How a hydroelectric dam in southeastern Turkey changed the lives of thousands of people, in two photos. Hasankeyf in 2018 and 2022, before and after the Ilisu Dam reservoir flooded the Tigris River valley. Most residents now live in the distant settlement.

Walking out today with my Reuters Guild colleagues because nearly 20 months into negotiations, despite rising profits, our company still refuses to offer us reasonable wage increases and a fair contract.

The first excerpt from UNCHECKED, by Rachael Bade & me, is out in the The Washington Post! It’s a deep dive into how McConnell almost voted to convict Trump — and ultimately failed to follow his conscience. Read here: washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

Alienated by 'defund' protests, police groups have endorsed more Republicans than usual in the midterms - including six who were at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. With voters extra fearful about crime, these endorsements could tip the outcome in some races: reuters.com/world/us/polic…

"Some carried weapons, wore badges, asked people who they'd voted for or demanded personal information." Ned Parker Andy Sullivan find 23 cases where door-to-door canvassers trying to prove Trump's baseless voter fraud claims have verged on intimidation: reuters.com/legal/republic…

🚨STRIKE AUTHORIZED🚨 We today voted in overwhelmingly support of authorizing a strike. We take this move seriously. @ThomsonReuters has dragged out our collective bargaining negotiations for 23 months now despite our reasonable requests for fair wage increases.

You cannot tell the modern history of the United States without the Philippines. The Philippines was America's first exercise in imperialism in 1902. And here we are, in 2023, on the front page of today's The New York Times.

I want to introduce you to some of the kind, dignified ppl—most of them card-carrying UNHCR-certified refugees—surviving in utterly inhumane conditions in one of #Tunisia’s 🇹🇳 very poshest neighbourhoods. This is what President Saied’s “Great Replacement” speech has wrought:🧵⬇️

Law enforcement detained at least 35 demonstrators in Atlanta on Sunday, including an SPLC employee who was arrested while acting — and identifying — as a legal observer on behalf of National Lawyers Guild #StopCopCity

An environmental horror story: "These advancing mud blobs pose existential threats to the water supply of the Southwest." Read Dale Maharidge on the sediment glaciers bearing down on a dam on the Colorado River, and what can be done: nytimes.com/2023/03/20/opi…

Disturbing behind-the-scenes look at how the FBI targeted Colorado Springs housing and criminal justice activists for a year using an undercover informant — while opening & very quickly closing an investigation into the Club Q shooter theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi…

How it started/how it’s going, “NYT coverage of U.S. foreign fighters in Ukraine” edition

A media personality and bestselling author who built a personal brand-based business empire and once switched their party affiliation to Republican to run for public office is at the center of this week's top news. Her name is Stormy Daniels: reuters.com/world/us/storm…

NEW: Young, educated Chinese women who want to escape a traditional family life as the government promotes its “three-child policy” have been emigrating to gain their independence. They call themselves “pao lu” or “running deer,” writes Hypatia Hanqueen Wu 吴瑕漢卿. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/why-…

Israeli tank fire killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon in October. The Reuters journalist was part of a group of well-marked journalists outside an active combat zone. The IDF denies deliberately targeting journalists reut.rs/3RurGOC

Fascinating piece on the newest US embassy in Beirut, "a 19-structure ziggurat that dwarfs any government facility in Lebanon," and what it shows- and occludes- about US interests and diplomatic history in the country: merip.org/2024/04/beirut…