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Karen Travers

@karentravers.bsky.social
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ABC News White House correspondent, @WHCA board member, Philly sports fan, Georgetown Hoya, mom of 3 abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/karen-traver…

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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Some banned media organizations return to the White House after judge's order
Reporters from news organizations that Trump barred from the White House were back on the grounds after a judge granted an order to restore their passes.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New statement from WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich on amicus brief filed in CNN/POLITICO/MSNOW case storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New statement from WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich on CNN, POLITICO, MSNOW. “The WHCA calls on the administration to immediately restore our colleagues' access.”
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Statement from WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich -
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I asked President Trump why it’s so important for him to have his name on the Kennedy Center “I think that the Trump administration should certainly have recognition. Because frankly, if we don't do that, it's going to close. It'll end up being ripped down,” he told me abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump says Kennedy Center could be 'ripped down' if he doesn't get 'recognition'
The president's comments come after a federal judge on Tuesday blocked the performing arts center's board from adding a tribute to Trump on the building or site.
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Patrick Stevens @d1scourse.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
More Cooley: "I just want to make sure I thank and appreciate all of the sportswriters who were the gold standard for Georgetown throughout the years."
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Patrick Stevens @d1scourse.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Georgetown's Ed Cooley to open his postgame presser: "I want to thank and appreciate all the Washington Post writers before me, during me. It was a rough day today. You got some news, and I just want to thank and appreciate them and some of the other writers amongst the organization."
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Crushed to hear the sad news of Dan McQuade’s passing. We were online friends for years-Philly sports, politics-and finally met in person at the DNC in ‘16. He was so brilliant & funny. He got Philly better than anyone & turned the city’s quirks into wonderful stories. I will really miss him
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Pres Trump this year terminated the chair & members of the KenCen board. He appointed himself chair & filled the board with friends/supporters. Georgetown Univ Law Professor David Super told me there is “simply no way” to change the name without action by Congress. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ken...
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Kennedy Center to be renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House claims
The White House announced Thursday that the board at the Kennedy Center voted "unanimously" to rename the building the "Trump-Kennedy Center."
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
White House says 75,000 fed workers took deferred resignation offer Press Sec Karoline Leavitt tells me: "I’m not so sure we didn’t hit the numbers. 75,000 people accepted the buyout program. That’s going to save millions of dollars for the American taxpayers. And that’s exactly what we wanted."
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Paul Martin, USAID Inspector General, was fired tonight by White House Comes a day after his office released a report saying USAID lost the ability to track & monitor more than $8 billion in unspent aid and risked spoiling $500 million in US grown food aid as a result of Trump’s changes to agency.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"Rick Shetler has worked in the booth on the bridge above the Jersey Shore inlet since that summer of 1980, back when the toll was 30 cents and he thought he’d be an accountant." www.inquirer.com/news/new-jer...
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The last bridge toll-taker in Cape May County nears the end in a booth above Townsends Inlet
After more than 40 years collecting tolls from Shore drivers, Rick Shetler stands sentry a little longer before E-ZPass takes over entirely on April 1.
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Brian @brian215.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Go Birds
Fox29 reporter at a NE Philly bakery with an E-L-G-S-E-S pastry
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
There’s nothing better than strangers seeing your 🦅 hat & shouting “Go Birds!” as you go about your day (in Washington DC) 💚
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Current & former officials, speaking anonymously due to fear of retribution, blasted the Trump administration's gutting of USAID. In addition to the humanitarian work that has been halted, USAID workers living abroad are also seeing their lives turned upside down. abcnews.go.com/Politics/usa...
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All USAID humanitarian work has effectively stopped, current and former officials say
Current and former USAID officials blasted the Trump administration's gutting of the agency, saying it has left critical partners in the lurch and staff in limbo.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In 2018 Melania Trump praised what she described as "successful" USAID programs. Ivanka Trump led the $50M “Women's Global Development and Prosperity" Initiative distributed by USAID. President Trump now says the agency is made up of “radical left lunatics.” abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump calls USAID a ‘tremendous fraud.’ His wife and daughter promoted its work
President Donald Trump has denigrated the aid agency as a "tremendous fraud."
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In 2018 Melania Trump offered praise for what she described as "successful" USAID programs. Ivanka Trump led the $50M “Women's Global Development and Prosperity" Initiative distributed by USAID. Pres Trump now says agency made up of “radical left lunatics.” abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump calls USAID a ‘tremendous fraud.’ His wife and daughter promoted its work
President Donald Trump has denigrated the aid agency as a "tremendous fraud."
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
When shown Musk’s posts on X targeting USAID, a senior official for the agency told ABC News, “The warp-speed of this mafia-like takeover has shaken USAID staff to the core.” abcnews.go.com/Politics/tur...
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Turmoil inside USAID: DOGE reps take over offices, senior officials placed on leave
Amid ongoing turmoil inside the U.S. Agency for International Development, sources say that Department of Government Efficiency staffers have moved to take over offices.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I asked Pres Trump in the Oval-"To be clear, are you saying race or gender played a role in this tragedy?" Pres Trump: "It may have, I don't know. Incompetence might have played a role. We'll – we'll let you know that. But we want the most competent people. We don't care what race they are."
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
No survivors are expected from the plane crash, D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly said. Crews are switching to a recovery operation. Twenty-eight bodies have been recovered, including 27 from the plane and one from the Black Hawk helicopter, Donnelly said. abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
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DC plane crash live updates: No survivors expected
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Trump's strict foreign funding freeze sparks panic among international aid groups
Nearly 60 senior USAID employees were placed on leave.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Holy wooder 🦅
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Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
No way the Eagles lose after this
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Overhead announcement at DCA that a flight is now boarding for Philly and someone at my gate (to Boston) yells “Go Birds!!” 🦅
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"Organized chaos" - How fmr White House chief usher Gary Walters describes the process of moving one First Family out, another in on Inauguration Day. Around 100 staffers work frantically over 5 hours to get the residence & Oval Office prepared for the new President abcnews.go.com/Politics/ins...
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Inside the frantic White House switch on Inauguration Day
The residence staff has just hours to move the Bidens out and the Trumps in.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The Ballet Class (flipped, also from the @philamuseum), by Edgar Degas, 1880
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
That wasn’t pretty. But Go Birds 🦅
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Pres Biden tells me the death toll in LA fires-right now at least 10 people-is likely to increase. "There’s still a lot of people unaccounted for. We don’t know where they are. I think this toll is likely to go up. Whether it’s significant or not, I pray to god it’s not but it could be."
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This would blow Lucille Bluth's mind
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
[Mangione] was on a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona on Monday morning, sources said, when he got off and walked into a McDonald's where a witness recognized him from the images of the suspect circulated by police. abcnews.go.com/US/unitedhea...
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UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Person of interest Luigi Mangione under arrest
Police are questioning Luigi Mangione in Altoona, Pennsylvania, as a person of interest in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Great talking to my friend @stevenportnoy.bsky.social on today's Start Here podcast. We dive into Trump's tariffs threat - what it means for the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, how it could impact prices for American consumers and what our neighbors are saying open.spotify.com/episode/5dpU...
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Israel and Hezbollah Agree to Ceasefire
Start Here · Episode
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Trump late Monday said he would put a 25% tariff on all products coming into the United States from Mexico and Canada until action is taken by those country to stem illegal immigration and the flow of drugs across the border. What that could mean for consumers-> abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump's tariff plan could raise prices, blow up his own trade deal with Mexico and Canada
Trump's plan for tariffs against Canada and Mexico could dramatically raise prices for Americans and threaten a trade agreement negotiated by his own administration.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Great morning at the Fields at RFK for the DC Girls on the Run 5K. This is such an amazing event - 100s of girls who have trained all fall for this race. Thanks to their coaches for teaching them team building, self esteem and how to set and achieve a goal 💜💜 Go Lafayette Elementary!
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“We’re trying to give a gift to every kid in the Philly public schools this holiday season. If that’s not the holiday spirit, I don’t know what is. That’s the Philadelphia spirit that I’ve come to know, love, and appreciate.” - Jason Kelce ❤️ The Philly Specials www.inquirer.com/eagles/jason...
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This year’s Eagles Christmas album aims to give a holiday gift to each Philadelphia School District student. All 116,000 of them.
“A Philly Special Christmas Party” comes out Friday. Jason Kelce and crew’s third Eagles Christmas album has ambitious charitable goals.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thanks @neeratanden.bsky.social for taking the time to join us. Great Qs from the smart Hoyas in attendance. Thanks to the Georgetown Institute of Politics & Public Service and the McCourt School of Public Policy for inviting me to be a part of this event. politics.georgetown.edu/2024/11/20/h...
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How the Biden Administration Views its Domestic Policy Legacy - Institute of Politics and Public Service
On Tuesday, Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service hosted a conversation between Neera Tanden and ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers (C ‘00, MA ‘03) about President Joe Bi...
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The White House today sent to Congress a request for roughly $100 billion in supplemental emergency disaster relief funding. This would go to support people across the Southeast in the wake of Hurricanes Helene & Milton as well as other communities with unmet recovery needs over the past 2yrs.
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Karen Travers @karentravers.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I feel pressure for a clever first post! I will just say that after lurking for a few days, this place seems great. Nice to see so many smart journalists here. Excited to soon find my fellow Philly & Georgetown sports fans Follow me for Biden White House & soon Trump WH news, sports, pop culture
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