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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 43m

Hi, sorry to hear dad's gotta take the journey. My dx was for non-small cell carcinoma, with EGFR mutation, which reacts well to 1-pill-a-day targeted therapy. Here's latest on recent trials for small cell. Wishing you and your dad the best. Keep in touch. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

FDA Approval: Maintenance Lurbinectedin for SCLC

Podcast Episode · Lung Cancer Considered · 10/07/2025 · 38m

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 9h

I'm sure a lot of mohels are bris-tling.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 2d

RFK: A look back at a stadium’s ecstatic, disappointing, odd, historic and stomach-turning moments. wtop.com/back-in-the-...

RFK: A look back at a stadium’s ecstatic, disappointing, odd, historic and stomach-turning moments - WTOP News

Trying to choose “the most memorable moment in RFK Stadium history,” is as fruitless as trying to choose the best meal ever. WTOP breaks it down into more manageable chunks.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 3d

Can you see the real me?

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 6d

Today is National College Radio Day. I was thrown off my college radio station at American University for playing punk music and breaking format. But the next year, when new wave happened, I returned to the air. #radioon

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 6d

First @WTOP: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers: Case must move forward during shutdown, or he should be released wtop.com/local/2025/1...

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers: Case must move forward during shutdown, or he should be released - WTOP News

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia say the Constitution demands his habeas corpus lawsuit must go on, and that he should be placed on home detention during the government shutdown.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 14d

Me too.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 14d

For those who celebrate New Haven: Modern Apizza, Italian Bomb

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 17d

I'm biased, but 1 of radio's BEST JOBS is open. Co-anchoring AM drive @wtopnews.bsky.social means waking up, collaborating to pull together news EVERYONE in DC-area listens to. You'll toss to me, & work w wonderful producers, mgt at DC's most-trusted news source. myjobs.adp.com/hubbardbroad...

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 20d

Very sad news to learn today about Jeff Clabaugh. He really was beloved by listeners and his friends in the newsroom wtop.com/inside-wtop/...

Business reporter Jeff Clabaugh dies at 63 after delivering DC money news on WTOP for 30 years - WTOP News

WTOP Business reporter Jeff Clabaugh has died at the age of 63 after delivering money news reports to D.C.-area listeners for 30 years.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 22d

WATCH: Artists who fled El Salvador for DC are focus of new documentary showing in Latin American Film Festival wtop.com/dc/2025/09/a...

Artists who fled El Salvador for DC are focus of new documentary showing in Latin American Film Festival - WTOP News

A new documentary tells the story of artists who moved to D.C. after fleeing El Salvador in the 1980s, and have found solace in their art forms.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 22d

‘It’s just a place that they feel welcome’: SimplyBe Coffee in Leesburg is coffee shop with a cause wtop.com/loudoun-coun...

‘It’s just a place that they feel welcome’: SimplyBe Coffee in Leesburg is coffee shop with a cause - WTOP News

If you ask what’s in a “dirty chai latte” at SimplyBe Coffee, in downtown Leesburg, Virginia, Ami would be glad to tell you and prepare your drink for you.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 23d

Real-world reminder for journalists: If you’re writing a script someone else will read, AI can be misread as the guy's name or the steak sauce. #journalism

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 24d

ICYMI, 2025 Covid vaccines now available in Virginia Harris Teeters without doctors' prescription for people 18 and up. With #lungcancer and a pacemaker, I'm always glad to roll up my sleeve.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 27d

I got my size 11.5 Beatle boots bought on Carnaby Street resoled dozens of times here on Mount Pleasant St.

My shoe size is 13.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 27d

That’s incredible!

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · 28d

Surgery for stage 4 #lungcancer used to be unheard of. So happy my team recommended a lobectomy in 4/2023 after 3 months of great response to one pill a day targeted therapy. Been cancer free, ever since. New study shows timing is important 🫁🔬🗓️ www.jtcvs.org/article/S002...

Timing of local consolidative pulmonary resection for oncogene-driven stage IV lung cancer

Although stage IV non−small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has historically had a dismal prognosis, with goals of therapy emphasizing life prolongation and symptom management, recent data demonstrating a fa...

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hoggle's lawyer writes "it's believed there will be no substantial change based on the ordered competency evaluation."
Regardless of what the doctor who did the evaluation thinks it's up to the judge to determine whether Catherine Hoggle is competent to stand trial. Stay w @wtopnews.bsky.social

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hoggle's lawyer, David Felsen says prosecutors haven't provided any new evidence. The judge had ordered a NEW competency evaluation, which both prosecutors and the defense received last week, according to court records. The sealed findings will be discussed in Monday's hearing.

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 6

in the disappearance of two-year-old Jacob, and three-year-old Sarah Hoggle. The original indictments against Hoggle were dismissed in 2022, because Maryland law says a person charged with a felony can only be held five years if they remain incompetent to stand trial. In a motion filed Friday...

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 6

The lawyer for the Maryland woman indicted for killing her two young children in 2014 is STILL not competent to stand trial. That's the argument of Catherine Hoggle's lawyer, ahead of a Monday afternoon competency hearing. Hoggle was recently RE-indicted on two counts of murder...

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Rare Lahore pigeon found living at Alexandria’s Union Station - WTOP News

For the past few months, passengers waiting to climb aboard a VRE or Amtrak train have become familiar with an out-of-the-ordinary 'regular' — a rare, Lahore pigeon, known for its black and white…

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here’s what happened when I went in search of a rare fancy pigeon living at the Alexandria Amtrak/VRE station. wtop.com/alexandria/2...

Rare Lahore pigeon found living at Alexandria’s Union Station - WTOP News

For the past few months, passengers waiting to climb aboard a VRE or Amtrak train have become familiar with an out-of-the-ordinary 'regular' — a rare, Lahore pigeon, known for its black and white…

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 5

Not a typical commuter at the Alexandria VRE/Amtrak station. I’ll tell you the story of a fancy feather-footed pigeon that commuters have been seeing. And what happened this morning when I went to see for myself. @wtopnews.bsky.social

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Neal Augenstein @nealaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 4

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy may soon have a new option to try to keep their hair — a shampoo-like gel that could protect hair from falling out during chemo. wtop.com/drugs-and-me...

Shampoo-like gel could help cancer patients keep their hair during chemotherapy - WTOP News

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy may soon have a new option to try to keep their hair — a shampoo-like gel that could protect hair from falling out during chemo.

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