2 h. ago ‘No one knows anything’: Washington Post staffers fear major cuts

Members of foreign staff send letter to billionaire owner Jeff Bezos urging him to change courseThe Washington Post has consistently produced high-quality, news cycle-leading reporting over the first year of Donald Trump’s chaotic and unpredictable second administration. But that work has been produced under a cloud of uncertainty and rumors of widespread job cuts.Those long-rumored cuts now appear to be close, with staffers expecting the ax to drop in early February – though nothing is certain. Inside the Post, staffers have tossed around estimates of potential cuts, with most exceeding 100, which would represent more than 10% of the newsroom – but no one really knows how widespread the cuts will be – or in fact if they will happen at all. The sections most likely to be affected by the cuts include sports, metro and foreign, according to staffers who spoke with the Guardian. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago ‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking

Prosecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justiceThe US Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes against children under the Trump administration, which limits their ability to carry out this work.Major cuts include the cancelation of 2025 National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation, due to be held in Washington DC in June. The conference is an annual event that provides technical training to prosecutors, state and federal law enforcement officers on investigating online crimes against children. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Pentagon contractor indicted over alleged leak tied to raided Washington Post reporter

Worker illegally provided classified information ‘related to national defense’ to journalist, justice department saysA federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a Pentagon contractor whose alleged leaking of classified documents sparked an “outrageous” FBI raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home.According to the justice department, Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones illegally provided sensitive and secret information “related to national defense” to a reporter who it says then wrote and published at least five articles using it. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Pentagon contractor indicted in leak case tied to search of Washington Post reporter’s home

Federal prosecutors say a Pentagon contractor has been indicted on charges that he illegally handled classified national defense information that he took home from work and later gave to a news reporter

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4 d. ago Prosecutors barred from reviewing material seized from Washington Post reporter

Judge issues temporary order after paper had sought return of Hannah Natanson’s devices taken in ‘outrageous seizure’A US judge temporarily blocked federal prosecutors on Wednesday from reviewing material seized when the FBI raided a Washington Post reporter’s home.Hours earlier, the Post asked a federal court in Virginia to force the US government to return electronics belonging to Hannah Natanson. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Washington Post demands government return electronics seized in raid of reporter’s home

The paper says ‘outrageous seizure’ of Hannah Natanson’s devices threatens press freedomThe Washington Post has asked a federal court in Virginia to force the US government to return materials belonging to reporter Hannah Natanson, whose apartment was raided last week.Natanson, who has closely reported on the ways in which the Trump administration has reshaped the federal government, had two laptops, two phones, a Garmin watch and other devices seized as part of an investigation into a government contractor’s alleged retention of classified materials, an action that press freedom groups decried as highly unusual and wildly inappropriate. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Washington Post demands immediate return of reporter’s devices seized by FBI citing threats to free press

Allowing the federal government to keep reporter’s materials would ‘license future newsroom raids and normalize censorship by search warrant,’ lawyers wrote

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6 d. ago Major Welsh employer warns of cuts across the board over £25m 'funding shortfall'

Further Education College bosses claim there's a £25m blackhole in the budget which will see courses shut, jobs shed and students turned away

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6 d. ago Top Tech: BT makes major price rise announcement as expert reveals how to cut bills

Experts say the changes could have a 'disproportionate impact' on some billpayers.

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9 d. ago Major drive to cut phone call waits for tax and driving services under tech plan

CustomerFirst, a new team of experts, will be dedicated to cutting long phone queues, repeated form-filling and endless paperwork that Brits face when dealing with public services

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1 week ago Major shop cuts 'feminine' designer perfume to cheapest price and it's not Boots

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1 week ago The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding | Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons

The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal governmentThe raid of a journalist’s home, along with the jailing of their alleged source, are shocking acts of authoritarianism. And they are in line with Trump’s willingness to use the national security state as a weapon against the press, which is a serious threat to our democracy. But those weapons were not invented by Trump nor did he pioneer their use against free press.The raid of Hannah Natanson, is a shocking escalation, not a rupture. The United States has been backsliding to this point – at both the federal and local levels – for quite some time.Seth Stern is the Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation and a first amendment lawyerChip Gibbons is the policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent. A journalist and researcher focusing on the US national security state, Gibbons is currently working on The Imperial Bureau, forthcoming from Verso...

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1 week ago FBI search of Washington Post reporter’s home sparks outrage from journalists and press organizations: ‘Hallmarks of illiberal regimes’

‘Searches of newsrooms and journalists are hallmarks of illiberal regimes, and we must ensure that these practices are not normalized here,’ the Knight First Amendment Institute stated on Wednesday

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1 week ago Major lender to cut fixed mortgage rates to as low as 3.5 per cent

A mortgage expert said the reductions from Britain’s biggest building society ‘will turn heads’

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1 week ago FBI raids home of female Washington Post journalist as part of probe into leaked government secrets

The reporter, Hannah Natanson, was at her home in Virginia when federal agents showed up Wednesday morning, the Washington Post said.

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1 week ago FBI searches home of Washington Post reporter covering Trump’s federal firings in classified documents probe

The Washington Post’s reporting of the incident said the search of its journalist’s home was ‘highly unusual and aggressive’

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1 week ago FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move

Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials caseThe FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by law enforcement.Agents descended on the Virginia home of Hannah Natanson as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials. The Post is “reviewing and monitoring the situation”, a source at the newspaper told the Guardian. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago What unites Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine? Trump's immoral lies and Europe's chronic weakness | Simon Tisdall

The president’s inability to tell right from wrong fuels his increasingly dictatorial, illegal and erratic behaviour Donald Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading” claims during his first term, according to calculations published in 2021 by the Washington Post. That’s roughly 21 fibs a day. Second time around, he’s still hard at it, lying to Americans and the world on a daily basis. Trump’s disregard for truth and honesty in public life – seen again in his despicable response to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis – is dangerously immoral.Trump declared last week that the only constraint on his power is “my own morality, my own mind”. That explains a lot. His idea of right and wrong is wholly subjective. He is his own ethical and legal adviser, his own priest and confessor. He is a church of one. Trump lies to himself as well as everyone else. And the resulting damage is pernicious. It costs lives, harms democracy and destroys trust between nations.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign ...

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2 w. ago Met Office tells Brits 'get emergency kit ready' in new warnings for 37 hours

The Met Office has issued more weather warnings urging Brits in 15 areas to prepare an 'emergency' kit as power cuts and major flooding are on the cards

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2 w. ago Meet the London bus driver blowing away troubles one bubble at a time

Meet the London bus driver blowing away troubles one bubble at a time  The Washington Post

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