Colin Moynihan
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New York newspaper reporter and magazine writer
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He was pushed off the family company’s board in 2020 after one term as a director. And his family’s $500 million charitable foundation, run by an aunt and his father, said two years ago: “Bill Pulte does not represent, nor is he a spokesperson for, all members of the Pulte family, in any capacity.
NEW: A look at Bill Pulte’s track record. The powerful housing regulator has a chain of mobile homes, including many plagued by problems.
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Trump Housing Official Invokes Family Legacy, to Some Relatives’ Dismay
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November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
He was pushed off the family company’s board in 2020 after one term as a director. And his family’s $500 million charitable foundation, run by an aunt and his father, said two years ago: “Bill Pulte does not represent, nor is he a spokesperson for, all members of the Pulte family, in any capacity.
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President Trump is planning a formal dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his trip to Washington, a man the U.S. intelligence community concluded approved the killing and dismemberment of Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
White House plans dinner for Saudi prince scrutinized in journalist’s killing
Trump’s formal dinner for Mohammed bin Salman marks a dramatic step in the public rehabilitation of a man once condemned as a pariah.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
President Trump is planning a formal dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his trip to Washington, a man the U.S. intelligence community concluded approved the killing and dismemberment of Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Our photographer Tyler Hicks has been covering the war in Ukraine since 2022. “Nearly every thriving city, town and village I’ve visited near the front lines has been obliterated, become unreachable, or been occupied by Moscow’s forces. Pokrovsk is now one of them.” See more photos: nyti.ms/49RmrSw
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Our photographer Tyler Hicks has been covering the war in Ukraine since 2022. “Nearly every thriving city, town and village I’ve visited near the front lines has been obliterated, become unreachable, or been occupied by Moscow’s forces. Pokrovsk is now one of them.” See more photos: nyti.ms/49RmrSw
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Trump escalates campaign to pardon Netanyahu with letter to Israel’s president
Unprecedented interventions seek to end prime minister’s long-running corruption trial
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November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In 2020, Spehar threw her support behind an effort to put up a plaque on the building. It meant fewer of the obvious questions from lurkers (including one who had mistaken Spehar herself for the long-deceased Jane Jacobs)
The Greenwich Village home where Jane Jacobs organized protests, came up with revolutionary ideas, and raised her kids is now on the market.
A Good Life in Jane Jacobs’s House
The Greenwich Village home where Jane Jacobs organized protests, came up with revolutionary ideas, and raised her kids is now on the market.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In 2020, Spehar threw her support behind an effort to put up a plaque on the building. It meant fewer of the obvious questions from lurkers (including one who had mistaken Spehar herself for the long-deceased Jane Jacobs)
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#Afghanistan: Arrested for producing “anti-Taliban propaganda,” journalist Mahdi Ansary was forced to make a confession, which the Taliban broadcast online.
RSF condemns this humiliation tactic and demands the immediate release of Ansary & the 6 other journalists imprisoned by the regime.
RSF condemns this humiliation tactic and demands the immediate release of Ansary & the 6 other journalists imprisoned by the regime.
In Afghanistan, new Taliban tactic to humiliate journalists: forced “confessions” broadcast online
After being arrested for producing “anti-Taliban propaganda”, Afghan News Agency journalist Mahdi Ansary was forced to make a confession that was broadcast on Facebook. Reporters Without Borders (RSF)...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#Afghanistan: Arrested for producing “anti-Taliban propaganda,” journalist Mahdi Ansary was forced to make a confession, which the Taliban broadcast online.
RSF condemns this humiliation tactic and demands the immediate release of Ansary & the 6 other journalists imprisoned by the regime.
RSF condemns this humiliation tactic and demands the immediate release of Ansary & the 6 other journalists imprisoned by the regime.
On a election day in New Jersey, where a close gubernatorial race will be decided, bomb threats disrupt the process and lead to the closure of some polling places. www.nj.com/politics/202...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
On a election day in New Jersey, where a close gubernatorial race will be decided, bomb threats disrupt the process and lead to the closure of some polling places. www.nj.com/politics/202...
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The "cordon sanitaire” that had long kept the far-right party marginalized was hanging by a thread. On Thursday, it finally broke. For the first time since 1958 & the first time in the Fifth Republic, the Assemblée Nationale passed a bill put forward by the far right.
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The day the Assemblée Nationale passed a far-right bill
On Thursday, October 30, MPs in the Assemblée Nationale passed, by just a single vote, a resolution put forward by the far-right Rassemblement National party, aimed at condemning a 1968 French-Algeria...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The "cordon sanitaire” that had long kept the far-right party marginalized was hanging by a thread. On Thursday, it finally broke. For the first time since 1958 & the first time in the Fifth Republic, the Assemblée Nationale passed a bill put forward by the far right.
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11/ “I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,” the NC GOP comms director wrote. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
He bolded and underlined "strongly," just in case we didn’t get the point.
He bolded and underlined "strongly," just in case we didn’t get the point.
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
11/ “I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,” the NC GOP comms director wrote. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
He bolded and underlined "strongly," just in case we didn’t get the point.
He bolded and underlined "strongly," just in case we didn’t get the point.
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SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."
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SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr
The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."
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Speaking in federal court, Masih Alinejad said of the men who conspired to kill her: "They couldn't break me but they brought fear into my life."
Breaking News: Two men who plotted to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian activist who protested laws that made hijabs compulsory for women and lived in Brooklyn, were sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Judge Sentences Men Who Tried to Kill Iranian Activist to 25 Years
Prosecutors said that Rafit Amirov and Polad Omarov were working for an Iranian general when they stalked Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn. She has sought women’s rights in the theocracy for years.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Speaking in federal court, Masih Alinejad said of the men who conspired to kill her: "They couldn't break me but they brought fear into my life."
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Exclusive: The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington.
White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects
The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Exclusive: The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington.
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The Trump administration is opening Alaska’s entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits.
Trump Re-Opens Alaska’s Arctic Coastal Plain to Oil Drilling
The Trump administration is opening the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Trump administration is opening Alaska’s entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits.
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London police arrest three men on suspicion of spying for Russia on.ft.com/43z8hBv
London police arrest three men on suspicion of spying for Russia
Metropolitan Police reports ‘increasing number’ of people recruited by foreign intelligence services
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October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC
October 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC
The franchise that has known only choppy seas for nearly 50 years capsized again.
After reaching new peak, the Mariners find new depth of agony as a pennant slips away www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...
After reaching new peak, the Mariners find new depth of agony as a pennant slips away
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October 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The franchise that has known only choppy seas for nearly 50 years capsized again.
After Jeffrey Epstein's death, Virginia Giuffre got in touch with his former employees, looking for someone to corroborate her story of abuse. Most refused. Then one of those former employees opened his door.
In February 2020, Virginia Giuffre flew 22 hours from Australia to find a witness who could prove she was telling the truth when she said she had been Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slave. Up until her death, she spoke out — even if the truth slipped through the cracks.
Virginia Giuffre’s Hunt to Find Epstein’s Men
She knocked on doors across the country, trying to find witnesses to verify her story of abuse, until one opened up.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
After Jeffrey Epstein's death, Virginia Giuffre got in touch with his former employees, looking for someone to corroborate her story of abuse. Most refused. Then one of those former employees opened his door.
This week prosecutors said they'd need 90 days to decide whether to retry a man accused of killing Etan Patz in 1979 then a year to get to trial. A judge said they'd have to start a trial by June 1 or free the suspect, who's in custody.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This week prosecutors said they'd need 90 days to decide whether to retry a man accused of killing Etan Patz in 1979 then a year to get to trial. A judge said they'd have to start a trial by June 1 or free the suspect, who's in custody.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM