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Anna Maria Barry-Jester is a journalist focusing on public health and immigration. She has been a staff writer at the data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight since 2015, reporting on public health, science and immigration. She previously worked as editorial health producer for Univision, and editorial producer for a year long series on global health at ABC News. For ten years, she did freelance work as a photographer and videographer for a variety of outlets, including work on a multi-country, mu…

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Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery

Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery

There's a map, made more than 150 years ago using 1860 census data, that pops up periodically on the internet…

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Surviving Suicide In Wyoming

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What Went Wrong In Flint

What Went Wrong In Flint

FLINT, Mich. -- As I walked into Jackie Pemberton's petite white house in the southeast corner of Flint, she …

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Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe

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By Anna Maria Barry-Jester Verified, Sharon Lerner Verified
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For decades, the U.S. Department of State gave money to groups protecting free speech, human rights and persecuted minorities in poor and authoritarian countries. To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes and held an open competition to fund groups to work in those countries.
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Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe

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By Anna Maria Barry-Jester Verified, Sharon Lerner Verified
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U.S. Politics 5 hours ago Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatens states over elections NBC News - By Rebecca Shabad • 5h The secretary’s comments come as the Trump administration is increasingly using government agencies to sow doubts about the nation’s electoral system.
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“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid

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By Anna Maria Barry-Jester Verified
| The Fulcrum (U.S.) Verified
After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely. But because it is a congressionally created agency, President Donald Trump needed lawmakers’ permission to do so.
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