Sara Just
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Sara Just
@sarajust.bsky.social
Senior Executive Producer and SVP, PBS News and WETA.
PBS NewsHour, Washington Week with the Atlantic PBS News Weekend.
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Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84. https://to.pbs.org/3JhM1Wd
Dick Cheney, one of America's most powerful and polarizing vice presidents, dies at 84
Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from his family.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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SCOOP: Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/w...
Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry | CNN
While the reasoning behind the move is not clear, the two officials affected led the investigation into whether NOAA’s scientific integrity policies were violated during the so-called Sharpiegate scan...
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July 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The president's agenda, and one of the largest bills in U.S. history, is in the hands of the Senate tonight.

@lisad.bsky.social explains the part of the bill that deals with immigration policy.
June 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Exclusive: This morning on a call with @michaelscherer.bsky.social, Trump claimed that Iran still wants “to make a deal”—then he ended the conversation to take a call from Putin.
Trump Says He Decides What ‘America First’ Means
The president told me he was optimistic about ending foreign wars—then he ended our conversation to take a call from Putin.
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June 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"If there’s a more balanced and thoughtful news report on TV than the nightly PBS NewsHour, I don’t know what it is." - Thank you @sulliview.bsky.social !
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If Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS, rural America will pay a devastating price
Much of the country has little access to local news, with public media filling the void – and serving as a lifeline
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June 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling
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May 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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As President Donald Trump celebrates his first 100 days in office, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds that a plurality of Americans give him a failing grade. buff.ly/Tg09GnQ
April 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Huge congratulations to Marcia Biggs, Andre Paultre and Eric O’Connor for being honored by the George Polk Award among such an incredible array of winners today. Their work covering Haiti for PBS News Hour makes our whole team so proud
April 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president.

Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.
March 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"The secretary is still in denial he did anything wrong and i think that's even worse than the incident" Bacon says.
"It's clearly classified, they're digging themselves an even bigger hole, they should just say they screwed up," says Republican Rep. Don Bacon tells @amnanawaz.bsky.social @newshour.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"It's clearly classified, they're digging themselves an even bigger hole, they should just say they screwed up," says Republican Rep. Don Bacon tells @amnanawaz.bsky.social @newshour.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Watch President Trump's Address to Congress here and join us for analysis post-speech with
@IAmAmnaNawaz @GeoffRBennett @LisaDNews @lbarronlopez @amyewalter @nytdavidbrooks @CapehartJ @SmileyforWA www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1oC...
WATCH LIVE: President Donald Trump's 2025 address to Congress | PBS News Special
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March 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
For more on Oscar winner Adrien Brody #oscars

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WATCH: Adrien Brody, 'Brutalist' star, on appetite for longer film, art
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March 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Learn more about Oscar winner Paul Tazewell here
#oscars @pbsnews.org

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'Wicked' costume designer Paul Tazewell on the vision behind his Oscar-nominated work
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March 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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While about 454,000 federal employees do work in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, more than 80% of the federal workforce lived elsewhere in the U.S. or abroad in 2024.
5 facts about the federal workforce that may surprise you
Federal data paints a varied portrait of the people who make up the U.S. civil service.
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March 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Just yesterday while on PBS News Hour I said that I will have confidence that federal vaccine policy is uncompromised as long as the external advisory committees continue to meet. Now meetings for both VRBPAC and ACIP have been cancelled. I don't like this.
I joined PBS News Hour to discuss the measles outbreak in Texas and vaccine hesitancy. My comments build on a point I made in a NYT essay: vaccine hesitancy and resulting outbreaks are a serious problem. But we should also remember that vaccines are popular, actually! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
West Texas measles outbreak spreads amid vaccine hesitancy in some communities
There are now more than 120 confirmed measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas, the largest such outbreak the state has seen in over 30 years. It's raising questions about vaccine hesitanc...
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February 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Geoff Bennett asks Alton Brown: What's a tool that every home cook should have?
Alton Brown brings his humor to the page in book of essays, 'Food for Thought'
Fusing cooking, chemistry and comedy, Alton Brown has made a name for himself as a TV host and Food Network fixture. His creative eye and quick wit captivated audiences of "Good Eats," "Cutthroat…
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February 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Recent focus groups conducted by Republican strategist Sarah Longwell are providing insight into a group of voters that helped swing the 2024 presidential race — those who voted for Democrats in prior elections, but for Donald Trump this past November.
What Trump voters think about his first weeks in office
There's new insight into a group of voters that helped swing the 2024 presidential race, those who voted for Democrats in prior elections but for Donald Trump this November. The analysis comes from…
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February 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
All of us @pbsnews.bsky.social are so thrilled that the George Polk awards have selected courageous and gripping reporting from Haiti by Marcia Biggs, Eric OConnor, Andre Paultre and @mtill50.bsky.social for this year's foreign reporting on television award. www.pbs.org/newshour/pre... watch here
PBS News Hour’s Coverage of Gang Violence in Haiti Named George Polk Award Recipient
Arlington, VA (February 17, 2025)—Long Island University today announced that “Haiti in Crisis,” PBS News Hour’s coverage of the brutal gang violence in Haiti, has received a George Polk Award for For...
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February 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
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January 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Please join @pbsnews.bsky.social coverage NOW LIVE of the funeral of President Jimmy Carter on your @pbs.org station or here www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Hp...
WATCH LIVE: Funeral service for Jimmy Carter held at Washington National Cathedral | Direct Feed
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January 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The virus is less deadly than it was in the pandemic’s early days and it no longer tops the list of leading causes of death. But the virus is evolving, meaning scientists must track it closely.
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
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January 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex and purchasing and using illicit drugs all while the Florida Republican was a member of Congress.

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Read the full Matt Gaetz House Ethics report alleging he paid for sex with minor, used illicit drugs as Congress member
The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex and purchasing and using illicit drugs all while the Florida Republican was…
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December 23, 2024 at 11:08 PM