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September marks one year of hosting The Global Story!
• A podcast 🎧
• A BBC World Service radio show 📻
• AND also a YouTube show📱
A huge shout-out to the team that figured out how to visualize us. We recently had over a million views on an episode about the $$
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BREAKING: Media outlets ask judge for an immediate hearing to address the White House's continued ban on journalists despite court order to restore access. apnews.com/article/trump-med…
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NEW: The presidential TV pool has been suspended as networks react to the White House's ongoing ban of CNN.
That means, for now, that no major TV network will provide coverage of Trump's events, including today's appearances at the WH and his trip to the United Nations.
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The Trump White House has removed CNN from its Monday assignment as the TV pool representative for the entire White House press corps, deepening the dispute that began when the president said he was "banning" CNN, MS NOW and Politico. cnn.it/4xEfc8T
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Feb 2025: WH bans the Associated Press from the pool because they wouldn’t adopt “Gulf of America”
July 2025: WH bans the WSJ from the pool after Epstein birthday card coverage
Sept 2026: WH bans MS, Politico, CNN from the WH and grounds over coverage the president didn’t like
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The episode of The Global Story I’m referring to is for later in the week! But point still stands.
Why is President Donald Trump taking an unpopular stance on data centers?
"I think it has to do with how he views AI technologically as being a race with China," @asmamk tells @ElizLanders.
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TONIGHT: @LACaldwellDC, @EamonJavers, @asmamk and @alaynatreene join guest moderator @ElizLanders to discuss President Trump’s summit next week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as tech executives warn of the threat posed by AI.
Watch at 8/7c on @PBS.
ALT This image shows four headshots with names labeled: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Asma Khalid, Eamon Javers, and Alayna Treene. Each individual is framed in a separate square, with the "Washington Week" logo in the top left corner.
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In Canada’s wealthiest province Alberta, voters are deciding whether to become independent. What the story behind the Canadians who want out of Canada?
🎧 The Global Story: where the world meets America bbc.in/4gTg0BF
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NPR is in the market for a justice correspondent. More details here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/nat…
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New in @semafor: Scott Bessent called Bloomberg’s EIC last year threatening the news org if it published a critical story. He hasn’t appeared on Bloomberg TV since the piece ran.
My piece on the growing tension between the secretary and the usually low drama Treasury press corps
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President Trump told reporters on Sunday that “whoever wins AI, wins.” And, at the moment, “we’re leading China.”
But how does China see this race?
@kyleichan joins us on The Global Story to explain.
Listen 🎧
bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct8mck
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Today on the show — Can the U.S. and China agree to work together to stop AI from killing us all?! (As one former ex-Anthropic researcher suggested was plausible the other day!)
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Back on the 1A international news roundup today.
Lots to discuss — 25 years since the 9/11 attacks, sanctions on West Bank settlers, the AFD’s win in Germany.
Join us.
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You can now see as well as hear us 📺🎧
With @asmamk on the Global Story we ran through the detail of the UK’s decision to sanction Israeli settlements, and looked at why Trump’s been so quiet about it
It’s all to see here:
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Today on The Global Story — the view from Germany and how the country’s far right party the AFD is trying to rewrite German history.
(And why that’s relevant to all of us far beyond Germany’s borders)
Listen 🎧
bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct8mfsp
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I spoke to @asmamk about why Washington's reaction seems muted after the UK and 11 other countries' announced sanctions on Israeli settlements
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Tomorrow (9/9), join Tom Rosenstiel for THE NEXT JOURNALISM - How the Press Must Change to Serve Democracy - w/Asma Khalid & John Harwood - 7pm @ Conn Ave: politics-prose.com/tom-rosen…
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How might Lindsay Clancy’s case have unfolded differently in another country, like Canada or the UK — a country that has a specific crime of “infanticide” on the books? bbc.com/news/videos/cqlw6q0x…
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You can hear more on our full Friday episode of The Global Story.
bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct8m97
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