Anna Maria Barry-Jester

4 days ago | samoaobserver.ws | David Bauder |Michelle Smith |Lauren Weber |Anna Maria Barry-Jester

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at an El Paso shopping complex (all times local):7 p.m.El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen says authorities are investigating a hate crime as among the possible motives in the shopping complex shooting that left 20 people dead and 26 more wounded. The chief says authorities are looking into an online writing that indicated a potential connection to a hate crime to determine if it belonged to the suspected gunman.

1 week ago | ncronline.org | Brett Murphy |Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Editor's note: Pete Marocco has left the U.S. Agency for International Development, a senior Trump administration official confirmed April 14. Before Peter Marocco was selected to dismantle America's entire foreign aid sector on behalf of President Donald Trump, he was an official with the U.S. State Department on a diplomatic mission. In 2018, during Trump's first term, Marocco was a senior political appointee tasked with promoting stability in areas with armed conflict.

1 month ago | omahadailyrecord.com | Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Brett Murphy |Lê Van |Lê Hồng Vân |Lê Anh Văn |on Mon

In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia. Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Abrahm Lustgarten |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Brett Murphy |Sharon Lerner

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For Chris Wright, there may be no simple truths. At his Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 15, the man poised to take control of the U.S. Department of Energy and its vast apparatus of technological research and development sat behind a walnut desk wearing a gray suit and a crisply knotted red tie.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Stephen Engelberg |Andy Kroll |Nicole Foy |Anna Maria Barry-Jester

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story was originally published in our Dispatches newsletter; sign up to receive notes from our journalists. In late October, ProPublica published one of its most prophetic stories in our history. You can be forgiven if you missed it at the time.