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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 11:59am
An intriguing nugget deep in this fascinating story: Investigators are asking witnesses if Trump showed interest in material related to Gen. Milley, who has been critical of the former president. @DevlinBarrett @jdawsey1 @PerryStein https://t.co/8hA2Hf2ail
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 9:44am
Accidentally left off the incomparable @ronenbergman from this. He and Mazzetti make for an all-star duo.
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 8:56am
The inside story of how US officials, Hollywood stars and his own family helped secure the release of the hero of the "Hotel Rwanda" movie. @declanwalsh @shearm @Lattif https://t.co/dVjy1CYpYc
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 8:42am
The Biden administration blacklisted a notorious Israeli hacking firm -- and then five days later a U.S. government front company finalized a deal to use the same Israeli firm's surveillance tool. @MarkMazzettiNYT https://t.co/fMu8iUR3Qq
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 8:36am
Russia says the real outrage is not that it took reporter @evangershkovich hostage but that anyone objects: “It is unacceptable for officials in Washington and the Western media to whip up a stir." @vmsalama @AlanCullison https://t.co/5VJ5Vzobwl
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Apr 2 - 4:31pm
While anyone else facing the prospect of prison time might feel shame, Trump has spent the days since a grand jury called him a potential criminal milking the moment for all it’s worth, savoring the attention as no one else in modern politics would. https://t.co/KCla17Dhjj
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Apr 2 - 3:18pm
.@RBoggsRoberts, known for "writing crisp and engaging narratives," has produced "quite simply a compelling yarn" in "Untold Power" about Edith Wilson, the first woman to essentially serve as acting president, says @BarbaraPerryUVA https://t.co/eqJWY31nae
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Apr 2 - 10:43am
Trump announces that he will make a prime-time televised statement at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday after his arraignment.
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 3:02pm
Trump surges to his largest lead over DeSantis in a post-indictment poll by @YouGov and @YahooNews, swamping the Florida governor 57% to 31% in a one-on-one contest. @AndrewRomano https://t.co/oP1RITyFbn
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 1:34pm
Trump's defenders say the indictment against him makes America a "banana republic." But some of the non-banana republics that have prosecuted their leaders for crimes include France, Italy, Israel and South Korea. @perezpena reviews the history. https://t.co/WnZrxPn509
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 11:59am
The American son of Soviet-born Jewish exiles, @evangershkovich fell in love with Russia—its language, its people, even the punk bands he hung out with at Moscow dive bars. Now the country he loved has turned on him. @joewsj @drewhinshaw https://t.co/mW1sJdLY9F
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 11:51am
“Putin essentially takes American citizens hostage because he wants to use them as leverage": Russia signals it wants a spy in return to release reporter @evangershkovich. @michaelcrowley @INechepurenko @antontroian https://t.co/VvDTZdEqKO
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 9:50am
Virginia's Youngkin, who has tried to straddle the divide in the GOP, goes all in for Trump, attacking prosecutors for an indictment he has not even seen yet. @SchneiderG @LVozzella https://t.co/ytflhQaass
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 9:32am
Life expectancy in African nations was plunging when Bush started PEPFAR to fight AIDS 20 years ago. Since then in key countries it has increased again by some 10 years or more on average. @JoshZumbrun https://t.co/5tS0C2RG1t
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 8:10pm
RT @davidakin: Worth a re-listen: @NewYorker political podcast from Mar 24 about Trump's pending indictment in which @sbg1 (if I remember correctly) talks about interview with MIchael Cohen in which Cohen says this indictment "is what keeps Trump up at night." https://t.co/PYgf80tLjb
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 8:09pm
RT @NYTimesPR: A coalition of news organizations call for the immediate release of WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich. https://t.co/tBpP9XWKsO
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 8:09pm
RT @CatherineBelton: "Above all, Evan is a hell of a reporter, industrious & energetic. He filed stories for the Moscow Times, his first journalistic home, that often scooped the rest of the Western press." @yaffaesque on the story "I wish I never had to write" https://t.co/l6vKK8u9jC via @NewYorker
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 6:06pm
Trump is likely to be arraigned on Tuesday, when the charges against him will be unsealed. A lawyer for the former president says he will not take a plea deal and is prepared to go to trial. @Jonesieman @benprotess @WRashbaum @maggieNYT https://t.co/5d9fvl6tN0
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 2:42pm
While her brothers erupt, Ivanka takes a more muted tone: "I love my father and I love my country. Today, I am pained for both. I appreciate the voices across the political spectrum expressing support and concern.” @MaggieAstor @katekelly https://t.co/RsrzKlnq2S
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 11:58am
For 50 years, Trump has been investigated by federal and state agencies, bankers, casino regulators and legions of prosecutors and competitors. Now he will have his mug shot taken for the first time. Are his days as an escape artist over? @mffisher https://t.co/Pek7W9n6S6
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 11:47am
A secret trove of documents outlines how a Moscow-based defense contractor worked with Russian intelligence to enhance cyber war capabilities. @craigtimberg @nakashimae @h_munzinger and @hatr https://t.co/sow7VEVB2V
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 11:19am
Local superintendent in Virginia orders 14 books removed from school libraries, including two by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, overruling parent-teacher committees that approved them. @karina_elwood https://t.co/33Izzu30Py
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 10:52am
Since Bragg took office in 2022, his prosecutors have filed 117 felony counts of falsifying business records against 29 individuals and companies. @benprotess @Jonesieman @WRashbaum @KateChristobek https://t.co/IdggiKTYg6
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 10:12am
In his latest step onto the national stage, California's Newsom creates a federal PAC to take the culture war fight to Red America and will personally visit states like Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama beginning this weekend. @TarynLuna https://t.co/sy7EA0wTAJ
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 10:02am
For more than two centuries, presidents have been held on a pedestal, even the ones swathed in scandal, declared immune from prosecution while in office and, effectively, even afterward. No longer. That taboo has been broken. https://t.co/7m16BklXFs
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 6:43pm
Defendant in criminal case proclaims innocence, complains prosecutor is unfair to him. @maggieNYT @Jonesieman https://t.co/QhVNSJVeOe
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 6:25pm
A new precedent has been set. Will it tear the country apart? Will it be seen by many as victor’s justice? Or will it become a moment of reckoning, a sign that even someone who was once the most powerful person on the planet is not above the law? https://t.co/7m16BklXFs
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 5:41pm
"He will be fingerprinted. He will be photographed. He may even be handcuffed." @WRashbaum on what happens next. https://t.co/DyaYY5alRi
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 5:31pm
A Manhattan grand jury votes to indict Trump for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, a historic development that will forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges. https://t.co/o22Un290b8
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 1:12pm
"I thought he was horrific": Trump's return to Fox News after long absence was not greeted with cheers by some of the network's personalities. @grynbaum https://t.co/CkuTvBdCd0
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 1:00pm
Federal prosecutors chose not to prosecute 67% of those arrested by DC police officers in cases that would have been normally been tried in DC Superior Court, nearly double the proportion in 2015. @keithlalexander https://t.co/IHZ6rkHJDy
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 12:44pm
Manchin accused Biden of distorting signature law: "The Biden administration is determined to pursue an ideological agenda rather than confront the clear and present danger that debts and deficits pose to our nation." https://t.co/3CxawLn5qb
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 12:32pm
“Rainbowland,” a song by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton, expresses hope that one day the world could be full of rainbows instead of hate. That was deemed "controversial" by a Wisconsin school that has banned 1st graders from singing it. @AlyssaLukpat https://t.co/Urhe4FXDPb
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 6:22am
Russia detains Evan Gershkovich (@evangershkovich), an American correspondent for the Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) based in Moscow, accusing him of espionage. @bydanielvictor https://t.co/TzK0H2AAf8
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 12:47pm
Randall Robinson, who was one of the leading forces behind the international campaign that helped force South Africa to end apartheid but eventually gave up on his own country and left America, dies at 81 in self-imposed exile. @samrob12 https://t.co/RbVkwVaVsU
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 12:33pm
Joining Biden democracy summit are India, which is jailing its opposition chief; Israel, where Netanyahu wants to curb courts; and Mexico, where elections are at risk. "With friends such as these" says @EdwardGLuce "democracy hardly needs enemies." https://t.co/sBWNQK2a2u
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 12:24pm
Why has support for the once-storied @Commanders plummeted? Per @washingtonpost @ScharSchool poll, 56% of those who have become less interested in the team say Snyder is the biggest reason.
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 12:21pm
Fan support for the @Commanders has collapsed under Snyder. Just 15% in DC area call it their favorite local team, down from 31% a decade ago and overtaken for the first time by the @Nationals with 16%. @RickMaese @sfcpoll https://t.co/5j86X1Q3eT
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 10:35am
RT @hookjan: You won't want to miss @NKingofDC's new book, American Ramble, out April 4. Here's a lovely preview, with a great quote from Mary Oliver: "Attention is the beginning of devotion." https://t.co/zahuWmQDJM
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 28 - 11:07am
1,000 words https://t.co/AU47RnCTKa
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Mar 27 - 1:59pm
Struggling with crime and homelessness, San Francisco opts to go after the Little Free Library, slapping a $1,402 fine on a couple who just wanted to share books with their neighbors. @jimcarltonsf https://t.co/ltjYsHxwKj
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Mar 27 - 1:38pm
The Salinas Californian, owned by @Gannett, lost its last reporter. "The only original content from Salinas comes in the form of paid obituaries, making death virtually the only sign of life" at the once-venerable paper, writes @RaineyTime https://t.co/ZPf531Qa01
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Mar 27 - 1:29pm
Trump's base has been locked in for decades. In 1999, when he was thinking of running for president, 41% of Americans had a favorable opinion of him. Today, as he runs again, 41% have a favorable opinion of him, @DavidLauter points out. https://t.co/RParUqyrxP
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 26 - 8:53pm
This about sums it up, by @MichaelCBender and @jdavidgoodman https://t.co/QBAScu8alo
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 26 - 3:07pm
The political crisis in Israel deepens as Netanyahu fires his defense minister barely a day after he became the first minister to call for a halt to the government’s contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary. @PatrickKingsley https://t.co/b5lg6K6MqR
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 26 - 10:46am
Using powerful before-and-after images, a drone flight shows what’s left of one of the oldest streets in Antakya, a southern Turkish city, after a massive earthquake and aftershocks reduced it to rubble. https://t.co/1glwkTEOw6
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 25 - 5:04pm
As Daniel Ellsberg faces his final chapter, he bemoans the state of the world. "I’m leaving a world in terrible shape and terrible in all ways that I’ve tried to help make better during my years," he tells @AKingsburyNYT https://t.co/qNMowHraJR
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 24 - 12:55pm
Think you've seen a lot of movies? The legendary @aoscott has published 2,293 movie reviews in the @nytimes over the last 23 years. Finally, he's done. Here he talks with @mikiebarb https://t.co/ySe3WFtpOT
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 24 - 12:06pm
"Was this just another brilliant Trump fund-raising grift?" asks @sbg1. After claiming he would be arrested, Trump's barrage of emails helped bring in $1.5 million over 3 days, twice as much as he was averaging before he hit the prosecutorial panic button. https://t.co/Or5raKTNL8
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 24 - 10:33am
The words were nice but what Putin didn't get from Xi that he really wants was the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, critical to Russia's efforts to find new energy markets now that it is losing customers in Europe. @RobynDixon__ https://t.co/pFrj9nfEjZ
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 24 - 9:23am
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, who has been warning that India's democracy is threatened, is thrown out of parliament after being sentenced to two years for criticizing Prime Minister Modi. https://t.co/hXupwxR2FM
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 23 - 11:13am
After restoring ties with Iran, Saudi Arabia now poised to reopen diplomatic relations with Syria a decade after they broke off, the latest move easing Assad's isolation. https://t.co/kA3w0g6K8i
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 23 - 9:28am
"He needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds": Michael Cohen's long, strange and now historically consequential journey from Trump fixer to Trump accuser. @maggieNYT @benprotess @Jonesieman https://t.co/ZqlBuvHDHE
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 23 - 9:05am
Nearly 6,000 Russians have been accused of discrediting the Russian Army since the invasion of Ukraine; of them, more than 2,000 cases relate to comments on social media. @VALERIEinNYT https://t.co/kMi7PSGmHV
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 22 - 9:58pm
He's neither an isolationist nor a neoconservative, he’s just a Jacksonian": A smart look at DeSantis's foreign policy views by @jonathanvswan @maggieNYT @kitty_bennett https://t.co/WSQ8ThaFXh
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 22 - 2:16pm
The Fed raises interest rates by a quarter-point, trying to balance two conflicting problems: the risk that inflation could remain rapid and the threat that higher borrowing costs could fuel turmoil in the banking system. @jeannasmialek https://t.co/x0TijBWzDQ
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 22 - 2:11pm
Looking forward to digging into "Unmasking the Klansman," the shocking, twist-filled story of one of the South's most notorious white supremacists by the renowned historian Dan T. Carter. @newsouthbooks https://t.co/Ou3MtLHj12 https://t.co/13pOdNvR2P
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 22 - 12:14pm
The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence about Trump’s hush-money payment to a porn star will not meet today after all, suggesting that any indictment would come tomorrow at the earliest. @WRashbaum @maggieNYT @Jonesieman @benprotess https://t.co/HUM5CpRLl1
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 11:24pm
@MAlexJohnson I *feel* much older, though. Does that count?
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 9:26pm
RT @11thHour: All eyes on the Manhattan Grand Jury for a decision in Trump’s hush money case- the GOP focuses on Trump instead of policy- Fox News back in court today @SymoneDSanders anchors @peterbakernyt @DaniellaMicaela @glennkirschner2 @jwpetersNYT @BasilSmiklePhD @Shermichael_
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 4:14pm
Even with Western arms pouring into Ukraine, only seven of the 30 nations in NATO are meeting the alliance’s target of spending 2% of their GDP on their militaries by 2024. @StevenErlanger https://t.co/IurYZ2hFMH
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 3:18pm
RT @katiecouric: Today I'll be talking to @NewYorker staff writer @sbg1 about the potential Trump indictment. Join us on IG Live at 5 pm ET, and as always send in your questions!
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 3:18pm
White House's Kirby denounces China's pretensions to be a peacemaker in the Ukraine war, accusing it of "parroting Russian propaganda" by suggesting that the war is about Western aggression. "That’s just a bunch of malarky."
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 3:14pm
Russia open a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, the co-chair of Nobel Peace Prize-winning civil rights group Memorial, who has been charged with repeatedly violating Russia's law against "discrediting" the army. https://t.co/JGfmcIlpA4
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 12:08pm
A terrific book full of new reporting that helps fill out the picture on one of the most important periods in our modern times, by one of our generations best writers @DraperRobert https://t.co/nFFl9uGFJL
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 11:59am
For former hostages, learning that Connally traveled the Middle East in 1980 trying to send a message to Iran not to release its captives until after the election leaves a bitter taste. @toddgillman @bekah_alvey https://t.co/s3QwgBONCi
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 11:41am
RT @SteveScully: Be sure to tune in #THEBRIEFING @peterbakernyt on his incredible reporting on 1980 Carter-Reagan campaign and #IranHostageCrisis....plus @tarapalmeri is back today and @RichLowry on Biden, the GOP and Campaign 2024 - the smartest talk & inside the Beltway stories @SXMPOTUS
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 9:26am
"Winter is over and we're still here": The Russian attempt to engineer a humanitarian crisis by attacking Ukraine's power grid has failed after the US and Europe strengthened the country's air defenses. @MMQWalker @yarotrof https://t.co/ap0iZNl5TE
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Mar 20 - 8:21pm
Great conversation on @talkingfedspod with @harrylitman @BillKristol and @TaraSetmayer about the possible Trump indictment, the China-brokered deal in the Middle East and more. https://t.co/ktBjVsjVoz
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 9:31pm
Biden to host Jason Sudeikis and the cast of "Ted Lasso" at the White House tomorrow to discuss mental health issues, White House says.
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 3:36pm
Meanwhile, the amazing @sbg1 and some remarkable colleagues like @rajivscribe @yarotrof and Ed Gargan headed into Iraq on their own, "unilaterals," as they were called, with no protection and only their wits to keep them out of danger. https://t.co/M1SVLhCDwB https://t.co/VLeh7nbwPI
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 3:30pm
Twenty years ago, the first missile of the war hit just a few hundred feet away. Was lucky to be embedded with @MarkMazzettiNYT @davidjlynch and @jtamayo2010 in the desert camp of the Marine commander. Three of the best companions one could ever hope for. https://t.co/SkqIsGfqZ0
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 1:36pm
@nyttypos @nytimes Thanks for working to keep us on track. I'll leave it to the style editors to judge, but as a onetime (long, long ago) @latimes intern, it strikes me that it may not be capitalized because the LA Times itself does not use "The" in its name (unlike, say, The Washington Post). https://t.co/Q5obDndDBu
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 11:29am
“We’ve got a guy outside who’s naked, trespassing and needs some serious help": For Joe and Debbie, the homeless encampment outside their restaurant has transformed their life and business. The one and only @elisaslow goes deep as only he can. https://t.co/nWxtniDmLj
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 12:11am
Putin makes surprise visit to Mariupol, scene of one of the fiercest battles since he invaded Ukraine, in a show of defiance a day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes. @AMartinezNYT https://t.co/o4CV0Ofx5J
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 11:03pm
There is no better reporter to go deep and explore today's Iraq than @Alissanyt, who has covered the country for much of the past two decades and twice served as The Times’ Baghdad bureau chief. She spent weeks talking with Iraqis from all walks of life for this article. https://t.co/Lu8vCDsvxr
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 11:01pm
RT @peterbakernyt: After 20 years, Iraq is a freer society, one of the more open countries in the region with multiple parties and a largely free press. But it remains haunted by death, insecurity and a corrupt state. "We did not get what we were hoping for." @Alissanyt https://t.co/TJYqoYUgAf
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 11:01pm
After 20 years, Iraq is a freer society, one of the more open countries in the region with multiple parties and a largely free press. But it remains haunted by death, insecurity and a corrupt state. "We did not get what we were hoping for." @Alissanyt https://t.co/TJYqoYUgAf
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 3:45pm
More than four decades later, a secret revealed: How a prominent Texas politician says he unwittingly joined a mission to sabotage Jimmy Carter's 1980 campaign by urging the Iranians to hold 52 American hostages until after the election. https://t.co/VHhYt0iD0A
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 1:05pm
RT @sbg1: This week’s podcast with great colleagues @eosnos @JaneMayerNYer gave us the chance to look back on how all 3 of us covered the Iraq war—and its long shadow on American politics today. LISTEN: https://t.co/4116r4BqA7
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 10:33am
"Areas that made good use of vaccination, masking and strategic closures had [Covid] death rates that were 40-70% below the global average," @DrTomFrieden says. Had the US matched best performing states nearly half of deaths would have been avoided https://t.co/yHhn6SkGga
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 8:45pm
"I was a blunt instrument of the U.S. government. At the time, I gladly answered the bell." @Mpolymer served his country in Iraq -- 20 years after the invasion, he reflects on what it all meant. https://t.co/2UtLfTth2f
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 4:59pm
RT @NBCNewsPR: THIS SUNDAY on @MeetThePress with @chucktodd: ➡️ @SenWarren ➡️ Exclusive w/ @SenatorRounds Plus, panelists @peterbakernyt, @carloslcurbelo, @carolelee, and @jrpsaki. Full listings 👇 #MTP #IfItsSunday https://t.co/NO72654m5Y https://t.co/JiZOrtg9Tm
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 12:47pm
"I'll just call you Hakeem": After a tumultuous start, McCarthy has made a point of reaching across the aisle to Jeffries, who has responded in kind, creating a more civil relationship than seen in years. @LACaldwellDC @MariannaReports https://t.co/KRxh90cNd3
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 12:39pm
Researchers paid by Trump's own campaign concluded there were no more than 23 votes in Georgia cast in the name of dead people. But the next day, Trump nonetheless told Georgia's Raffensperger that "the number is close to 5,000 people." @jdawsey1 https://t.co/TEJHdCwCKa
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 12:20pm
The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, saying that he bore individual criminal responsibility for the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children since Russia’s invasion last year. @anushkapatil @MarliseSimons https://t.co/ymc6REQgVa
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 7:59am
Pandemic-era food stamp increases are coming to an end just as the price of groceries is rising, a double-punch for impoverished families dependent on government aid to eat. @germanrlopez https://t.co/T0ZRLgyZZL
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 8:14pm
During a private reception hosted by the Business Roundtable in honor of the publication of “Hand-Off," Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq, telling the crowd that it was the right decision at the time and he has no regrets, @sbg1 reports. https://t.co/n7ZlWIwRdO
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:46am
RT @ianbremmer: who americans think is the biggest enemy of the united states: depends on political id https://t.co/kYyqjLhGlp
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:45am
RT @sbg1: Meanwhile: https://t.co/q16zOhp4B3
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:42am
Trump widens his lead over DeSantis in @QuinnipiacPoll with 46% to 32% in multi-candidate field. Biden holds a narrow lead over either, topping Trump 49% to 45% and just edging DeSantis 47% to 46%. https://t.co/m0kQpdx6yk
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:33am
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank stemmed not from the diversity of its board but the lack of diversity of its assets. @YLindaQiu https://t.co/rvrLOn6lyR
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:26am
Just 42% of Republicans polled by @axios and @Ipsos back U.S. support for Ukraine against Russia compared with 79% of Democrats and 60% of independents. @margarettalev https://t.co/kWzsOuovl0
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:08am
Newly released video shows how close Jan. 6 rioters came to Chuck Grassley, who at the time was third in line to the presidency. @kyledcheney @jordainc https://t.co/Z7FgnEmuoz
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 10:06am
An American maternal health crisis: 1,205 pregnant women died in the United States in 2021, a 40% increase compared with 2020 and a 60% increase compared with 2019. @RoniNYTimes https://t.co/ZoXYuQEgwT
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 9:59am
"An ongoing civil war": The shift from Reagan to Trump is a story of the GOP's transformation on foreign policy as a segment of conservatives reject the Cold War-era approach to the world. @lizcgoodwin @iarnsdorf @MariannaReports https://t.co/oRePqwnLWu
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 9:06am
In his "illuminating new account," "Birchers," @MattDallek writes "with a clarifying elegance and restraint" about the right-wing movement that predated the Tea Party and Trumpism, says. @jenszalai https://t.co/9YfuQICaIc
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 15 - 11:12am
At a time of crisis for Fox, Benjamin Hall's story of courage and comeback after being grievously injured in Ukraine reminds us of the journalists who risk it all to bring home the news. @RoigFranzia https://t.co/Y9vH7A4uPf
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 14 - 6:20pm
Traditional Republicans upbraid DeSantis for declaring that Russia's war against Ukraine was not a national interest for the US. "The Neville Chamberlain approach to aggression never ends well," Graham says. @jonathanvswan @maggieNYT https://t.co/36Ii2B4JUS
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 14 - 3:05pm
RT @tamarakeithNPR: She was also terrific to interview. https://t.co/Zn7nWM2iuv
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 11:59am
An intriguing nugget deep in this fascinating story: Investigators are asking witnesses if Trump showed interest in material related to Gen. Milley, who has been critical of the former president. @DevlinBarrett @jdawsey1 @PerryStein https://t.co/8hA2Hf2ail
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 9:44am
Accidentally left off the incomparable @ronenbergman from this. He and Mazzetti make for an all-star duo.
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 8:56am
The inside story of how US officials, Hollywood stars and his own family helped secure the release of the hero of the "Hotel Rwanda" movie. @declanwalsh @shearm @Lattif https://t.co/dVjy1CYpYc
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 8:42am
The Biden administration blacklisted a notorious Israeli hacking firm -- and then five days later a U.S. government front company finalized a deal to use the same Israeli firm's surveillance tool. @MarkMazzettiNYT https://t.co/fMu8iUR3Qq
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Apr 3 - 8:36am
Russia says the real outrage is not that it took reporter @evangershkovich hostage but that anyone objects: “It is unacceptable for officials in Washington and the Western media to whip up a stir." @vmsalama @AlanCullison https://t.co/5VJ5Vzobwl
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Apr 2 - 4:31pm
While anyone else facing the prospect of prison time might feel shame, Trump has spent the days since a grand jury called him a potential criminal milking the moment for all it’s worth, savoring the attention as no one else in modern politics would. https://t.co/KCla17Dhjj
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Apr 2 - 3:18pm
.@RBoggsRoberts, known for "writing crisp and engaging narratives," has produced "quite simply a compelling yarn" in "Untold Power" about Edith Wilson, the first woman to essentially serve as acting president, says @BarbaraPerryUVA https://t.co/eqJWY31nae
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Apr 2 - 10:43am
Trump announces that he will make a prime-time televised statement at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday after his arraignment.
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 3:02pm
Trump surges to his largest lead over DeSantis in a post-indictment poll by @YouGov and @YahooNews, swamping the Florida governor 57% to 31% in a one-on-one contest. @AndrewRomano https://t.co/oP1RITyFbn
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 1:34pm
Trump's defenders say the indictment against him makes America a "banana republic." But some of the non-banana republics that have prosecuted their leaders for crimes include France, Italy, Israel and South Korea. @perezpena reviews the history. https://t.co/WnZrxPn509
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 11:59am
The American son of Soviet-born Jewish exiles, @evangershkovich fell in love with Russia—its language, its people, even the punk bands he hung out with at Moscow dive bars. Now the country he loved has turned on him. @joewsj @drewhinshaw https://t.co/mW1sJdLY9F
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 11:51am
“Putin essentially takes American citizens hostage because he wants to use them as leverage": Russia signals it wants a spy in return to release reporter @evangershkovich. @michaelcrowley @INechepurenko @antontroian https://t.co/VvDTZdEqKO
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 9:50am
Virginia's Youngkin, who has tried to straddle the divide in the GOP, goes all in for Trump, attacking prosecutors for an indictment he has not even seen yet. @SchneiderG @LVozzella https://t.co/ytflhQaass
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Apr 1 - 9:32am
Life expectancy in African nations was plunging when Bush started PEPFAR to fight AIDS 20 years ago. Since then in key countries it has increased again by some 10 years or more on average. @JoshZumbrun https://t.co/5tS0C2RG1t
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 8:10pm
RT @davidakin: Worth a re-listen: @NewYorker political podcast from Mar 24 about Trump's pending indictment in which @sbg1 (if I remember correctly) talks about interview with MIchael Cohen in which Cohen says this indictment "is what keeps Trump up at night." https://t.co/PYgf80tLjb
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 8:09pm
RT @NYTimesPR: A coalition of news organizations call for the immediate release of WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich. https://t.co/tBpP9XWKsO
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 8:09pm
RT @CatherineBelton: "Above all, Evan is a hell of a reporter, industrious & energetic. He filed stories for the Moscow Times, his first journalistic home, that often scooped the rest of the Western press." @yaffaesque on the story "I wish I never had to write" https://t.co/l6vKK8u9jC via @NewYorker
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 6:06pm
Trump is likely to be arraigned on Tuesday, when the charges against him will be unsealed. A lawyer for the former president says he will not take a plea deal and is prepared to go to trial. @Jonesieman @benprotess @WRashbaum @maggieNYT https://t.co/5d9fvl6tN0
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 2:42pm
While her brothers erupt, Ivanka takes a more muted tone: "I love my father and I love my country. Today, I am pained for both. I appreciate the voices across the political spectrum expressing support and concern.” @MaggieAstor @katekelly https://t.co/RsrzKlnq2S
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 11:58am
For 50 years, Trump has been investigated by federal and state agencies, bankers, casino regulators and legions of prosecutors and competitors. Now he will have his mug shot taken for the first time. Are his days as an escape artist over? @mffisher https://t.co/Pek7W9n6S6
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 11:47am
A secret trove of documents outlines how a Moscow-based defense contractor worked with Russian intelligence to enhance cyber war capabilities. @craigtimberg @nakashimae @h_munzinger and @hatr https://t.co/sow7VEVB2V
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 11:19am
Local superintendent in Virginia orders 14 books removed from school libraries, including two by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, overruling parent-teacher committees that approved them. @karina_elwood https://t.co/33Izzu30Py
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 10:52am
Since Bragg took office in 2022, his prosecutors have filed 117 felony counts of falsifying business records against 29 individuals and companies. @benprotess @Jonesieman @WRashbaum @KateChristobek https://t.co/IdggiKTYg6
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 10:12am
In his latest step onto the national stage, California's Newsom creates a federal PAC to take the culture war fight to Red America and will personally visit states like Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama beginning this weekend. @TarynLuna https://t.co/sy7EA0wTAJ
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 31 - 10:02am
For more than two centuries, presidents have been held on a pedestal, even the ones swathed in scandal, declared immune from prosecution while in office and, effectively, even afterward. No longer. That taboo has been broken. https://t.co/7m16BklXFs
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 6:43pm
Defendant in criminal case proclaims innocence, complains prosecutor is unfair to him. @maggieNYT @Jonesieman https://t.co/QhVNSJVeOe
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 6:25pm
A new precedent has been set. Will it tear the country apart? Will it be seen by many as victor’s justice? Or will it become a moment of reckoning, a sign that even someone who was once the most powerful person on the planet is not above the law? https://t.co/7m16BklXFs
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 5:41pm
"He will be fingerprinted. He will be photographed. He may even be handcuffed." @WRashbaum on what happens next. https://t.co/DyaYY5alRi
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 5:31pm
A Manhattan grand jury votes to indict Trump for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, a historic development that will forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges. https://t.co/o22Un290b8
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 1:12pm
"I thought he was horrific": Trump's return to Fox News after long absence was not greeted with cheers by some of the network's personalities. @grynbaum https://t.co/CkuTvBdCd0
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 1:00pm
Federal prosecutors chose not to prosecute 67% of those arrested by DC police officers in cases that would have been normally been tried in DC Superior Court, nearly double the proportion in 2015. @keithlalexander https://t.co/IHZ6rkHJDy
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 12:44pm
Manchin accused Biden of distorting signature law: "The Biden administration is determined to pursue an ideological agenda rather than confront the clear and present danger that debts and deficits pose to our nation." https://t.co/3CxawLn5qb
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 12:32pm
“Rainbowland,” a song by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton, expresses hope that one day the world could be full of rainbows instead of hate. That was deemed "controversial" by a Wisconsin school that has banned 1st graders from singing it. @AlyssaLukpat https://t.co/Urhe4FXDPb
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 30 - 6:22am
Russia detains Evan Gershkovich (@evangershkovich), an American correspondent for the Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) based in Moscow, accusing him of espionage. @bydanielvictor https://t.co/TzK0H2AAf8
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 12:47pm
Randall Robinson, who was one of the leading forces behind the international campaign that helped force South Africa to end apartheid but eventually gave up on his own country and left America, dies at 81 in self-imposed exile. @samrob12 https://t.co/RbVkwVaVsU
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 12:33pm
Joining Biden democracy summit are India, which is jailing its opposition chief; Israel, where Netanyahu wants to curb courts; and Mexico, where elections are at risk. "With friends such as these" says @EdwardGLuce "democracy hardly needs enemies." https://t.co/sBWNQK2a2u
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 12:24pm
Why has support for the once-storied @Commanders plummeted? Per @washingtonpost @ScharSchool poll, 56% of those who have become less interested in the team say Snyder is the biggest reason.
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 12:21pm
Fan support for the @Commanders has collapsed under Snyder. Just 15% in DC area call it their favorite local team, down from 31% a decade ago and overtaken for the first time by the @Nationals with 16%. @RickMaese @sfcpoll https://t.co/5j86X1Q3eT
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 10:35am
RT @hookjan: You won't want to miss @NKingofDC's new book, American Ramble, out April 4. Here's a lovely preview, with a great quote from Mary Oliver: "Attention is the beginning of devotion." https://t.co/zahuWmQDJM
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 28 - 11:07am
1,000 words https://t.co/AU47RnCTKa
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Mar 27 - 1:59pm
Struggling with crime and homelessness, San Francisco opts to go after the Little Free Library, slapping a $1,402 fine on a couple who just wanted to share books with their neighbors. @jimcarltonsf https://t.co/ltjYsHxwKj
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Mar 27 - 1:38pm
The Salinas Californian, owned by @Gannett, lost its last reporter. "The only original content from Salinas comes in the form of paid obituaries, making death virtually the only sign of life" at the once-venerable paper, writes @RaineyTime https://t.co/ZPf531Qa01
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Mar 27 - 1:29pm
Trump's base has been locked in for decades. In 1999, when he was thinking of running for president, 41% of Americans had a favorable opinion of him. Today, as he runs again, 41% have a favorable opinion of him, @DavidLauter points out. https://t.co/RParUqyrxP
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 26 - 8:53pm
This about sums it up, by @MichaelCBender and @jdavidgoodman https://t.co/QBAScu8alo
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 26 - 3:07pm
The political crisis in Israel deepens as Netanyahu fires his defense minister barely a day after he became the first minister to call for a halt to the government’s contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary. @PatrickKingsley https://t.co/b5lg6K6MqR
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 26 - 10:46am
Using powerful before-and-after images, a drone flight shows what’s left of one of the oldest streets in Antakya, a southern Turkish city, after a massive earthquake and aftershocks reduced it to rubble. https://t.co/1glwkTEOw6
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 25 - 5:04pm
As Daniel Ellsberg faces his final chapter, he bemoans the state of the world. "I’m leaving a world in terrible shape and terrible in all ways that I’ve tried to help make better during my years," he tells @AKingsburyNYT https://t.co/qNMowHraJR
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 24 - 12:55pm
Think you've seen a lot of movies? The legendary @aoscott has published 2,293 movie reviews in the @nytimes over the last 23 years. Finally, he's done. Here he talks with @mikiebarb https://t.co/ySe3WFtpOT
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 24 - 12:06pm
"Was this just another brilliant Trump fund-raising grift?" asks @sbg1. After claiming he would be arrested, Trump's barrage of emails helped bring in $1.5 million over 3 days, twice as much as he was averaging before he hit the prosecutorial panic button. https://t.co/Or5raKTNL8
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 24 - 10:33am
The words were nice but what Putin didn't get from Xi that he really wants was the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, critical to Russia's efforts to find new energy markets now that it is losing customers in Europe. @RobynDixon__ https://t.co/pFrj9nfEjZ
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 24 - 9:23am
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, who has been warning that India's democracy is threatened, is thrown out of parliament after being sentenced to two years for criticizing Prime Minister Modi. https://t.co/hXupwxR2FM
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 23 - 11:13am
After restoring ties with Iran, Saudi Arabia now poised to reopen diplomatic relations with Syria a decade after they broke off, the latest move easing Assad's isolation. https://t.co/kA3w0g6K8i
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 23 - 9:28am
"He needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds": Michael Cohen's long, strange and now historically consequential journey from Trump fixer to Trump accuser. @maggieNYT @benprotess @Jonesieman https://t.co/ZqlBuvHDHE
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 23 - 9:05am
Nearly 6,000 Russians have been accused of discrediting the Russian Army since the invasion of Ukraine; of them, more than 2,000 cases relate to comments on social media. @VALERIEinNYT https://t.co/kMi7PSGmHV
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 22 - 9:58pm
He's neither an isolationist nor a neoconservative, he’s just a Jacksonian": A smart look at DeSantis's foreign policy views by @jonathanvswan @maggieNYT @kitty_bennett https://t.co/WSQ8ThaFXh
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 22 - 2:16pm
The Fed raises interest rates by a quarter-point, trying to balance two conflicting problems: the risk that inflation could remain rapid and the threat that higher borrowing costs could fuel turmoil in the banking system. @jeannasmialek https://t.co/x0TijBWzDQ
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 22 - 2:11pm
Looking forward to digging into "Unmasking the Klansman," the shocking, twist-filled story of one of the South's most notorious white supremacists by the renowned historian Dan T. Carter. @newsouthbooks https://t.co/Ou3MtLHj12 https://t.co/13pOdNvR2P
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 22 - 12:14pm
The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence about Trump’s hush-money payment to a porn star will not meet today after all, suggesting that any indictment would come tomorrow at the earliest. @WRashbaum @maggieNYT @Jonesieman @benprotess https://t.co/HUM5CpRLl1
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 11:24pm
@MAlexJohnson I *feel* much older, though. Does that count?
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 9:26pm
RT @11thHour: All eyes on the Manhattan Grand Jury for a decision in Trump’s hush money case- the GOP focuses on Trump instead of policy- Fox News back in court today @SymoneDSanders anchors @peterbakernyt @DaniellaMicaela @glennkirschner2 @jwpetersNYT @BasilSmiklePhD @Shermichael_
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 4:14pm
Even with Western arms pouring into Ukraine, only seven of the 30 nations in NATO are meeting the alliance’s target of spending 2% of their GDP on their militaries by 2024. @StevenErlanger https://t.co/IurYZ2hFMH
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 3:18pm
RT @katiecouric: Today I'll be talking to @NewYorker staff writer @sbg1 about the potential Trump indictment. Join us on IG Live at 5 pm ET, and as always send in your questions!
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 3:18pm
White House's Kirby denounces China's pretensions to be a peacemaker in the Ukraine war, accusing it of "parroting Russian propaganda" by suggesting that the war is about Western aggression. "That’s just a bunch of malarky."
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 3:14pm
Russia open a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, the co-chair of Nobel Peace Prize-winning civil rights group Memorial, who has been charged with repeatedly violating Russia's law against "discrediting" the army. https://t.co/JGfmcIlpA4
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 12:08pm
A terrific book full of new reporting that helps fill out the picture on one of the most important periods in our modern times, by one of our generations best writers @DraperRobert https://t.co/nFFl9uGFJL
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 11:59am
For former hostages, learning that Connally traveled the Middle East in 1980 trying to send a message to Iran not to release its captives until after the election leaves a bitter taste. @toddgillman @bekah_alvey https://t.co/s3QwgBONCi
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 11:41am
RT @SteveScully: Be sure to tune in #THEBRIEFING @peterbakernyt on his incredible reporting on 1980 Carter-Reagan campaign and #IranHostageCrisis....plus @tarapalmeri is back today and @RichLowry on Biden, the GOP and Campaign 2024 - the smartest talk & inside the Beltway stories @SXMPOTUS
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 9:26am
"Winter is over and we're still here": The Russian attempt to engineer a humanitarian crisis by attacking Ukraine's power grid has failed after the US and Europe strengthened the country's air defenses. @MMQWalker @yarotrof https://t.co/ap0iZNl5TE
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Monday Mar 20 - 8:21pm
Great conversation on @talkingfedspod with @harrylitman @BillKristol and @TaraSetmayer about the possible Trump indictment, the China-brokered deal in the Middle East and more. https://t.co/ktBjVsjVoz
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 9:31pm
Biden to host Jason Sudeikis and the cast of "Ted Lasso" at the White House tomorrow to discuss mental health issues, White House says.
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 3:36pm
Meanwhile, the amazing @sbg1 and some remarkable colleagues like @rajivscribe @yarotrof and Ed Gargan headed into Iraq on their own, "unilaterals," as they were called, with no protection and only their wits to keep them out of danger. https://t.co/M1SVLhCDwB https://t.co/VLeh7nbwPI
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 3:30pm
Twenty years ago, the first missile of the war hit just a few hundred feet away. Was lucky to be embedded with @MarkMazzettiNYT @davidjlynch and @jtamayo2010 in the desert camp of the Marine commander. Three of the best companions one could ever hope for. https://t.co/SkqIsGfqZ0
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 1:36pm
@nyttypos @nytimes Thanks for working to keep us on track. I'll leave it to the style editors to judge, but as a onetime (long, long ago) @latimes intern, it strikes me that it may not be capitalized because the LA Times itself does not use "The" in its name (unlike, say, The Washington Post). https://t.co/Q5obDndDBu
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 11:29am
“We’ve got a guy outside who’s naked, trespassing and needs some serious help": For Joe and Debbie, the homeless encampment outside their restaurant has transformed their life and business. The one and only @elisaslow goes deep as only he can. https://t.co/nWxtniDmLj
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 12:11am
Putin makes surprise visit to Mariupol, scene of one of the fiercest battles since he invaded Ukraine, in a show of defiance a day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes. @AMartinezNYT https://t.co/o4CV0Ofx5J
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 11:03pm
There is no better reporter to go deep and explore today's Iraq than @Alissanyt, who has covered the country for much of the past two decades and twice served as The Times’ Baghdad bureau chief. She spent weeks talking with Iraqis from all walks of life for this article. https://t.co/Lu8vCDsvxr
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 11:01pm
RT @peterbakernyt: After 20 years, Iraq is a freer society, one of the more open countries in the region with multiple parties and a largely free press. But it remains haunted by death, insecurity and a corrupt state. "We did not get what we were hoping for." @Alissanyt https://t.co/TJYqoYUgAf
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 11:01pm
After 20 years, Iraq is a freer society, one of the more open countries in the region with multiple parties and a largely free press. But it remains haunted by death, insecurity and a corrupt state. "We did not get what we were hoping for." @Alissanyt https://t.co/TJYqoYUgAf
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 3:45pm
More than four decades later, a secret revealed: How a prominent Texas politician says he unwittingly joined a mission to sabotage Jimmy Carter's 1980 campaign by urging the Iranians to hold 52 American hostages until after the election. https://t.co/VHhYt0iD0A
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 1:05pm
RT @sbg1: This week’s podcast with great colleagues @eosnos @JaneMayerNYer gave us the chance to look back on how all 3 of us covered the Iraq war—and its long shadow on American politics today. LISTEN: https://t.co/4116r4BqA7
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Saturday Mar 18 - 10:33am
"Areas that made good use of vaccination, masking and strategic closures had [Covid] death rates that were 40-70% below the global average," @DrTomFrieden says. Had the US matched best performing states nearly half of deaths would have been avoided https://t.co/yHhn6SkGga
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 8:45pm
"I was a blunt instrument of the U.S. government. At the time, I gladly answered the bell." @Mpolymer served his country in Iraq -- 20 years after the invasion, he reflects on what it all meant. https://t.co/2UtLfTth2f
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 4:59pm
RT @NBCNewsPR: THIS SUNDAY on @MeetThePress with @chucktodd: ➡️ @SenWarren ➡️ Exclusive w/ @SenatorRounds Plus, panelists @peterbakernyt, @carloslcurbelo, @carolelee, and @jrpsaki. Full listings 👇 #MTP #IfItsSunday https://t.co/NO72654m5Y https://t.co/JiZOrtg9Tm
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 12:47pm
"I'll just call you Hakeem": After a tumultuous start, McCarthy has made a point of reaching across the aisle to Jeffries, who has responded in kind, creating a more civil relationship than seen in years. @LACaldwellDC @MariannaReports https://t.co/KRxh90cNd3
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 12:39pm
Researchers paid by Trump's own campaign concluded there were no more than 23 votes in Georgia cast in the name of dead people. But the next day, Trump nonetheless told Georgia's Raffensperger that "the number is close to 5,000 people." @jdawsey1 https://t.co/TEJHdCwCKa
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 12:20pm
The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, saying that he bore individual criminal responsibility for the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children since Russia’s invasion last year. @anushkapatil @MarliseSimons https://t.co/ymc6REQgVa
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Friday Mar 17 - 7:59am
Pandemic-era food stamp increases are coming to an end just as the price of groceries is rising, a double-punch for impoverished families dependent on government aid to eat. @germanrlopez https://t.co/T0ZRLgyZZL
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 8:14pm
During a private reception hosted by the Business Roundtable in honor of the publication of “Hand-Off," Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq, telling the crowd that it was the right decision at the time and he has no regrets, @sbg1 reports. https://t.co/n7ZlWIwRdO
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:46am
RT @ianbremmer: who americans think is the biggest enemy of the united states: depends on political id https://t.co/kYyqjLhGlp
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Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:45am
RT @sbg1: Meanwhile: https://t.co/q16zOhp4B3
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:42am
Trump widens his lead over DeSantis in @QuinnipiacPoll with 46% to 32% in multi-candidate field. Biden holds a narrow lead over either, topping Trump 49% to 45% and just edging DeSantis 47% to 46%. https://t.co/m0kQpdx6yk
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:33am
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank stemmed not from the diversity of its board but the lack of diversity of its assets. @YLindaQiu https://t.co/rvrLOn6lyR
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:26am
Just 42% of Republicans polled by @axios and @Ipsos back U.S. support for Ukraine against Russia compared with 79% of Democrats and 60% of independents. @margarettalev https://t.co/kWzsOuovl0
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:08am
Newly released video shows how close Jan. 6 rioters came to Chuck Grassley, who at the time was third in line to the presidency. @kyledcheney @jordainc https://t.co/Z7FgnEmuoz
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 10:06am
An American maternal health crisis: 1,205 pregnant women died in the United States in 2021, a 40% increase compared with 2020 and a 60% increase compared with 2019. @RoniNYTimes https://t.co/ZoXYuQEgwT
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 9:59am
"An ongoing civil war": The shift from Reagan to Trump is a story of the GOP's transformation on foreign policy as a segment of conservatives reject the Cold War-era approach to the world. @lizcgoodwin @iarnsdorf @MariannaReports https://t.co/oRePqwnLWu
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 9:06am
In his "illuminating new account," "Birchers," @MattDallek writes "with a clarifying elegance and restraint" about the right-wing movement that predated the Tea Party and Trumpism, says. @jenszalai https://t.co/9YfuQICaIc
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Wednesday Mar 15 - 11:12am
At a time of crisis for Fox, Benjamin Hall's story of courage and comeback after being grievously injured in Ukraine reminds us of the journalists who risk it all to bring home the news. @RoigFranzia https://t.co/Y9vH7A4uPf
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 14 - 6:20pm
Traditional Republicans upbraid DeSantis for declaring that Russia's war against Ukraine was not a national interest for the US. "The Neville Chamberlain approach to aggression never ends well," Graham says. @jonathanvswan @maggieNYT https://t.co/36Ii2B4JUS
Peter Baker
8 months ago: Tuesday Mar 14 - 3:05pm
RT @tamarakeithNPR: She was also terrific to interview. https://t.co/Zn7nWM2iuv