THREAD Some of the news The Post broke this week Trump secretly left Air Force One, leaving staff, crew, journalists to Iranian threat CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on Galápagos boats Senior Trump official sought more aircraft to fight small fire near his ranch and now this:

Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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THREAD Some of the news The Post broke this week Trump secretly left Air Force One, leaving staff, crew, journalists to Iranian threat CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on Galápagos boats Senior Trump official sought more aircraft to fight small fire near his ranch and now this:

Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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The journalists traveling with the president had no idea he had secretly switched planes due to a perceived threat from Iran. Now, some say the operation has left them feeling deceived and questioning whether the White House considered their safety.

Trump secretly switched planes. The journalists left aboard say they deserved a warning.

The journalists traveling with the president had no idea he had secretly switched planes due to a perceived threat from Iran. Now, some say the operation has left them feeling deceived and questioning...

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Exclusive: Mysterious strikes targeting multiple Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos Islands this year were carried out as part of a covert CIA program, The Post has learned.

Covert CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on Galápagos boats

A surveillance plane flew from El Salvador toward the fishing boats before drones attacked, flight data shows.

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A preliminary deal for Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah and Israel to withdraw has done little to change daily life. Instead, residents see echoes of the Israeli security protocols that vex Palestinians in the West Bank.

Trump says ceasefire in Lebanon is working. For residents, it’s a ‘prison.’

Israeli forces continue to occupy buffer zone in effort to dismantle Hezbollah’s infrastructure, with restrictions drawing parallels to those in the West Bank.

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Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️

Breaking news: An Iranian assassination threat against President Trump prompted an operation in which he flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft while the White House said he was aboard Air Force One, The Post has learned.

Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat

The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

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Scoop: Trump's secretive Air Force One switch-up in Turkey echoes a Clinton-era maneuver — but there's a key difference. In 2000, at least one reporter was briefed on the real plan. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump’s plane ruse echoes Clinton’s Pakistan swap, with one key difference

Bill Clinton’s White House used a similar plane-change maneuver in 2000. But unlike July’s flight, the press corps was briefed on the operation and its dangers.

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RUSSIA'S SUPREME COURT BARS LAST ANTI-WAR PARTY FROM ELECTIONS Recent polls showed the left-leaning Yabloko winning seats in the Duma next month

Russia’s Supreme Court bars last anti-war party from elections

Recent polls showed the liberal-leaning Yabloko could have won seats in the parliamentary elections next month.

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Some good news

Russia releases ailing former Marine imprisoned since 2022

Robert Gilman and his mother were on a plane back to Washington on Tuesday.

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Human Rights Watch declares Israeli killing of journalist Amal Khalil in southern Lebanon a war crime; Amnesty International calls for investigation Earlier Post reporting (link in thread) showed the IDF denied access to Khalil for more than two hours as she lay dying

Israel’s killing of journalist Amal Khalil was a war crime, rights group says

The reporter died during an Israeli strike in April in Lebanon. The IDF said that it was targeting Hezbollah and that it does not target journalists.

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EXLUSIVE Trump demanded answers from Hegseth over why he was apparently misled about extreme munitions shortages, two people familiar with the exchange tell The Post

Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns

At a Camp David summit this weekend, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over extreme munitions shortages.

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BREAKING federal judge allows Trump administration to end temporary protection for 350,000+ Haitians in the U.S. Employers are laying off healthcare workers, housekeepers, landscapers, bus drivers, security guards in Miami, Boston, other cities DHS is fitting migrants with ankle monitors

TPS for Haitians officially ends, putting thousands out of work and in limbo

A federal judge allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning they are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.

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BREAKING Trump administration cancels Brazilian ambassador's visa Announcement comes week after Brazil denied visas to two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country's elections

Trump administration cancels Brazilian ambassador’s visa in tit-for-tat

A senior State Department official told reporters in a background briefing that it was a “reciprocal” action because Brazil has not approved President Donald Trump’s nominee as ambassador to Brasilia.

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“We are getting used to these daily announcements,” Brando Benifei, the chairman of the European Parliament delegation on relations with the United States, tells The Post. “We don’t take them so seriously anymore”

Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching.

The president’s bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran.

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A Journalist’s Guide to Understanding Polls & Surveys - AAPOR

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Columbia hires former 60 Minutes correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley, fired by CBS News after challenging Bari Weiss, to help train the next generation of journalists

Columbia Journalism School Appoints Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley as Journalists in Residence | Columbia Journalism School

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In Argentina’s Jujuy province, the influence of indigenous practices is obvious. Visitors are likely to hear Quechua spoken alongside Spanish. The festivities commence with a literal disinterment of the 'Pujllay', a demonic figurine that is buried again when Carnival comes to a close.

WHO IS SEBASTIÁN ZUBIETA?

A Planet People Profile

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Believe it or not we have addressed this! Here you go: single gar = gar multiple gars, same species = garrison multiple gars, different species = garmada

Frank Hogan@charleyphogg.bsky.social · 2w ago

A group of Gar can not be called a school it’s not tough enough

“His character was known as Big Pussy — not for any obscene reason, but because he had started his career in crime as a cat burglar”

Vincent Pastore, Actor on ‘The Sopranos,’ Dies at 80

He played Salvatore Bonpensiero, a mobster’s foot soldier turned F.B.I. informant known to his friends as Big Pussy, on the celebrated HBO series.

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POST EDITORIAL The military’s antidrug campaign accomplished nothing

Opinion | The military’s antidrug campaign accomplished nothing

Trump pushed legal limits with boat strikes, alienating allies, but traffickers adapted.

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Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 3w ago

67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult

DHS told employers it had ended TPS for about 350,000 Haitian immigrants, triggering mass layoffs affecting travel, nursing homes, schools Let go: Nursing assistants, dietary aides, housekeepers, janitors, airplane cabin cleaners, wheelchair attendants, landscapers, bus drivers, security guards

Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers

The Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether about 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.

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Dogs amirite

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w ago

A family husky's protective instincts kicked in when a bear came running across their driveway, charging straight at a child nearby. “You’re always wondering in the back of your head, ‘What’s gonna happen if she needs to protect us?’ And now we know,” Jeffrey Tazzara said.

“Nigeria, home to one of the continent’s largest ports, has drifted inland, grown in size and changed shape. It’s not that the map bestows the name on the wrong country; the new landlocked, splat-shaped Nigeria sprawls across Mali, Niger, Algeria and Chad, probably, resembling no existing state”

State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country

The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong.

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CANADIAN TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES FELL 25 PERCENT IN 2025 as Trump returned to the White House and Canadians opted to spend their vacation dollars elsewhere, Statistics Canada reports. The trend continued into early 2026, “signaling a persistent shift away from the United States”

Canadian visits to U.S. plummet amid Trump tariffs, ‘51st state’ talk

"Canadian travel sentiment shifted abruptly" after President Donald Trump returned to office, analysts said.

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HORRIFYING One orca holds the prey in place. Another hurls its full body at it, nose-first. The fish explodes. Researchers say the behavior could be a hunting strategy, or just a way of being playful www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Bam! See these killer whales explode fish into pieces.

Researchers for the first time have documented orcas cooperating to smash their prey. Both instances were captured on video.

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Exclusive: Officials who separated Pete Buttigieg from his young twins last month relied on a vague and unsubstantiated allegation from an accuser authorities later deemed possibly “mentally unstable,” according to unreported police records.

Source of false Buttigieg allegation appeared ‘mentally unstable,’ records show

The Michigan attorney general’s office is investigating how the accusation that prompted the ex-Cabinet secretary's separation from his 4-year-old twins was handled.

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67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult

67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.

The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

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It's been hard to do my job this year. Being back reporting — and in print again — means more than I can say. Please spend some time with my story about a Trump administration crackdown on faculty speech at West Point, and one professor's lonely rebellion. wapo.st/4fo0lts

UPDATE Brazil has denied visas to the two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country’s electoral system

Brazil denies visas to U.S. delegation aiming to impugn election system, officials say

The U.S. delegation had planned to visit the Brazilian capital and cast doubt on the integrity of the voting system before a presidential election this fall, officials said.

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