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Politics producer for audio @washingtonpost. Formerly @citycastphilly @NPR @WHYY. Tweets are all mine.
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Goodbye from "Post Reports"

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By Ted Muldoon , Elana Gordon, Emma Talkoff , Savannah Robinson, Reena Flores , Sean Carter, Rennie Svirnovskiy , Charla Freeland , Cristina Quinn, Taylor White, Joshua Carroll , Colby Itkowitz , Laura Benshoff , Elahe Izadi , Maggie Penman 
| Post Reports
Just over seven years ago, we launched this daily news podcast from The Washington Post. Our goal was to bring you inside our newsroom, sharing our reporting with listeners to help make sense of what was happening in the world. We’ve published hundreds of episodes. We’ve covered elections, wars, a pandemic, tech revolutions, pop culture phenomena, scientific discoveries and more.
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Hegseth defends boat strike; Putin rejects Trump peace plan - The Washington Post

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By Reena Flores , Laura Benshoff , Joshua Carroll , Thomas Lu , Sean Carter
| Post Reports
In September, the U.S. military began striking boats suspected of drug smuggling in the Caribbean. Since then, questions about the legality of these strikes have swirled. Last week, The Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill everyone before a Sept. 2 attack, according to officials. The commander of the mission later made the decision to strike two survivors of the attack who had been clinging to the wreckage.
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The rise of Border Patrol in US cities

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By Laura Benshoff , Elana Gordon, Reena Flores , Sean Carter, Arelis R. Hernandez , Christine Armario
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Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection usually police the frontier. But since the summer, the Trump administration has deployed these agents, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, to Democratic-led cities, often with combustive results. Leading these urban operations is Gregory Bovino, who has become the face of the aggressive crackdown. Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Elana Gordon with help from Reena Flores and mixed by Sean Carter.
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