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Jade Walker
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Night news editor of HuffPost. Editor of A Bit of Good News, The End Files & The Moonlight Reader Society. Past: NYTimes, AP, Apple News (via Magnit) & CNN 5 Things (via Creative Circle)
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In this week's issue of The End Files, learn about an unusual lottery, a tree with extra holiday "spirit" and the latest notable obituaries theendfiles.substack.com/p/death-is-h...
Death is happening to us all
Vol. 2, Issue 41
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In an interview with HuffPost, Sean Dunn said the memes and artwork helped him through a frightening legal ordeal. Just don’t call him a “hero.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-san...
The DC ‘Sandwich Guy’ Speaks In Exclusive HuffPost Interview
In an interview with HuffPost, Sean Dunn said the memes and artwork helped him through a frightening legal ordeal. Just don’t call him a “hero.”
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Since Trump and his aides keep lying about grocery prices, here are the facts:

Food inflation in Biden's last year: 1.8 pct.
Food inflation since Trump began his trade war: 3.1 pct.

Trump has nearly doubled grocery inflation.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Finally Meets A Problem His Lies Cannot Overcome: Rising Grocery Prices
Trump keeps claiming that prices are ‘way down’ — but with food inflation running nearly twice the rate as it was in Biden’s last year, Americans are not fooled.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
In this week's issue of The End Files, learn about an unusual lottery, a tree with extra holiday "spirit" and the latest notable obituaries theendfiles.substack.com/p/death-is-h...
Death is happening to us all
Vol. 2, Issue 41
theendfiles.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
ICE officials only later discovered that some of the recruits failed drug testing, had disqualifying criminal backgrounds or didn't meet the physical or academic requirements to serve, the sources said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A Spotlight Team investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets in New England were precisely the people Forget said they were not: addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and people living at a homeless encampment.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/m...
The DEA said it arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true. - The Boston Globe
A Globe investigation found that the federal agency misrepresented the stature of its targets, claiming cartel ties at a time when the Trump administration is taking lethal military action against suc...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...
The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects
Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.
www.niemanlab.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The president is not done rewriting history about his effort to cling to power following his 2020 defeat.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Pardons Key Players In Scheme To Overturn 2020 Election
The president is not done rewriting history about his effort to cling to power following his 2020 defeat.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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"Democracy isn’t held together by slogans or speeches so much as by a million small moments when people resist the urge to oversimplify one another"

A wonderful new essay from @nickallison80.bsky.social that already has almost 1,000,000 reads on @HuffPost Personal

www.huffpost.com/entry/vetera...
I Saw A Cop Looking At My ‘Veterans Against Trump’ T-Shirt. Then He Started Walking My Way.
"My brain sized him up before he even reached my table. Police officer. White. Middle-aged. Beard. Military tattoos."
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November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My book on the Biden administration’s Gaza policy, CROSSING THE RED LINE, is soon entering production. I’m so excited to share it with you in 2026

In the meantime, if you want to share info about US officials’ choices around the war, you can always reach me at akbar.58 on Signal; anonymity is fine
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...
Supreme Court Rejects Call To Overturn Its Decision Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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BREAKING: Gaza’s Health Ministry says over 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far.
Gaza health officials say over 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far
Gaza health officials say that over 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Speaking to the Newshour programme, South Africa's spokesman for the foreign ministry Chrispin Phiri said that Trump was "orchestrating an imagined crisis… using the painful history of South Africa's colonial past" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump: US to boycott G20 in South Africa over discredited white farmer 'abuses'
South Africa responded to the decision, saying the success of he summit won't "rest on one member state".
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This story was utterly captivating apple.news/ALF5syHpPQcS...
The Missing Kayaker — The Atlantic
What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?
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November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Over a dozen women said they suffered mistreatment and neglect while they were pregnant and held in immigration custody, including “medical neglect” and substandard care during pregnancy and miscarriage, such as being shackled, placed in solitary confinement and fed with poor-quality food
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This week's issue of The Moonlight Reader Society has been published. Read about "old-fashioned" ways to discover what to read next, the latest writer obituaries and an oddly titled tome moonlightreadersociety.substack.com/p/books-and-... 💙📚
Books and doors
Vol. 2, Issue 42
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November 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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> Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering establishing a new call center, in part to make it easier for them to track immigrant children with the help of local and state law enforcement.

www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ca...
ICE Is Pitching A Plan That Would Track Immigrant Kids
The Trump administration has ramped up pressure on migrant youth for months.
www.huffpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Butler pleaded no contest in August to all 11 counts against him; court documents cited by local ABC affiliate KOCO 5 News show he was charged as an adult and was denied a request to be classified as a juvenile. Butler, now 18, has since walked free. www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...
Oklahoma Teen Walks Free After Facing 78 Years For Multiple Rape Charges
“We’re done allowing rapists to walk free,” an outraged protester told 2 News Oklahoma. “We’re done seeing the people in charge allowing this to happen.”
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November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This lapse is leaving doctors and the public dangerously in the dark.
Experts Warn The Government Shutdown Is Affecting You In A Major, Unexpected Way
This lapse is leaving doctors and the public dangerously in the dark.
www.huffpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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~70 people have now been killed by the US in waters around South America without proof of criminality, an imminent threat, due process or a strategy beyond bombing or a bigger war.

Hours ago, 51 Republican senators quashed a bipartisan effort to rein this policy in:
www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Worries over the government shutdown surged in the early part of November, pushing consumer sentiment to its lowest in more than three years and just off its worst level ever, according to a University of Michigan survey released Friday.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
Consumer sentiment nears lowest level ever as worries build over shutdown
www.cnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.

They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.

apnews.com/article/trum...
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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NEW: New York has been quietly preparing for a potential Trump deployment of troops & agents to NYC.

Hochul, business, activists mobilized - meeting, discussing lawsuits, talking to LA/Chicago.

+ New details on Canal Street raid.

W/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
New York Prepares for a Potential Trump Immigration Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM