ICYMI My story this week: NIH committee greenlighted Wuhan coronavirus experiments despite concerns, emails show The recentlyreleased records, obtained via our ongoing #FOIA lawsuit, reveal ad hoc review committee’s lax oversight during federal ban on risky research usrtk.org/covid-19-ori...

NIH committee green-lighted Wuhan coronavirus experiments despite concerns, emails show

Public records for the first time show the NIH "gain-of-function" review committee's informal vetting of a controversial project in Wuhan.

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Claim: Trump admin promises "maximum transparency" on COVID origins records Reality: After for weeks ignoring a federal court order to process 500 pages per month in our #FOIA suit, Trump's DIA just released 92 pages—58 of which we already had. The rest? It looks like this... .

NYT: Virginia Giuffre’s Family Responds to Trump’s Claim That Epstein ‘Stole’ Her www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

Virginia Giuffre’s Family Responds to Trump’s Claim That Epstein ‘Stole’ Her

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WSJ: Justice Department told Trump in May that his name appears in the Epstein files www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files

Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...

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RIP Ozzy www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/a...

Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76

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Despite the Trump admin's pledge to make more COVID origins intelligence transparent & a federal law passed 2 years ago instructing U.S. intel agencies to declassify & share with the public as much info as possible, we're still getting records from the FBI that look like this:

"It will be remembered as one of the most shameful capitulations by the press to a president in history." @freedom.press's statement on CBS/Paramount's settlement with Trump freedom.press/issues/param...

Paramount’s capitulation to Trump is a dark day for press freedom

Freedom of the Press Foundation plans to hold Paramount directors accountable for this affront to the First Amendment

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NEW Posted at usrtk.org: 6.5K+ pages of docs obtained from the University of California-Davis related to PREDICT -- the USAID-funded virus hunting project (which drew scrutiny during the COVID pandemic) that collected 10k samples from bats & discovered ~120 new coronaviruses from 2009-2020 (1/2)

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We're a nonprofit public health research group. We investigate corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten our health and food system. We work in the public interest to keep families he...

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One of the greats. RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91

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While Elon Musk became one of Donald Trump’s closest allies last year, he was consuming so much Ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, Adderall and ketamine that it was adversely affecting his bladder, per @NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama

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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations

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Yesterday, we filed an appellate brief with the North Carolina Court of Appeals in our NC Public Records Act case against the University of North Carolina for roughly 50,000 pages of documents, mostly of Ralph Baric, possibly containing clues about the origins of COVID-19. usrtk.org/wp-content/u...

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner, via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

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ICE agents last week began showing up in immigration courts across the US to detain certain migrants who are appearing for scheduled hearings, targeting them shortly after their cases were dismissed by judges www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/n...

ICE, Shifting Tactics, Detains High School Student at N.Y.C. Courthouse

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Justice Department reaches deal to allow Boeing to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes apnews.com/article/boei...

Justice Department reaches deal to allow Boeing to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes

The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the company to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the pl...

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U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar; Trump Administration asks Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president, per NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump

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For two years, New Orleans police secretly used facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, per @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

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U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs www.propublica.org/article/pam-...

U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs

Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...

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For sale: Portland’s NBA franchise

Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One. The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given the immense value of the lavishly appointed plane and that Trump intends to take ownership of it after he leaves office, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One

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As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/s...

Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of Coronaviruses in Bats

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The Nat’l Archives and Records Administration just released another big batch of records on the assassination of RFK archives.gov/rfk

Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

On This Page The National Archives’ Role in Fulfilling Executive Order 14176 How is the National Archives Making These Records Available? 2025 Release Release Notes Other Records Related to RFK C...

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Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars that directly benefit their father, the president, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Donald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President Trump

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars.

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Congress’s Fight Over Trump’s Agenda Runs Through Alaska, via @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Congress’s Fight Over Trump’s Agenda Runs Through Alaska

Republicans in Congress are clashing over whether to repeal Biden-era clean energy tax credits that are a lifeline for some of their constituents.

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A day before Trump ousted him as national security adviser, Michael Waltz checked his phone during a White House cabinet meeting. A Reuters photographer captured his phone screen with a list of his chats on what appears to be the messaging app Signal. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...

Photo Shows Waltz’s Conversations on a Version of Signal

A Reuters photographer captured an image of Michael Waltz’s phone screen during a White House cabinet meeting, a day before he was ousted from his job as national security adviser.

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CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....

Poll: Trump’s approval rating at 100 days in office | CNN Politics

Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views ...

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A day after making an Easter Sunday appearance to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis died today at age 88. The NYT’s sweeping obituary: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/w...

Francis, the First Latin American Pope, Dies at 88

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing inclusion and care for the marginalized over doctrinal purity.

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The White House has posted a statement announcing “the true origins of COVID” as a lab leak but has provided no new supporting evidence or documentation to back it up www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19

THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak

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Source: Another roughly 60 positions at the CDC were cut today — this time targeting the team devoted to preventing malaria in developing African nations

Always nice to see State Department staffers discuss how the documents we’ve #FOIA’d have been “redacted into oblivion…”