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Matt Sedensky

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National writer for The Associated Press

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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Immigration crackdown threatens Haitian caregivers and the seniors who rely on them apnews.com/article/immi...
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Immigration crackdown threatens Haitian caregivers and the seniors who rely on them
A Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is rippling far beyond immigration courts.
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Knicks. The World Cup. Taylor Swift's rumored wedding. It's the Summer of New York apnews.com/article/new-...
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The Knicks. The World Cup. Taylor Swift's rumored wedding. It's the Summer of New York
It is a city bathed in the orange-and-blue afterglow of a Knicks championship. A place gushing with the joy of World Cup fans jamming its bars and its streets.
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Longtime CBS correspondent Scott Pelley lived many workers' fantasy: Telling your boss off apnews.com/article/cbs-...
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Longtime CBS correspondent Scott Pelley lived many workers' fantasy: Telling your boss off
Scott Pelley may have lost his job after publicly blasting CBS management. But for many workers, he lived out a fantasy.
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Tomatoes become latest symbol of America’s affordability squeeze apnews.com/article/toma...
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Tomatoes become latest symbol of America’s affordability squeeze
Prices for tomatoes are up 40% over the past year, the biggest increase tracked among products in the Consumer Price Index.
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
How a weaker dollar is quietly making life more expensive apnews.com/article/trum...
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How a weaker dollar is quietly making life more expensive
The U.S. dollar has dropped about 10% against a basket of other major currencies since early 2025. That shift is starting to show up in everyday costs: A weaker dollar means Americans get less when tr...
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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A look at the experts racing to decode Trump’s tariff rules
In a breathless year of tariffs unleashed by the administration of President Donald Trump, perhaps no one has had to live the reality of every fluctuation of trade policy than customs brokers.
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In a country where a tea tariff once drew such anger that colonists were stirred to rebellion, history has a way of repeating itself. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Tea tariffs once sparked a revolution. Now they are creating angst
President Donald Trump’s decision to back down from some tariffs is being celebrated by tea importers, who say the levies have been devastating this year.
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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In CBS role, Bari Weiss goes from critic of mainstream news to one of its gatekeepers
Bari Weiss has been unflinchingly critical of mainstream news outlets. Now, she's set to run one. The 41-year-old founder of The Free Press site was named this week as CBS News' editor-in-chief.
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“If you are turning gray, you are a witch.” Across parts of Africa, older people are beaten, banished—even killed—after being accused of witchcraft. Read the story and more on aging in Africa: 🔗https://t.co/T37gPdXTC3
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A demographic shift is reshaping Africa: The world’s youngest continent is now growing old. In Ugandan villages, @apnews.com followed elders facing the joys and burdens of aging. Explore the full project and its stunning visuals: apnews.com/projects/afr...
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How Africa is grappling with an impending aging crisis
Across Africa, a wave of longevity is arriving, promising to reshape the demographics of a continent wholly unprepared for it. This AP series explores the impacts of aging in Africa.
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Study finds 1 in 10 Americans now millionaires apnews.com/article/weal...
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Millionaires multiply across the US, but most find it’s not all mansions and champagne
The number of millionaires in the United States is soaring. A report from Swiss bank UBS finds about 1 in 10 American adults now has a net worth of at least $1 million, with 1,000 new millionaires add...
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
apnews.com/article/stee... Spike in steel tariffs could imperil Trump promise of lower grocery prices
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Spike in steel tariffs could imperil Trump promise of lower grocery prices
President Donald Trump’s doubling of tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum could hit Americans in an unexpected place: grocery aisles.
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
apnews.com/article/pope... 'DA POPE!' Leo XIV's Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor
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'DA POPE!' Leo XIV's Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor
A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and tong...
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Market turmoil has many afraid to check retirement savings
As President Donald Trump's trade war has injected turmoil in financial markets, many retired and near-retired Americans are anxiously looking on, worried about outliving their savings or having to pu...
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Matt Sedensky @sedensky.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
If a fraud had long been known to be a fraud, can you claim you just found the fraud? DOGE is trying to find out apnews.com/article/doge...
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DOGE trumpets unemployment fraud that government already found
Elon Musk's federal cost-cutting team is touting its latest finding: Hundreds of millions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent unemployment claims.
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