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Peter Baker
8 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 10:54pm
RT @11thHour: Day 763: Roger Stone gets a gag order and Michael Cohen goes to Capitol Hill. Here tonight: @JoyceWhiteVance @peterbakernyt @joshgerstein @colvinj @therealNWC @jonallendc @JimWarren55 #11MSNBC #11thHour https://t.co/WZumN8UtPP
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Peter Baker
15 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 4:34pm
North Carolina orders a new election for a House seat after the Republican candidate abandons his defense and calls for a new vote. @alanblinder https://t.co/C7UnKmFwcs
Peter Baker
15 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 4:21pm
“He’s kept his agency’s head down and vanished like a stick insect”: Dan Coats struggles to protect an intelligence community under attack from the president who appointed him. @kgilsinan https://t.co/oPVmQVERGK
Peter Baker
16 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 3:09pm
In violation of international convention, Russians have refused to allow US diplomats access to American investor Michael Calvey, who has been indicted on fraud charges that many assume are politically trumped up allegations. https://t.co/dj3pCsifTL
Peter Baker
22 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 9:12am
RT @charlie_savage: It's official: @deanbaquet and @BumillerNYT announce that the great @carolrosenberg is bringing her Guantanamo franchise to The New York Times. Welcome my fellow Miami Herald alum friend -- I'm thrilled to work with you again, rather than have to compete with you!
Peter Baker
22 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 9:05am
USA Today scoured hundreds of yearbooks for racist photos. They found one published by their own editor. @timelfrink_dc https://t.co/jsJgdpcEdh
Peter Baker
22 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 9:01am
RT @NYTimesPR: 👂👂 Hear, hear! @theobalcomb, who helped launch “The Daily” and has overseen its meteoric rise, becomes executive producer of “The Daily” and News. https://t.co/dkF2GLYeoD
Peter Baker
22 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 9:01am
RT @NYTimesPR: 🎉 We're proud to announce that the @nytimes has been recognized as one of @FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies in Media for 2019. https://t.co/5evUjMrJOv https://t.co/ThCOQZX7iD
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Peter Baker
23 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 8:19am
Great to see. https://t.co/xR2XnV5XR0
Peter Baker
23 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 8:11am
RT @holmescnn: “What I think we’re seeing is the unraveling of what remained of the cold war nuclear accords.” - Susan Glasser @sbg1 on #Putin #Russia #missiles https://t.co/SiIkzOG8d9
Peter Baker
1 day ago: Wednesday Feb 20 - 11:13pm
RT @jotted: Egyptian journalists have borne the brunt of repression, w/ dozens imprisoned or forced into exile. But of late, a lack of pushback from the US has emboldened Egypt’s security forces to take stronger action against representatives of Western news outlets, including expulsion https://t.co/ZbqssDDLHB
Peter Baker
1 day ago: Wednesday Feb 20 - 3:11pm
"The phrase 'enemy of the people' is not just false, it’s dangerous,” says @AGSNYT. "It has an ugly history of being wielded by dictators and tyrants who sought to control public information.” https://t.co/1HnHtHKaUu
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 5:44pm
Justice Thomas says its time to rethink the Supreme Court's New York Times v. Sullivan ruling protecting newspapers, writing that it and successor rulings "were policy-driven decisions masquerading as constitutional law." @adamliptak https://t.co/ne6KwIL9Np
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 4:55pm
American investor Michael Calvey became a legend in the Russian market, in part because of his reputed aversion to any kind of foul play and focus on industries and firms unlikely to attract the attention of Russian authorities. Now he’s in Russian prison. https://t.co/Em9xsWpTx7
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 4:53pm
Lack of a form means US Embassy can’t even discuss Paul Whelan’s case with his family weeks after his arrest in Moscow. @ak_mack @RobbieGramer https://t.co/kYNC8JYa2k
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 4:46pm
Egypt detains @nytimes correspondent @ddknyt after he arrives in Cairo, seizes his phone, holds him incommunicado for seven hours without food or water and then expels him from the country. @declanwalsh https://t.co/NcMjYJ1u1C
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 4:42pm
RT @sbg1: He also memorably called Bill Clinton the ‘pander bear’ https://t.co/p2uB6Is0jv
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 7:55am
Guess what @gerryshih found in a remote part of Tajikistan near the Afghan border? Chinese troops, who say they've been there for three or four years. One more example of Beijing's expanding global footprint. https://t.co/hCbNS09diu
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 7:31am
Sanders kicks off another campaign for the White House, though this time he will be contending with a crowded and diverse field of other candidates for the Democratic nomination who have adopted his populist liberal mantle. @melbournecoal https://t.co/t9FyY0iGSG
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 10:10am
Australia just passed Switzerland as the richest country in the world as measured by household median wealth. @NellieBowles https://t.co/VeHHL778yY
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 10:08am
In a worst-case scenario, the Bank of England calculated that Brexit could shrink the British economy by 8 percent and send house prices plunging by 30 percent. @amietsang @MattGoldstein26 https://t.co/GUNr35Syw0
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 9:26am
In the British city where a former Russian spy was poisoned, someone climbed the scaffolding of the local cathedral to fly a Russian flag. The town didn't think it was funny. @EllenBarryNYT https://t.co/6LLzcSoorO
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 9:24am
As Sanders prepares to announce another run for the White House as early as this week, his weak track record with black voters — a vital base in the Democratic Party — could be a potential threat to his candidacy. @melbournecoal https://t.co/uNTPnsnjiP
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 9:20am
Trump leaves a mark on the nation's judiciary, making history by installing more appeals court judges in his first two years than any other president, with still more to come. @amarimow https://t.co/Jq9xzgpi63
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 2:34am
Hey, thanks for that. Means a lot coming from you, it really does. https://t.co/pGvaqyBxXE
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:31pm
Just because other presidents have at times been wrong in their treatment of the press doesn’t mean this is therefore normal and acceptable. (4)
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:29pm
And no previous president I can remember vilified the press across the board using Soviet phraseology like “enemies of the people” or incited crowds into shouting at reporters standing in the back, to the point that one was physically attacked just the other day. (3)
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:28pm
@nytimes Those were disputes over the publication of classified information. In today’s case, the president is seeking “retribution” because an actor made fun of him, not because national security was jeopardized. (2)
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:28pm
When Obama’s Justice Department tried to pressure reporters to reveal sources or obtain their records, including our colleagues at the @nytimes, we fought it vigorously. We believed those actions were outrageous and chilling to First Amendment coverage. (1) https://t.co/RW2RFT8gqA
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:48pm
RT @carolynryan: A broadsheet covers a lot 🙃 https://t.co/9tqNsDUjbh
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:45pm
Sorry, simply not true. I've interviewed 7 presidents and covered 4 full time over last couple decades. All complained about the press and at times lashed out. But none of them, Republican or Democrat, engaged in the kind of "enemy of the people" rhetoric Trump routinely does. https://t.co/GjenWJ1FG4
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 5:35pm
A good example to remember. Pretty tame compared to these days, but a good example. And when other news outlets stood up for Fox, the White House backed down and admitted it was a mistake. Also a good example. https://t.co/VbiSTtPPND
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 1:26pm
RT @nytpolitics: Don’t remember President Obama’s near-war with North Korea as described by President Trump? Neither do the people who were working for Obama at the time, writes @peterbakernyt https://t.co/WaKyy4BTQp
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 12:26pm
RT @meridithmcgraw: Just in: Acting Sec of Defense Shanahan just told reporters he hasn’t determined if there is a military necessity for a border wall or how much money Defense will even spend. Shanahan said he hasn’t yet spoken to President Trump.
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 12:25pm
It's become commonplace enough in the past two years that it no longer gets much notice. But it's worth remembering that no other president in decades publicly threatened "retribution" against a television network because it satirized him.
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 11:11am
Harsh policies Trump has introduced to crack down on asylum seekers may already be achieving some of their intended effects and convincing migrants not to come to the US. @jdelreal @itscaitlinhd @mirjordan https://t.co/8xXU04uOQZ
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:40am
Fifty years after Armstrong and Aldrin took that giant leap, a new race to the moon is on, including the US, China, India, Israel and a host of would-be modern-day 49ers looking for gold or its lunar equivalent. @wapodavenport https://t.co/usJrDsZgnb
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:31am
RIP Pat Caddell, a political savant, a visionary to some and a mad scientist to others, whose force of personality and brilliance kept him in the middle of presidential politics for years, writes @jonward11, author of "Camelot's End." https://t.co/7AyAroPecU
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:41am
"They need to look elsewhere for a scapegoat": Deripaska rejects role in Russia scandal. His wealth has been cut from $6.7 billion to $3.6 billion in the last year, in part due to sanctions. @antontroian https://t.co/9o8xexcaC5
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:37am
Kamala Harris leaps to unwarranted conclusions in tax tweet, finds fact-checker extraordinaire @GlennKesslerWP https://t.co/yCB6s6FOBR
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:19am
"The impact is horrendous": In Yemen, the Houthis are estimated to have laid more than a million mines, more than one for every 30 people and as high as that in any country since World War II. @ddknyt https://t.co/V2Wf6FZQeh
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 9:12pm
Nauert withdrew from consideration because she had a nanny who was in the United States legally but did not have the proper work visa, according to people familiar with the process. @anniekarni @maggieNYT https://t.co/gjzMSbmlCm
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 7:01pm
RT @rodnordland: She’s a Force of Nature, and She Just Declared War on Peace With the Taliban https://t.co/78sjkRJ9uE
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 2:13pm
RT @herszenhorn: @sbg1 @peterbakernyt @GlennKesslerWP "Whatever I say, you will write what you want," Lavrov said in response to @joshrogin @washingtonpost question on #Syria. "So do it."
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 2:09pm
RT @sbg1: Reminder: Russia took over Crimea. We need @GlennKesslerWP Pinocchio on the scene at Munich>>> https://t.co/Hmqu8MSE0z
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 1:33pm
"He told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea," Trump says of Obama. But Obama aides say he never told them that nor were military options under serious consideration. https://t.co/eAVyi6vlRF
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 11:50am
Forced to confront arguably the biggest surrender of his presidency, Trump did what he often does after a loss: respond with distraction, digression and entertainment, through a fog of words, writes the masterful @anniekarni https://t.co/iEy9K8kAo5
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 11:49am
Uncharted territory: Presidents have declared national emergencies five dozen times under a 1970s law but never to spend money that Congress has explicitly refused to give them. @charlie_savage https://t.co/yVGEB0WvZq
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 11:46am
Senate Republican aides see as many as 10 GOP senators voting with Democrats to reject Trump's emergency declaration, enough to pass a measure of disapproval but not enough to override a veto. @hillhulse @GlennThrush https://t.co/Z3LWh1SPO2
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 11:00pm
RT @nytimes: To justify redirecting federal funds to a wall, President Trump made a litany of assertions about crime, drugs and other issues on the southern border. Nearly all were misleading, exaggerated or false. https://t.co/ar32gKDrsr
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 10:59pm
RT @kenvogel: NEW TRANSCRIPT: The judge describes MANAFORT's misrepresentation of KILIMNIK's understanding of Russia-aligned lobbying as "a problematic attempt to shield his Russian conspirator from liability and it gives rise to LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE HIS LOYALTIES LIE ."
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 7:36pm
Public Citizen files suit to stop Trump emergency declaration on behalf of three landowners in South Texas who were told by the government that it would seek to build a border wall on their properties if money was available in 2019.
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 7:13pm
Aurora Shooting Updates: 5 Dead and Several Others Wounded via @NYTimes https://t.co/8Cik91A0Uh
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 6:56pm
RT @hsu_spencer: Rayful Edmond III, the 1980s-era drug lord said to have introduced crack cocaine to Washington D.C., and whose life was chronicled in American Gangster, books and rap songs, is ready to be released early from prison after cooperating with the government in other cases, U.S. says. https://t.co/fzJfePyan7
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 6:55pm
On first reference, yes, then on subsequent references it’s the same — Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer and Mr. McConnell and Mr. Ryan. https://t.co/Rd54eEXRC7
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 6:54pm
Often true, yes. And in this case, he was the incumbent at the time of the action in the sentence (2014) so “former” wouldn’t have been right in that instance. https://t.co/ogmIEhdw9b
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 6:34pm
Thanks for checking. No disrespect. NYT style for any incumbent president is President Lastname on first reference and Mr. Lastname (or Ms. Lastname) on all subsequent references. That’s been true for every president going back more than a century. Thanks for the interest. https://t.co/ZpQTCndgwX
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 2:35pm
Trump has signed the spending bill passed by Congress, ending any threat of another government shutdown for the rest of the fiscal year, according to @PressSec
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 2:23pm
In 2015, Trump tweeted that if the national debt topped $21 trillion, “Obama will have effectively bankrupted our country.” It has now topped $22 trillion and neither Trump, nor either political party seems all that concerned. @BCAppelbaum https://t.co/ioCWKqplZI
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 2:06pm
Trump has now signed the emergency declaration and the White House has released a copy: “The current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency."
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 10:51am
Trump declares a national emergency at the border to access billions of dollars to build a wall after being rejected by Congress. https://t.co/gZ2wAfv7EP
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 10:44am
RT @sbg1: My Letter from Washington, national emergency edition: https://t.co/nunmSxcJFB
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 9:36am
Behind the scenes, a president who balked and the Senate ally who coaxed him into signing a compromise spending package — at a price. The inside story as only @GlennThrush can tell it. https://t.co/0pjiAfd4Pd
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:58pm
RT @RohdeD: Trump's "emergency" is dragging congressional Republicans into a whole new fight. @sbg1 https://t.co/vzdUQtRmUG
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:57pm
RT @11thHour: Day 756: Revelations from Andrew McCabe are raising a LOT of eyebrows tonight. Plus, Trump seems ready to declare a natl. emergency. With us: @peterbakernyt @selectedwisdom @BarbMcQuade @matthewamiller @ToluseO @kelsey_snell @MalcolmNance #11MSNBC #11thHour https://t.co/l3WhKmrSSc
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Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:57pm
Boy, that was a loooong time ago. But a really great movie by my friend @rjcutler that really captures some essential truths about modern politics that are still relevant today. https://t.co/Hw1Qr9vweE
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 9:08pm
House passes spending bill 300-128, sending it to Trump for his signature. @ESCochrane @maggieNYT https://t.co/MCavP854Qt
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 9:04pm
RT @ESCochrane: Democrats broke into scattered applause when the bill passed 300-128.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:54pm
RT @ESCochrane: Spending bill has the votes to pass — more than 250 — but it’s still open
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:51pm
RT @nytimesworld: Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday suffered another humiliating defeat over Britain’s tortured exit from the European Union when a fragile truce within her Conservative Party collapsed, exposing widening fault lines in Parliament. https://t.co/3NwX8NAJbF
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:50pm
White House believes it can put together about $8 billion for the wall, adding reprogrammed money and funds to be accessed through a national emergency declaration to the $1.375 billion in the spending bill.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 6:15pm
RT @sbg1: The Republicans’ New Strategy for Dealing with the Emergency That Is Trump: Pray https://t.co/gzsK8X66sn
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 4:20pm
Trump weighs 243 pounds, according to medical checkup, putting his BMI just above 30, the line for obesity. His cholesterol is 196, just below the line for risk. His doctor proclaims him in “very good health overall."
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 3:11pm
McConnell Says Trump Plans to Declare National Emergency to Build Border Wall https://t.co/MCavP854Qt
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 1:02pm
Senate Confirms William Barr as Attorney General @npfandos @ktbenner https://t.co/lChHZYJmX4
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 12:28pm
Wait til he gets to "shiit-ake mushrooms," which our kid came to love. https://t.co/hfZymzO0QY
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 11:41am
RT @NYTNational: With Gov. Ralph Northam reeling from the blackface controversy and looking to make right, black leaders see a chance to push him to create policies that benefit black communities. https://t.co/mixSPBSd4B
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 11:19am
In 2016, Trump promised to eliminate the entire national debt — not the annual deficit but the all the accumulated deficits — in eight years. Instead, it has risen from $19.9 trillion to $22.0 trillion since he has taken office. https://t.co/Fn6EwfPwlq https://t.co/J2nZeJbhDT
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 11:11am
RT @MCJalonick: After Senate opening prayer, Grassley leans into mic and adds: "Let's all pray that the president will have wisdom to sign the bill so the government doesn’t shut down."
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:41am
RT @nytimes: A Saudi app lets male “guardians” track women’s movements, or even stop them from getting on a plane. Apple and Google offer it in their app stores — are they complicit? https://t.co/N4fHernDDq
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:37am
Kudlow tells reporters that the deficits are not alarming because they remain a reasonable share of the overall economy, around 4 percent of GDP. "I don't think that's an issue, a problem,” he says.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:30am
RT @PoliticsProse: Saturday: Amy S. Greenberg discusses the world of First Lady Sarah Polk in LADY FIRST https://t.co/enWfPnpJz5 https://t.co/NKsqBDy8Iy
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Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:29am
RT @nytimesworld: It was an accident, not a crime, prosecutors say. Prince Philip, 97, will not be charged in the crash that injured two women. https://t.co/vJaUewMq8e
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:29am
The AOC Effect: Party insurgents are targeting as many as a half-dozen members of Congress in and around New York City over what it means to be a Democrat and a progressive in the age of Trump. @ShaneGoldmacher https://t.co/4TwZBPELMw
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:22am
In canceling California’s bullet train project, Newsom may have written the final chapter in a painful national story for Democrats, one last disappointment for the star-crossed high-speed rail program launched by Obama and train-loving Biden @MikeGrunwald https://t.co/iJuc7X9qFI
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:01am
RT @jasondhorowitz: Opportunity Knocks Off https://t.co/nSjJyPQn2D
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 9:47am
McCabe confirms @nytimes report that top Justice officials were so alarmed by the Comey firing that they discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. @adamgoldmanNYT @matthewhaag https://t.co/6RV2yoNjp0
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 9:10am
"My life is not normal. It will never be like before. I used to get out of school and go play soccer. All I wanted was to play soccer professionally. I played forward. Now I don’t do anything." A year after Parkland. @PatriciaMazzei https://t.co/oFQcd9oHSv
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:26am
RT @eosnos: Rod MacFarquhar was the China scholar’s China scholar. He was admired by so many, and he inspired so many. He had depth, wit, narrative power, and, most of all, moral clarity. I never would’ve studied China if not for him. The @nytimes obit: https://t.co/PXIsqVlTXB https://t.co/uC2V707Nlt
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:25am
Will there be a Supreme Court retirement this year? Not RBG — @JeffreyToobin wonders if Clarence Thomas, the longest serving justice, might step down, giving Trump an opportunity for a third appointment to the highest bench. https://t.co/4U4fW0npoI
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 7:53am
RT @mkraju: Rep. Ilhan Omar in no mood to talk about her controversies this week. First, she said: “No thank you” when asked to comment on Trump saying she should resign. Second time I saw her, she yelled: “Are you serious?” when I tried to question her.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 7:49am
RT @hillhulse: I loved that thing. RIP Opportunity. https://t.co/iW2df5so6C
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 9:36pm
Very cool digital map of Opportunity's 14-year quest on the Martian surface. @JonathanCorum https://t.co/xbfwKTx2Uf
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 9:32pm
Opportunity, the longest-lived robot ever sent from Earth to the surface of another planet, roamed the red plains of Mars for more than 14 years, snapping photos and revealing astonishing glimpses into the planet’s distant past. @chang https://t.co/QaMM9kYEDq
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 4:36pm
House votes to end military aid for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, a rare move to curb presidential war powers that underscored anger with Trump’s support for Saudi Arabia even after the Khashoggi killing. @CatieEdmondson @charlie_savage https://t.co/psxUniykIi
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 2:08pm
Trump administration has accelerated a secret program to sabotage Iran’s missiles and rockets, part of an expanding campaign by the United States to undercut Tehran’s military and isolate its economy. @SangerNYT @WilliamJBroad https://t.co/3OvYDMsTOC
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 12:40pm
Trump repeats that he doesn’t want another government shutdown but holds back saying whether he will sign the border deal.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 12:10pm
Congratulations to Binya! Great new opportunity but we will miss his brilliant and insightful writing on economics on the front page. Make sure to pre-order his book, “The Economist’s Hour,” due out in September. https://t.co/PPi4J7Tlg8 https://t.co/DA1WZnSiME
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 12:06pm
. @jkirchick writes that anti-gay innuendo targeting Lindsey Graham is no more acceptable from the left than it was from the right. https://t.co/SdgtEoNNpF
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 11:59am
RT @Fahrenthold: A brave journalist standing up for the truth in Duterte’s Philippines. https://t.co/7kXanlFFZ1
8 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 10:54pm
RT @11thHour: Day 763: Roger Stone gets a gag order and Michael Cohen goes to Capitol Hill. Here tonight: @JoyceWhiteVance @peterbakernyt @joshgerstein @colvinj @therealNWC @jonallendc @JimWarren55 #11MSNBC #11thHour https://t.co/WZumN8UtPP
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Peter Baker
15 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 4:34pm
North Carolina orders a new election for a House seat after the Republican candidate abandons his defense and calls for a new vote. @alanblinder https://t.co/C7UnKmFwcs
Peter Baker
15 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 4:21pm
“He’s kept his agency’s head down and vanished like a stick insect”: Dan Coats struggles to protect an intelligence community under attack from the president who appointed him. @kgilsinan https://t.co/oPVmQVERGK
Peter Baker
16 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 3:09pm
In violation of international convention, Russians have refused to allow US diplomats access to American investor Michael Calvey, who has been indicted on fraud charges that many assume are politically trumped up allegations. https://t.co/dj3pCsifTL
Peter Baker
22 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 9:12am
RT @charlie_savage: It's official: @deanbaquet and @BumillerNYT announce that the great @carolrosenberg is bringing her Guantanamo franchise to The New York Times. Welcome my fellow Miami Herald alum friend -- I'm thrilled to work with you again, rather than have to compete with you!
Peter Baker
22 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 9:05am
USA Today scoured hundreds of yearbooks for racist photos. They found one published by their own editor. @timelfrink_dc https://t.co/jsJgdpcEdh
Peter Baker
22 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 9:01am
RT @NYTimesPR: 👂👂 Hear, hear! @theobalcomb, who helped launch “The Daily” and has overseen its meteoric rise, becomes executive producer of “The Daily” and News. https://t.co/dkF2GLYeoD
Peter Baker
22 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 9:01am
RT @NYTimesPR: 🎉 We're proud to announce that the @nytimes has been recognized as one of @FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies in Media for 2019. https://t.co/5evUjMrJOv https://t.co/ThCOQZX7iD
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Peter Baker
23 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 8:19am
Great to see. https://t.co/xR2XnV5XR0
Peter Baker
23 hours ago: Thursday Feb 21 - 8:11am
RT @holmescnn: “What I think we’re seeing is the unraveling of what remained of the cold war nuclear accords.” - Susan Glasser @sbg1 on #Putin #Russia #missiles https://t.co/SiIkzOG8d9
Peter Baker
1 day ago: Wednesday Feb 20 - 11:13pm
RT @jotted: Egyptian journalists have borne the brunt of repression, w/ dozens imprisoned or forced into exile. But of late, a lack of pushback from the US has emboldened Egypt’s security forces to take stronger action against representatives of Western news outlets, including expulsion https://t.co/ZbqssDDLHB
Peter Baker
1 day ago: Wednesday Feb 20 - 3:11pm
"The phrase 'enemy of the people' is not just false, it’s dangerous,” says @AGSNYT. "It has an ugly history of being wielded by dictators and tyrants who sought to control public information.” https://t.co/1HnHtHKaUu
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 5:44pm
Justice Thomas says its time to rethink the Supreme Court's New York Times v. Sullivan ruling protecting newspapers, writing that it and successor rulings "were policy-driven decisions masquerading as constitutional law." @adamliptak https://t.co/ne6KwIL9Np
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 4:55pm
American investor Michael Calvey became a legend in the Russian market, in part because of his reputed aversion to any kind of foul play and focus on industries and firms unlikely to attract the attention of Russian authorities. Now he’s in Russian prison. https://t.co/Em9xsWpTx7
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 4:53pm
Lack of a form means US Embassy can’t even discuss Paul Whelan’s case with his family weeks after his arrest in Moscow. @ak_mack @RobbieGramer https://t.co/kYNC8JYa2k
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 4:46pm
Egypt detains @nytimes correspondent @ddknyt after he arrives in Cairo, seizes his phone, holds him incommunicado for seven hours without food or water and then expels him from the country. @declanwalsh https://t.co/NcMjYJ1u1C
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 4:42pm
RT @sbg1: He also memorably called Bill Clinton the ‘pander bear’ https://t.co/p2uB6Is0jv
Peter Baker
2 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 7:55am
Guess what @gerryshih found in a remote part of Tajikistan near the Afghan border? Chinese troops, who say they've been there for three or four years. One more example of Beijing's expanding global footprint. https://t.co/hCbNS09diu
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Tuesday Feb 19 - 7:31am
Sanders kicks off another campaign for the White House, though this time he will be contending with a crowded and diverse field of other candidates for the Democratic nomination who have adopted his populist liberal mantle. @melbournecoal https://t.co/t9FyY0iGSG
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 10:10am
Australia just passed Switzerland as the richest country in the world as measured by household median wealth. @NellieBowles https://t.co/VeHHL778yY
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 10:08am
In a worst-case scenario, the Bank of England calculated that Brexit could shrink the British economy by 8 percent and send house prices plunging by 30 percent. @amietsang @MattGoldstein26 https://t.co/GUNr35Syw0
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 9:26am
In the British city where a former Russian spy was poisoned, someone climbed the scaffolding of the local cathedral to fly a Russian flag. The town didn't think it was funny. @EllenBarryNYT https://t.co/6LLzcSoorO
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 9:24am
As Sanders prepares to announce another run for the White House as early as this week, his weak track record with black voters — a vital base in the Democratic Party — could be a potential threat to his candidacy. @melbournecoal https://t.co/uNTPnsnjiP
Peter Baker
3 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 9:20am
Trump leaves a mark on the nation's judiciary, making history by installing more appeals court judges in his first two years than any other president, with still more to come. @amarimow https://t.co/Jq9xzgpi63
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Monday Feb 18 - 2:34am
Hey, thanks for that. Means a lot coming from you, it really does. https://t.co/pGvaqyBxXE
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:31pm
Just because other presidents have at times been wrong in their treatment of the press doesn’t mean this is therefore normal and acceptable. (4)
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:29pm
And no previous president I can remember vilified the press across the board using Soviet phraseology like “enemies of the people” or incited crowds into shouting at reporters standing in the back, to the point that one was physically attacked just the other day. (3)
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:28pm
@nytimes Those were disputes over the publication of classified information. In today’s case, the president is seeking “retribution” because an actor made fun of him, not because national security was jeopardized. (2)
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:28pm
When Obama’s Justice Department tried to pressure reporters to reveal sources or obtain their records, including our colleagues at the @nytimes, we fought it vigorously. We believed those actions were outrageous and chilling to First Amendment coverage. (1) https://t.co/RW2RFT8gqA
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:48pm
RT @carolynryan: A broadsheet covers a lot 🙃 https://t.co/9tqNsDUjbh
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:45pm
Sorry, simply not true. I've interviewed 7 presidents and covered 4 full time over last couple decades. All complained about the press and at times lashed out. But none of them, Republican or Democrat, engaged in the kind of "enemy of the people" rhetoric Trump routinely does. https://t.co/GjenWJ1FG4
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 5:35pm
A good example to remember. Pretty tame compared to these days, but a good example. And when other news outlets stood up for Fox, the White House backed down and admitted it was a mistake. Also a good example. https://t.co/VbiSTtPPND
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 1:26pm
RT @nytpolitics: Don’t remember President Obama’s near-war with North Korea as described by President Trump? Neither do the people who were working for Obama at the time, writes @peterbakernyt https://t.co/WaKyy4BTQp
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 12:26pm
RT @meridithmcgraw: Just in: Acting Sec of Defense Shanahan just told reporters he hasn’t determined if there is a military necessity for a border wall or how much money Defense will even spend. Shanahan said he hasn’t yet spoken to President Trump.
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 12:25pm
It's become commonplace enough in the past two years that it no longer gets much notice. But it's worth remembering that no other president in decades publicly threatened "retribution" against a television network because it satirized him.
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 11:11am
Harsh policies Trump has introduced to crack down on asylum seekers may already be achieving some of their intended effects and convincing migrants not to come to the US. @jdelreal @itscaitlinhd @mirjordan https://t.co/8xXU04uOQZ
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:40am
Fifty years after Armstrong and Aldrin took that giant leap, a new race to the moon is on, including the US, China, India, Israel and a host of would-be modern-day 49ers looking for gold or its lunar equivalent. @wapodavenport https://t.co/usJrDsZgnb
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 10:31am
RIP Pat Caddell, a political savant, a visionary to some and a mad scientist to others, whose force of personality and brilliance kept him in the middle of presidential politics for years, writes @jonward11, author of "Camelot's End." https://t.co/7AyAroPecU
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:41am
"They need to look elsewhere for a scapegoat": Deripaska rejects role in Russia scandal. His wealth has been cut from $6.7 billion to $3.6 billion in the last year, in part due to sanctions. @antontroian https://t.co/9o8xexcaC5
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:37am
Kamala Harris leaps to unwarranted conclusions in tax tweet, finds fact-checker extraordinaire @GlennKesslerWP https://t.co/yCB6s6FOBR
Peter Baker
4 days ago: Sunday Feb 17 - 9:19am
"The impact is horrendous": In Yemen, the Houthis are estimated to have laid more than a million mines, more than one for every 30 people and as high as that in any country since World War II. @ddknyt https://t.co/V2Wf6FZQeh
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 9:12pm
Nauert withdrew from consideration because she had a nanny who was in the United States legally but did not have the proper work visa, according to people familiar with the process. @anniekarni @maggieNYT https://t.co/gjzMSbmlCm
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 7:01pm
RT @rodnordland: She’s a Force of Nature, and She Just Declared War on Peace With the Taliban https://t.co/78sjkRJ9uE
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 2:13pm
RT @herszenhorn: @sbg1 @peterbakernyt @GlennKesslerWP "Whatever I say, you will write what you want," Lavrov said in response to @joshrogin @washingtonpost question on #Syria. "So do it."
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 2:09pm
RT @sbg1: Reminder: Russia took over Crimea. We need @GlennKesslerWP Pinocchio on the scene at Munich>>> https://t.co/Hmqu8MSE0z
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 1:33pm
"He told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea," Trump says of Obama. But Obama aides say he never told them that nor were military options under serious consideration. https://t.co/eAVyi6vlRF
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 11:50am
Forced to confront arguably the biggest surrender of his presidency, Trump did what he often does after a loss: respond with distraction, digression and entertainment, through a fog of words, writes the masterful @anniekarni https://t.co/iEy9K8kAo5
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 11:49am
Uncharted territory: Presidents have declared national emergencies five dozen times under a 1970s law but never to spend money that Congress has explicitly refused to give them. @charlie_savage https://t.co/yVGEB0WvZq
Peter Baker
5 days ago: Saturday Feb 16 - 11:46am
Senate Republican aides see as many as 10 GOP senators voting with Democrats to reject Trump's emergency declaration, enough to pass a measure of disapproval but not enough to override a veto. @hillhulse @GlennThrush https://t.co/Z3LWh1SPO2
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 11:00pm
RT @nytimes: To justify redirecting federal funds to a wall, President Trump made a litany of assertions about crime, drugs and other issues on the southern border. Nearly all were misleading, exaggerated or false. https://t.co/ar32gKDrsr
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 10:59pm
RT @kenvogel: NEW TRANSCRIPT: The judge describes MANAFORT's misrepresentation of KILIMNIK's understanding of Russia-aligned lobbying as "a problematic attempt to shield his Russian conspirator from liability and it gives rise to LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE HIS LOYALTIES LIE ."
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 7:36pm
Public Citizen files suit to stop Trump emergency declaration on behalf of three landowners in South Texas who were told by the government that it would seek to build a border wall on their properties if money was available in 2019.
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 7:13pm
Aurora Shooting Updates: 5 Dead and Several Others Wounded via @NYTimes https://t.co/8Cik91A0Uh
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 6:56pm
RT @hsu_spencer: Rayful Edmond III, the 1980s-era drug lord said to have introduced crack cocaine to Washington D.C., and whose life was chronicled in American Gangster, books and rap songs, is ready to be released early from prison after cooperating with the government in other cases, U.S. says. https://t.co/fzJfePyan7
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 6:55pm
On first reference, yes, then on subsequent references it’s the same — Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer and Mr. McConnell and Mr. Ryan. https://t.co/Rd54eEXRC7
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 6:54pm
Often true, yes. And in this case, he was the incumbent at the time of the action in the sentence (2014) so “former” wouldn’t have been right in that instance. https://t.co/ogmIEhdw9b
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 6:34pm
Thanks for checking. No disrespect. NYT style for any incumbent president is President Lastname on first reference and Mr. Lastname (or Ms. Lastname) on all subsequent references. That’s been true for every president going back more than a century. Thanks for the interest. https://t.co/ZpQTCndgwX
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 2:35pm
Trump has signed the spending bill passed by Congress, ending any threat of another government shutdown for the rest of the fiscal year, according to @PressSec
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 2:23pm
In 2015, Trump tweeted that if the national debt topped $21 trillion, “Obama will have effectively bankrupted our country.” It has now topped $22 trillion and neither Trump, nor either political party seems all that concerned. @BCAppelbaum https://t.co/ioCWKqplZI
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 2:06pm
Trump has now signed the emergency declaration and the White House has released a copy: “The current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency."
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 10:51am
Trump declares a national emergency at the border to access billions of dollars to build a wall after being rejected by Congress. https://t.co/gZ2wAfv7EP
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 10:44am
RT @sbg1: My Letter from Washington, national emergency edition: https://t.co/nunmSxcJFB
Peter Baker
6 days ago: Friday Feb 15 - 9:36am
Behind the scenes, a president who balked and the Senate ally who coaxed him into signing a compromise spending package — at a price. The inside story as only @GlennThrush can tell it. https://t.co/0pjiAfd4Pd
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:58pm
RT @RohdeD: Trump's "emergency" is dragging congressional Republicans into a whole new fight. @sbg1 https://t.co/vzdUQtRmUG
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:57pm
RT @11thHour: Day 756: Revelations from Andrew McCabe are raising a LOT of eyebrows tonight. Plus, Trump seems ready to declare a natl. emergency. With us: @peterbakernyt @selectedwisdom @BarbMcQuade @matthewamiller @ToluseO @kelsey_snell @MalcolmNance #11MSNBC #11thHour https://t.co/l3WhKmrSSc
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Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:57pm
Boy, that was a loooong time ago. But a really great movie by my friend @rjcutler that really captures some essential truths about modern politics that are still relevant today. https://t.co/Hw1Qr9vweE
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 9:08pm
House passes spending bill 300-128, sending it to Trump for his signature. @ESCochrane @maggieNYT https://t.co/MCavP854Qt
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 9:04pm
RT @ESCochrane: Democrats broke into scattered applause when the bill passed 300-128.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:54pm
RT @ESCochrane: Spending bill has the votes to pass — more than 250 — but it’s still open
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:51pm
RT @nytimesworld: Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday suffered another humiliating defeat over Britain’s tortured exit from the European Union when a fragile truce within her Conservative Party collapsed, exposing widening fault lines in Parliament. https://t.co/3NwX8NAJbF
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:50pm
White House believes it can put together about $8 billion for the wall, adding reprogrammed money and funds to be accessed through a national emergency declaration to the $1.375 billion in the spending bill.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 6:15pm
RT @sbg1: The Republicans’ New Strategy for Dealing with the Emergency That Is Trump: Pray https://t.co/gzsK8X66sn
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 4:20pm
Trump weighs 243 pounds, according to medical checkup, putting his BMI just above 30, the line for obesity. His cholesterol is 196, just below the line for risk. His doctor proclaims him in “very good health overall."
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 3:11pm
McConnell Says Trump Plans to Declare National Emergency to Build Border Wall https://t.co/MCavP854Qt
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 1:02pm
Senate Confirms William Barr as Attorney General @npfandos @ktbenner https://t.co/lChHZYJmX4
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 12:28pm
Wait til he gets to "shiit-ake mushrooms," which our kid came to love. https://t.co/hfZymzO0QY
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 11:41am
RT @NYTNational: With Gov. Ralph Northam reeling from the blackface controversy and looking to make right, black leaders see a chance to push him to create policies that benefit black communities. https://t.co/mixSPBSd4B
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 11:19am
In 2016, Trump promised to eliminate the entire national debt — not the annual deficit but the all the accumulated deficits — in eight years. Instead, it has risen from $19.9 trillion to $22.0 trillion since he has taken office. https://t.co/Fn6EwfPwlq https://t.co/J2nZeJbhDT
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 11:11am
RT @MCJalonick: After Senate opening prayer, Grassley leans into mic and adds: "Let's all pray that the president will have wisdom to sign the bill so the government doesn’t shut down."
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:41am
RT @nytimes: A Saudi app lets male “guardians” track women’s movements, or even stop them from getting on a plane. Apple and Google offer it in their app stores — are they complicit? https://t.co/N4fHernDDq
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:37am
Kudlow tells reporters that the deficits are not alarming because they remain a reasonable share of the overall economy, around 4 percent of GDP. "I don't think that's an issue, a problem,” he says.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:30am
RT @PoliticsProse: Saturday: Amy S. Greenberg discusses the world of First Lady Sarah Polk in LADY FIRST https://t.co/enWfPnpJz5 https://t.co/NKsqBDy8Iy
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Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:29am
RT @nytimesworld: It was an accident, not a crime, prosecutors say. Prince Philip, 97, will not be charged in the crash that injured two women. https://t.co/vJaUewMq8e
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:29am
The AOC Effect: Party insurgents are targeting as many as a half-dozen members of Congress in and around New York City over what it means to be a Democrat and a progressive in the age of Trump. @ShaneGoldmacher https://t.co/4TwZBPELMw
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:22am
In canceling California’s bullet train project, Newsom may have written the final chapter in a painful national story for Democrats, one last disappointment for the star-crossed high-speed rail program launched by Obama and train-loving Biden @MikeGrunwald https://t.co/iJuc7X9qFI
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 10:01am
RT @jasondhorowitz: Opportunity Knocks Off https://t.co/nSjJyPQn2D
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 9:47am
McCabe confirms @nytimes report that top Justice officials were so alarmed by the Comey firing that they discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. @adamgoldmanNYT @matthewhaag https://t.co/6RV2yoNjp0
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 9:10am
"My life is not normal. It will never be like before. I used to get out of school and go play soccer. All I wanted was to play soccer professionally. I played forward. Now I don’t do anything." A year after Parkland. @PatriciaMazzei https://t.co/oFQcd9oHSv
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:26am
RT @eosnos: Rod MacFarquhar was the China scholar’s China scholar. He was admired by so many, and he inspired so many. He had depth, wit, narrative power, and, most of all, moral clarity. I never would’ve studied China if not for him. The @nytimes obit: https://t.co/PXIsqVlTXB https://t.co/uC2V707Nlt
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 8:25am
Will there be a Supreme Court retirement this year? Not RBG — @JeffreyToobin wonders if Clarence Thomas, the longest serving justice, might step down, giving Trump an opportunity for a third appointment to the highest bench. https://t.co/4U4fW0npoI
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 7:53am
RT @mkraju: Rep. Ilhan Omar in no mood to talk about her controversies this week. First, she said: “No thank you” when asked to comment on Trump saying she should resign. Second time I saw her, she yelled: “Are you serious?” when I tried to question her.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Thursday Feb 14 - 7:49am
RT @hillhulse: I loved that thing. RIP Opportunity. https://t.co/iW2df5so6C
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 9:36pm
Very cool digital map of Opportunity's 14-year quest on the Martian surface. @JonathanCorum https://t.co/xbfwKTx2Uf
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 9:32pm
Opportunity, the longest-lived robot ever sent from Earth to the surface of another planet, roamed the red plains of Mars for more than 14 years, snapping photos and revealing astonishing glimpses into the planet’s distant past. @chang https://t.co/QaMM9kYEDq
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 4:36pm
House votes to end military aid for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, a rare move to curb presidential war powers that underscored anger with Trump’s support for Saudi Arabia even after the Khashoggi killing. @CatieEdmondson @charlie_savage https://t.co/psxUniykIi
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 2:08pm
Trump administration has accelerated a secret program to sabotage Iran’s missiles and rockets, part of an expanding campaign by the United States to undercut Tehran’s military and isolate its economy. @SangerNYT @WilliamJBroad https://t.co/3OvYDMsTOC
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 12:40pm
Trump repeats that he doesn’t want another government shutdown but holds back saying whether he will sign the border deal.
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 12:10pm
Congratulations to Binya! Great new opportunity but we will miss his brilliant and insightful writing on economics on the front page. Make sure to pre-order his book, “The Economist’s Hour,” due out in September. https://t.co/PPi4J7Tlg8 https://t.co/DA1WZnSiME
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 12:06pm
. @jkirchick writes that anti-gay innuendo targeting Lindsey Graham is no more acceptable from the left than it was from the right. https://t.co/SdgtEoNNpF
Peter Baker
1 week ago: Wednesday Feb 13 - 11:59am
RT @Fahrenthold: A brave journalist standing up for the truth in Duterte’s Philippines. https://t.co/7kXanlFFZ1