Uber driver this morning accepted my ride from 15 mins away(!) Said he saw the name Amna & had to come. He’s from Afghanistan. Spent yrs in Pakistan. Came to the US 20 yrs ago. “You’re like my daughter. I had to make sure you get there safely.” ❤️
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The #Uvalde timeline offered by Texas officials right now is gutting. There were 19 police officers in the hallway who made the decision not to break into the room, at the same time children inside were alive and calling 911. One begged “please send police now.”
After 18 hours of questions about Judge Jackson's record, sentencing decisions, judicial philosophy, faith, and so much more...Sen. Booker is here to remind everyone of the history being made. And it's brought the first Black woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court to tears.
. was just asked about her place in history as the first Black woman at the White House briefing podium in 30 years.
Here’s how she answered:
NEW: two families are suing the Trump administration for harm suffered as a result of #FamilySeparation. Both fathers were forcibly separated from their children for weeks, and both children allegedly suffered abuse while in US govt custody.
Afghan Pres Ashraf Ghani to me on May 17:
Q: Are there any other circumstances under which you would step down early?
AG: No.
Q: None at all?
AG: If there is war — no. If there is war, I am the commander in chief. I will not abandon my people...I am willing to die for my country.
I'm honored, grateful, and excited for what's ahead.
This #InternationalWomensDay I’m thinking of all the women who carry their children across borders just to keep them safe.
📷:
Cancel your plans.
No one will think you’re over-reacting.
#SocialDistancingNow
President Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly says he believes John Bolton and believes witnesses should be heard from in the impeachment proceedings
heraldtribune.com/news/20200128/
Come on. Every parent knows this moment. But most of us aren’t parenting with millions watching. twitter.com/TheDuchessBoom
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Stunning investigative report from
“When Florida’s child welfare system takes in a girl, the odds she will be trafficked for sex increase.”
1am in Kabul. I'm messaging with sources on the ground there. They couldnt get to the airport. They're holed up in what they hope are safe spaces. The city is under curfew. They say it's calm except for some gunfire. Some have been targeted by the Talibs before. Now they wait.
. ends her time at the anchor desk tonight. Read this to learn what she’s up to next, and why she is hands-down one of the best in the business.
Pretty remarkable move by - going off the air for 8 min and 46 seconds tonight - in memory of #GeorgeFloyd, with this message to kids 👇🏽
Q: is there anyone inside Twitter who tells Elon Musk what he needs, not wants, to hear?
: no. He’s got a bunch of enablers and suck-ups…and I think some people have stayed because they have to…but all I’m hearing from the inside is chaos.
A Mississippi school suspended students for kneeling during the anthem. A Texas school punished a kid for sitting during the pledge. Multiple schools have suspended or sent home kids for having dreadlocks or extensions. @barabooSD says they’re not sure they can punish for this?
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#Baraboo school officials say they likely can’t punish students who seemed to give Nazi salute bc of free speech. Still investigating incident. twitter.com/AsteadWH/statu…
news colleagues: there are too many New Zealand panels this morning without a single Muslim voice as part of our coverage. if you're looking for suggestions, please consult this (incomplete) list or feel free to DM me.
If you did not see reporting from inside the Capitol during yesterday's riots, you missed a new bar being set for journalism.
She was calm, clear-eyed, and focused on relaying what she was seeing and hearing to our audience.
I'm so proud to call her a colleague.
Grace, class, and strength through the final sign off.
‘s message to viewers as she leaves the anchor chair ❤️
You taught me so much. You led by example. “When in doubt, duck & file.” You told me I was good enough, even when I wasn’t sure. You let my girls tear apart your home and fed them cookies. You told me my husband was a keeper. (You were always right.) You’re gone too soon, Cokie.
Good morning y'all. I want to update you on the story of Angelica and Sofi. My colleague, and I met them in a Juarez shelter on Tuesday night. Angelica is Sofi's grandmother. She's raised Sofi since Sofi was 4-months old. She was 3 when we met her this week.
wow.
Harris County is the state's most populous county - 4.5 million people.
Under Gov. Abbott's new order, they'll now only have 1 drop-off location for ballots.
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BREAKING: Gov. Abbott issues proclamation CLOSING (as of Oct. 2) satellite offices where voters can drop off completed mail-in ballots.
Counties can only have 1 dropoff point, he says.
Travis has 4, including 3 downtown.
Harris has 12.
This 🐶 sleeps ALL day. I’m live for FIVE minutes and he decides that’s his moment to get up and move directly into the shot. Unbelievable. twitter.com/BostonMassMark
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“I’m one of those in the group that feels very strongly that if we can’t get the G.O.P. back to a rational party that supports free minds, free markets, and free people, I’m out and a lot of people are coming with me.” -
Today is #LovingDay.
The day in 1967 the US Supreme Court struck down state bans on interracial marriage.
Grateful to the bravery of Richard and Mildred Loving, who fought for years for their own marriage. Paving the way for ours and millions more today.
If the #IowaCaucases had not been so chaotic, we would be talking a lot more about this: , the first openly gay candidate for President, so far winning the plurality of voters in Iowa.
That is a moment in US history worth noting. 👇🏾
Would win if early elections were held in #Pakistan ?
I asked the country’s Foreign Minister on his latest US trip
I’m at a Loudoun County school board meeting. Packed room. A debate over critical race theory in schools has divided this community in recent weeks. Tonight, for the first time in the pandemic, the public was allowed back in to these meetings.
It took months, an entire team, and several attempts…but education activist Pashtana Durrani has made it out of #Afghanistan and safely into the US 🇺🇸
More on what’s ahead for her soon…
#letgirlslearn #AfghanWomen
my dad ❤️
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Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett Named Co-Anchors of PBS NewsHour | PBS NewsHour. Proud of our daughter @IAmAmnaNawaz pbs.org/newshour/press
In crisis after crisis over the last year in the US, I've seen the Sikh community step up and help their neighbors.
Sewa (the core idea of selfless service) in action.
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Texan Sikhs distributing meals to families in need. bloody legends. #TexasStrong
My thoughts are with the family of this morning.
From their statement:
“He worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and best expression of our collective humanity and that our nation’s diversity was our promise, not our problem”
. closes his opening statement quoting Benjamin Franklin at the close of the Constitutional Convention, when asked what sort of country the US would be.
"A Republic, if you can keep it."
#ImpeachmentHearingsPBS #ImpeachmentPBS
The #Virginia House just voted to ratify the #EqualRightsAmendment (#ERA) to the US Constitution, which prohibits discrimination based on sex.
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Celebration in the Va House gallery as the chamber approves the ERA resolution. @nbcwashington
Kiddo looked up this article, printed it to my home office, and just left it there for me to find
As the Taliban seize control of Afghanistan, #MarkFrerichs, the last American hostage, is still in their custody. The US did not negotiate his release before withdrawing troops.
NEW statement today from Frerichs' sister 👇🏾
Backdating term means she has 3 months left.
The Saudi kingdom accused her of mounting a campaign to undermine the royal family.
Among her charges:
-mtg with UK + EU diplomats
-talking ab human rights on a messaging app
-€50 for speaking @ conference
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I've talked to multiple lawyers, advocates, and volunteers who tell me how impossible it is to find children inside the system. There are now a # of people working to find Sofi. If you can help, contact me here or at anawaz@newshour.org.
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“Five House Democratic caucus chairs, along with 36 other members of the Progressive Caucus, are calling for Rep. Lauren Boebert to be stripped of her committee assignments, citing her repeated anti-Muslim attacks against Rep. Ilhan Omar.”
Hate crimes against Muslims + Arabs rose 1600%+ right after 9/11.
2015: FBI data shows they spiked to new high
2017: assaults vs Muslims surpass 2001 level
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017
2018: hate crimes against Muslims rose to highest level since 2001
nytimes.com/2016/09/18/us/
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Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it 2/
WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is asked why he's not masked talking to reporters right now:
"I've obviously been tested. we're hopefully more than 6 feet away...we have protocols in place...even with a lot of mitigating factors, what you have is a virus that's contagious"
“Mark is wrong, and I will endeavor in the loudest possible way to change his mind”
senior employees are now publicly criticizing Zuckerberg’s inaction after the President posted incendiary comments.
President Trump said the separated children were “so well taken care of.” I’ve been inside the border processing centers where many kids and families were held. They were under resourced. Crowded. Staff overwhelmed. Groups of young kids crammed into windowless rooms.
15 years ago tonight, these two kids met for the first time, and decided to keep hanging out together. Happy first-date-a-versary to my favorite person in the world. ❤️
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Sofi went to bed last night and woke up this morning in a strange bed, in a strange place, surrounded by strangers. She turned 4 this week, while in US government custody.
After the attack on the Capitol, photographer Andrew Harnik snapped this photograph, of Rep. , cleaning up after the rioters.
He was asked why he stayed behind to help others clean:
“When you see something you love that's broken, you want to fix it. “
My mother embroidered that piece when I was a baby. #momgoals
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Top bird art. Love the color. View through. Plant/pot. 10/10 @IAmAmnaNawaz never disappoints.
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One parent opposing critical race theory in schools tells board members “just teach children without your political agenda” - says teaching kids about systemic racism divides them. (For the record, the superintendent says critical race theory is not taught in schools)
Unclear why VP Pence continues to say this government doesn't support "another" national lockdown. The US never implemented a national lockdown to curb virus spread.
N is hiding in Kabul with his wife, daughter, and 2 other families. I'm protecting his identity for their safety. He's spent years in education work, including projects with the US govt and US institutions. His org was targeted by the Taliban recently. Here's what he told me...
Truly one of a kind. Mark’s intellect, wit, and heart were unmatched. I left every single conversation I ever had with him smarter and smiling. What a privilege it was to know and work with Mark Shields. My thoughts are with Anne and all his loved ones.
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I am heartbroken to share this..the @NewsHour’s beloved long-time Friday night analyst Mark Shields, who for decades wowed us with his encyclopedic knowledge of American politics, his sense of humor and mainly his big heart, has passed away at 85, with his wife Anne at his side.
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Sofi's family - all here legally - have no idea where she is, or how she is, and have no way to contacting her. They have no idea if she's continuing to receive the psychological counseling she was getting in Juarez.
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In filing:
Son says while in foster home (where he would spend nights, as part of deal with government-contracted shelter) other children would climb into his bed and molest him. In his trauma evaluation, he registered at 36 pts.
Context: 15 or higher means "clinical" trauma.
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US officials have repeatedly said anyone looking to enter the US should do so legally, at a port of entry, where they'll be processed in turn, and won't be subject to family separation. That's not what happened with Angelica and Sofi.
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Angelica and Sofi were separated on Friday morning, Two days after signed this executive order ending family separation. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a
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Congratulations to our Capitol Hill correspondent @LisaDNews who has been named the recipient of the Joan S. Barone Award for Excellence in Journalism by the @RTCACapitolHill! to.pbs.org/3uUY2F7
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The PBS NewsHour has seen record audience growth and engagement across our website and social media platforms.
Comparing Jan. 2021 to Jan 2020, our total digital audience is up 80%, while video views are up 155%.
We thank Viewers Like You for supporting our reporting.
What an incredible honor. So grateful to be a part of this community. Thank you for the warm welcome!
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The Gridiron Club, oldest association of journalists in DC, today elected @IAmAmnaNawaz of the PBS @NewsHour as its 525th member since 1885. Welcomed by club president Craig Gilbert @WisVoter.
39-year-old white man arrested for assaults on two Asians --- 75 and 83 years old -- on Wednesday in San Francisco.
It’s not how we planned on celebrating 10 years.
But we’ve got our family.
Our health.
And each other.
Happy 🔟 my ♥️.
Let’s #stayhome.
Heartbreaking. An American hero died 8 months pregnant, while in labor, and alone. My heart goes out to Tori Bowie's family and loved ones.
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I'm humbled and honored to be named to the #DemDebate moderator team, with , + .
We'll be live from on Dec. 19th 👇🏾
I grew up, as a journalist, + .
Happy to be back in the family. 🦚
Thank you for the warm welcome 🙏🏾
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Congratulations to my friend @IAmAmnaNawaz , who is joining @NBCNews and @MSNBC as a contributor while continuing her work as chief correspondent at @NewsHour.
We'll officially welcome her today at 2PM ET on @MSNBC!
I wonder where that woman is today. The student at Harvard who, years ago, saw another young, Black woman on campus and told Ketanji Brown what she needed to hear. “Persevere.”
"yes! see? never give up!" ❤️❤️❤️
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This daddy and his baby girl is exactly what I needed today... twitter.com/buitengebieden
Tonight, and I are proud and excited to help write the next chapter of ’s story.
Tune in tonight on your local station. Or stream the show live @ 6pm EST.
This is incorrect. One of the #DACA requirements is a clean background check, with no felony convictions. There are no "hardened criminals" among DACA recipients.
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Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from “angels.” Some are very tough, hardened criminals. President Obama said he had no legal right to sign order, but would anyway. If Supreme Court remedies with overturn, a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay!
Some news...
So grateful to be a part of this team.
That’s 72.9%
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"Far-right extremism" was responsible for 62 of the 85 lethal extremist incidents in the U.S. from the day after 9/11 through 2016, according to a @USGAO report. to.pbs.org/2FHXxZ0 #frontlinePBS
Shoutout to Carol from Washington who somehow recognized this masked blur running through the airport, made a point to come say “thank you for all you do,” & didn’t judge me as I bought menthos and a pretzel/hummus pack for dinner 🙏🏽
fans are the best.
The transition team of the candidate who refused to release his taxes is demanding financial disclosures from staff
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Sofi, she says, was hysterical. She screamed and cried, begging her grandmother not to leave her. Angelica said at one point Sofi said "let's just go back. let's go back to mexico. please don't leave me here with the police."
Nothing but respect for these women.
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New @NewsHour podcast out later today...@JudyWoodruff talked to @LisaDNews @IAmAmnaNawaz @Yamiche about covering Wednesday's attack and what moments will stick with them.
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Angelica crossed legally into the US on Wednesday morning with Sofi, at the Paso Del Norte bridge into El Paso. She refused to cross illegally because she wanted to respect the laws of the land. She's broken no laws, she said, she just wants to seek asylum and keep Sofi alive.
Here’s what families actually used the Child Tax Credit to pay for : food, utilities, rent/mortgage, clothing, education…
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Dad1 says CBP agent who encountered him and his son called them "stupid f***ing animals" and screamed at them. Dad1 says he repeatedly asked for help for his sick son back at the station, "but the agents told him he was not allowed to talk or ask questions."
Thank you
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Twitter is facing intense criticism after a series of moves by billionaire and owner Elon Musk. The U.N. called the company’s new suspension of reporters disturbing.
For more on this, @IAmAmnaNawaz spoke with @karaswisher. to.pbs.org/3W1Yxu3
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PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor @JudyWoodruff today announces she will step aside from the anchor desk at the end of 2022 and launch a reporting series — Judy Woodruff Presents: America at a Crossroads. to.pbs.org/3NYstnq
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Filing cites research on toxic stress and separation to explain effects of separation on children. Remember: the US public health official from HHS, Commander White, who led the govt effort to reunify separated families testified that the traumatic effects could be "lifelong."
Per the White House:
Today Pres. Biden will announce
-half a billion free at-home tests to be mailed to homes on request
-new Federal testing sites, 1st in NYC
-more hospital support (deploying ER staff, readying military support, ambulances, more critical supplies)
and more
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Dad1 says son still blames him for separation. Refuses to leave his side. Is now hyper-vigilant and withdrawn. Becomes terrified whenever he sees any adult in uniform.
. responds to :
"I'd be glad to have the person who started it all testify...President Trump is welcome to come in and have a seat right there (gestures to witness table)"
#ImpeachmentHearings
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According to the filing:
One father APF (Dad1) & his son OPD, 7, were separated between May 15 & 21, 2018 after crossing into Arizona. They claim to be fleeing persecution in Guatemala and sought medical attention for OPD, who'd had surgery when he was 6 for a heart condition.
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In filing;
Dad1 describes being physically, forcibly separated from his 7-year-old son.
"His son screamed and cried, "Daddy, why are you letting them take me?"
They were separated for more than 50 days.
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In filing:
This is how Dad1 describes the moment they were finally reunited. 👇🏾
