Karoun Demirjian
Congressional Correspondent at The New York Times
Reporter, globetrotter, language collector, part-time musician. Stories @nytimes 👵🏻, formerly @WaPo & coauthor of UNCHECKED 📚
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1 day ago |
nytimes.com | Karoun Demirjian |Julian Barnes
The program had briefly ensnared Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman and now President Trump's director of national intelligence, who has vocally criticized it as politicized. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, announced on Thursday that the Trump administration was ending a counterterrorism program used to conduct surveillance on air travelers, contending that the program had been exploited to target political conservatives while failing to stop any attacks.
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3 days ago |
nytimes.com | Karoun Demirjian |John Ismay
The names of several other vessels that honor civil rights leaders and Supreme Court justices might also be changed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to review the names of vessels honoring prominent civil rights leaders, including Harvey Milk, who was one of the country's first openly gay elected officials and a Navy veteran.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Alan Rappeport |Karoun Demirjian
The Treasury Department is winding down the production of pennies, after ordering a last batch of the blanks used to print the coins this month. The end of penny production, reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal, comes a few months after President Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop producing them as a cost-saving measure, pointing out that pennies have long been more expensive to manufacture than they are worth.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Karoun Demirjian |Niraj Chokshi
Commentary: Who's responsible for the aviation mess? Transportation Secretary Duffy says it's everyone but himPicking out the worst performer among Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees is a tough job — it’s a competitive race, after all— but one member who deserves to be in the running by almost any measure of incompetence is Sean Duffy, the secretary of Transportation. Duffy is a classic example of someone …
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Karoun Demirjian |Niraj Chokshi
Recent technology outages, staffing shortages among air traffic controllers and runway construction have caused significant disruptions and raised concerns about passenger safety. The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday issued new, temporary restrictions on flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport after disruptions caused severe flight delays and cancellations at the congested facility.
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