
Scott Tong
@tongscott
Co-host, @hereandnow from @NPR @WBUR.
Author, A Village with My Name.
Former China bureau chief, Marketplace.
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http://hereandnow.org 23-04-2008 08:26:27
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Thanks to โฆScott Tongโฉ and NPRโs โฆHere & Nowโฉ for a chance talk about birthrightโs past, present, and future. News was fast breaking yesterday with welcome change out of Seattle by midday! wbur.org/hereandnow/202โฆ

How Dan Snyder views the Commanders' title run from afar: 'He f$%-ing hates it.โ Inside Snyderโs second act, in London. My latest for ESPN, with โฆSeth Wickershamโฉ: espn.com/nfl/story/_/idโฆ




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)

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: ๐งต

A 23-year-old representative from Elon Muskโs DOGE was granted access to the Energy Departmentโsย 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


You said this wouldnโt happen Joseph Marine Vinay Prasad MD MPH Martin Kulldorff Here we are.


.The FAA โ๏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



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


A moving interview with โฆJulian Borgerโฉ, perfectly conducted by โฆScott Tongโฉ Have a listen. wbur.org/hereandnow/202โฆ

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/202โฆ