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Scott Tong

@tongscott

Co-host, @hereandnow from @NPR @WBUR.
Author, A Village with My Name.
Former China bureau chief, Marketplace.

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Glenn Thrush (@glennthrush) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEWS: The Justice Department has rescinded offers to dozens of recent law school grads accepted into a nonpartisan, entry-level program that would have placed them at the FBI, and DOJ's antitrust, civil, civil rights, criminal and national security divisions.

Dr. Tom Frieden (@drtomfrieden) 's Twitter Profile Photo

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

Martha S. Jones (@marthasjones_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thanks to โฆScott Tongโฉ and NPRโ€™s โฆHere & Nowโฉ for a chance talk about birthrightโ€™s past, present, and future. News was fast breaking yesterday with welcome change out of Seattle by midday! wbur.org/hereandnow/202โ€ฆ

Don Van Natta Jr. (@dvnjr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How Dan Snyder views the Commanders' title run from afar: 'He f$%-ing hates it.โ€™ Inside Snyderโ€™s second act, in London. My latest for ESPN, with โฆSeth Wickershamโฉ: espn.com/nfl/story/_/idโ€ฆ

Bobby Allyn (@bobbyallyn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Scoop: People involved in WH discussions about TikTok say Oracle and Microsoft having talks about taking control of TikTokโ€™s global operation, with ByteDance retaining minority stake npr.org/2025/01/25/g-sโ€ฆ

Joe Ferullo (@ironworker1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

EXCLUSIVE: Catholic Relief Services lays off staff... as much as 50%... and cuts programs after USAID shakeup. (Quick reminder to JDVance: no, they don't make money from doing their work.) #USAID #Catholic #JDVance #Trump #ElonMush ncronline.org/node/292996 via NCR

Greg Sargent (@gregtsargent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shocking: Former official at USAID, Jeremy Konyndyk, tells me word is filtering down through the ranks that Trump/Musk cuts mean USAID will only retain 300 jobs out of thousands. He said this for tomorrow's pod, but tweeting it now b/c it's news (other orgs also reporting this)

Jeremy Konyndyk is at jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social (@jeremykonyndyk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is not a drawdown - it's a death sentence. Not just for USAID - more importantly, for the millions of people who America had committed to support. USAID's work will completely break. These deaths are on Secretary Marco Rubio's head. Examples of the lives that will now be lost: ๐Ÿงต

Zachary Cohen (@zcohencnn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A 23-year-old representative from Elon Muskโ€™s DOGE was granted access to the Energy Departmentโ€™sย IT systemย on Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, sources told CNN. This despite objections from people in the agency, which controls access to info about the US nuclear

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trumpโ€™s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing

In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trumpโ€™s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing
Steven Salzberg ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› (@stevensalzberg1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule
Tara Copp (@taracopp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.The FAA โœˆ๏ธ: FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67. One employee said they were harassed on Facebook by Department of Government Efficiency

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: The head of the criminal division in the Washington, D.C. US Attorney's Office abruptly resigned today for reasons that remain unclear. politico.com/news/2025/02/1โ€ฆ

NEW: The head of the criminal division in the Washington, D.C. US Attorney's Office  abruptly resigned today for reasons that remain unclear. politico.com/news/2025/02/1โ€ฆ
Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"At the current pace of advance, as per ISW, it would take Russia 83 years to capture the remaining 80% of Ukraine it does not occupy" thread

Nicholas Kristof (@nickkristof) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in

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Weโ€™re looking for someone with a passion for podcasting and for the values of The Economist to work on our award-winning weekly podcast on China. Apply by May 18th econ.st/4jT9MjI

Christopher Clarey ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ (@christophclarey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Made it into the studio in #Boston to talk #Nadal & The Warrior with #tennis aficionado Scott Tong for NPR's Here & Now Rich conversation ahead of the book's release in North America on May 13. An excerpt is included wbur.org/hereandnow/202โ€ฆ