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5.6.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Tuesday,
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May sixth, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, Radio I
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is a reading service intended for people who are blind
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or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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printed material. Your reader for today is Cindy Fraser. Today's
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front page headlines from The Washington Post are NFL draft
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could draw one million to d C leaders, say Goodell.
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Harris Bowser joined Trump to celebrate city hosting twenty twenty
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seven event. Our next headline Israel to seize parts of Gaza.
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Civilians would be relocated. Plan calls for aid hubs indefinite
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military control. Next. Texas poised to increase control over universities.
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Outcome of bill could reverberate for higher education nationwide. Our
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next headline A contracting economy Squeezing US housing tariffs make
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building more costly, Mortgage rates likely to stay high. The
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next headline Post wins Pulitzers for breaking news cartoons, top
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honors for reporting on assassination attempt, Tilney's commentary, and the
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final headline from to day's front page open AI Scrap's
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planned to become for profit firm Elon Musk had criticized
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the restructuring move and sued to block it. Now, let's
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turn to our first item, entitled NFL Draft could draw
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one million to d C. Leaders say Goodell, Harris, Bowser
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joined Trump to celebrate city hosting twenty twenty seven event
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by Nikki job Valla and Mark Mask. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell,
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Washington Commander's owner Josh Harris, and d C Mayor Muriel Bowser,
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a Democrat, gathered Monday for an official announcement that the
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n NFL Draft will be held in d C in
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the spring of twenty twenty seven, an event they said
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could bring more than a million people to the National
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Mall and continue the resurgence of the city's pro football franchise.
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What might have been a straightforward proclamation involving the NFL's
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top executive, a billionaire team owner, and a triumphant politician,
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though was hosted by President Donald Trump in the Oval Office,
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leaving Goadell, Harris and Bowser to wait through questions on
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movie Terrace, Trump's desire to reopen a federal penitentiary on Alcatraz,
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and the reaction to an image posted on his tooth
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social account of him dressed as the Pope. Before and
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after those questions, Trump and the others celebrated news that
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reflected Bowser's view of her city as a sports capital
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and Trump's vision of the district as a staging ground
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for grand events, from a military parade commemorating the U. S.
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Army's two hundred fiftieth birthday to the biggest off season
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event on the NFL's calendar. It's going to be beautiful,
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Trump said, It's going to be something that nobody else
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will ever be able to duplicate. I don't suspect. Harris
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said he believes hosting the twenty twenty seven NFL Draft
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in d C, along with his plans of building a
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new stadium on the side of the dilapidated RFK Stadium,
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will not only boost the significance of football in the district,
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but shatter attendance and viewership records for one of the
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league's annual ten pole events. I'm hoping we break one
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million in terms of the visitors, Harris told The Washington
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Post in a video conference call Monday, comments Goodell later echoed,
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we believe we will have over a million when we
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come here to d C in twenty twenty seven, Goodell
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said at the White House. So we not only believe
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it's a great site, we believe it's consistent with what
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the President said, which is investing in our communities, investing
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specifically here in the nation's case capital. It will be
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something that will show the world how far the nation's
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capital has come and where it's going. Monday's announcement came
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a week after Harrison Goodell joined Bowser at the National
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Press Club to announce a three point seven billion dollar
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deal between DC and the Commanders to build a sixty
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five thousand seat stadium on the banks of the Anacostia River.
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We believe in investing in sports because they have helped
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us transform neighborhoods and the NFL. Bringing this event to
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the nation's capital will help us fill hotel rooms and
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our restaurants, Bowser said at the White House, and Americans
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from all fifty states will come to their nation's capital
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and enjoy our beautiful city and museums. A vocal Trump
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critic during the president's first term, Bowser has taken a
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less confrontational approach since he returned to power, even as
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she has been outspoken about how cuts to the federal
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world will damage DC's economy. She said earlier Monday that
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she was eager to use some time with Trump to
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talk about advancing d c's goals, among other issues. A
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GOP controlled Congress has imposed a one billion dollar budget
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cut on the district this year through a stop gap
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spending bill, something the city has been lobbying lawmakers to reverse.
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Trump has weighed in on the city's behalf, urging House
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Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, to pass a fix,
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but Johnson has yet to bring it to the floor.
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The planning for the twenty twenty seven draft, meanwhile, has
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been more than a year in the making and remains
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in progress. The formal permitting process with a National Park
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Service for the NFL to hold the draft on the
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Mall remains pending, an event there cannot be officially approved
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for permitting more than a year in advance. However, a
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person familiar with the planning for the draft said the
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NFL believes it has strong federal support for the permit
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and as confident that it will receive it. Peter O'Reilly,
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the NFL's executive vice president for League events, expressed similar
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sentiments We feel confidence, obviously with the support we have
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at the federal level, the great working relationship and planning
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we've done with the National Park Service, O'Reilly said by
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phone Monday. It's obviously important for them and for us,
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given the scale and scope of the draft, to have
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now a full two year runway leading up to the draft.
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O'Reilly said the plans for staging the draft could evolve
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a bit over time. For now, they include having the
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main stage sit on the National Mall in front of
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the Capitol on Fourth Street between Jefferson and Madison Drives,
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near the National Gallery of Art and the National Air
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and Space Museum. The view from the stage, where the
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names of more than two hundred NFL prospects will be announced,
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will be of the Washington Monument. The backstage area would
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be on Third Street between Jefferson and Madison and the
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NFL's Draft Experience. The league's expansive fan festival would largely
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be on Pennsylvania Avenue between Fourth and Seventh Streets, but
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that core, free accessible fan viewing area will be on
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the Mall, O'Reilly said. He added that more than twenty
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NFL cities have expressed interest in hosting a future draft.
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Should the twenty twenty seven draft turn out meet the
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expectations of Harris and Goodell, it would top the estimated
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crowd of seven hundred seventy five thousand that attended the
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twenty twenty four draft in Detroit and reflect the league's
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almost nonexistent saturation point. If there is football or anything
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related to it, people will come and watch. I do
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think there's the potential for a really, really sizeable, perhaps
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record breaking crowds in d C, O'Reilly said, because of
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the great footprint, because of how accessible it is, and
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because of what I think will be that real convergence
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fans from across the East Coast to d C. Obviously
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great throngs of Commander's fans, with others joining as well.
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The twenty twenty four draft generated two hundred thirteen point
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six million dollars in economic impact to the city of Detroit,
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according to Visit Detroit and the Detroit Sports Commission. The
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record economic impact is believed to be two hundred thirty
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six million dollars set by Las Vegas with the twenty
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twenty two draft. Last month's three day draft in Green Bay,
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Wisconsin to an estimated six hundred thousand, nearly six times
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the city's population, and included two hundred twenty thousand. On
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the final day, about one thousand, eight hundred media members
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were on hand to cover the proceedings, and broadcast coverage
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of the opening night of the draft drew thirteen point
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six million viewers. Monday's announcement was accumulation of nearly two
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years behind the scenes organizing by the NFL, DC, the Officials,
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the National Park Service, which manages the National Mall and
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Washington Monument, and the Commander's ownership. The effort began in earnest,
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when Harris and his group of twenty limited partners purchased
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the Commanders from Daniel Snyder for six point oh five
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billion dollars in twenty twenty three, setting the stage for
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a rebuild that unfolded in only twenty one months. In
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the fall of twenty twenty three, a delegation from the
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NFL visited d C to assass the area's potential for
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hosting a future draft. Multiple people with knowledge of the
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visits said representatives from Events, d C, the Convention and
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Sports Authority for the district, and NPS were in discussion
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with NFL executives for months about the possibility of holding
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the three day event in the district. According to emails
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and documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request
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to the NPS, they called the effort Project Breeze. Local
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officials essentially revived details from d c's previous bid to
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host a draft in twenty twenty four to kickstart conversations
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with the league about twenty twenty seven. Some of those
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connected to the twenty twenty seven bid speculated that d
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C probably would have landed an earlier NFL draft if
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not for the controversies that surrounded Snyder, the team's former owner.
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When I became aware of it, we really jumped on it,
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Harris said on the video call we got with the NFL.
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We spoke to them, and they were oriented toward doing
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something in DC for obvious reasons, because the DC showcase
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for the NFL is amazingly important. The last time the
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NFL Draft was held in Washington at the Willard Hotel
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on December tenth, nineteen forty The league had only ten
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teams and the draft was twenty two rounds. The last
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time the league, in its more modern construction, held a
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national event in d C was in two thousand and three,
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when it held a season kick off event for fans
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on the National Mall in conjunction with Washington's season opener
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against the New York Jets that year. The Washington Commanders
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are obviously a really important historic franchise in our league,
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position in the nation's capital, which is so important for
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our game to have a strong, stable franchise there. O'Reilly said,
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we think it will be another opportunity to raise the
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bar on this event. It points to the importance of
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this market and all of the great momentum in this
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market right now. Harris, a private equity investor, has moved
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quickly to return the Commanders to prominence since he purchased
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the franchise for a then record price after the team
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finished four and thirteen in his first season as a
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principal owner. The Commanders went twelve and five last season,
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falling in the ANNSC Championship Game to the eventual Super
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Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Nearly every facet of the organization
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has been overhauled and its facilities upgraded with an eye
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on the future. On Monday, Harris shared memories of the
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team during his childhood when d C used to stop
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and everyone would be inside watching football or at the stadium.
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I believe we'll get over a million people at the draft,
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and it's going to be an amazing day, he said
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during the Oval Office announcement. It'll showcase what Washington's all about.
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Then he lauded Trump told the President to personalize Washington
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Commander's jersey was on his desk and stood behind the
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lectern as Trump shared his hopes for the future of Alcatraz.
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Jenny Gathright contributed to this report. The next item from
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to Day's from page is entitled Israel to seize parts
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of Gaza, Civilians would be relocated. Plan calls for aid hubs,
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indefinite military control by Jerry she Karen de Young, Leoris Rocca,
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and Claire Parker from Jerusalem. Rime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on
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Monday described quote intensified operations in Gaza, including a massive
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relocation of the Palestinian population and indefinite Israeli military quote
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control of large swaths of the enclay, setting a new
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direction in strategy and raising the question of whether Israel
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is inching toward the long term reoccupation of the enclave.
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The plan unanimously approved in a meeting of NET and
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Yahoo's security Cabinet Sunday night will require tens of thousands
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of reservists to be called up in the coming weeks.
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Palestinian civilians living in areas of northern and southern Gaza
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would be displaced and confined within quote sterile zones secured
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by elements of the Israel Defense Forces, while other troops
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would continue efforts to rue de al Hamas fighters and
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destroy their tunnels. The zones, under a separate cabinet decision
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would include new hubs built by Israel and protected by
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usc DA security contractors, from which humanitarian aid would be
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distributed to Palestinians, though only those designated and vetted by Israel.
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Net Nyahu's government has banned all humanitarian assistants from entering
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Gaza since early March, leading to what the United Nations
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has called near starvation conditions. Israeli officials indicated that urgent
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implementation of both plans is tied to the visit of
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President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, Cutter and the United
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Arab Emirates scheduled to begin May thirteenth. Officials described the
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four day trip as a window of opportunity for agreement
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on the fifty day ceasefire and hostage release proposed by
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Trump Middle East Envoy Steve Whitcock. Hamas has rejected the
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proposal unless Israel agrees to terms of an eventual withdrawal
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from Gaza and an end to the war. Net Nyahu's
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government has refused at demand, saying that Hamas must be destroyed.
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As Monday by reporters at the White House if he
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supported Israel's decision to expand the war, Trump did not
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respond directly, saying only that people are starving and were
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going to help them get some food. He echoed Israeli
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charges denied by AID organization that Hamas was responsible for
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quote taking everything that's being brought in. Brian Hughes, a
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spokesman for Trump's National Security Council, said that the President
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has made clear the consequences Hamas will face if it
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continues to hold hostages, including American Eden Alexander and the
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bodies of four Americans. Alexander is one of up to
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twenty four hostages believed to still be alive inside Gaza.
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In a video statement released Monday, net Nyahu said the
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ideaff will no longer enter and then withdraw from combat
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zones in Gaza, as it has in the past, a
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strategy that allowed Hamas to move back into cleared areas.
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We're not doing that anymore. That's not the intention, Natanyahu said.
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The intention is the opposite. In Israel, announcement of the
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new plan immediately sparked a furious debate over whether it
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set Israel on a course to eventually conquer at right,
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or even administer the entire strip that has been a
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long standing demand of not just nat Nyaho's far right
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political allies who hope to expel Palestinian residents to far
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away countries and re establish Jewish settlements, but also an
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idea favored by military hardliners who argue that a complete
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takeover of Gaza and an extended counterinsurgency operation are the
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only way to achieve Natnyahu's stated goal of eliminating Hamas.
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The implications could be adrift without any formal decision into
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a de facto situation of occupying the Gaza Strip and
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taking responsibility for the fate of two million Palestinians, with
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all the consequences that entails both for Israel's international standing,
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its economic situation, and for the IDF said over chalais,
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a former lawmaker who is now a researcher at the
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Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. The IDF
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can always withdraw, as has happened before, but the chances
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of such an agreement are decreasing. For months, Israeli leaders
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have debated the option of launching a full scale conquest
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of Gaza that would require at least sixty thousand troops,
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according to a former official directly involved in the planning,
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but some military commanders resisted that scenario, saying that the
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IDF lacks the personnel to conquer and control all of
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Gaza and that a full scale invasion would endanger the
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lives of the remaining hostages, a politically explosive issue in Israel.
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The former official set the plan approved on Sunday was
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more limited and represents a gradual approach that would require
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far fewer than sixty thousand soldiers and stop short of
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seizing the entire strip, according to current and former Israeli
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officials familiar with the plan, who, like others in this story,
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spoke on the condition of anonymity about the sensitive issue.
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The plan was condemned by the hostage Family's Forum, which
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represents the majority of relatives of those held in Gaza.
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The government admitted this morning that it is choosing territory
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over hostages, and this is against the will of over
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seventy percent of the people, the family said in his statement,
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referring to polls that show the majority of Israeli's favor
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a deal to recover all hostages, even if it means
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ending the war before Hamas's total defeat. But on Monday,
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Netnyahu's finance minister, the settler leader Vesleel Smoltrich, said conquering
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all the Gaza should be the war's primary objective. There
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will be no retreat from the territories we have conquered,
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not even in exchange for hostages, Smotridge said at a
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conference in Jerusalem. Once we stay in Gaza, we can
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talk about declaring sovereignty immediately. Opposition leaders warned that the
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new strategy was paving the way for the annexation of Gaza,
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advocated by Smotrich and his far right ally National Security
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Minister Itamar ben Gevir, who support nat Yahu, needs to
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prevent his governing coalition from collapsing. This is no longer
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a temporary operation, but a move that prepares for a
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permanent presence in the area. Part of making ben Gevere
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and Smotridge's fantasies into reality, Saidiegolan, the leader of the
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left leaning Democrats party and a retired IDF general. The
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de facto occupation of the Gaza Strip in the name
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of survival of the government will cost us blood in
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the lives of the hostages, in soldiers lives, through exhaustion,
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and most importantly, through losing our way. The Trump administration
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has been reluctant to be seen as backing Israel's plans
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as a president has turned his attention to Persian Gulf countries,
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where he hopes to conclude trade, investment, and defense agreements.
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The administration is involved only to the extent that the
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president does not wish to be seen as a loser
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on an issue that he declared he would resolve, said
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a person familiar with the deliberations. He wants it resolved
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by the time he is in the region, and Trump's
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interest now is in not having an embarrassment, this person said,
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adding that the path to deals in the Gulf lies
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through not having this bleeding sore of Gaza. The participation
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of at least some humanitarian organizations is seen as essential
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to aid distribution under the Israeli plan, but most of
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those groups operating inside Gaza have coalesced a round his
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statement from the UN Assistance Coordination Body issued Sunday, refusing
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to participate in any scheme that does not adhere to
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the global humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality.
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Some have withheld individual statements rejecting the aid plan while
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awaiting an announcement on its implementation, but have criticized it
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as grossly insufficient to the need and called it discriminatory
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and illegal under international humanitarian law. A spokesperson for the
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International Committee of the Red Cross noted Israel has an
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obligation to use all means available to ensure that the
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basic needs of the civilian population under its control are met.
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Moving aid in defensed, supervised spaces under military or private
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contractor control recalls some of the darkest chapters of human failure,
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said Bouscha Khalidi, West Bank policy leader for ox FAN.
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That's not protection, that's coercion. We would never support any
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model that would be treating civilians basically as prisoners. The
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next item for to Day's from page is entitled Texas
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poised to increase control over universities. Outcome of bill could
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reverberate for higher education nationwide. By Molly Hennessy Fisk. A
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bruising battle over academic freedom is being waged in Texas,
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where the legislature is poised to give the state power
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to screen faculty, programs and courses in one of the
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country's largest public university systems. An expert say the outcome
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could reverberate for higher education nationwide. Conservative lawmakers, who control
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all levers of the state government, are advancing a measure
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they say would hold institutions more accountable and insure curriculum
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is quote free from ideological bias. Faculty could be removed
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or face civil penalties for violations. Schools that fail to
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comply could be barred from spending state funds. Higher education
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should be about teaching students how to think, not what
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to think, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Republican said. The twenty
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seven page omnibus bill, which would rate academic programs based
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on average student debt and return on investment for students,
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has already passed the state Senate. A House committee is
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expected to consider a version of Senate Bill thirty seven
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on Tuesday. If the Chamber also proves the measure, Governor
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Greg Abbott, a Republican, is expected to sign it into law.
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Opponents say the result would essentially be a takeover of
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the state's one hundred and twenty six public universities, community
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college districts, and medical schools, with state officials even allowed
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to overturn hiring decisions. They fear it could damage the
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institution's reputations and lead to a faculty brain drain. It's
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a concentration of power and government, said Brian Evans, president
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of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors.
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He testified against the legislation in March, contending that it
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will infringe on students freedom to learn and teacher's ability
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to teach. The Senate vote that followed, along party lines,
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was twenty to eleven in favor. State takeovers are nothing
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new here. Republican leaders have used them in recent years
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to fight blue cities policies in elections and k through
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twelve schools, but this is the first power grab at
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the college level, and higher education experts elsewhere are watching closely.
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Its impact would be huge, affecting eighty thousand faculty and
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one point four million students. Texas boasts sixteen top tier
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research universities, more than any other state. Its flagship institution,
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the University of Texas at Austin, has the biggest endowment
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of any public university in the country. Texas A and
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M University boasts the biggest enrollment. Texas being such a
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large state. If it takes action, you're definitely going to
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see other states getting interested, said Neil Hutchins, a higher
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education professor at the University of Kentucky who has been
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tracking the bill. Even among those at the forefront of
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efforts to police what's taught at colleges and universities, he added,
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Senate Bill thirty seven is pushing the envelope. The bill
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comes amid President Donald Trump's broader war on higher education.
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In recent weeks, he issued executive orders banning diversity, equity
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and Inclusion or DEI efforts on campuses, blocking federal dollars
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to schools that do not comply, and up ending what
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is required for accreditation. He has focused mostly on elite
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private universities, including a high profile legal battle with Harvard,
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and while his administration published a list of sixty colleges
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and universities, public and private under investigation for ledged civil
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rights violations stemming from pro Palestinian demonstrations. No Texas schools
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were cited. One possible explanation is that state leaders were
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already several steps ahead in cracking down. When students protested
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at u T Austin last year over the Israel Gaza War,
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the governor sent one hundred troopers in riot gear to
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make arrests with local police. Legislators banned DEI offices and
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programs of public universities two years ago, forcing the closure
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of dozens of multicultural and LGBTQ campus centers. Senator Brandon Creighton,
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a Republican from north of Houston, said he sponsored the
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DEI ban and the current bill to make state schools
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more transparent and responsible to Texans. After the ban took effect,
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hidden camera recording surfaced of staff at some schools discussing
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how to skirt it. Strong oversight is essential to keeping
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Texas universities at the forefront of the education and innovation,
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Creighton said in a statement that spring, with taxpayer dollars
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and students' futures at stake, universities must operate with accountability.
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His new proposal aims to decrease the power of faculty senates,
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requiring that half of their members be appointed by school presidents.
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All would be term limited, advisory only, and removable by
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top administrators. For political advocacy, Faculty senates have operated behind
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closed doors, steering curriculum decisions, influencing institutional policy, issuing political
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statements to divest from Israel, and even organizing votes of
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no confidence that undermine public trust. Creighton's statement continued. Another
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provision would give the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, composed
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of none gubernatorial appointees, the ultimate say in faculty and
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academic screening. The board would pay special attention to school's
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required core curriculum to ensure they do not require or
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or attempt to require a student to adopt a belief
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that any race, sex, or ethnicity, or social, political, or
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religious belief is inherently superior. Complaints lodged against professors would
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be investigated by a new state ombudsman and the Attorney General.
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Currently Ken Paxton, a Republican an ultra conservative Trump ally.
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Angie hill Price, speaker of the Faculty Senate at Texas
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A and M, defended its work which he testified against
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the measure in March. I am very concerned how this
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bill will impact us, because we're not broken, she said
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during floridabate in Austin last month. Senator Molly Cook condemned
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what would be expanded state power to eliminate courses as censorship.
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I've got constituents reaching out to me saying this is
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the death of higher ed, said Cook, a Democrat from
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Houston and a ut graduate Creighton who also graduated from
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ut dis insisting state officials would regulate courses to ensure
29:04
that students are well rounded and equipped with skills necessary
29:07
to be successful in the workforce. Other states have recently
29:11
enacted laws that rein in various aspects of academia at
29:15
public colleges. A new Indiana statute limits the power of
29:19
faculty senates and when in Ohio restricts how faculty teach
29:24
and bans faculty strikes. In Utah, legislators required faculty training
29:29
in academic freedom and mandated that Utah State University create
29:34
a Center for Civic Excellence to oversee a revised core
29:38
curriculum focused on the Western Canon. Florida tried to prohibit
29:42
schools from teaching concepts related to race, gender, and social privilege,
29:47
but the law was partially blocked by courts no state rivals.
29:51
The extreme degree of control being contemplated in Texas, according
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to Peter Lake, a law professor at Stutson University in Florida, Texas,
30:00
is as broad reaching a legislative endeavor as we've seen,
30:04
he said, and combined with Trump's attacks on higher education,
30:08
the legislation is likely to embolden red states to experiment
30:12
with even more control over institutional autonomy write down to
30:16
curriculum hiring and firing, tenure, curriculum review. A spokesman for
30:21
the governor didn't answer directly when asked if Abbot would
30:25
sign the measure, but cited his State of the State
30:27
address in February, when he called on public universities to
30:31
be more accountable. College professors have increasingly pushed walk agendas.
30:36
They have too much influence over who is hired to
30:39
educate our kids, Abbot said in the address, insisting the
30:42
state should expand the ban on d e I and
30:45
our public universities. We must purge it from every corner
30:49
of our schools and return the focus to merit. Hutchins
30:54
the University of Kentucky. Professor said state leaders could face
30:57
a reckoning if the provisions hurt Texas un University's bottom line,
31:01
damaging their brand and their ability to recruit and retain
31:05
administrators and staff. Hutchins knows two faculty members at state
31:09
schools in Texas who are already moving away because of
31:13
the constraints on DEI. He noted that j Hartzell, the
31:17
president of U T. Austin, is leaving after five tumultuous
31:21
years to lead the much smaller and less prestigious private
31:24
Southern Methodist University in Dallas. UT System Chancellor James B.
31:29
Milliken also is departing after seven years to become president
31:33
of the University of California. That's indicative of the struggles
31:38
and what it means to lead a public university in
31:40
Texas right now. It's very, very hard, Hutchins said. Texas
31:45
has really built some great institutions. At what point do
31:49
you harm their ability to strive and achieve excellence if
31:53
you want to attract world class talent and innovation, It's
31:56
an experiment how far can you push these in institutions.
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Next from today's front page, an item entitled a contracting
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economy squeezes US housing tariffs make building more costly, mortgage
32:12
rates likely to stay high. By Rachel Siegel, the faltering
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economy is starting to become a drag on the housing market.
32:21
Real estate agents, developers, home buyers, and economists are all
32:26
trying to make sense of which way trends are heading.
32:29
Slower growth the economy shrank at the beginning of twenty
32:32
twenty five means interest and mortgage rates will probably stay
32:36
high for the foreseeable future. Stock market swings and flagging
32:40
consumer confidence are pushing buyers out of the market. President
32:45
Donald Trump's trade war is adding thousands to construction costs
32:48
for new homes and remodels. Markets work because people have
32:53
price knowledge, and they have those prices to make decisions,
32:56
said Robert Deets, chief economists at the National Association of
33:00
home Builders. But so much uncertainty, Deeds said, is creating
33:04
a wait and see economy. A house is often a
33:08
household's single largest investment or asset, and buying or selling
33:12
can be one of life's biggest financial decisions. Entire budgets
33:17
are structured around monthly mortgage payments or rent, So what
33:21
happens in the housing market reverberates through the entire economy,
33:25
and vice versa. Experts look to the number of homes
33:28
for sale or list prices as litmus tests for how
33:31
the broader economy is faring, and conversely, housing affordability and
33:36
availability are among the most direct ways people feel the
33:40
economy in their daily lives. Keeping a close read on
33:44
the market is especially key when a range of economic
33:48
indicators are flashing warnings without clear answers as to what
33:51
they mean. There are some encouraging signs. Sales of new
33:56
homes increase more than seven percent in March, the highest
34:00
jumps in September, with particular gains in the South and Midwest.
34:04
A brief drop in mortgage rates last month, spurred partly
34:08
by a drop in the ten year treasury yield, fueled
34:11
a flurry of applications for new loans and refinances as
34:15
buyers and owners took advantage of the lowest rates in months.
34:19
But something gloomier is taking hold too. Existing home sales
34:23
in March saw their biggest monthly drop in more than
34:27
two years, falling almost six percent during what is normally
34:31
the spring selling season. Construction spending fell broadly in March,
34:36
and housing starts. Marking when builders break round fell more
34:40
than eleven percent according to government data. With borrowing costs
34:45
and a tight labor market slowing new construction. Trump's global
34:50
trade war is also stifling builder sentiment after it rallied
34:54
post election. According to survey data from the National Association
34:58
of Home Builders Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, sixty percent
35:02
of builders said their suppliers have already increased or announced
35:06
increases on materials prices because of terrace. According to the survey,
35:11
all told, builders are estimating a typical cost bump of
35:15
almost eleven thousand dollars per home. Rent has also risen
35:19
for three straight months after cooling late last year per
35:23
apartment list and home prices keep ticking up, rising three
35:28
point nine percent in February, according to data release last
35:32
week from the SMP core Logic Case Shiller Index. Finally,
35:37
economists from Mortgage Bankers Association lowered their estimates for existing
35:41
and new home sales in twenty twenty five, and they
35:45
expect just over one million single family starts for the
35:48
next two years. Experts generally say the United States is
35:52
short between two and four point five million homes. The
35:57
markers are a snapshot of an economy in unchartered territory
36:01
once again, after the Federal Reserve finally managed to wrestle
36:06
inflation down from forty year highs, officials are warning that
36:10
Trump's trade war will send prices back up. The latest
36:14
GDP figures marked the first contraction since early twenty twenty two,
36:19
when the pandemic and supply chain snarls still had a
36:22
grip on the u S. Economy economists and Wall Street
36:26
analysts are on watch for signs of a recession, especially
36:29
if employers start pulling back on hiring, an investment, or
36:33
lay people off. Downturns often bleed quickly into the housing market,
36:38
especially if spikes in unemployment cause people to fall behind
36:42
on their mortgages. Some in the housing market have been
36:45
able to dodge swirling economic forces and stay relatively unscathed.
36:50
Roughly a third of home purchases were made in cash
36:53
in twenty twenty four. According to Redfinn, National home builders
36:57
had extensive supply chain contract that can source materials for
37:01
lower fixed costs and dodge wild swings in terror policy.
37:06
Builders that catered to wealthier buyers have more cushion to
37:09
raise their prices, but others are caught in the middle.
37:14
Bill Belair and his wife loved their five bedroom home
37:17
in Prescott, Arizona that has enough room to host their grandkids.
37:22
They moved in two thousand seven and have since refinance
37:25
their mortgage rate below a hard to leave three percent,
37:30
but now much of Vlaire's time is spent driving one
37:33
hundred miles south to Phoenix for his wife's medical care.
37:38
He has considered selling the house and moving closer to
37:41
the city to cut the two hour journey, but home
37:44
prices in Phoenix or Scottsdale would probably kick his mortgage
37:47
payment up from two thousand, five hundred dollars to around
37:51
nine thousand dollars per month. Add the cost of living
37:55
and home owner fees, and Vlaiir doesn't think the math
37:58
would work unless rates slip below five percent. We don't
38:03
need that big of a house. But until things break on,
38:06
mortgage rates were kind of stuck, he said. Deeds of
38:10
the Builders Association said he has been focusing on inflation
38:14
expectations to fill in a picture of where the market
38:17
is headed. March survey data from the New York Fed
38:21
showed households think inflation will rise in the short term
38:25
that their income growth will slow and that their financial
38:29
situations and credit access will decline in the year ahead.
38:34
That could all mean less business for builders as people
38:37
shy away from major purchases and generally scale back spending.
38:42
Deeds is also constantly on the road talking to builders
38:46
seeing price hikes from Terrace on such things as appliances
38:50
from Mexico and hardware from China. Canadian lumber has been
38:54
exempted from some of the latest levees, but that leaves
38:58
plenty of the nuts and bolts used make a home
39:01
subject to steeper costs, he said. Still, Alan's Monini hasn't
39:06
felt much change in the Charlotte area, the luxury home
39:10
builders said he has had one customer make deposits on
39:13
light fixtures and low voltage wiring to get ahead of
39:16
suppliers price increases that started May first. Beyond that, Simononi
39:21
plans to carry on as usual. I think that all
39:25
this stuff is going to go away in a few
39:27
months when everybody comes to the table and creates a
39:30
new deal with our government. He said. It might be
39:33
a temporary quarter of price increases, but I really anticipate
39:37
it's not going to go up more. In the Washington area,
39:41
Sam Medven, president of the d C Association of Realtors,
39:45
is keeping an eye on what happens did the job
39:48
market and whether massive cuts to the federal government spur
39:51
more people to sell their homes. He thinks the end
39:55
of September will be telling when many federal employees who
39:58
took buyout offers stop getting paid. Until now, there have
40:03
generally been more buyers in the number of homes available,
40:06
putting upward pressure on prices, but that dynamic could flip
40:11
if there's an influx of listings later this year. Medven
40:15
said it would be telling to see whether unemployment causes
40:18
a spike in inventory so much so that it outpaces demand.
40:23
Outside Phoenix, Nate and Margy Sanchez aren't going anywhere. The
40:28
couple had been trying to sell their house and move
40:31
on to a lot with more land, but when they
40:33
listed their house for seven hundred twenty thousand dollars in January,
40:37
they felt the market shift, with buyers shying away from
40:41
homes that rose drastically in value since the pandemic combined
40:45
with a strain of high rates, The Sanchezes lowered the
40:48
price to six hundred forty thousand dollars before deciding to
40:52
pull it off the market. We had a buyer who
40:55
wanted a new roof money toward a c when we
40:58
already dropped our house price by six Nate Sanchez said,
41:02
it was a tipping point for us to stay where
41:04
we were at. Next is an itaman titled Post Winds
41:09
Pullitzers for Breaking News Cartoons, Top Honors for reporting on
41:14
assassination attempt Tell Nay's commentary by Scott over to being
41:20
Botsford thought he was hearing fireworks until he saw Donald
41:23
Trump fall. He immediately knew he needed his switch cameras
41:27
he was wielding his longer lens, But the once and
41:30
future President of the United States had been shot just
41:33
several feet in front of him, and the photographer was
41:36
determined to get closer to the action. We all just reacted,
41:40
Botsford recalled Monday, I went forward, If this massively historic moment,
41:46
maybe the most historic moment I will ever witness, is
41:49
going to happen ten feet in front of me, I'm
41:52
going to get a good picture of it. There are
41:55
too many stories of photographers who miss important moments, he added,
41:59
I didn't want to be one of them. He didn't
42:02
even comprehend his own personal peril until thirty minutes later
42:06
after the chaos abated when he called his wife. Blotsford's
42:10
startling images of that day, including up bloody Trump raising
42:14
a fist as Secret Service agents swarmed him, and the
42:18
candidate's black dress shoe abandoned on the red carpeted stage,
42:22
contributed to the Washington Post team coverage of the July
42:25
thirteenth assassination attempt at a Butler, Pennsylvania campaign rally. That
42:30
work was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News
42:34
on Monday, one of two Pulitzers awarded to the Post
42:37
for its journalism. In twenty twenty four, Anne Telnyth, until
42:42
recently a political cartoonist for the Post's opinion page, was
42:45
awarded the Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. It was
42:50
her second win in the category, which was labeled editorial Cartooning,
42:54
which was first arnored in two thousand one while working
42:57
for Tribune Media Services. Pro Publica, the non profit investigative
43:02
journalism organization, won the Public Service Prize, the Pulitzer's highest honor,
43:08
for reporting about the deaths of pregnant women in states
43:11
where strict but murky abortion laws caused doctors to delay care.
43:16
Considered the top annual awards in journalism, the Pulitzer Prizes
43:20
are administered by Columbia University's Journalism School and have been
43:24
doled out to recognize exceptional work since nineteen seventeen. The
43:29
New York Times won four prizes, the most of any
43:32
news organization this year, in the categories of explanatory Reporting,
43:37
International reporting, and Breaking news photography, as well as in
43:42
the local news category, sharing the honor with The Baltimore Banner,
43:46
a non profit news organization that began publishing in twenty
43:50
twenty two. The Times and The Banner collaborated on a
43:54
series about Baltimore's PHEENTNYL crisis. The New Yorker won three
43:59
awards in the field, feature photography, commentary, and audio reporting categories.
44:04
The Wall Street Journal won the prize for National Reporting
44:07
for coverage of Elon Musk, while Reuters won for Investigative
44:11
Reporting for an expose on lax regulation of FETNAH in
44:15
the United States. The award for editorial Writing went to
44:19
raj Mancatt, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg, and Leah Binkovitz of
44:25
The Houston Chronicle for series on Dangerous train crossings. Alexander
44:30
Lang won the Criticism Prize for her essays for Bloomberg
44:33
City Lab about architecture and city planning. Additionally, Esquire contributor
44:38
Mark Warren won the award for Feature Writing for a
44:42
story about the suicide of a small town mayor and
44:44
Baptist pastor. The Pulitzer Committee also gave a special posthumous
44:49
citation to Chuck Stone, the first black columnists at the
44:53
Philadelphia Daily News, later syndicated to nearly one hundred publications
44:58
for his work covering the civil rights movement. Stone, who
45:02
died in twenty fourteen, co founded the National Association of
45:05
Black Journalists in nineteen seventy five. The Post was also
45:10
named a finalist in three other categories, National Reporting for
45:14
coverage of the toll of Hurricane Helen last fall, International
45:18
Reporting for coverage of the Israel Hamas war and the
45:21
devastation of Gaza, and Commentary for Jerry Brewer's columns about
45:26
political issues in sports. Matt Murray, the Post's executive editor,
45:31
called the Pulitzer recognition of the Trump shooting stories a
45:35
really great win because it touched so many parts of
45:38
the newsroom. Murray joined the Post in June, about a
45:42
month before the attempt on the then candidate's life in
45:44
Royal Butler County, north of Pittsburgh, and said he was
45:48
impressed to see how many journalists from across the staff
45:51
jumped at the opportunity to help cover the story. Our
45:55
two folks on the scene, Isaac Earnsdorf and Jabon, like
45:59
all the corresponds, the Secret Service agents and others on
46:02
the scene, were there at a very dangerous moment and
46:05
showed great bravery to keep doing their jobs, which they
46:08
did in an intense and breaking situation, Murray said. Arnstrung
46:14
described it as a team effort, drawing upon the best
46:17
of the staff's many skills. This really speaks to the
46:21
value of having professional journalists on the scene in a
46:24
situation like this, he said, you have dispassionate, trained, neutral
46:29
observers in a situation where there is a lot of
46:32
confusion and a lot of the information that comes out
46:35
online often turns out not to be true. I was
46:38
able to document what I did that day because of
46:41
a decade of practice and preparation made possible by my
46:45
team and role here at the Post. Botsford said, it's
46:48
an honor to have a front row seat to history
46:51
and to have an organization that values and encourages visual journalism.
46:57
Tumney's work is known for sharp political commentary, particularly those
47:01
lampooning Trump and other national Republicans. Her win comes months
47:05
after a high profile exit from the Post. The illustrator
47:10
resigned in early January after a top editor rejected one
47:14
of her cartoons, a depiction of Post owner Jeff Bezos,
47:18
along with other business moguls, bowing before a statue of
47:21
Trump and offering up bags of money. Bezos is the
47:25
owner of the Post and the founder of Amazon, which
47:28
donated one million dollars to the president's inauguration fund. Telnay's
47:33
had previously taken aim at Bezos in October, days after
47:37
he halted the newspapers endorsement of Kamala Harris for president,
47:41
a stark, rectangular image of broad black brush strokes, which
47:44
she titled democracy dies in Darkness, the post slogan since
47:49
twenty seventeen. In his statement to The Times after her resignation,
47:54
the Post's then editorial page editor, David Shipley thanked Telnays
47:59
for her service, but rejected her suggestion that he yanked
48:02
the cartoon to stifle criticism of the post's owner. My
48:06
decision was guided by the fact that we had just
48:08
published a column on the same topic as a cartoon,
48:12
and had already scheduled another column, this one a satire,
48:15
for publication. He wrote. The only bias was against repetition.
48:20
Shipley himself resigned in February following an announcement from Bezos
48:25
that the opinions section should be focused on personal liberties
48:29
and free markets and not publish any views that oppose
48:32
those principles. While Telnay's was technically honored for her work
48:36
in the twenty twenty four calendar years, the prize committee
48:39
citation also alluded to her unpublished January cartoons, hailing her
48:44
for delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity,
48:51
and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the
48:53
news organization after seventeen years. In a statement, Telnay said
48:58
she was honored on a time when the free press
49:01
is under attack by autocrats in their quest to silence dissent.
49:05
Editorial cartoons and satire are essential for a democracy to
49:09
survive and thrive, she wrote, I am honored to receive
49:13
this award and encourage everyone to support their local cartoonists.
49:18
The Post Opinions had a happy working relationship with Anne
49:21
Telly's for nearly twenty years, said Mary Dunwald, Interim Opinion
49:25
editor at The Post. That she won her second Pulitzer
49:28
speaks to her talent as a cartoonist. Douglas Jill, the
49:32
International Editor, praised his staff for merging tenacious traditional reporting
49:37
with advanced forensic techniques in covering Israel's military operations in Gaza.
49:42
While Israel has imposed extraordinary limits on journalists physical access
49:46
to Gaza, the posts harnessing of interviews and video photos
49:50
and satellite imagery represent a novel new way to bear witness,
49:55
in part by harvesting vast quantities of data in ways
49:58
it would not have been imaginable even a decade ago,
50:01
Jill said. Having led coverage of the wars in Afghanistan,
50:05
Iraq and Ukraine, Jail said he cannot recall a military
50:09
conflict in which journalists have had as little access as
50:13
they do in Gaza. These stories by the Posts have
50:16
shown how technology can be a force maximizer, even when
50:20
journalists must report from outside war zones to hold combatants
50:24
to account and revealable governments and other actors seek to
50:29
keep secret, he added. Zachary Goldfard, the former Climate and
50:34
Environment editor recently tapped to lead the Post's future initiative,
50:38
said that the Post showed deep dedication to covering the
50:41
human told of Hurricane Helene. Our reporter showed true courage
50:45
in bringing national attention to heart hit communities, he said.
50:49
We followed that up with visual journalism that explained the
50:52
forces that drove the storm and stayed with the story
50:56
for months to capture the difficult recovery. Gold Forbes said
51:00
the team used traditional on the ground reporting as well
51:03
as data science and cutting edge visual storytelling techniques to
51:08
capture the human and ecological impact, show what supercharged the storm,
51:13
and illuminate how trust in the government's response was severely
51:17
threatened by misinformation on social media. Sports columnist Brewer was
51:22
recognized as a finalist for a package of stories that
51:24
included The Grievance Games, an extensive multimedia series about how
51:29
American sports had become a proxy war for intense political
51:33
division in the Trump era. Brew mouled his idea for
51:37
a series for about eighteen months before pitching into his
51:41
editors in twenty twenty three. He noted that in the aftermath
51:45
of the protests following the killing of George Floyd and
51:48
the lead up to the twenty twenty election, there was
51:51
a widespread expectation of a wave of political activism among
51:55
professional athletes, but it faded quickly and the sports world
51:59
instead began to reflect the political polarization scene and the
52:03
rest of society. We only think of how sports are
52:07
used from the standpoint of whether athletes are speaking out
52:09
or not, but oftentimes there is a counter movement. Brewers said,
52:14
in this case, you could connect American right wing grievance
52:17
politics with sports and some of the messages that were
52:20
being sent out in conjunction with the uneasy feelings that
52:24
people have about how sports have changed. The Pulitzer Committee
52:28
also awards several prizes for literature and other arts. Fiction
52:33
James by Percual Everett, Drama Purpose by Brandon Jacobs Jenkins, History,
52:40
Native Nations, A Millennium in North America by Kathleen Duvall
52:45
and Combe Harriet Tubman, The Combaheet, River Raid and Black
52:50
Freedom during the Civil War by Eda L. Fields, Black Biography,
52:56
Every Living Thing, The Great and Deadly Race to Know
52:59
All Life by Jason Roberts, memoir autobiography, Feeding Ghosts, a
53:05
graphic memoir by Tessa Halls, Poetry, new and selected poems
53:11
by Marie Howe, general non fiction to the Success of
53:16
Our Hopeless Cause, The Many Lies of the Soviet Dissonant
53:19
Movement by Benjamin Nathan's music, Sky Islands by Susie Ibarra,
53:27
and the final item from today's front page is entitled
53:30
open Ai scrap's planned to become for profit firm Elon
53:35
Musk had criticized a restruction move and sued to block
53:38
it Bygerrett d Vink from San Francisco chat GPT maker.
53:44
Open Ai will remain under the control of its founding
53:47
non profit board after abandoning a plan to split off
53:50
its commercial operations as a for profit company. Former employees
53:55
and Elon Musk, a co founder of open Ai who
53:58
later split with its leaders, had criticized a restructuring plan,
54:03
saying it would remove crucial oversight of its artificial intelligence technology.
54:08
Musk filed a lawsuits seeking to block the move. The
54:11
suit is ongoing. Open AI's new plan seeks a compromise
54:16
between allegations it was set to abandon its original mission
54:19
of benefiting humanity and the claims of company leaders that
54:23
it must raise more money and deliver profits to investors
54:27
to compete in their race to advance AI. The Washington
54:31
Post has a content partnership with open Ai. It is
54:35
unclear how the change will alter open AI's operations, but
54:39
it offers a philip to Musk, who has waged a
54:42
public war against the company that he co founded but
54:44
now competes against with his ai venture x Ai. In
54:49
addition to his lawsuit, the billionaire has publicly criticized open
54:53
ai CEO Sam Altman, Musk's lead at turning the lawsuit.
54:58
Mark Toberoff, in a statement late Monday, dismissed the new
55:02
plan as sleight of hand that changes nothing. Open AI's
55:06
announcement is a transparent dodge that fails to address the
55:10
core issues. Charitable assets have been and still will be
55:14
transferred for the benefit of private persons, he said, including
55:17
Altman and open ai investors such as Microsoft. Open AI's
55:23
nonprofit board pledged to ensure that super Smart AI benefits
55:27
all of humanity. Will now retain ultimate control of its operations,
55:32
but the company will remove limitations at placed on the
55:35
maximum returns investors could receive from investing in its for
55:38
profit arm. That division, which develops chat cheept, will become
55:44
a public benefit corporation, allowing it to seek profits while
55:48
serving a particular mission. In call with reporters Monday, Almond
55:53
said that once completed, the new plan will let the
55:56
company receive the full thirty billion dollars investment recently in
56:00
by Japanese conglomerate soft Bank. The deal valued open ai
56:04
at three hundred billion dollars, making it one of the
56:07
most valuable private companies in history, but had terms linked
56:12
to changes in open AI's structure. Being able to grow
56:15
and raise more money will enable open ai to deliver
56:19
on its mission of ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity.
56:22
Altman said, we are obsessed with our mission. He said,
56:26
we believe the structure works for that. Almond said in
56:30
a letter to employees provided to reporters Monday that the
56:33
previous restruction plan was abandoned after hearing from civic leaders
56:37
and having discussions with the offices of the Attorney's General
56:40
of California and Delaware. Open Ai is still talking to
56:45
the Attorney's General of the two states, which have to
56:47
sign off on changes to non profit companies. The company
56:51
is incorporated in Delaware, but has most of its operations
56:54
in California. In response to a question from The Washington Post,
56:59
a spokesperson for California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the
57:02
state's Department of Justice was reviewing the new plan. This
57:06
remains an ongoing matter and we are in continued conversations
57:10
with open ai, the spokesperson said. Jill Horowitz, an expert
57:15
in non profit law and a professor at Northwestern University,
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said state officials would be expected to have a role
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in open aiy's restructuring. It makes sense that the board
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would have thought through such major change to the non
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profit structure in conversation with the regulators, she said. It
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is unclear whether the non profit board's oversight of open
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Ay's operations will remain unchanged, Horowitz said, without more detail, however,
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it's difficult to know what control means. She said. Monday's
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announcement was the latest abrupt change at a company that,
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since its founding in twenty fifteen, has grown to huge influence,
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but has also been royaled by internal drama. Open ai
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was founded by tech luminary including Altman and Musk to
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counterbalance tech corporations such as Google as they developed more
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powerful AI software. The non profits leaders soon realized they
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needed more resources to compete with the tech giants, but
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disagreed about how to secure them. Musk initially bankrolled open Ai,
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but split from the company after his suggestion that he
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take full control was rejected by Altman and others. We
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will be unable to complete this item to day due
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to constraints of time. This concludsive readings than the Washington
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Post for to Day Tuesday, May sixth, twenty twenty five.
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