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Manuel Roig-Franzia
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Washington Post reporter, author Simon & Schuster's "The Rise of Marco Rubio"
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Duane Kuiper always sent postcards from every road city to his wife and two kids. He’s still doing it for his granddaughters, Andy and Kit. (Pic courtesy of his daughter, Dannon.)
June 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 #MirrorsAwards, who were announced at a ceremony tonight in New York City. The awards honor the best in media industry reporting. #newhousenetwork #journalism Read more:

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Newhouse School Announces Winners of 2025 Mirror Awards
The awards recognize the best in media industry reporting in 2025.
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June 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Particular congratulations from the Higgins family to the team of Manuel Roig-Franzia & Hope Hodge Seck, whose work in the WASHINGTON POST (@washingtonpost.com) won them the John M Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting.

The #HigginsAward is named for my late brother.
June 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Trump says he’s fired the head of the National Portrait Gallery - she’s defying him. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Defying Trump, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet is still at work
The president said he had fired the museum leader — setting up a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian.
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June 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Happy Opening Day to those who observe www.washingtonpost.com/news/voracio...
Baseball season always means my mom’s chicken. Without the games, it’s filling a void.
I jostled the pieces in a paper bag with flour and spices, baked — and the result took me back to my childhood and the sights and sounds of the game.
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March 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Trump’s dramatic re-make of the Kennedy Center enters a new phase - and more staffers are getting axed. Via @travismandrews.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center guts social impact team; more layoffs expected
It marks the first major reduction in workforce since President Donald Trump’s takeover of the center.
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March 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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An absolute delight from @timcarman.bsky.social who went to see Jacques Pepin for an omelet lesson and also got a lesson in how to live a good life. www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/03...
Column | What Jacques Pépin taught me about omelets and life
Beloved chef Jacques Pépin, 89, is the master of the classic French omelet and more. “There’s no failure,” he said. You eat your mistakes and move on.
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March 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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“Elvis sells better as a dead man.” @travismandrews.bsky.social got audio of Donald Trump laying out his plans for the Kennedy Center. And, believe me, there’s lots of wow www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
At Kennedy Center, Trump envisions remaking Honors, suggests he could host
Trump and his board suggested several artists for Kennedy Center Honors including Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Bocelli, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.
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March 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“You feel like you’re closer to the moon.” You won’t want to miss this great @jesusrodriguez.work meander along the Gulf of America or is it still the Gulf of Mexico? www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Trump wants it known as the Gulf of America. How American is the gulf?
Oil! Rockets! Migrants! Margaritavilles! Meet us at the edge of a nation on the brink.
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March 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Welp you can take Sean Spicer off the Naval Academy board but it seems you can’t keep him off…
March 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Several top career officials ousted at Justice Department, via @PerryStein @shaynajacobs @CarolLeonnig & @amarimow
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Several top career officials ousted at Justice Department
The terminations are the latest upheavals at an agency where the administration has removed several high-ranking officials.
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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10 Democrats take the unusual step of censuring one of their own after a protest during Trump's speech to Congress, via @mariana-alfaro.bsky.social
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Unusually, 10 Democrats join in censuring their own after Trump protest
Most of the Democrats who voted with House Republicans to rebuke Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s address to Congress won reelection by slim margins last year.
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March 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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White House mum on price-relief measures as inflation stings Trump’s ratings, via @iarnsdorf www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House mum on price-relief measures as inflation stings Trump’s ratings
“The president knows his plans,” a White House official said, while Donald Trump presses ahead with tariffs that economists warn will push prices higher.
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March 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Reading @travismandrews.bsky.social on “Simpsons” legend Hank Azaria is exactly what I needed today - and, I promise, you will, too. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Who is the real Hank Azaria? For a while, even he didn’t know.
Hank Azaria has made a career twisting his vocal cords into the voices of various “Simpsons” characters. Now he’s twisting them in the shape of the Boss as the frontman of a Springsteen cover band.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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BREAKING: Trump officials are reopening a sprawling detention center in Texas to hold migrant children and their parents, @mariasacchetti @arelisrhdz @dmac1 report. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Trump officials to reopen Texas detention center for migrant families
Four years after the Biden administration stopped detaining migrant children, a private prison contractor says it has reached an agreement with ICE to reopen the South Texas Family Residential Center ...
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March 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Love this annual tradition - @mrdanzak.bsky.social & @amyargetsinger.bsky.social with the list of which films should have won the best picture Oscars over the years. www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta...
Perspective | The Oscars are usually wrong. Here are the real best pictures.
What are the real best pictures? Let’s look at a half century of Oscars, going from “Chinatown” to “The Brutalist.”
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March 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Lawyers for Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer call Donald Trump’s lawsuit claims frivolous and liken it to suing a meteorologist for a wrong weather forecast, via @maeganvaz
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Trump’s lawsuit barred by the First Amendment, pollster’s team argues
Lawyers for Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, who was sued after the election, call Donald Trump’s claims frivolous and liken it to suing a meteorologist for a wrong weather forecast.
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February 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This is a wild, wild story about DC’s “graffiti beef” from @anthonyjrivera.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Graffiti beefs are settled on walls. This one is in court.
A “Wizard of Oz” mural loomed over a D.C. park for 23 years. When other artists painted over it, one of the creators — a prominent street art curator — did something surprising: He sued.
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February 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Fact Checker on Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine: In remarks and social media posts, the president echoed Russian talking points, by @GlennKesslerWP www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine
In remarks and social media posts, the president echoed Russian talking points.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Many of Trump's early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds, by @danbalz @sfcpoll @EmGusk www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds
Reviews from Americans on President Donald Trump’s second term are mixed to negative, and 57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency. In the initial stretch of his second term, Trump has pursued a different vision than virtually any of his 44 predecessors, by @NaftaliBendavid www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency
In the initial stretch of his second term, Trump has pursued a different vision than virtually any of his 44 predecessors.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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How Joe Biden opened the gates for Trump to remove board/commission members at the Kennedy Center and elsewhere www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
How did Trump so easily take over the Kennedy Center? Ask Sean Spicer.
An obscure court decision involving former President Joe Biden’s presidential board appointments was the key to seizing control of the Kennedy Center.
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February 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The administration asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for Trump to fire the leader of an independent agency -- seeking backing for efforts to expand the power of the presidency, via @amarimow
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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire independent agency leader
President Donald Trump wants the justices to allow him to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower reports.
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February 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The inspector general and acting archivist at the National Archives are out. The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts to recover documents from Mar-a-Lago, via @maeganvaz
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Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out
The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts recover documents from Mar-a-Lago.
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February 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Great reporting by @roigfranzia.bsky.social @travismandrews.bsky.social in WaPo on how Biden firing Sean Spicer - pointless and petty move - led to the Kennedy Center leadership having zero legal options to push back against the Trump takedown of the Kennedy Center.
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How did Trump so easily take over the Kennedy Center? Ask Sean Spicer.
An obscure court decision involving former President Joe Biden’s presidential board appointments was the key to seizing control of the Kennedy Center.
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February 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM