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Sarakshi Rai

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Deputy Managing Editor @TheHill | MA @cityjournalism, MA Strategic Comms @UDelaware | DC via Dubai, Mumbai, London | 🇮🇳 in 🇺🇸

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As the U.S. marks one year since pulling out of Afghanistan 🇦🇫, I spoke with Afghan women who shared their experiences of life under Taliban rule, their extreme anguish at losing their sense of self and their ability to work. thehill.com/policy/internati…
Broken promises: Afghan women abandoned but defiant a year after US withdrawal

Broken promises: Afghan women abandoned but defiant a year after US withdrawal

Getty Images Fatima says the Taliban have been hunting her since the U.S. withdrew from the country a year ago.  Speaking from an undisclosed location in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sh…

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Happy cat day from my furry little lioness who is so excited for Halloween 🎃 😂
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White House ballroom construction doesn’t stop for trick-or-treating 🎃
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Hegseth ousted top military strategist from Pentagon, sources say thehill.com/policy/defense/6…
Hegseth ousted top military strategist from Pentagon, sources say

Hegseth ousted top military strategist from Pentagon, sources say 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ousted a top military strategist from the Pentagon, The Hill has learned, marking another senior officer who has been removed from the department since Hegseth took t…

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Why the Mary Peltola ‘spoiler’ controversy may be too late to shake up Alaska thehill.com/homenews/campaig…
Why the Peltola ‘spoiler’ controversy may be too late to shake up Alaska

Why the Peltola ‘spoiler’ controversy may be too late to shake up Alaska

Allegations that Mary Peltola’s campaign was involved in recruiting “spoiler” candidates to siphon votes from incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan shook up the Alaska Senate race on Wednesday.   P…

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LIFE returns to print 11.23.26. Read our Editors’ Letter and learn more about the new LIFE here: new.life.com
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A senior State Department official tells NewsNation @LibbeyDean_ that the State Department will issue visas to Flavio Bolsanaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States.
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How a Cheesecake Factory jab spurred a midterm spat thehill.com/homenews/campaig…
How a Cheesecake Factory jab spurred a midterm spat

How a Cheesecake Factory jab spurred a midterm spat

A Cheesecake Factory jab from former President Obama quickly spiraled into a midterm spat between the GOP and Democrats as the competitive election cycle nears its end. Obama quipped during a recen…

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Trump, Vance go deep red 8 days out thehill.com/newsletters/1230…
Trump, Vance go deep red 8 days out

Trump, Vance go deep red 8 days out

Plus: Trump, El-Sayed trade barbs{beacon}  It’s Monday. Brazil’s election was the big news overnight, but there’s plenty to get caught up on in the U.S. today. Shall we?̴…

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India becoming a major military equipment exporter to Europe wasn‘t on anybody‘s bingo card on the old continent.
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India has emerged as the third largest export of military equipment to Europe, after US and Israel.
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The DC foie gras discourse has hit my hair salon and most of them here today are opposed to the ban.
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Welcome to a Friday news cycle.
Christian Datoc (@TocRadio) profile pictureChristian Datoc
@TocRadioOct 23
NEW: Gov. Ron DeSantis gifted POTUS a custom gold coin upon his arrival to Florida. Asked the President to come show it to us… It’s engraved with a smiling image of the President flipping the bird and reads “YOU MISSED BITCHES”
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What, hard disagree.
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Martinis are forever, but they are also, at this moment, washed. sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…
I regret to inform you that martinis are over

I regret to inform you that martinis are over

Martinis are forever, but they are also, at this moment, washed. 

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Sure but then let’s ban beef and pork and chicken….and also vegetables too because is a study that says that maybe indications of suffering…..we have children hungry in USA and the World….lets end hunger and then we talk….. 😇
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@markraymondOct 22
Replying to @monicavenzke
It's incredibly cruel. Should be banned. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_g…

Foie gras controversy - Wikipedia

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Butterworth's holding a dinner to protest DC's new foie gras ban initiative. For those that don't like foie gras, maybe just don't order it? Don't police those that do?
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POLL - if you are a DC registered voter planning on voting in general election, are you planning to vote yes or no on I-86, the ban on foie gras
26%Yes
48%No
14%Undecided
11%Not applicable
764 votes • Final results
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Butterworth's holding a dinner to protest DC's new foie gras ban initiative. For those that don't like foie gras, maybe just don't order it? Don't police those that do?
White Guy Fieri (@whiteguyfieri) profile pictureWhite Guy Fieri
@whiteguyfieriOct 22
Buy your tickets now. All proceeds will go to the foie gras defense fund.
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Hegseth’s team broke WWII-era globe from Eisenhower’s office thehill.com/policy/defense/6…
Hegseth’s team broke WWII-era globe from Eisenhower’s office

Hegseth’s team broke WWII-era globe from Eisenhower’s office

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s team dropped and damaged a historic World War II-era globe previously used by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a source familiar with the incident told The Hill on Thursd…

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Politico corrects story on Susie Wiles after White House threatens ‘consequences’ thehill.com/homenews/media/6…
Politico corrects story on Susie Wiles after White House threatens ‘consequences’

Politico corrects story on Susie Wiles after White House threatens ‘consequences’

Politico issued a correction late Wednesday to a story it published about White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and the backstory on what led to ousted press secretary Katie Zacharia’s firin…

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EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it. We have photos.
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Quite a letter from White House to Politico.
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Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) profile pictureMarc Caputo
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The White House counsel's office warned Politico in a Monday letter that it had 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories revolving around COS Susie Wiles — or it would suffer unspecified consequences. axios.com/2026/10/21/white-h…
White House to Politico: Retract stories or face "consequences"

White House to Politico: Retract stories or face "consequences"

The White House counsel demands corrections or retractions.

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