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And immigration policy stirs the White House.

INTRODUCTION Do you remember how “we” got maneuvered into Afghanistan? Yes. maneuvered. That was about 20 years ago and some readers will be too young to remember. If you were old enough, you may find these actual clips, recorded, noted and meticulously transcribed from the media of the time, tell a different story than the one you remember. Most of the clips, especially the longer ones, have the most important parts bolded, so theoretically you can skim most of this piece by reading...

‘I'D LIKE TO MODIFY MY ORIGINAL ASSESSMENT’: By his own account, Chris Miller, installed as acting defense secretary by President Donald Trump after he fired Mark Esper for insufficient loyalty, was itching to testify before Congress and set the record straight.

Spectacular Winning Images of the 7th Fine Art Photography Awards Nominee, Conceptual, Amateur. ‘Extinction – No One Left to Follow’ by Justin Peters The winners of the 7th Fine Art Photography Awards present a surreal assortment of shots from sci-fi styled snaps of subways to spectacularly sublime landscapes. We’ve handpicked our highlights from this year’s massive collection of celebrated images. Founded in 2014, the Fine Art Photography Awards is an exceptionally broad photo contes...

>> all of the gunk that comes out of your face. sleepies. or eye gunk. i always have sleepies. >> anyway. and one more quick teaser. in iran, we use satellite tv and the internet to get through with television programming. and people sell it on the black market, copies of it, because some of it is jammed but people get it one way or another. so the private sector helps us a lot there. heres a sample of parazeet, which is our comedy satire show about the ayatollahs, like "the daily show...

washington, d.c., a discussion on the future of journalism and digital media. npr host robert see gal moderates a discussion with panelists from reuters, voice of america, google, and the academic world. this is an hour and a half. >> good morning, everyone. im jim duff here at the museum and its my distinct pleasure to welcome you all here. its an hon fornor for us to host such a wonderful event, the 50th anniversary celebration that youre all participating in at the columbia journali...

and yet that is the foundational legal document, that is the equivalent of the first amendment on the global stage. and our ignorance about how to make this debate happen on a global stage i think is very troubling. >> so were talking about debates, values, ideas, laws, all very good. but i think we have to remember its also about vested interests. so its not just about nicely, in clear language with good arguments explaining to the chinese why american values are correct. this is very...

companies of which news is only one very small part of their business. and, you know, certainly that my former employer was this way, where it sort of went from a family company to being something where the stock price was paramount and ratings were paramount. and so part of it, i think, is not necessarily only, is it public-private funding, but what kind of private funding? and is it a private funding that takes a long-term view? and that considers news to be a public trust? or is it ...

people who are allowed to report the news and if youre not given a badge or a card you cant report the news and its illegal and youre -- you know, and you can be arrested. and so we have to make sure as were having this conversation because as lee rightly points out this is really a global context for media that were not saying, okay, theres only certain types of people who are allowed to be journalists, who are allowed to commit journalism and any other way of conducting journalism so...

those budgets focused on entitlement spending. focused on discretionary spending and revenues. those the pieces that have to be part of an effective plan to reduce the deficit, and when one party decides to go after one area as opposed to others and the other parties does the same thing, thats the kind of gridlock that prevents the kind of necessary action that this country has to take to reduce the deficit. >> one follow-up. would you be one of the senior aides that would recommend th...