“We've become addicted to explosions.” Stunning work by Bellingcat tracking the scale of home demolitions by a single IDF unit in Gaza. “Behind each ruined building, there is a decision & an action which has been carried out by a specific unit or person.” bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

It has been only a day since the transitional council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on the new leaders is rapidly growing.
Haitians want security, food, jobs — and they want them now:
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The pages of his grandfather's notebook tell so much history, from what he earned in the fields each day or how to pronounce words in English.
'How a migrant farmworker built generational wealth, penny by penny ' latimes.com/world-nation/s…

With fear and hope, Haiti warily welcomes 10 new leaders as country choked by gangs seeks peace.
Below details about the country's new political chapter, including how a transitional council was sworn in as gunfire erupted nearby:
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Nearly a year ago Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country. This week on All Things Considered we look at the aftermath. I spent time in one immigrant community where locals told me 30% have fled.

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This is hard to believe, but South Texas (Corpus Christi, RGV, Laredo) does *not* have a NAHJ chapter. I mean... that's mindboggling. But we're hoping to change that. Sending the bat signal to all my South Texas journos: join Clara Benitez-Cortez this weekend to talk about NAHJ!

Here is the current scene at the south lawn in front of the UT Tower.

Palestine Solidarity Committee has gathered on the lawn.

UTPD standing on the edge of the lawn

Photographer Ramon Espinosa and I arrived in Haiti a week ago. The main intl airport remains closed since early March and the biggest seaport is largely paralyzed as gangs persist in their deadly rampage.
Catch up on our coverage below to learn what life is like in Haiti now:

The number of people per day passing through the Darién Gap is at its lowest point in over a year (except for December's holiday dip), according to a #Panama government statement covering April 1-17.

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This is truly bittersweet — and more bitter than sweet. “Surviving to Graduation,” the podcast Sabby Robinson, Hannah Natanson and I produced about a high school grappling with losing students to gun violence, is a Peabody finalist. peabodyawards.com/award-profile/…

🧵On this Earth Day, I’m excited to share something close to my heart. Like the slow-growing coco de mer seed of the Seychelles Islands, it’s taken some time to ripen. It began as an idea that I developed as a resident of the The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in magical Lake Como

In today’s The Washington Post: how Venezuelan immigrants are transforming the capital’s food delivery scene — one moped at a time. These are their stories, from surviving a treacherous journey to the U.S. to pushing through rain or shine, language barriers and everything in between.

Don’t usually do *this* but, thread: Monday, SCOTUS debates the criminalization of homelessness. That means many folks are sounding off on the topic. I’ve spent 4 yrs covering this for The Washington Post, and need to reality-check assumptions getting thrown around this week (1/x)

On the latest Latino USA, disaster restoration workers Mariano & Santos' health symptoms weren't unique. We interviewed 100 Latino workers in FL, LA, and TX for the first time.

Produced by Futuro Investigates, in collab w/ The Center for Public Integrity & Columbia Journalism.
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Haiti’s main international airport has been closed for more than a month now. Gangs are still on a rampage.
What is life like in Port-au-Prince now? Photographer ⁦Ramon Espinosa⁩ and I arrived a few days ago. This is what we found: apnews.com/article/418c2a…

Homeless residents of Grants Pass, Ore., wait to hear: Will the Supreme Court say they are lawbreakers even if they have nowhere to go? The city Monday will defend anti-camping rules that could shape policy decisions countrywide. @reisthebault Ann Marimow washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04…

A dispatch from Cap-Haïtien, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries.

Once known as the Paris of the Antilles, it's on the brink of becoming what some say is Haiti’s de facto capital as gangs lay siege to Port-au-Prince:

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The migrant crisis in Chicago and other blue cities has shifted the immigration debate right, in no small part because its highlighted longstanding concerns of urban Black residents. Is there a solution beyond conflict? My latest: apnews.com/article/chicag…

Despite ‘model minority’ trope, 1 in 10 Asian Americans live in poverty
Advocates say ‘data disaggregation’ is key to dismantling harmful stereotypes about Asian Americans washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04…

The post-disaster restoration business is booming; the mostly immigrant workforce behind it is getting sick from their prolonged exposure to dangerous toxins.

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