Karen Yourish
@karenyourish.bsky.social
Data and visual investigations at The New York Times
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NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."
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Just the person to talk to this week for our @newyorker.com pod w/ @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social about Trump, Epstein, and the changing Washington scandal — the legendary @misikoff.bsky.social
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Is the Epstein Scandal Trump’s Kryptonite?
Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 11/15/2025 · 39m
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November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Just the person to talk to this week for our @newyorker.com pod w/ @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social about Trump, Epstein, and the changing Washington scandal — the legendary @misikoff.bsky.social
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Updated: Our tracker on the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, with 20th strike disclosed by Southcom, the Pentagon outpost in Miami.
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Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Updated: Our tracker on the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, with 20th strike disclosed by Southcom, the Pentagon outpost in Miami.
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NO ONE, EVER: "What I really want is a car that can sense my key and open the trunk whenever I'm within six feet of it."
CAR DESIGNERS: "Oh that's a great idea."
CAR DESIGNERS: "Oh that's a great idea."
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
NO ONE, EVER: "What I really want is a car that can sense my key and open the trunk whenever I'm within six feet of it."
CAR DESIGNERS: "Oh that's a great idea."
CAR DESIGNERS: "Oh that's a great idea."
GIFT LINK: America’s Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday rebuked the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in a rare and near-unanimous statement that framed the immigration crisis in starkly moral terms. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants
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November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
GIFT LINK: America’s Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday rebuked the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in a rare and near-unanimous statement that framed the immigration crisis in starkly moral terms. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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NEW: How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters, by @jeremykohler.bsky.social
How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters
The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
NEW: How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters, by @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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Kimmel said that he and Escobedo, who led Cleto and the Cletones on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” had been “inseparable since I was 9 years old.”
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Cleto Escobedo III, Jimmy Kimmel’s Bandleader, Dies at 59
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November 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Kimmel said that he and Escobedo, who led Cleto and the Cletones on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” had been “inseparable since I was 9 years old.”
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The videos surfacing online from Sudan are horrifying, and I say this as a journalist who has sadly become an expert on violent videos and images uploaded to the internet over the last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
Executions and Mass Casualties: Videos Show Horror Unfolding in Sudan
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November 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The videos surfacing online from Sudan are horrifying, and I say this as a journalist who has sadly become an expert on violent videos and images uploaded to the internet over the last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
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Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
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November 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
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NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food.
“It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.
“It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fruit.
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food.
“It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.
“It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.
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Two bishops with ties to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, including Bishop Robert Barron, criticized the administration’s treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Bishops With Ties to Trump Commission Criticize Treatment of Immigrants
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November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Two bishops with ties to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, including Bishop Robert Barron, criticized the administration’s treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Mikie Sherrill elected governor of New Jersey after a campaign that pounded away at her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, for his allegiance to Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: New Jersey Elects Sherrill Governor as Democrats Pick Up Key Wins
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November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Mikie Sherrill elected governor of New Jersey after a campaign that pounded away at her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, for his allegiance to Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Re-upping my column from last year on @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA. A really fun interview. -- Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness?
Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill are strong contenders to be the next governors of Virginia and New Jersey.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Re-upping my column from last year on @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA. A really fun interview. -- Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Follow live results from the Virginia governor election.
Virginia Governor Election Results 2025: Abigail Spanberger, Winsome Earle-Sears
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Virginia Governor election.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Follow live results from the Virginia governor election.
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Our forecasting model now sees Spanberger finishing with around 57 percent of the vote.
Our forecasting model now sees Spanberger finishing with around 57 percent of the vote.
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Our forecasting model now sees Spanberger finishing with around 57 percent of the vote.
Our forecasting model now sees Spanberger finishing with around 57 percent of the vote.
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“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103
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November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
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In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.”
We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.”
We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The private conversations in the Young Republicans’ Telegram chat were only marginally more racist and hateful than the language that’s out in the open, common on the most popular podcasts in America,” our columnist David French writes.
“The private conversations in the Young Republicans’ Telegram chat were only marginally more racist and hateful than the language that’s out in the open, common on the most popular podcasts in America,” our columnist David French writes.
Opinion | Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level
The Young Republicans’ Telegram chat was revealing in so many ways.
nyti.ms
October 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The private conversations in the Young Republicans’ Telegram chat were only marginally more racist and hateful than the language that’s out in the open, common on the most popular podcasts in America,” our columnist David French writes.
“The private conversations in the Young Republicans’ Telegram chat were only marginally more racist and hateful than the language that’s out in the open, common on the most popular podcasts in America,” our columnist David French writes.
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I love this story 😊
Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I love this story 😊
GIFT LINK: Scenes from a day of mass protests. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Scenes From a Day of Mass Protests
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October 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
GIFT LINK: Scenes from a day of mass protests. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
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October 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Save money during Amazon's Prime Days? Not so much. "I would have saved, on average, almost nothing during Amazon’s recent fall “Prime Big Deal Days” — and for some big-ticket purchases, I would have actually paid more," @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social found. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.
Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Save money during Amazon's Prime Days? Not so much. "I would have saved, on average, almost nothing during Amazon’s recent fall “Prime Big Deal Days” — and for some big-ticket purchases, I would have actually paid more," @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social found. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...