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During her confirmation hearing Ms. Chao did not discuss her family’s extensive ties to the Chinese maritime industry, and she did not disclose the Chinese accolades she had received as required by the Senate.
“An oversight,” the Transportation Department said.
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Exclusive: Reporting by The New York Times shows how the family of Elaine Chao, transportation secretary and wife of Senator Mitch McConnell, prospered as the family’s shipping company developed deep ties to China’s political and economic elite. nyti.ms/2HQfEez
Plagiarism used to be a never-work-again offense but it's become the sort of thing people weakly apologize for twitter.com/fmanjoo/status
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I had to cover Italy’s coronavirus outbreak. All I had was a ski mask.
On my last day of quarantine I look back at what it was like to report on the front lines of Italy's epidemic and then from a bedroom with a balcony.
Extraordinary photography and voices from Bergamo, the bleak heart of Italy's coronavirus epidemic.
Our look, close up, at the terrible toll of the virus, and what may await so many corners of the world.
Silvio Berlusconi has been dominant for so long in Italy that I wrote his obit for both the and the
Great LA Times pic of actors looking legit stunned. Michelle Williams gets it! But I have found some suspects!
First the virus exploded in Bergamo. Then came the shell shock. The province that first gave the West a preview of the horrors to come now serves as a disturbing postcard from the post-traumatic aftermath of the first wave.
Italy's tragic experience with the coronavirus provides a searing, and seemingly unheeded, lesson for the world.
Italy looked at China as a “science fiction movie" the deputy minister said, and then Europe “looked at us the same way we looked at China.”
I asked Trump if he'd serve if elected or just drop mic. “I’ll let you know how I feel about it after it happens”
Giuseppe Conte, potentially Italy’s next leader, wrote that he “perfected and updated his studies” at NYU, which, when asked, said “A person by this name does not show up in any of our records as either a student or faculty member.”
The town of Floridia had a few claims to fame. The 2nd wife of a Bourbon king was its duchess. The snails that are a Sicilian delicacy are raised here. Its mayor is among Italy’s youngest.
And now it’s perhaps the hottest town in Europe’s recorded history.
Bill Clinton implicitly hits Trump on voter suppression: As a "70-year-old white southerner, I know what Make America Great Again means."
Rome in Ruins. My Christmas postcard (with love!) from a city in danger of becoming a dump.
The Sicilian mother had prepared everything for the baptism. A mini satin suit with top hat, photographers, lunch at the Copacabana.
But as the priest said the liturgy, something was missing: The Godfather.
In Catania, a fed-up church has rubbed them out.
Here's my profile of Tony Blinken, possibly Biden's Secretary of State, but also a film producer and the most cosmopolitan man in DC. "In Paris..his family hosted a gathering for Spike Lee, who, his mother recalled fondly, “kept calling me ‘sister.’ ”
This kid is very ready to see the pope. Not messing around. “He has the vocation,” his mother told me.
Biden once told me “Tony Blinken is a superstar and that’s not hyperbole." He joked that Obama "recognized that after four years with me and stole him.” Blinken, he added, “could do any job, any job.”
In My Mentions is a solid memoir title
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In my mentions, two people have been bitterly arguing with each other over Kathy Griffin for 45 minutes.
Months after losing his job in a northern Italian factory, Khaby Lame is becoming the biggest thing on the internet and the king of TikTok comedy. How Italy’s exasperated everyman is going global, with no Italian passport. With the terrific
Italian TV is simultaneously translating the Italian prime minister, who is speaking Italian, into Italian.
The most nationalist, populist and dysfunctional Italian government in decades collapsed on Tuesday as the country’s prime minister announced his resignation in the face of a mutinous, and miscalculated, power play by the hard-line minister Matteo Salvini.
If America had “Lock her Up,” Spain’s got “Puigdemont to Prison.” Our story on Catalonia’s big anti-secession rally.
Some personal news. Thrilled to be the new Rome Bureau Chief for the , covering Italy, the Vatican and Europe in interesting times.
In leaked private letters to a German cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI seems to want the most vocal and angry critics of Pope Francis to knock it off already. (h/t Bild.)
As the toll of health workers killed by the coronavirus in Italy hits 100, here is a close look at the doctors and nurses fighting on the front lines.
The latest dynastic dispute between the pretenders to Italy’s pretend throne is over the naming of Vittoria, 17, Paris-based, and with a well followed Instagram account, as the family’s first female heir. “Illegitimate,” the rival claimants claim.
Pope Francis, tracing fake news back to the "crafty"serpent in the Garden of Eden, says he wants to do his part to stop "the spread of fake news."
Meanwhile in New Hampshire, an endorsement for Bernie. "I feel a little bit like jack-in-the-box,” Kirk said.
The v investigative reporting right now is a heavyweight bout for the ages. We all win. nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/
Naples goes nuts as Unesco honors its pizza makers as an Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
For millenniums, flowing water symbolized Rome's power and wealth. Now, it's indicative of its latest fall.
The new head of Italy's state TV spread the conspiracy that Hillary Clinton attended a satanic dinner, introduced Bannon to Italy's populist leader and trusts in Putin. Marcello Foa tells me it's a "paradox" that people accuse him of producing "fake news."
The New Da Vinci Code.
Italy's populists, accusing the French of trying to culturally appropriate Leonardo, say no masterpieces should be loaned to the Louvre for big 2019 exhibit. But were any going anyway?
In Italy, having the right antibodies to the virus in one’s blood — a potential marker of immunity — may soon determine who gets to work and who does not, who is locked down and who is free.
Meet Marco Minniti, a tough former communist and Italian spy master tasked with solving Europe's migration crisis.
Within 90 minutes of completing his speech last night, raised $1 million in campaign donations, per campaign.
As Bernie Sanders supporters “Feel the Bern,” so does Bernie.
Congratulations to Biden from among the Trump admirers in the Italian government.
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Congratulations to President-elect @JoeBiden. The friendship between Italy and the United States has deep and historical roots. Ready to keep on working to make our relations ever stronger in defense of peace and freedom. 
Love him or hate him, Italy's Matteo Renzi, a political operator of the most Machiavellian order, put together a "masterpiece" by transforming Italian politics in the midst of a pandemic.
“I did it all alone," Renzi, bashful as always, tells me.
The virus, so lethal to the old, has hastened the departure of Europe’s last witnesses to fascism and its horrors and created an opportunity for rising forces who seek to recast the history of the last century in order to remake the present one.
In major document on holiness, Pope Francis, seeming to brushback conservative critics, says caring for migrants and the poor is not secondary to or "less sacred" than opposing abortion. “This is not a notion invented by some Pope, or a momentary fad.”
After the pandemic cost Khaby Lame his factory job in northern Italy, he became the biggest thing on the internet and the king of TikTok comedy. and I look at how Italy’s exasperated everyman has gone global, with no Italian passport.
At his Helsinki residence, Finland’s president, a critical interpreter between East and West who perhaps knows Putin better than any European leader, told me that something has changed in Putin — he seems more determined — and he worries for Ukraine.
Greece's spying scandal has echoes of the dark old days of the military junta, but it is also very much in keeping with the current European moment. Athens is awash in talk of blackmail, Watergate, a secret police state and Predator, a malicious spyware.
Yes, I gave the pope a dreidel and Hanukkah gelt today.
Giuseppo, Giuseppi, Giuseppe, Giuseppiamo, Giuseppate, Giuseppano.
“I was on the phone call," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in Rome, confirming that he had listened in on President Trump’s telephone conversation with the president of Ukraine — a call at the heart of an impeachment inquiry by House Democrats.
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Terrifying
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Trump's threat to rain "fire and fury" on NK even scarier if you've read Mark Bowden on what war would look like: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
A modest proposal for Rome: Load all of the garbage onto city buses that explode and disappear into potholes.
That time I asked about his father's arrest near a KKK rally. His answer will make your head spin.
Sanders campaign now tells me it has raised $3 million in the 24 hours since the speech in Des Moines. 4 in 10 donors were new contributors.
Pope Francis used his day trip to Budapest on Sunday to urge his bishops to embrace diversity and send a message to the country’s hard-right, anti-migrant leader, Viktor Orban, that religious roots, while vital, also allow a country to open up.
Trieste, once the powerful port and cultural heart of Mitteleuropa, has seen its geopolitical star fade. But now, courtesy of a rising China, the Italian city on the Adriatic coast is ready to return to the center of a realigning world.
Things are getting weird out here.
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Sally Bradshaw, Jeb's top aide, author of GOP autopsy report, voting for Hillary over Trump per CNN. Here's Sally.
There's something I don't trust here. This color is hiding something.
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A Vatican mystery seems solved.
Vatican edited the pope's remarks on same-sex unions out of a 2019 interview with a Mexican reporter and then apparently buried them on the cutting room floor until a film director found them.
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I am proud of my mom for reflecting on a past decision and being thoughtful about what she could have done better and should have done differently. That’s all part of a what a good leader does. twitter.com/hillaryclinton
“I wander around Paris, the most beautiful, alluring, maddening city I’ve ever seen; one is tempted to chuck the whole organizing/political business and be a painter” Obama scribbled on one side of a postcard. On the other was a picture of Notre-Dame.
Vatican confirms to us, apparently for first time, internal guidelines for priests who have fathered children.
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New from me: Fox News HAD the story of Trump's hush money payoffs to Stormy Daniels BEFORE the election but killed it because the reporter said she was told, "Good reporting Kiddo, but Rupert Murdoch wants Donald Trump to win. So set it aside." Reporter sued, is bound by an NDA. twitter.com/NewYorker/stat…
Told to be careful about US, Pope Francis said "I know that already. That’s where the opposition is coming from.” nytimes.com/2017/08/02/wor
Bumped into Francesco Totti on walk home from dinner after watching his last game ever in Roma jersey.
No greater horror for a profile writer than listening to tape from an interview and hearing yourself pipe up and ruin something revealing.
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More than often. Just about always. twitter.com/TreyYingst/sta
In Venice, the water, like the tourists, kept coming.
Il mio pezzo su in Vogue. Il PM parla di Berlusconi, Raggi, Trudeau. Obama e Blair parlano di Renzi. vogue.com/13480367/itali
As Italians show the world how to shelter in place, asks what happens to those who have no shelter?
Her story on homelessness in the Stay Home era.
“It’s not like we’re maestros,” she said, but “it’s a moment of joy in this moment of anxiety.”
The songs erupting over Italy's streets, from people stuck in their homes, reflect the spirit and resilience of a nation facing its worst crisis since WWII.
The pope removed his shoes to meet monks and celebrated Mass at a colonial-era track, but the Rohingya issue loomed.
Breathtaking and infuriating. “The Times interviewed 450 people, built a database of every medallion sale since 1995 and reviewed thousands of individual loans and other documents” to detail the conning of taxi drivers. nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyr
Exit Italy’s nationalist/populist government. Enter Italy’s populist/anti-populist coalition.
When Italy was the stuff of Covid nightmares, Trump and Biden and much of Europe mocked it as a shorthand for uncontrolled contagion. Now the pariah has become a model — however imperfect — of viral containment as the US and Europe struggle. Here’s how.
Here's the O'Reilly-Pope Francis photo you have all been waiting for all these years. nytimes.com/2017/04/19/wor
As Manafort's trial begins, meet the American reporter turned Italian media celebrity turned Manafort associate and organizer of a secret Ukrainian lobbying effort whose testimony to Mueller landed Manafort in jail. Introducing Alan Friedman.
The elites seem cowed. The capacity for outrage seems exhausted. This is the nuovo normal, and many analysts fear that Italy will become a bellwether for an anti-European season. “Italy is the leader,” Bannon told me in Rome.
Weld: "Trump focusing on Bill Clinton and women is self-defeating to the point of being politically suicidal."
The longer Pope Francis lives, the more his pontificate matters.
While even Francis’ top advisors acknowledge he has faded from the global stage, Saturday’s elevation of new cardinals marks a tipping point in his effort to mold the church in his image.
The old Bloomberg reporter me in loves watching Bloomberg raise his hand to be called on.
I helicoptered into Mosul this morning to watch Pope Francis visit what ISIS called the capital of its caliphate. ISIS said they would go on to conquer Rome, but, as one priest in the devastated old city told me, “Now Rome has come here." with
It's Gonna be Yuge, Jeeves. I go inside Donald Trump's gilded palace with his longtime butler. “The king is here”
This is a geographic headache you have just created for yourself Haberman
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Also said he grew up on Long Island, which isn't true - he grew up in Queens twitter.com/maggienyt/stat
Italy's populist government refuses to accept a boat with 600 migrants. Spain comes to the rescue and Italy's anti-immigrant interior minister declares victory. “We scored a point in our favor, but it’s not the end of anything.” With
Bill O'Reilly met Pope Francis at St. Peter's Square this morning after pontiff spoke of mercy. The Francis Factor?
In which I tell Pope Francis that we finally have something in common, getting stuck in elevators. nytimes.com/2019/09/04/wor
Rome’s mayor Virginia Raggi announced this week that she will run for the office again. It reminded me of this interaction I had with her years ago on her balcony.
The Daily News mostly because it means that Cypress Hill fans have cracked senior management.
Fearing fake news, Italy’s Matteo Renzi calls on Facebook to police the web ahead of Europe’s next big election. nytimes.com/2017/11/24/wor