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I write about a variety of topics with a focus on longer-form investigative projects. I also report and co-produce the acclaimed Yahoo News' Conspiracyland podcast. I covered two presidential elections, the September 11th terror attacks, and the DC sniper case for Newsweek. I also spent three years as the Boston Globe's lead police reporter, an experience which taught me a lot about investigative reporting and made The Departed one of my favorite movies even if it is not one of Scorsese's best. I live in Washington, DC with my husband and three children.
Yahoo NewsVeteran GOP strategist predicts Trump's debate performance will suffer thanks to tax bombshell
GOP political consultant Mike Murphy predicts President Trump will be distracted at tonight's debate as a result of reports on his taxes.
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Democrat says Republican ad claiming he protects pedophiles is aimed at QAnon followers
Rep. Tom Malinowski, locked in a tight reelection race, says an attack ad meant to appeal to QAnon sympathizers has been unleashed on him by Republicans.
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Expect a clear outcome to the election, Biden senior adviser says
Senior Biden adviser Bob Bauer says he has faith in election officials who are working hard around the country. Bauer does not expect a contested outcome.
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Republicans can't be stopped from confirming Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Senate Democrat says
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse tells “Skullduggery” Democrats do not have the votes to stop the Republicans from confirming Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement. It could happen before the election.
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Supreme Court expansion could follow confirmation of Ginsburg replacement, activist says
"Everything is on the table” to stop President Trump from creating a hard right majority on the Supreme Court, Nan Aron, president of a leading progressive advocacy group, told Yahoo News.
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More women allege coerced hysterectomies at ICE center
The ICE detention center where alleged forced hysterectomies took place has a checkered history of inmate abuse claims. New victims of the prison gynecologist have come forward.
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Biden foreign policy adviser hails Trump for forging Israel-UAE deal
A top adviser to Joe Biden applauded the Trump administration’s role in helping to broker the new peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
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Whistleblower's lawyer says his client was demoted at Homeland Security Dept. for political reasons
Mark Zaid said Department of Homeland Security whistleblower Brian Murphy was told he was being demoted because it would help acting Secretary Chad Wolf politically.
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Post-COVID heart damage alarms researchers: 'There was a black hole' in infected cells
While more studies are needed, researchers and doctors throughout the country are warning of a likely connection between COVID-19 and a serious heart condition.
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Bolton responds to Woodward book, says Trump's decision to downplay virus 'almost certainly' cost lives
Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton believes that the president's failure to level with Americans about the gravity of the coronavirus is emblematic of his tendency to make decisions solely on what “will affect him politically.”.
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McGahn's role in the Mueller investigation comes into focus in book by reporter Michael Schmidt
A new book by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt details the “extraordinary collision of events” that led White House counsel Don McGahn to become a witness against the president in the Mueller investigation.
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Biden's evolution away from drug-and-crime warrior mirrors America's — and Democrats' — changing attitudes
Eric Sterling, executive director of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, called Joe Biden’s former tough-on-crime rhetoric exaggerated and chilling.
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Doctors alarmed as FDA floats 'emergency use' of COVID-19 vaccine, bypassing trials
“It’s a lesser review, it’s a lower-quality review, and when you’re talking about vaccinating a large chunk of the American population, that’s not acceptable,” said one vaccine expert.
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'Misinformation' from Fox News helps shape Trump's views, CNN's Brian Stelter says
A sizable portion of the “misinformation” released by the Trump White House originates from stories that first appear on Fox News, CNN media critic Brian Stelter told Yahoo News on Monday.?
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Trump is ignoring right-wing extremists who 'want to start a race war,' former DHS official says
Former DHS official Elizabeth Neumann says the Trump administration's refusal to discuss right-wing extremism is "dangerous."
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Presidential historian Jon Meacham: I endorsed Biden because 'this is an existential election'
Historian and author Jon Meacham discusses why Trump is unfit for office and how he came to speak at the Democratic National Convention. He also shares his thinking on the Kenosha shootings and statue removals.
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Conservative power broker Matt Schlapp is 'disappointed' in George W. Bush for snubbing Trump
“When you see the socialist agenda that’s being put forward by the Democratic Party, I think you can get past some of your personal animosity and support the president, especially when you see what the Democrats want to do to the policy legacy that you care about,” Schlapp said.
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Trump campaign adviser predicts Trump will win states he lost in 2016 — and beat Biden in November
Citizens United chairman David Bossie tells "Skullduggery" that Trump will win in 2020 in part by taking states he lost last time.
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'Never Trumper' Stuart Stevens, longtime GOP operative, says he would even vote for Bernie Sanders to beat Trump
Stuart Stevens, a top strategist for Republican presidential candidates George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, is registering as a Democrat and abandoning the Republican Party because of what Donald Trump has done to it.
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Ted Cruz is 'just a coward' for backing Trump, former aide Rick Tyler says
Rick Tyler, a leading Republican analyst and so-called Never Trumper, told Yahoo News on Monday that his former boss Sen. Ted Cruz is “just a coward” for publicly supporting Trump even though he knows he’s a bad president.