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Twitter Files Part 6: TWITTER, FBI/DHS SUBSIDIARY
Taibbi begins by noting, “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.” I would safely take that a step further, yes there is a subsidiary relationship; however, as years of government involvement continued by 2016 Twitter became the subsidiary of DHS, not vice-versa. This dynamic within the relationship explains some of the more curious elements that Taibbi struggles to fully understand.
The Sag Harbor Express
Mike Taibbi, center, on assignment in Iraq with his NBC producer John Zito, left, and cameraman Bill Angelucci. Photo courtesy Mike Taibbi. By Mike Taibbi It was always going to end this way. That’s the thought I had day after day as the awful end to America’s longest and losing war played out in video images that were shocking but not surprising. It’s also the thought I’d heard by way of predictions at the beginning of this terrible misadventure.
Samoa searching for plant-based alternatives to single-use plastics
Like many other places around the world, the South Pacific island-nation of Samoa has begun phasing out single-use plastic products, and styrofoam will be next. Businesses and research organizations there are finding creative uses of local resources to fill in the void. Mike Taibbi reports as part of our "Samoan Islands: Shifting Tides" series with Pacific Islanders in Communications support.
Climate change threatens Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
One of the biggest impacts of climate change will be on islands and coastal regions. That includes Rose Atoll Marine National Monument, an uninhabited island and protected sanctuary for dozens of wildlife species in the equatorial Pacific’s U.S. territory of American Samoa. Mike Taibbi reports as part of our "Samoan Islands: Shifting Tides" series with Pacific Islanders in Communications support.
Samoan Islands: Shifting Tides
To see how one of the most remote places on earth is being impacted by climate change, NewsHour Weekend traveled last fall to Rose Atoll, an uninhabited wildlife refuge in American Samoa. We had to get a special permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and then chartered a boat for an eight-hour ocean voyage. Using a GoPro Fusion 360 camera, we’ve captured scenes to allow viewers to become immersed in the wildlife, sounds and natural beauty of the atoll.
360 video: Visiting the ‘island of seabirds,’ an uninhabited remote wildlife refuge in American Samoa
May 16, 2020 12:29 PM EDT To see how one of the most remote places on earth is being impacted by climate change, NewsHour Weekend traveled last fall to Rose Atoll, an uninhabited wildlife refuge in American Samoa. We had to get a special permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and then chartered a boat for an eight-hour ocean voyage. Using a GoPro Fusion 360 camera, we’ve captured scenes to allow viewers to become immersed in the wildlife, sounds and natural beauty of the atoll.
The Disneys: Not the happiest family on Earth
On Labor Day 2009, a young woman named Michelle Lund was rushed to an Orange County, Calif. hospital with a brain aneurysm following a night of partying with friends. Within days, as she teetered on the brink of death, the lines had been drawn in a vicious battle over $400 million that has torn one of the nation’s most famous families apart. Michelle and her twin brother, Brad Lund, are the grandchildren of late entertainment titan Walt Disney.
Cultural institutions celebrate women’s suffrage centennial
PBS NewsHour Feb 15, 2020 4:31 PM EST The year 2020 marks the centennial anniversary for women's suffrage, when the 19th amendment took effect giving some women the right to vote in U.S. elections. And on Saturday, one of the movement's key figures, Susan B. Anthony, would have turned 200. In honor of the famed activist and the women's suffrage movement, a unique event is kicking off this weekend in New York. Karla Murthy reports. Hari Sreenivasan: Today marks what would have been Susan B.
New revelations in Michael Jackson case
Get the latest from TODAY Sign up for our newsletter March 12, 2004, 2:30 PM GMT / Source: TODAY By By Mike Taibbi Michael Jackson has called the charges that he molested a 12-year-old cancer patient "a big lie," insisting he's totally innocent. But what exactly does the alleged victim and his family say that Jackson did? And what are they saying now? NBC News correspondent Mike Taibbi has explosive details in this exclusive report.
Marshall Islands: A third of the nation has left for the U.S.
A third of the Marshall Islands’ population has moved to the U.S., leaving a country reeling from high unemployment and the looming effects of climate change. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Mike Taibbi reports. This story is part of an ongoing series called "Chasing the Dream," on poverty and opportunity in America, and was funded in part by Pacific Islanders in Communications.
THE LONG WAY UP
The headlights cut through the blackening gloom of the Charlestown section of Boston, and occasionally the car bumped a little as it ran over a patch of cobblestones or an abandoned trolley track. Howie Long slumped low next to the driver and watched the familiar streets slide by. "The Neck," he said. "This part is called the Neck. It's where the British landed the day before Bunker Hill. We used to go down to the playground here when we were kids and look out across the water and watch Chelsea burn.
‘Kinky for governor: Why the hell not?’
May 16, 2006, 10:25 PM UTC By Mike Taibbi Kinky Friedman, country singer and mystery writer, is looking for another gig. "The next governor of the great state of Texas" is how he's introduced at campaign rallies these days. The next governor? Here's what he says about the job: "The truth is, the governor's like the judge in a big chili cook-off." And his best asset for that job? What he says he's not — no longer an admitted drug user, and never the dreaded "p" word. "I'm not a politician.
Ties That Bind | Irish America
Two successful Irish Americans share an experience of giving…more than money. ℘℘℘ Mary Pat Lyons O’Connor listened to the old woman, her grandfather’s sister, Margaret, as she spun her narratives of the Irish Famine and the small fenced hillocks, famine graves, where hundreds of the nameless lie buried. The two women were in the sitting room of a three-room farm cottage in Feakle, County Clare, and most of one wall was taken up by a huge hearth in which a turf fire burned steadily.
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