Trip Jennings

@trip-44.bsky.social

Nonprofit ED/Journalist who believes life is incomplete w/o family, friends, books, music & The Wire. Culturally adventurous. Lived all over. Seminary educated. Conflicted about religion, cool with doing justice & loving mercy.

There is no indication Mr. Kushner or Witkoff stand to profit. But the pending deal represents an "intermingling of personal business ties with geopolitics, even for an administration that has regularly dismissed concerns about potential conflicts of interest." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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The decision not to examine additional evidence or seek additional inquiry beyond a single incomplete campus police statement departed from how complicated sex crimes investigations should be handled, said former prosecutors and other experts. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...

D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence (Gift Article)

Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.

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