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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🌧️⚠️🇹🇭 Spoke with Bangkok Gov. Chadchart Sittipunt on flood relief: ~100k affected, 7k in shelters. Relief is underway with recovery expected within a week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK7A... #BangkokFloods

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Bangkok Governor assures recovery as heavy rain and flooding affects 100,000 residents

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m back in the CNN-HK flash studio for the day’s top stories. See you! ✌🏽 #Newsroom. 3a-5a ET/3p-5p HKT. #CNN. edition.cnn.com

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🤖🇺🇸🇨🇳🤝⚡️Can the US and China work together on AI? I enjoyed this deep dive into the topic with @ivancnn.bsky.social & Kunal Seghal for CNN’s Meanwhile in Asia… www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5NQ...

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How advanced is China’s AI, really? | Meanwhile in Asia

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Ivan Watson @ivancnn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How advanced is China's AI really? @klustout.bsky.social has been reporting on the Chinese tech industry since the 1990's. She breaks down the US vs China AI race in this episode of Meanwhile In Asia: youtu.be/o5NQ3-xwRBQ?...

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🌕🥮🏮 Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! I'm celebrating in a different way this year -- with the kinetic and wild fire dragon dancers of Tai Hang. Loved every moment of it! 🐲🔥🐉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmGb...

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Fire dragon dance ignites a fiery Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🤝🇺🇸🇨🇳🏛️✨This week, I joined JPMorgan Chase Chairman & CEO Jamie Dimon for a candid conversation on US-China relations, global economy, geopolitical “tectonic plates,” and leadership. (Alas, it was behind closed doors so I can't and won’t share more.) Grateful to AmCham HK for hosting this event.

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🔥🐉🐲The streets here are erupting with party energy and fire! It’s the annual Fire Dragon Dance here in the Hong Kong district of Tai Hang. We will be live at around 8a ET for CNN All Access and Amazon Video. Pls join us if you can!

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CNN @cnn.com · 24/09/2026

Federal Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the Trump administration to reinstate CNN, MS NOW and Politico's access to the White House after they were banned from the premises by President Donald Trump. cnn.it/4hI6EZI

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨🤖💻🇦🇺🔓 This is the first known case of AI hacking a government network. An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database in the latest example of an AI agent going rogue. Is there a global figure who can broker a global set of AI guidelines? edition.cnn.com/2026/09/23/b...

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OpenAI agent carried out first known hack of government system | CNN Business

An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australia’s national healthcare database in the first known case of AI hacking a government network, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday.

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

💙 🌊 🌏 I've spent my life on opposite coasts of the Pacific Ocean in California and Hong Kong. It's a place where you can feel at peace, to admire the rhythms of the ocean. On October 8, CNN is bringing everyone together for #CallToEarthDay. This year, we're asking everyone to Think Blue. Join us!

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🌐🛡️🤝As the UN General Assembly gathers, here's my discussion with Foreign Policy Editor-in-Chief Ravi Agrawal on Donald Trump's return, Volodymyr Zelensky's defense push, and the future of multilateralism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBD...

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UNGA 2026: Trump's return, Zelensky's defense push, and the future of multilateralism

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🐻🏆🗳️ Bigger, bulkier and back for the title. Fat Bear Week is kicking off after Alaska's brown bears have spent all summer feasting on sockeye salmon. Park Ranger Troy Hunt breaks down returning legends & the essential science driving these extreme survival journeys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Ny...

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Returning Legends and Survival Science: Inside Fat Bear Week 2026 🏆

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Getting ridiculously stoked for Fat Bear Week. I’m back in the CNN-HK flash studio for the day’s top stories (and chonky bears with US National Park Service park ranger Troy Hunt). See you! ✌🏽🐻 #Newsroom. 12a-2a ET/12-2p HKT. #CNN. edition.cnn.com explore.org/fat-bear-week

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here and ready for another busy news cycle. I’m back in the CNN-HK flash studio for the day’s top stories. See you! ✌🏽 #Newsroom. 2a-4a ET/2p-4p HKT. #CNN. edition.cnn.com

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sharing my daughter’s latest ceramic artwork…. 💐Arabella has reimagined a floral display from 1960s Malaysia as a modern arrangement with falling porcelain petals and a blooming, watercolor-like glaze. (And now I must find a way to store and protect this treasure!)

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just completed a mini-sabbatical at Wadham College, Oxford. I was half-expecting to LARP as an Oxford co-ed, and LARP I did! I hit the pubs, scrawled in my Moleskin, and wielded my own Bodleian library card. But something else happened. I was given a dedicated time and space to learn and reflect.

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📸 Here’s my new profile pic as I clock 25 years at CNN. (And I still feel I rushed the first 20...)

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🚨🇳🇵🙏🏽 Search operations resume in #Nepal: - 🚨 750 people are dead, with over 3,000 missing -- nearly 900 are hydropower workers. - 💰 Nepal says it will cost $4-$5B to rebuild Our hearts are with all in the disaster zone & the heroes working to locate the missing. 🙏🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lquL...

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Himalayan disaster: 750 dead as rescuers race to find workers trapped in hydropower tunnels

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🔴🙏🏽 🟡 🖼️ 🕊️✨ Yayoi Kusama was always ahead of her time. My colleague Stephy Chung and I covered her major retrospective at Hong Kong's M+ in 2023. She said she wants to embrace “all the messages of love, peace and universe.” May Kusama rest in peace and comfort. 🙏🏽 edition.cnn.com/2026/08/26/s...

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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who filled the world with polka dots, dead at 97 | CNN

Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s most celebrated and best-selling artists has died, according to a statement on the artist’s official website.

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🙏🏽🇳🇵🇨🇳 🌏 Thinking of the desperate souls who tried to outrun that torrent of mud... I'm horrified by the scenes of disaster from the Nepal-China border. May the rescue crews summon the strength they need to manage this high-stress emergency. 🙏🏽 edition.cnn.com/2026/08/26/w...

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More than 150 dead after crushing floodwaters wipe out villages on Nepal-China border | CNN

Catastrophic flash flooding hit China and Nepal on Wednesday, with more than 150 people confirmed killed and the toll likely to rise as hundreds remain missing.

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

💅🏻 ⌨️ 🎶 She clicked her acrylic nails like a typewriter to compose her hit song "9 to 5". It quickly became part of the soundtrack of the women’s lib movement, especially as it pertained to protections & equal rights in the workplace. Dolly, we will always love you. 🙏🏽 edition.cnn.com/2026/08/25/e...

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

💫🇮🇳🙌🏽 For CNN’s Tech for Good, we’re in Chennai at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Students here are leading a new era of discovery, developing autonomous rovers and drones for space exploration. #Chennai #India #TechForGood #CNN #rovers #robotics #iitm #iitmadras #teamanveshak #SUAS

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

❤️🇹🇭✌🏽Join me in Bangkok! Global Perspectives is bringing CNN’s journalism to the stage in Bangkok for the event series’ first stop in Asia on October 14. Check out our stellar guest list, and request an invitation today: cnnicevents.cnn.com/gpbangkok/KLS ❤️🇹🇭✌🏽 #CNNGlobalPerspectives

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🪷 Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved work-life balance. But for a few precious days, we can downshift from obsessive planning and go-go-go to the pleasures of being fully in the present with our loved ones. (Oh how I savored this late summer getaway!)

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🛍️ 📉💰How much is #Shein looking to haul for its long-awaited #IPO in #HongKong? Reports say under $30B -- down significantly from its peak $100B valuation in 2022. Here's why the former e-commerce darling lost some of its shine... www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB5E...

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Unpacking Shein’s discounted IPO haul in Hong Kong

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🇰🇷🤖⚡South Korea is positioning itself as a global AI powerhouse. - 💰 $576B+ in govt pledges - 🤖 Focus on real-world applications & robotics - ⚡ SKorea has the full AI stack from chips to models - 📉 After recent volatility, experts warn of a slump leading into 2027. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7xx...

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The Full Stack: Inside South Korea’s AI transformation

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Here and ready. I’m back in the CNN-HK flash studio for the day’s top stories. See you! ✌🏽 #Newsroom. 12a ET/12p HKT. #CNN. edition.cnn.com

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The 14-yr-old shooter took the lives of 5 teachers before taking his own. He also allegedly killed his grandmother and grandfather in their home, according to police. This is a devastating time for the students, families, and staff. My heart breaks for Thailand. 💔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps62...

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Teen kills five teachers in Thailand’s deadliest school shooting in years

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🙏🏽🇹🇭🌏 Shocked and saddened by the horrific shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School north of Bangkok. Teachers and students have been killed after a student opened fire at the secondary school on Friday morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p41m...

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Teachers and students killed in Thailand school shooting

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🗺️ ⚠️🇨🇳 While the US focuses on war with Iran, China has been extending its footprint in the South China Sea. Check out “Meanwhile in Asia” with Ivan Watson and Bex Wright, produced by Angus Watson. It's a good one!💥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXyP...

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What if China controls the South China Sea? | Meanwhile in Asia

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🙏🏽🇯🇵🌏 Thinking of friends in Japan after a 6.8 magnitude quake hit Kumamoto prefecture. It has brought down buildings, bridges and rail services. It's also taken lives. To all in the quake zone, please stay strong and stay safe. 🙏🏽 youtube.com/watch?v=yfcUAV775A0&feature=youtu.be

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Japan quake: many trapped in collapsed shopping mall after blast

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Join me in Bangkok! ❤️🇹🇭✌🏽 #CNNGlobalPerspectives is bringing CNN’s journalism to the stage in Bangkok for the event series’ first stop in Asia on October 14. Be there for the conversation. Request an invitation today: CNNICEvents.cnn.com/gpbangkok/KLS

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The 2000s called. But they won’t get their digital camera back. 📸 (Ara adores her vintage point-and-shoot. And yes, the blur effect and warm tones are something else.)

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CNN International PR @cnnipr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Join CNN's @willripleycnn.bsky.social, @klustout.bsky.social, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Richard Quest and Hanako Montgomery in conversation with global leaders and cultural voices this October 14 for Global Perspectives: In Bangkok. Be in the room: cnnicevents.cnn.com/gpbangkok/pop #CNNGlobalPerspectives

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🌊🚢 🌍 Yemen's Houthis have declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia: - 🗺️ Bab el-Mandab is a key export route for Saudi oil - 🛢️ A full closure of Bab el-Mandab could reduce global oil supplies by 7%, on top of 10% already impacted by Hormuz crisis. The latest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK9d...

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Yemen's Houthis declare naval blockade on Saudi Arabia

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it."

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Oil prices are hitting their highest level in over a month amid escalating US-Iran strikes: 🛢️ Brent crude has topped $90 per barrel ⛽ US gas nearing $4 per gallon, with average now at $3.99 🚗 US drivers paying 34% more for gas than before the war youtube.com/watch?v=H8DJVqFatJY&feature=youtu.be

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Oil prices top $90 a barrel as US-Iran strikes escalate

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CNN @cnn.com · 17/07/2026

President Donald Trump tried to convince Americans in a primetime address that their elections are vulnerable to fraud and need immediate attention. CNN annotated the speech with context and analysis. cnn.it/4f641zP

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🇨🇳🤖🌏 China’s Xi Jinping is vowing to make AI for all. His keynote at the World AI Summit in Shanghai follows an agreement signed by 29 nations to establish a global AI cooperation body based in China. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kldJ...

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Xi sets out China's vision to be a global AI leader

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🇨🇳🤖❤️ Beijing is trying to break up AI relationships. New rules ban virtual relationships for minors and restrict emotionally dependent chatbot services, reflecting China’s growing unease over AI intimacy. Here's the latest on China's new AI safeguarding measures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PBC...

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Beijing cracks down on AI companions

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

✈️ 🐎 🏟️ Before a premier equestrian event in Hong Kong, dozens of elite horses go through a meticulously coordinated journey spanning over 9,000 km from Europe. Here's a peek at the Cathay Cargo operation that makes elite international equestrian sport possible! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5MU...

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From Liège to Hong Kong: The Cathay Cargo journey of flying elite horses

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Just so much magic! 💫🇫🇷🫶🏽 With cherished friends and family in Paris.

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#China is a net winner from the Strait of #Hormuz energy crisis, at least for now. This is according to new analysis by The Asia Group. Here’s my conversation with TAG chairman and co-founder, former deputy US secretary of state Kurt Campbell.

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China is a winner from Hormuz energy crisis: report

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We're back in the CNN-HK flash studio for the day’s top stories. See you soon! ✌🏽 #Newsroom. 2a ET/2p HKT. #CNN. edition.cnn.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

🎥💄📺 It’s a feature in the biz - we have to look good while we report. ✨ Erica Cheung has been our magician with the makeup brush. ✨ For 20+ yrs, she’s eased our transition to high-def & digital, and used her exceptional skills to support endless hours of anchoring and reporting. Thank you Erica!🙏🏽

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Oil prices slide toward pre-war levels as Hormuz traffic rebounds: - 🛢️ US oil prices fall to lowest levels since war began - 🚢 Shipping traffic doubles in Strait of Hormuz over past 24 hrs - 🌊 IMO: Backlog of 500–600 ships persists; ~11,000 seafarers still stranded www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF3n...

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Oil prices slide toward pre-war levels as Hormuz traffic rebounds

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil, but progress on nuclear unclear w/conflicting statements on monitoring. Also: - 🚢 Iran agrees to set up Hormuz hotline to avoid clashes as traffic rises (still below normal levels) - 📉 Oil prices trending down The latest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F1N...

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US lifts sanctions, but progress on nuclear issues unclear

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Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🚢 Ship captains say #Hormuz reopening will be a slow trickle, not a surge. It will take weeks or longer to clear mines and the backlog of ships. A stranded tanker master tells me: "The blockade of Hormuz will be behind us like the days of Covid.” Hope persists... www.youtube.com/watch?v=138g...

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Ship captains say Hormuz reopening will be a slow trickle, not a surge

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