
The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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DHS denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered in New York on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Instead, he experienced the birth of his son by telephone from Jena, La. It is unclear when he will be able to see the baby.
Instead, he experienced the birth of his son by telephone from Jena, La. It is unclear when he will be able to see the baby.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
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April 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
DHS denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered in New York on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Instead, he experienced the birth of his son by telephone from Jena, La. It is unclear when he will be able to see the baby.
Instead, he experienced the birth of his son by telephone from Jena, La. It is unclear when he will be able to see the baby.
“It’s totally silly,” Dani Rodrik, an economist who studies globalization at Harvard University, said of Mr. Trump’s focus on bilateral deficits. “There’s no other way to say it, it makes no sense.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...
Trump’s Tariff Goal Is to Eliminate Trade Deficits. Economists Have Doubts.
Behind Trump’s new tariffs is a goal that is as ambitious as it is unrealistic: eliminating the bilateral trade deficit with every U.S. trading partner.
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April 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“It’s totally silly,” Dani Rodrik, an economist who studies globalization at Harvard University, said of Mr. Trump’s focus on bilateral deficits. “There’s no other way to say it, it makes no sense.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...
The Times spoke with demonstrators in cities including Albany, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore and Ketchum, Idaho. Some said it was their first protest ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
Anti-Trump Protests Get Underway Across the Country
Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.
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April 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The Times spoke with demonstrators in cities including Albany, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore and Ketchum, Idaho. Some said it was their first protest ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
A former U.S.A.I.D. employee said an estimated $27 million worth of family planning products are stuck at places including warehouses and ports with no employees or programs left to unload them or hand them over to governments. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Millions of Women Will Lose Access to Contraception as a Result of Trump Aid Cuts
The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.
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April 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A former U.S.A.I.D. employee said an estimated $27 million worth of family planning products are stuck at places including warehouses and ports with no employees or programs left to unload them or hand them over to governments. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
"Syrians are proud of their rich culinary traditions, but not precious about allowing them to evolve. There are now olives in the fattoush salad. Onions in the shawarma. Parsley in the hummus. And then there is marook." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...
A Traditional Ramadan Treat Gets a Modern Remake (but Good Luck Getting It)
Marook, a sweet bread eaten during Ramadan in Syria, used to be a simple loaf, but now the list of choices can be as long as the lines of customers.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Syrians are proud of their rich culinary traditions, but not precious about allowing them to evolve. There are now olives in the fattoush salad. Onions in the shawarma. Parsley in the hummus. And then there is marook." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...
"Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...
For Some Measles Patients, Vitamin A Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Them More Ill
After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...
The Guardian talked to nine Panther cubs across the U.S. "All have shared intimate stories about their exceptional childhoods, born to parents who challenged America’s white establishment in a bid for what they saw as Black self-determination." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther cubs know
The Black Panthers shook America awake before the party was eviscerated by the US government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride and burning lessons for today
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March 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The Guardian talked to nine Panther cubs across the U.S. "All have shared intimate stories about their exceptional childhoods, born to parents who challenged America’s white establishment in a bid for what they saw as Black self-determination." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
“Whatever people are reading in newspapers, it’s 10 times worse,” one scientist at the National Institutes of Health said. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
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March 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Whatever people are reading in newspapers, it’s 10 times worse,” one scientist at the National Institutes of Health said. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
"By limiting resources, the cutbacks pare back work meant to prevent problems and to focus efforts on cases in which someone was already hurt or killed, Darin Detwiler, a food safety consultant and associate professor at Northeastern University, said." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/h...
Food Safety Jeopardized by Onslaught of Funding and Staff Cuts (Gift Article)
The Trump administration halted some food testing and shut down a committee studying bacteria in infant formula. Earlier funding cutbacks under the Biden administration now threaten state labs and ins...
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March 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"By limiting resources, the cutbacks pare back work meant to prevent problems and to focus efforts on cases in which someone was already hurt or killed, Darin Detwiler, a food safety consultant and associate professor at Northeastern University, said." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/h...