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Executive Director, Jordan Ctr. for Journalism Advocacy & Innovation/Asst. Professor of Practice @ Univ. of Mississippi; Former VOA News White House bureau chief; Author […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ journa.host/@w7voa, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025
Activists have erected a billboard near MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, with a message to troops: “Obey Only Lawful Orders.” The base is home to the US Central Command and US Special Operations Command […] [Original post on journa.host]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025
Developers of an offshore wind project are asking a federal judge to block a Trump administration order that halted construction of their project, arguing the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind is essential to meet dramatically growing energy needs for new data centers […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025
Fourteen people injured in a stabbing spree at a tire factory in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, during which an unspecified liquid was also sprayed. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/2…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025
The US has launched strikes on Islamic State targets in Nigeria, according to President Trump.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office announces 115 detained suspects allegedly were planning attacks across Turkey, particularly targeting non-Muslims. www.dailysabah.com/politics/war-on-…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
The atmospheric river storm that has unleashed heavy downpours across Southern California — with some areas seeing more than a half-foot — is continuing to drench the region on Christmas Day […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
In central Boden, Sweden, police say they’ve responded to a “serious incident.” www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/vrQn9w…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
The Kilauea volcano livestream: www.youtube.com/live/QSqQAoblFKk?si…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
In his Urbi et Orbi address, the pope’s pleas for peace includes: Ukraine/Russia, Middle East, Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, DRC, Thailand/Cambodia, Burma (Myanmar), Haiti and Latin America […] [Original post on journa.host]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman returns to Bangladesh after 17 years in exile. www.thedailystar.net/news/banglades…
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Tarique Rahman returns home after 17 years in exile
A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying them landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport via Sylhet in Dhaka around at 11:41am.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
A car with a "Happy Chanukah" sign was set alight in Melbourne, Australia, on Christmas Day. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-25/happ…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025
Authorities in Maryland say a man was shot after attempting to run over ICE agents. www.wbaltv.com/article/police-man-s…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration’s stripping of an attorney’s security clearance for representing a whistleblower pivotal to the president’s first impeachment was a form of retribution and unconstitutional […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
A million more documents potentially related to the Epstein case have been located, according to the DoJ, which says lawyers are reviewing them to make legally required redactions to protect victims and it’ll release the files as “soon as possible.”
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
WaPo - ICE plans to speed up deportations by funneling new detainees to large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, located in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri. Sixteen smaller warehouses would hold up to 1,500 people each […] [Original post on journa.host]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
The White House has ordered US military forces to focus almost exclusively on enforcing the "quarantine" of Venezuela, an American official tells Reuters.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
Reuters - US Coast Guard waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it's been pursuing since December 21 […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
Nieman Reports - The swift loss of US funding for global media since President Trump took office a year ago has devastated journalism in many countries where the independent press was already on precarious footing […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
Japanese scientists are to excavate a seabed at a depth of six kilometers, in a first of its kind experiment, to collect clay-like sediment rich in rare earths. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/2…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
French President Macron slams a decision by the US to impose visa bans on a former EU commissioner and other anti-disinformation campaigners. www.reuters.com/business/media-tele…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
Kyiv Independent - After weeks of talks, Ukraine and the US have prepared a draft of the revised peace plan to end Russia’s full-scale war. kyivindependent.com/zelensky-reveal…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
The self-proclaimed head of USAGM, Kari Lake, who this year destroyed nearly all of the Voice of America, tells the agency’s few remaining journalists the White House National Security Strategy will “guide our interview subjects, story selection, and coverage going forward.”
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
The top media trend that Axios believes will shape 2026 is the US ceding soft power. www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-med…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
SCOTUS for now refuses to allow President Trump to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in the Chicago area. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-supreme-…
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Supreme Court says Trump can't deploy National Guard to Chicago for now
President Trump invoked a law called Title 10 to bring members of the Illinois National Guard under federal service over the objections of state and local leaders.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
On social media, former US Senator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, reveals he’s been "diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.”
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
A 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics medal is up for auction. historical.ha.com/c/search/results.…
[J. Robert Schrieffer]. Nobel Prize Medal in Physics for his
co-development of the BCS theory of superconductivity. 1972
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
The US economy grew at an annualized rate of a robust 4.3 per cent in the third quarter, according to official data released today. www.wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q3-2025-…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
Three days after releasing a large tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents that contained few mentions of President Trump, the DoJ disclosed thousands more files that included wide-ranging references to the president […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
FCC, citing national security, bans new foreign-made drones from entering the US. docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
At least three people killed and 12 others injured overnight in a massive Russian missile and drone attack on multiple oblasts of Ukraine. kyivindependent.com/explosions-hear…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: archive.org/details/60minutes-cecot…
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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
US FDA approves the first-ever GLP-1 pill for obesity from Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/22/fda-approve…
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FDA approves first GLP-1 pill for obesity from Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk
The approval gives Novo Nordisk a head start over chief rival Eli Lilly, which is racing to launch its own obesity pill.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
NYT - President Trump will announce that the Navy is to build a new “Trump-class” battleship, which will become the centerpiece of the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet.” […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
As Ukraine faces battlefield struggles, an ongoing corruption probe and pressure from the US, the Storm-1516 Russian disinformation operation is becoming more prolific and harmful, an analysis of NewsGuard’s database of 400+ false claims about the war shows […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
NBC News - President’s envoy, perceived as tilting to Russia, making end runs around the secretary of state in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-hous…
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Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio’s clashing diplomacy on Russia-Ukraine
Apart from disagreements about peace efforts in Ukraine, Witkoff has been at loggerheads with Rubio and State Department officials about the way he handles security.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects over national security concerns, contending that the towers and movement of turbine blades interfere with radar […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
WSJ - Paramount amended its offer for WBD, with billionaire Larry Ellison agreeing to personally guarantee $40.4 billion of equity financing for the deal and publish records related to the family trust that backstops the deal […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
Heritage Foundation professor resigns because the conservative think tank’s president “gave aid and comfort to the rising tide of antisemitism on the right.”https://reason.com/volokh/2025/12/21/my-resignation-from-the-heritage-foundation/
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My Resignation From The Heritage Foundation
12/21/2025 Dear Dr. Roberts, It is with deep regret that I must resign my position as Senior Editor of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution. Indeed, I could not have even conceived of such an action only a few months ago when we launched the third edition of the guide. On Constitution Day, I proudly stood at the Heritage Foundation as we released this book to the world. But your actions have made my continued affiliation with Heritage untenable. First, your comments were a huge unforced blunder, and gave aid and comfort to the rising tide of antisemitism on the right. Second, in the wake of your remarks, jurists, scholars, and advocates have made clear to me they can no longer associate with the Heritage Guide they contributed to. Third, and perhaps most tragically, your actions have weakened the ability of the storied Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies to promote the rule of law. My resignation is effective immediately. For the past decade, I have cherished my close ties with The Heritage Foundation. I received several awards from Heritage, including the inaugural Edwin Meese Originalism Award. Every year, I lecture at the Heritage Clerkship Academy. I published a Heritage whitepaper on fighting antisemitism. And the crowning achievement of my professional career has been my service as the senior editor of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution, which was published only three months ago. I devoted four years of my life to this definitive treatment of the Constitution. More importantly, John and I recruited more than 150 jurists, scholars, and advocates to participate in this generational project. As a testament to the value of this enterprise, Justice Samuel Alito graciously wrote the preface. All of this work was possible thanks to the sterling reputation of the Meese Center. Attorney General Edwin Meese is the cornerstone of the conservative legal movement. My co-editor John Malcolm is a brilliant scholar and bold leader who has guided the Meese Center to great heights. And the staff of the Meese Center provided the careful attention and insightful edits to make the Guide possible. Yet, Heritage came to a crashing halt after your infamous video. Your initial remarks were indefensible. Your apology was underwhelming. And the lack of any meaningful followup over the past three months has been telling. For reasons only you know, you aligned the Heritage Foundation with the rising tide of antisemitism on the right. As Senator Ted Cruz observed, "this poison of antisemitism on the right . . . is spreading with young people." I agree with Ben Shapiro: "If Heritage Foundation wishes to retain its status as a leading thought institution in the conservative movement, it must act as ideological border control." Antisemitism is always the canary in the coalmine. History teaches us that any society that fails to protect its Jewish people is destined for despair. I am not alone in recognizing how you wounded Heritage's moral standing. For more than a year, the Meese Center was planning a massive book signing at the Federalist Society National Convention. Heritage generously donated nearly 1,500 copies of the Guide, and everyone in attendance would have received a free copy. We arranged for nearly one-hundred contributors to autograph the book. Regrettably, your ill-timed remarks came only a few days before the Convention began. In short order, contributors told us that they could no longer autograph a book they already contributed to. The Heritage brand, once iconic, instantly became toxic. We made the difficult decision to cancel the book signing. This was a point of personal sadness, as John and I were so eager to celebrate the launch of this important work with the conservative legal movement. The fallout is even greater. Judges who have spoken at Heritage told me they would no longer affiliate with Heritage, and would no longer recommend their clerks attend the Clerkship Academy. Scholars who won prizes from Heritage told me they would no longer contribute to any Heritage publications. Public interest litigators have tweeted that they will no longer attend the Legal Strategy Forum. The Heritage Foundation is greater than any single President. But one President has done what was once unthinkable. The Meese Center cannot survive under Heritage's current leadership, and the damage to the Meese Center brand has been irreparable. My only hope is that the important scholarship in the Heritage Guide can continue to be studied. Sincerely, Josh Blackman Former Senior Editor Heritage Guide to the Constitution
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
WaPo - Texas Republican US Senator Ted Cruz considering another run for president. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
“We all thought that she looked dead.” www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-a…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
The woman who became America’s oldest park ranger has died at the age of 104. www.kqed.org/news/12068214/betty-re…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
Denmark’s foreign ministry today summoning the US ambassador to protest President Trump’s appointment of the Louisiana governor as special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has threatened to annex. www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/ka…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
A Russian general was reportedly killed early today when a bomb detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/22/r…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025
Politico - At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025
(AP) — The US Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to the Venezuelan government.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025
Australian Prime Minister Albanese booed and heckled at vigil for terrorism victims. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-21/nsw-…
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025
More than 130,000 PG&E customers in San Francisco are without power. abc7news.com/post/40000-pge-custome…
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More than 130,000 PG&E customers without power in SF; fire at substation could be major factor
Thousands of PG&E; customers in San Francisco lost power on Saturday. It's affecting numerous of neighborhoods including the Sunset and Richmond Districts, the Presidio, Golden Gate Park, and near the Civic Center. Here's a look at the impact.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
Multiple US career ambassadors, appointed during the Biden administration, have been directed by phone call to vacate their posts by January 15 or 16. No explanation has been given for these recalls.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
(AP) — At least 16 files disappeared from the DoJ’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public […]
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