Katie Benner
Justice Department reporter at the New York Times. DM me for my # on Signal: [email protected]
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Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk
TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been under scrutiny as a potential national security threat.
AP: After lobbying, Catholic Church won $1.4B in virus aid
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions...
Coronavirus Surge in Tulsa ‘More Than Likely’ Linked to Trump Rally
Dr. Bruce Dart, the director of the Tulsa Health Department, said Tulsa County had reported nearly 500 new cases of Covid-19 in the past two days.
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“Karen Keith, a county commissioner in Tulsa who oversees the area where the rally occurred, said... that contact tracers were struggling to persuade people to reveal where they had been.”
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Joint Statement from Faith Leaders on the Scheduled Federal Executions .pdf
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More than 1k faith leaders have asked Pres Trump and AG Barr to halt next week’s scheduled federal executions, joining in with the victim family members who have also asked Trump not to go through with them.
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A Beverly Hills Hotel, Bought With Looted Money, Goes on Sale
The Viceroy L’Ermitage Beverly Hills was owned by a fugitive financier involved in a $2.5 billion fraud. Interested? It’ll cost north of $100 million.
Ghislaine Maxwell, Associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Is Arrested
Ms. Maxwell was arrested on accusations linked to the sex-trafficking charges against Mr. Epstein, who killed himself nearly a year ago.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested in NH on criminal charges linked to his alleged sex-trafficking operation
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America’s Enduring Caste System
Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries.
Tim Scott Didn't Ask for This
South Carolina’s junior senator didn’t set out to have a political career defined by his race. But his unique perspective has made him perhaps the most influential legislator in the Trump era.
U.K. offers citizenship path to Hongkongers due to China's security law
Boris Johnson declared the law a "serious breach" of China's promises
Reddit’s C.E.O. on Why He Banned ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
Steve Huffman, Reddit’s co-founder and chief executive, says that new rule changes will help the company fulfill its mission.
Three Words. 70 Cases. The Tragic History of ‘I Can’t Breathe.’
The deaths of Eric Garner in New York and George Floyd in Minnesota created national outrage over the use of deadly police restraints. There were many others you didn’t hear about.
Working for Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy isn’t always easy since it means working for Mark Zuckerberg
Inside the unrest at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
World at One - The Scream Image - BBC Sounds
The story of Elizabeth Eckford and Little Rock Central High School
Senate Panel Moves to Empower Justice Dept. Watchdog Over Barr’s Objections
Attorneys general have long sought to stop a proposed expansion of the authority of the department’s independent inspector general.
Unilever and Johnson & Johnson Retreat on Pushing Lighter Skin
The companies have responded to a new wave of criticism calling beauty products that advocate lighter skin discriminatory.
Inside Barr’s Effort to Undermine Prosecutors in N.Y.
The firing of the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan was foreshadowed by a disagreement over a case linked to President Trump.
Barr’s Interest in Google Antitrust Case Keeps It Moving Swiftly
Attorney General William Barr’s attention to the Justice Department investigation shows the high stakes for the agency and for him.
Census Bureau Adds Top-Level Political Posts, Raising Fears for 2020 Count
The census, which is constitutionally mandated to count every person in the country, has traditionally been carried out in a rigidly nonpartisan fashion.