
Ledyard King
Managing Editor, NJ Daily at National Journal
Managing Editor @nationaljournal Daily -- Formerly: @usatoday, @virginianpilot, @SunSentinel, @pbpost, @capgaznews, @COMatBU. email: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
nationaljournal.com | Cristina Maza |Ledyard King |Bella Timmerding
Western leaders, including congressional Republicans, have a plethora of ideas about how to make Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine more costly for Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, some appear to be frozen in inaction as they wait for President Trump to figure out how—and whether—he plans to pursue peace. A sanctions bill in Congress, introduced by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, currently has over 80 cosponsors, and support for a House version of the bill is also growing.
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3 weeks ago |
nationaljournal.com | Casey Wooten |Ledyard King |Philip Athey
America’s space program is in a bit of a freefall. NASA is facing the sweeping budget cuts that have recently been imposed on similar science-heavy federal agencies. Its ambitious missions to land astronauts on the moon or Mars keep getting delayed or linger in limbo. And the agency's chief promoter—Elon Musk—just left the administration.
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2 months ago |
nationaljournal.com | Tom DeFrank |Ledyard King |Philip Athey
On March 28, she went on the Daily Beast Podcast with comedian Samantha Bee and co-host Joanna Coles. Again, she mocked the correspondents for asking her not to target only one party. “They were like, ‘You need to be equal and make sure that you give it to both sides,’ and I was like, ‘There’s no way I’m going to be freaking doing that,'” she said.
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2 months ago |
nationaljournal.com | Ledyard King |Savannah Behrmann |Erin Durkin |Cristina Maza
Don Maston is president of the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, which has more than 130,000 members delivering mail to rural and suburban communities throughout the U.S. Maston spoke with Ledyard King about President Trump’s push to privatize the U.S. Postal Service, his thoughts on recently departed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, and why he thinks rural America needs its letter carriers more than ever. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
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2 months ago |
nationaljournal.com | Natalie Jackson |Cristina Maza |Erika Filter |Ledyard King
The Trump administration has claimed it convinced Russia and Ukraine to enter a limited ceasefire in the Black Sea, a crucial body of water for grain shipping. But almost a week after the announcement, no one seems to know when the ceasefire will begin or how it will be implemented. The White House announced the Black Sea deal on March 25 after teams from all three countries met in Saudi Arabia.
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