More impact following ⁦Bloomberg⁩ series on exports of semiautomatics. “The new regulations—the most sweeping in decades—also cut the length of export licenses from four years to one and give the State Department greater authority to block sales.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

From the US to Ireland, migration is shaping the political narrative, and it's getting ugly: Five postcards from around the world, knitted together by Alan Crawford bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg Politics

It's hard to read the final moments of Jordan DeMay's life. But we all should.

Because kids are dying.

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Days before my Businessweek cover story on sextortion dropped, Meta rolled out a new feature: automatically blurring nude photos shared by minors.

And that’s a (pre-pub impact) move I hope all other social media platforms follow…

🎁 link here: bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

The Tom Renner Award goes to Bloomberg for 'America, Global Gun Pusher,' which revealed how the U.S. government profits from and promotes the sale of American guns around the world. bloomberg.com/news/storythre…

A Bloomberg investigation linked US gun exports to rising crime rates around the world. The Biden administration is planning to crack down on those sales trib.al/V3PCKWH

Multiple scoops here: A Bloomberg investigation linked US gun exports to rising crime rates around the world. The Biden administration is planning to crack down on those sales
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A Bloomberg investigation linked US gun exports to rising crime rates around the world. The Biden administration is planning to crack down on those sales

Read more: trib.al/HflRd7k

‘The right to bear arms in the United States does not mean that there is also a right to traffic those arms.’ Check out the latest in our ‘America, Global Gun Pusher’ series. ⁦Monte Reel⁩ bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

‘You cannot trust any of the quality specifications reports from Naprod, including the ones I submitted.’ Check out this remarkable investigation by ⁦Kendall Taggart 🕵🏼‍♀️⁩ and Priyanka Pulla, the latest in our Bad Medicine series bloomberg.com/news/features/…

A gap in US law has enabled a deadly new business in ‘Frankenstein’ guns. Check out the latest in our series, ‘America: Global Gun Pusher’ bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-… via @bbgvisualdata

A deadly new trade in 'Frankenstein' guns is leaving Latin American criminal groups better armed than authorities trib.al/gegc20a

The Untold Story of a Massive Hack at HHS in Covid’s Early Days bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Generic drugs are supposed to be affordable and safe. Instead, they’re cheap—but sometimes dangerous. ⁦Anna Edney⁩ and ⁦Riley Ray Griffin⁩ reveal why. Check out the latest in our Bad Medicine series bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The market monitor for the Texas power grid now says new requirements for backup resources increased wholesale costs by $12 billion.

“This is the worst performance we’ve ever seen since the beginning of organized electricity markets'

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IMPACT.

About a week after we published the story below, the VA asked mortgage servicers to pause foreclosing on veteran homeowners.

For over six months.

A huge reprieve for veterans facing foreclosure.

Read here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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The Defense Dept gets paid about $30M a year from sales of military-grade ammo to civilians. Some of the most notorious mass shooters used those bullets. The latest in our series on how the US govt has helped fuel gun violence at home and abroad: bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…

NEW:

US veterans have been stymied in talks with their mortgage companies as they attempt to exit Covid-19 forbearance programs.

They're getting hit with delinquency, damaged credit scores, and foreclosure.

w/ Polly & Ann Choi 최주연

unpaywalled here

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This is what the NRA meant when a top executive in January 2021 touted the power of “quiet diplomacy” to rewrite the foreign political landscape and change public opinion. It’s a long game. And it’s working.

Read more: trib.al/s9qJVWo

In 2014, the first year the Commerce Department partnered with SHOT Show, Thomas Saldias, an avid bird hunter from Peru, used the occasion to announce a new pro-gun lobbying group—the Latin American Legal Guns Coalition.

🔗🌎: bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…