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Ira Spitzer

Correspondent and Video Journalist at Feature Story News

Correspondent and Video Journalist with @FeatureStory reporting for networks worldwide. Back in CA after 6 years in Berlin.

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  • 1 week ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ira Spitzer

    The United States government’s antitrust trial against Meta has kicked off at a courtroom in Washington DC, with the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg taking the stand. The Federal Trade Commission has accused the social media giant of buying potential rivals Instagram and WhatsApp in order to stifle competition. Ira Spitzer has more.

  • 1 week ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ira Spitzer |Louisa Tang

    BERKELEY, California: As the United States government aims to get rid of what it calls illegal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes, critics have decried its measures as going too far. US President Donald Trump’s administration has cited discrimination against white and Asian students as justification for the threats. But vagueness over what constitutes DEI is already having a chilling effect, according to rights groups and activists.

  • 2 months ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ira Spitzer

    Another of Elon Musk's firms, xAI, has launched its AI chatbot Grok 3 in a livestreamed event. The world's richest man said the latest iteration is far more powerful, and claims it surpasses rivals like OpenAI, Google and China's DeepSeek in benchmarks such as math, science and coding. Ira Spitzer reports.

  • 2 months ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ira Spitzer

    In Los Angeles, recent wildfires have become one of the costliest natural disasters in world history, destroying entire neighbourhoods near America's second-largest city. The tragedy also exposed and accelerated another crisis in California — the increasing risk of natural disasters, driven by climate change. It has made insurance harder to come by and premiums more expensive. Ira Spitzer reports.

  • 2 months ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ira Spitzer

    WASHINGTON: One of United States President Donald Trump’s most controversial executive orders since taking office is his attempt to ban birthright citizenship. The legal principle, a cornerstone of US immigration law, provides that anyone born on US soil is considered a citizen. It derives from the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment that was added to the Constitution in 1868.

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RT @featurestory: California’s wildfire refugees: The human cost of climate disasters @IraSpitzer reports.. https://t.co/AhzZVFFWci

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