Jenna Fowler

Jenna Fowler

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Senior Audience Editor at The New York Times

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Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...

nytimes.comTrump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin (Gift Article)The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.

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Breaking News: Three federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams said that they would resign rather than admit wrongdoing in refusing to abandon the case, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.

nytimes.com3 More Prosecutors Resign Over Adams Case, Refusing to Admit WrongdoingThey had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to abandon the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. “We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none,” they wrote.

Four Democratic lawmakers have arrived in El Salvador, where they intend to continue pressing for the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia who was wrongly deported to a prison in the Central American country. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

nytimes.comDemocrats Land in El Salvador, Seeking Release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (Gift Article)The visit comes on the heels of a trip by Senator Chris Van Hollen, who met last week with the deported man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

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Ahead of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s visit this week with Native health providers and tribal leaders in Arizona and New Mexico, he's said he is committed to improving the Indian Health Service. Native American leaders have doubts.

nytimes.comKennedy’s Plan to Send Health Officials to ‘Indian Country’ Angers Native LeadersHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he is committed to improving the Indian Health Service. Native American leaders have doubts. “It’s shameful,” one said.

Lawyers for a Maryland man who was inadvertently deported last month to a notorious Salvadoran prison despite an order that he could remain in the U.S. urged the judge overseeing his case to force the Trump administration to bring him back as soon as possible. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

nytimes.comLawyers for Maryland Man Erroneously Deported to El Salvador Assail Trump Administration (Gift Article)The case has raised questions not only about how the man could have ended up on a plane to El Salvador, but also about why the administration has apparently not moved to correct its mistake.

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A little girl stood next to her mother holding a sign saying, “I am proud of you Daddy.” A woman who left the building loaded down with bags burst into tears at the cheers greeting her. A small crowd of supporters enveloped her in hugs. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.comUSAID workers clear out their desks as Trump's push to gut agency hits final stepsU.S. Agency for International Development workers, some in tears, are carting away belongings from a final visit to their now-closed headquarters.

Trump’s assault on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts is provoking heated debate within his administration — and the public health field — over whether words like “race,” “equity” and “disparity” are too politically toxic to use. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

nytimes.comC.D.C. Suggests Terms Like ‘Health Equity’ Are Off-Limits, Then Backtracks (Gift Article)President Trump’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are making life difficult for some public health officials, who view eliminating racial disparities as part of their mission.

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Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

Last week, DOGE posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the 5 biggest “savings” on that original list, after NYT and other outlets pointed out errors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

nytimes.comDOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week (Gift Article)The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.

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The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 EPA employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time.

nytimes.comOver 1,000 EPA Workers on Climate Change and More Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

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President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also aligning himself with those who are brandishing the term DEI as a catchall for discrimination against white people, and using it as a pejorative to attack nonwhite and female leaders as unqualified for their positions.

nytimes.comAs Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent SurfacesPresident Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.

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Inside a Chaotic U.S. Deportation Flight to Brazil: The flight, operated by GlobalX Air, had problems from the start. Passengers said that on first attempt, the plane struggled to take off. After a mechanic worked on a turbine, it departed, but passengers were uneasy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/w...

nytimes.comInside a Chaotic U.S. Deportation Flight to BrazilThe Trump administration’s first flight deporting Brazilians involved aborted takeoffs, sweltering heat, emergency exits and shackled deportees on a wing.

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