Lisa Shumaker
@lisashumaker.bsky.social
Editor at @Reuters interested in AI and data-driven journalism. Learning how artificial intelligence is transforming news and society. All views my own.
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This is the first NPR/PBS station I've seen that's going out of business as a result of the federal rescission:
radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...
radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...
Penn State plans to 'wind down' WPSU after board committee rejects plan to transfer it to WHYY
WPSU, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary of bringing public media to Pennsylvania, is slated to close soon, after a Penn State board of trustees committee voted Thursday against a proposal...
radio.wpsu.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is the first NPR/PBS station I've seen that's going out of business as a result of the federal rescission:
radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...
radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...
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Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk shot at Utah Valley University event reut.rs/3I3ubpd
Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk shot at Utah Valley University event
Kirk, an activist and the founder of conservative student group Turning Point USA, played a key role in driving youth support for Trump in November.
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September 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk shot at Utah Valley University event reut.rs/3I3ubpd
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Citing DEI concerns, the Trump administration has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
Their funding had previously been approved through Sept. 2028.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
Their funding had previously been approved through Sept. 2028.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Citing DEI concerns, the Trump administration has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
Their funding had previously been approved through Sept. 2028.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
Their funding had previously been approved through Sept. 2028.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
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Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
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New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.
August 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.
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An American toddler in foster care, a mom in ICE detention:
A brief jail sentence turned into over four months in an immigration detention cell for the mother and an extended stay in foster care for her son. @kristinacooke.bsky.social, photos by Carlos Barria www.reuters.com/world/us/an-...
A brief jail sentence turned into over four months in an immigration detention cell for the mother and an extended stay in foster care for her son. @kristinacooke.bsky.social, photos by Carlos Barria www.reuters.com/world/us/an-...
An American toddler in foster care, a mom in ICE detention
A brief jail sentence turned into over four months in an immigration detention cell for the mother and an extended stay in foster care for son
www.reuters.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
An American toddler in foster care, a mom in ICE detention:
A brief jail sentence turned into over four months in an immigration detention cell for the mother and an extended stay in foster care for her son. @kristinacooke.bsky.social, photos by Carlos Barria www.reuters.com/world/us/an-...
A brief jail sentence turned into over four months in an immigration detention cell for the mother and an extended stay in foster care for her son. @kristinacooke.bsky.social, photos by Carlos Barria www.reuters.com/world/us/an-...
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After Texas made performing abortions a felony, miscarriage became more dangerous. The number of blood transfusions in ED visits for first-trimester pregnancy loss shot up by 54%. My latest:
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
July 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
After Texas made performing abortions a felony, miscarriage became more dangerous. The number of blood transfusions in ED visits for first-trimester pregnancy loss shot up by 54%. My latest:
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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“Robert” — the allegedly IRGC-controlled persona — says they’re planning a sale of data stolen from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan, Roger Stone, and Stormy Daniels for some reason.
New: “Robert” is back, and the Iran-linked hacking group is threatening to disclose the balance of what they say are 100GB worth of emails from a trio of Trump allies: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Iran-linked hackers threaten to release Trump aides' emails
Iran-linked hackers have threatened to disclose more emails stolen from U.S. President Donald Trump's circle, after distributing a prior batch to the media ahead of the 2024 U.S. election.
www.reuters.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“Robert” — the allegedly IRGC-controlled persona — says they’re planning a sale of data stolen from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan, Roger Stone, and Stormy Daniels for some reason.
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The Senate’s version of Donald Trump’s tax cut bill will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 a year while giving an average boost of $6,055 to those at the top end. bloom.bg/3Gu56CO
June 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Senate’s version of Donald Trump’s tax cut bill will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 a year while giving an average boost of $6,055 to those at the top end. bloom.bg/3Gu56CO
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Over a third of people on sinking Tuvalu seek Australia's climate visas reut.rs/3TU2KAd
Over a third of people on sinking Tuvalu seek Australia's climate visas
More than one-third of the people in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu, which scientists predict will be submerged by rising seas, have applied for a landmark climate visa to migrate to Australia, according to official figures.
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June 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Over a third of people on sinking Tuvalu seek Australia's climate visas reut.rs/3TU2KAd
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U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites set up "cat-and-mouse" hunt for missing uranium reut.rs/44a4KKV
U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites set up "cat-and-mouse" hunt for missing uranium
The U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iranian nuclear sites creates a conundrum for U.N. inspectors in Iran: how can you tell if enriched uranium stocks, some of them near weapons grade, were buried beneath the rubble or had been secretly hidden away?
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June 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites set up "cat-and-mouse" hunt for missing uranium reut.rs/44a4KKV
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Emergency personnel work amid debris at an impacted residential site, following a missile attack from Iran on Israel, amid the Israel-Iran conflict, in Be'er Sheva, Israel. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4nqLnVo 📷 Amir Cohen
June 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Emergency personnel work amid debris at an impacted residential site, following a missile attack from Iran on Israel, amid the Israel-Iran conflict, in Be'er Sheva, Israel. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4nqLnVo 📷 Amir Cohen
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The most dramatic illustration of the drug cartel/cyber intelligence nexus I’ve ever seen:
According to a DOJ IG report released this week, the Sinaloa cartel identified an FBI official working at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, tracked him via phone location data, tapped into Mexico’s surveillance camera network, & killed an unspecified number of informants.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
June 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The most dramatic illustration of the drug cartel/cyber intelligence nexus I’ve ever seen:
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Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports reut.rs/4nqtQws
Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports
Meta Platforms is hiring four more OpenAI artificial intelligence researchers, The Information reported on Saturday.
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June 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports reut.rs/4nqtQws
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Meet the Americans who make their own weight-loss drugs reut.rs/4lNfzZp
Meet the Americans who make their own weight-loss drugs
In what she calls the "wild west" of obesity medicines, Missouri-based Amy Spencer is a pioneer.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Meet the Americans who make their own weight-loss drugs reut.rs/4lNfzZp
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Impaired cognitive and mental health, gut health decline, infertility, heart health decline, and thinning bones — Period loss, or amenorrhea, impacts far more than just your cycle. Reuters Graphics investigates the causes and impacts: reut.rs/3G0Zikh
When the cycle stops
Period loss, or amenorrhea, affects approximately 3% to 4% of women of reproductive age. It can be the body’s response to an energy crisis resulting from a combination of too much exercising, too few ...
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June 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Impaired cognitive and mental health, gut health decline, infertility, heart health decline, and thinning bones — Period loss, or amenorrhea, impacts far more than just your cycle. Reuters Graphics investigates the causes and impacts: reut.rs/3G0Zikh
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How 'Zuck Bucks' shake up AI race reut.rs/4nmB4S4
How 'Zuck Bucks' shake up AI race
This was originally published in the Artificial Intelligencer newsletter, which is issued every Wednesday. Sign up here to learn about the latest breakthroughs in AI and tech.
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June 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
How 'Zuck Bucks' shake up AI race reut.rs/4nmB4S4
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When Republican voters learn how much the "Big Beautiful Bill" redistributes from poor to rich, they become much less likely to want to re-elect their incumbent senators...
June 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
When Republican voters learn how much the "Big Beautiful Bill" redistributes from poor to rich, they become much less likely to want to re-elect their incumbent senators...
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Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.
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June 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.
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Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region, officials and activists said reut.rs/3GiyXOD 1/8
June 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region, officials and activists said reut.rs/3GiyXOD 1/8
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June 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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