@washingtonpost White House reporter. Previously a tech reporter at The Post, @WSJ & @TechCrunch. Studied @MedillSchool. Reach me on Signal: cqz.17
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The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for our coverage of DOGE and the federal workforce. So proud to be part of this team and work with incredible journalists like @hannah_natanson.
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NYT exclusive: Nvidia chief, Jensen Huang, Is Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/po…
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SCOOP: Democrats have insisted they have nothing to do with the other Dan Sullivan on Alaska's Senate ballot.
But aides with the Mary Peltola campaign and DSCC were part of a monthslong secret plan to recruit him to run -- as well as other candidates.
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President Trump posted a more than 1300-word rant against Bill Maher, in which he tucks in that he is “not building a swimming pool in the White House briefing room,” but is still considering moving the press out.
NEW: Trump’s visit to a Michigan city on the Canadian border is highlighting a political liability of his own making for Republicans: the economic fallout from his trade war with Canada.
First byline w/ @nancook + @rbeggin
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I love this story from @AnnaLissRoy about Democrats trying to redefine themselves as manly men washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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In a new poll, 2 in 3 say Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself, an increase from previous polling that is driven by more Republicans (yes, Republicans) who say Trump is profiting washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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To be clear: Some facts are neither in dispute nor unclear. Our photographer was clearly marked as Press. She was clearly beaten. These are not partisan or risible statements, but indisputable. We urge a thorough investigation and accountability.
The Prime Minister’s Office:
The facts surrounding the confrontation near Abu Falah, during which Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was allegedly assaulted, remain unclear and are under investigation.
Israel unequivocally condemns violence against anyone—Jews, Arabs, Christians or journalists. Those responsible will be held accountable.
But serious questions remain. Reports indicate some 200 Arabs and far-left activists confronted approximately 40 Israeli youths. Footage shows masked individuals on both sides hurling objects, amid reports of fireworks fired at Jewish youths. Other footage appears to show Levine knocked down and immediately helped to her feet by the same unidentified individual.
The investigation must establish the facts, including who initiated the violence.
We will not allow disputed incidents to be exploited to demonize the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.
The facts must determine the conclusions. Not the headlines.
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Infuriating. Heidi Levine is one of the bravest and hardest working journalists I’ve ever worked with:
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WaPo has published a searchable list of the top donors to the ballroom and how much they have given: washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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Prolonged elevator outages at D.C. schools, often because of delays in parts needed for repair, have in some cases led staff to carry disabled students or colleagues in a “human elevator” up and down stairs for weeks. w/ @aangieoh washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
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SCOOP: While Bo Hines was leading the White House’s push to pass the Genius Act, Tether—the company with the most at stake in the bill—was steering millions of dollars to a company he co-owned.
Right after the bill passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.
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NEW: Abdul El-Sayed unveiled a plan today to freeze development of the most powerful AI models and data centers. He told me in an interview today he’s focusing on this in the final weeks of the campaign bc voters are “freaking out about AI.” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
“It’s one of those issues that has become a focal point of a lot of the fear that people have in this moment, about whether they’ll be able to have a job or not, about whether their kids will be able to have a job, about whether or not they’re going to have a data center foisted in their backyard,” he said.
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Not an unfair clip. Arena never filled up; this is from during Trump’s speech.
Bigger crowd than any Dem could get in Youngstown rn but he didn’t do the “they’re lined up outside trying to get in” schtick, as it visibly wasn’t packed.
Large sections of the arena are empty during Trump’s rally in Youngstown, Ohio. Some of his one-time supporters in the area told me Trump hasn’t kept his economic promises: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
NEW: In Youngstown, some Trump voters question whether the president’s vision of American economic prosperity still includes them.
Brian, a welder who voted for Trump three times, said he’s “extremely disappointed” in his second term.
“I fell for it,” he told me in an interview.
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As Trump prepares to rally in Youngstown, Ohio, @Cat_Zakrzewski found his past supporters who live there and are frustrated by his embrace of AI.
"He’s just lost in the sauce...He sees [AI] as a way to make more money" washingtonpost.com/politics/…
In an interview, @skupor spoke about the challenges confronting Trump’s new ‘SI Force,’ which is navigating competing views about how to respond to AI risks.
“If it were easy, maybe we wouldn’t need this task force,” he said.
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Kupor said he’s worried about growing calls in Congress to regulate AI.
“My general going-in concern about Congress regulating at this stage of development is that the industry is just changing so fast, and things are changing so fast,” he said. “I want to make sure that the preconditions for success for the U.S. that have long existed continue to prevail.”
But he said he wouldn’t rule anything out.
He doesn’t yet know what the task force’s policy prescriptions will be, but he says he has two goals.
“My hope is that we come up with something that ultimately, number one, is acceptable to the president, because certainly we owe him a readout on that, and then two, as we convey that to the American people, this shows that we took this seriously, deliberately, and that we were putting the best interests of the American people first and foremost.”