Edward Wong
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Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
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BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Según funcionarios de EE. UU., la estrategia para tratar de sacar a Nicolás Maduro del poder está liderada por Marco Rubio, secretario de Estado y asesor de Seguridad Nacional. Rubio sostiene que Maduro es un dirigente ilegítimo que impulsa la exportación de drogas a Estados Unidos.
Altos funcionarios de Trump presionan para derrocar a Maduro en Venezuela
El movimiento opositor, cuyas figuras se han reunido con funcionarios estadounidenses, afirma que se está comunicando con Washington sobre los planes para desmantelar la ‘estructura criminal’ de Nicolás Maduro.
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NEW: Sec. Rubio is leading a push to try to oust Maduro. The Pentagon has put 6,500 troops in the region and is drawing up possible operations against crime gangs in Venezuela. Opposition figures say they're talking to the US about plans. Gift link to our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
Top Trump Aides Push for Ousting Maduro From Power in Venezuela
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NEW: Sec. Rubio is leading a push to try to oust Maduro. The Pentagon has put 6,500 troops in the region and is drawing up possible operations against crime gangs in Venezuela. Opposition figures say they're talking to the US about plans. Gift link to our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
Top Trump Aides Push for Ousting Maduro From Power in Venezuela
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James Millward: "One of the things about history in China is that it's very, very often, for thousands of years, been controlled by the state. And I really don't want to see our own history be Tiananmenized the way that the Chinese Communist Party tries to censor its own past."
Citizen historians document Smithsonian exhibits under White House scrutiny
The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It's a public-private trust that has long operated at arm's length from the White House, but now finds itself...
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Entering the high school choice process with our 8th grader and you know what he’s taking into considering when ranking schools?

Whether he can jump out the window and run home in the event of a school shooting.

That’s fucked up.
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Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
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"In May, Witkoff’s son announced Tahnoon’s investment firms would deposit $2b into World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency start-up founded by the Witkoffs & Trumps.

Weeks later, the WH agreed to allow UAE access to the world’s most advanced & scarce chips, a crucial tool in race to dominate AI."
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
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BBC interview with one of the Korea workers who was shackled and imprisoned. This was nothing but an American own goal. Attempting to blow up the largest economic development project in Georgia history. Billions in investment, thousands of jobs for Americans. youtu.be/fcwJtWU4fn4?...
South Korean detained in US Hyundai factory raid speaks to BBC | BBC News
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Much of the reporting at issue in Trump's lawsuit comes from "Lucky Loser," the remarkable book by @russbuettner.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social. And as it happens, the new paperback edition comes out next week.

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Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, revealing how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White HouseSoon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life “has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. As his wealthy father’s chosen successor, Trump received the equivalent today of more than $500 million in family money. He collected a second windfall thanks to Mark Burnett, the revolutionary television producer who made Trump a star. In truth, Trump's empire was underwritten, and at times saved, by the equivalent of more than $1 billion that came his way without any of the business expertise he claimed.Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. Here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money – what he had, what he lost, and what he has left – and the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire, exposed.
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ewong.bsky.social
Join me this Sunday, 9/14, from 2:30-3:30 pm at the public library in Boulder, CO, as I speak on my book on China, #AtTheEdgeOfEmpire. It’s part of the Jaipur Literature Festival. And I’ll be there on a geopolitics panel today, 9/13, from 5-6 pm. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602734...
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NEW: Sec. Marco Rubio casts himself as a top general in Trump's new war in Latin America. He has steered the administration toward military strikes on drug traffickers, without due process. One killed 11 people. And he pushes mass deportations. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...
Rubio Leads Charge in Trump’s New War in Latin America
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NEW: Sec. Marco Rubio casts himself as a top general in Trump's new war in Latin America. He has steered the administration toward military strikes on drug traffickers, without due process. One killed 11 people. And he pushes mass deportations. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...
Rubio Leads Charge in Trump’s New War in Latin America
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UPDATE: Officials in Belgium checked the warehouse with the contraceptives after our story was posted. They say the items are still there — despite the statement about their destruction that a Trump administration spokeswoman sent us Thursday. New story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
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NEW: Trump officials have moved forward with destroying $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID. The contraceptives would've gone to nations in need. State Dept. and USAID documents obtained by @nytimes.com show groups offered to buy them. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
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"Blow them up" — In Ecuador, Sec. of State Marco Rubio says the US will work with partner governments to do violent strikes against drug cartels and other crime groups. That follows a US air strike on a boat from Venezuela that killed 11 people. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
Rubio Says U.S. Will Work With Other Nations to ‘Blow Up’ Crime Groups
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The Trump administration gave no legal basis for doing an air strike on a boat that US officials said was carrying drugs from Venezuela. They said the strike killed 11 people. Rubio said the US will “blow up” more such boats because intercepting them has not worked. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels
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Reporting from Mexico City: Rubio is flying into Mexico for security talks with top officials during a pressure campaign by Trump. President Claudia Sheinbaum has pushed back against potential unilateral US military actions against the drug cartels. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
Rubio Flies to Mexico for Security Talks Amid Trump Pressure Campaign
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NEW: NEW: The Trump administration is barring Palestinian passport holders from getting visitors' visas for now. They can't enter the US for medical treatment, family visits and education. State Dept. ordered it in a global cable on Aug. 18. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
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NEW: NEW: The Trump administration is barring Palestinian passport holders from getting visitors' visas for now. They can't enter the US for medical treatment, family visits and education. State Dept. ordered it in a global cable on Aug. 18. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
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Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.