This seems like a polite effort to get in touch with someone who has direct knowledge of a newsworthy subject, as opposed to the effort 'to harass' described by the Daily Caller. dailycaller.com/2024/04/10/tim…

SECNAV Del Toro: 'We build the most-capable warships in the world in shipyards that are decades behind the global technological standard.'
Meanwhile in South Korea, 'Their top executives could tell us—to the day—when ships would be delivered.'

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The WaPo is one of the few places that does invest in women’s basketball coverage year-round. Kareem Copeland is on the beats for Washington Mystics and Maryland Women’s Basketball and travels with both. Before him it was Ava Wallace and before her Gene Wang.

When you’re 7-foot-2, the shoes sneak out the bottom of the tablecloth

Navy SEAL running for US Senate seat in Montana keeps tying himself in knots with contradictory explanations for how he got shot in the arm. Great digging by Liz Goodwin
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a truck carrying 100k chinook salmon smolts (yay!) crashed in eastern oregon and flipped over (oh no!) but did so right above a creek (yay!) and a bunch died (oh no!) but more than 75k of them were inadvertently released and will likely return there to spawn as adults (yay!)

In the middle of all this bridge madness and chaos, here's Erin Cox with a spot-on, in-the-moment profile of MD Gov. Wes Moore. Top-notch quick turn reporting and writing that illuminates the stakes and stress washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

“Now you’re asking your informant, who’s under law enforcement control, to have face to face contact with someone you believe is a murder.” Watch the truth reveal itself in “The Interrogation Tapes.”

Premieres tonight April 1, at 10/9c on ABC. Streaming tomorrow on Hulu.

Texas tax break triggers a national bee boom. Great story by Andrew Van Dam
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Grim Fun Fact: The Chesapeake 1000, a crane mobilized to clear wreckage of Baltimore's Key bridge, debuted in the 1970s as the Sun 800 aboard the Glomar Explorer, the CIA ship that retrieved the remains of a Soviet submarine in the Pacific. That & more: spytalk.co/p/new-in-spywe…

It's been one year since our fellow journalist, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, was detained in Russia and falsely accused of espionage. The Journal and the U.S. government vehemently deny the allegation and continue to call for his immediate release.

The…

Report: 'Adversary' Responsible for Havana Syndrome Attacks. 60 Minutes says it has new 'evidence' of foreign adversary attacks on US officials, but it can't name who or why. spytalk.co/p/report-adver…

Epic trolling by 'Little Sparta'?

Ex Trump diplomat Ric Grenell still globetrotting - backing right-wing insurrectionists in Guatemala, meeting w ministers in the Balkans and trying to broker mtg w Turkish president — prepping for 2nd term. ⁦w/ jonswaine⁩ ⁦Aaron Schaffer⁩ washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

This is example No. 2 million of why in-person reporting is irreplaceable, and why it matters that papers like the WaPo send reporters like Kareem on the road.

I've written 6 books about military and intelligence programs designed to prevent Nuclear World War III...

So—what happens if deterrence fails?

NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO — coming March 2024

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Big day for women's college basketball. You've got a very good Kansas-Gonzaga men's tournament game going on and yet everyone's watching Caitlin Clark... and talking about Kim Mulkey sounding like one of Nixon's henchmen going after the Washington Post.

“After a harrowing death march from Auschwitz, followed by a freezing train transfer to Buchenwald, Max was finally freed in the spring of 1945. General Eisenhower himself toured the camp, unaware that a teenage prisoner there would one day become his tailor.”