Zelenskyy says French companies will begin manufacturing drones in Ukraine t.me/V_Zelenskiy_of…

Soooo much good original reporting comes out of @kut and the Texas Newsroom, a collaboration of NPR and local stations.

Federal climate spending cuts mean big losses for ag science and the future of farming in Colorado - reporting from KUNC Colorado Rae Solomon kunc.org/news/2025-07-1…

Marines to leave LA - from NPR member LAist LAist 89.3 laist.com/brief/news/pol…

“I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” “I wish President Macron would help me get out of this hell.” — a Palestinian journalist in Gaza tells his employer, France's AFP news agency

When Trump imposed sanctions on Iran in 2019, India stopped importing oil from them. With Trump now threatening to penalise India for importing Russian oil, will India buckle again? With thanks to Matt Gertken and Anupam Manur. npr.org/2025/07/31/nx-…

“While alt-right largely came about as reaction to excesses of relatively small group of “social justice warriors”, the dissident right sprung up in aftermath of massive social experiments of ‘20-21: enforced lockdowns, vaccination, white guilt.” on.ft.com/45cZDtX

I reported for The New Yorker on how Gazans are living in a state of hypervigilance, emotional numbness, and dissociation amid the slow erasure of any imagined future, while displaced children play games called "airstrikes" and act out death. newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing of Al Jazeera PR journalist أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif, alongside Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, by Israeli forces in #Gaza. The journalists were killed in

Today's killing of four journalists in #Gaza includes Anas Al-Sharif one of Al Jazeera’s best-known reporters and one of several whom Israel had previously alleged were members of Hamas without providing evidence. Most recently, Al-Sharif had reported on the starvation that he

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1490et

the wheels are so falling off

Ukrainians in Alaska react to the upcoming Trump-Putin summit alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-de…

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations nytimes.com/2025/08/19/bus…

Russia banned Reporters Without Borders. rsf.org/s/95321

Inspired by Javier Milei’s “chainsaw” budget cuts in Argentina and Nayib Bukele’s iron-fisted security policies in El Salvador, "a new wave of right-wing politicians seems poised to win a majority of the presidential contests scheduled across the region" bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Reuters posted a new interactive on migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, where tens of thousands have disappeared over the past decade. reuters.com/graphics/MIGRA…

AP: "Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two, and that Palestinians and rights groups say could destroy hopes for a future Palestinian state." npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-…

"This is the first time famine has been confirmed in the Middle East. And it's happened in a 25-mile-long strip of land, where trucks piled with thousands of tons of food are parked at border crossings." npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-…

Happy to see colleagues at Blue Ridge Public Radio recognized for their work on Hurricane Helene as Online Journalism Award finalists awards.journalists.org/entries/hell-o…