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Asad Hashim

Washington, D.C., United States

Journalist, sometimes anthropologist. Editor with AFP. Ex-AJE digital corro in Pakistan. Ex-Reuters. AFP Kate Webb Prize '18. All views and opinions my own.

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  • 1 week ago | barrons.com | Asad Hashim

    Social media platform X was hit by a two-hour outage Saturday, prompting owner Elon Musk to say he needs to spend more time focusing on his companies. His statement echoed comments earlier this month suggesting he would reduce his role in US President Donald Trump's administration.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Asad Hashim

    US President Donald Trump said Thursday that "termination" of the independent head of the Federal Reserve "cannot come fast enough" as he lashed out at Jerome Powell's warnings of tariffs-fueled inflation. In a scathing post on his Truth Social app, Trump repeated a demand for Powell to lower interest rates, suggesting the Fed chair's decisions were "always TOO LATE AND WRONG.""Powell's termination cannot come fast enough," Trump wrote.

  • 2 months ago | yahoo.com | Asad Hashim

    Donald Trump's tumultuous return to the White House will face a popularity test Tuesday with an election in Wisconsin that has seen the US president's most high-profile aide Elon Musk doling out million-dollar checks to voters. Since taking power in January, Trump has overseen radical reform, moving to dismantle swaths of the federal government, upending foreign policy and launching trade wars that threaten to reignite inflation.

  • 2 months ago | barrons.com | Asad Hashim |Beiyi Seow

    US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to impose 200 percent tariffs on wine, champagne and other alcoholic beverages from European Union countries, in retaliation against the bloc's planned levies on American-made whiskey.

  • Feb 27, 2025 | wfmz.com | Asad Hashim

    The Washington Post will no longer run views opposed to "personal liberties and free markets" on its opinion pages, owner Jeff Bezos announced Wednesday, the billionaire's latest intervention in the major US paper's editorial operations. The move, a major break from the norm at the Post and at most credible news media organizations worldwide, comes as US media face increasing threats to their freedom and accusations of bias from President Donald Trump.

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Asad Hashim @AsadHashim
4 Jun 25

RT @clary_co: On the dangers that information warfare blows back on your own public: What a quote. https://t.co/BqkwJ6j3Hb

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Asad Hashim @AsadHashim
4 Jun 25

RT @karishma__m__: We spoke to dozens of Indian television journalists to investigate the origins of the misinformation in India during the…

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Asad Hashim @AsadHashim
3 Jun 25

RT @Advjalila: Grateful to @voicepkdotnet for reporting on the attacks against the Ahmadiyya community. Sadly, no other journalists or TV c…