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heathertimmons.bsky.social
@heathertimmons.bsky.social
White House editor @Reuters in DC; ex @qz, @nytimes in Hong Kong, New Delhi, London
X seems to be almost completely unusable for me atm. Can’t post anything new, user lookup and share not functioning. Anyone else?
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reuters Live Page on #TrumpTariffs:
*How to spot a recession
*Trump extends TikTok deadline and a hand to China
*Hank Aaron, Hank Hill & Tom Hanks
*This is Wall Street's largest evaporation of shareholder value, ever @reuters.com Noel Randewich finds:
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The US Food and Drug Administration is suspending efforts to improve its bird flu testing of milk, cheese and pet food due to massive staff cuts at the agency, according to an email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation reut.rs/3FRDy9P
FDA suspends program to improve bird flu testing due to staff cuts
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is suspending efforts to improve its bird flu testing of milk, cheese and pet food due to massive staff cuts at the agency, according to an email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation.
reut.rs
April 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
White House is slashing the tax police

IRS fires 6,000 employees as Trump slashes government - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US IRS expected to fire 6,700 employees on Thursday in Trump downsizing spree
The move would eliminate roughly 7% of the tax-collecting agency's workforce.
www.reuters.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Civil rights, housing and AIDS prevention groups sued US President Donald Trump, saying their federal funding is in jeopardy because of his executive orders concerning diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility reut.rs/4b5Ykye
Civil rights, housing, AIDS groups challenge Trump DEIA restrictions
Civil rights, housing and AIDS prevention groups sued U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying their federal funding is in jeopardy because of his executive orders concerning diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
reut.rs
February 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today on Reuters LIVE:
FACT CHECK: Does Zelensky have a 4% approval rating?
Latest video of Zelensky on Trump
Trump polling
EU sanctions
Some GOP angst
www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...?
Ukraine War Live Updates: Zelenskiy says I can't sell our country
Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg arrived in Kyiv to have discussions with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
www.reuters.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have mounted a sweeping campaign to slash the size of the 2.3 million-strong federal workforce, firing at least 9,500 employees in an unprecedented effort that shows no sign of slowing. Here are details on some of the layoffs reut.rs/4gKe6Qj
How hard have US agencies been hit by Trump and Musk's layoffs?
U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, one of his closest advisers, have mounted a sweeping campaign to slash the size of the 2.3 million-strong federal workforce, firing at least 9,500 employees in an unprecedented effort that shows no sign of slowing.
reut.rs
February 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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A US federal prosecutor agreed to file a motion to dismiss the criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, to spare other career staff from potentially being fired for refusing to do so, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters reut.rs/3CSKiTM
US prosecutor agrees to seek dismissal of Adams charges under pressure, sources say
A U.S. federal prosecutor agreed on Friday to file a motion to dismiss criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to spare other career staff from potentially being fired for refusing to do so, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.
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February 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine critic who endorsed Donald Trump after abandoning his own presidential bid, is inching closer to becoming US secretary of Health and Human Services with the Senate due to vote on his confirmation. Read the full story reut.rs/3CKngi1 1/4
Kennedy to clear final Senate hurdle in bid for top US health job
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine critic who endorsed President Donald Trump after abandoning his own presidential bid, inched closer to becoming U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services with the Senate scheduled to vote on his confirmation on Thursday.
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February 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base.

📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.
Hegseth’s rough start: Pentagon chief faces protest at U.S. base abroad
The question isn’t why the defense secretary faced pushback at U.S. European Command headquarters; the question is whether he’ll see more protests soon.
www.msnbc.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Semafor is doing a “Restoring trust in news” event w Brendan Carr, who is single handedly trying to dismantle free speech and censor news organizations, and who is currently threatening a news radio station for reporting the news too specifically www.techdirt.com/2025/02/06/n...
February 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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US President Donald Trump has promised a swift end to the Ukraine war but with talks about to begin the author of 'The Art of the Deal' may have already complicated his task by sacrificing leverage reut.rs/4aU8WQJ 1/7
February 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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BREAKING: A car has driven into a group of people in the German city of Munich, leaving several people injured, police said. Officers are working to verify what has happened, a spokesperson said reut.rs/3CKgcC1
February 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
X seems to be blocking this full thread by @muellershewrote.bsky.social x.com/muellershewr...
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February 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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President Donald Trump said he will introduce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States, on top of existing metals duties. Here's a summary of the major trade partners it will affect reut.rs/40UeXYK
February 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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The Kremlin said it could neither confirm nor deny whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin had spoken to US President Donald Trump by phone about finding a way to stop the war in Ukraine reut.rs/3QfEc2M
Kremlin adopts cryptic stance on contacts between Putin and Trump
The Kremlin said on Monday it could neither confirm nor deny whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin had spoken to U.S. President Donald Trump by phone about finding a way to stop the war in Ukraine.
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February 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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The UN World Food Programme was ordered by Washington to stop work on dozens of US-funded grants, according to an email seen by Reuters, that was sent five days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver for emergency food assistance reut.rs/4aWKpdF
UN food agency WFP received dozens of US stop work orders despite emergency waiver
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) was ordered by Washington to stop work on dozens of U.S.-funded grants, according to an email seen by Reuters, that was sent five days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver for emergency food assistance.
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February 7, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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NEW: State Dept. under Rubio has fired about 60 contractors who work on democracy and human rights programs. The contractors are mainly tech and area experts who are critical for programs on China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
State Dept. Fires About 60 Contractors Working on Democracy and Human Rights
The contractors helped enact programs that focus on building up civil society and democratic practices in authoritarian states such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Also notable @stephanienolen.bsky.social is doing the work in the comment section; engaging with readers who don’t understand or are misinformed, patiently explaining and sharing other info, even as many journos have tuned out comments b/c they’re so riddled with insults and opinions seem fixed.
February 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is a searing look at the on the ground impacts of the abrupt US AID shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Governor Tim Walz made Black History Month a state proclamation to protect it.
February 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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"All CEOs are bewildered by these non-strategic tariff tantrums being directed at our closest allies instead of adversaries," said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor at Yale School of Management in New Haven, Conn.

✍️ @sidcavale.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/business/nor...
North American companies brace for fallout from Trump tariffs
For North American companies, the "wait and see" moment on tariffs is over.
www.reuters.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM