Prominent Australian journalist has been kicked out of India because of her reporting

The number was revised closer to 300 bodies. If Israel and Egypt let the int’l press in you’d have throngs of TV reporters tonight doing live shots on the edge of this mass grave. cnn.com/middleeast/liv…

meanwhile, in the more important colombia, biggest protests to date against the petro government.

It’s Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by the FSB Mar 29, 2023.

1 year & 25 days ago

An empty space at our Seder table last night for Evan.

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“Friends still get a kick out of a story about how Johnson once told Trump that he was praying for him, to which the then-president responded: ‘Thank you, Mike. Tell God I said hi.’” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

JUST IN: Columbia & Barnard faculty hold walkout in protest of the school's decision to call the police on pro-Palestine students.

Enjoying every second of this 🍿

The liberal college is engaged in a 'civil war' as professors are taking sides in the Israel-Hamas war, with 54

Trump now trying to create a split screen of the scene outside the courthouse vs the scene at Columbia

Review of UN agency helping Palestinian refugees found Israel did not express concern about staff (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/28a63d…

How Trump was convinced not to object to the Ukrainian aid package. Great by Vivian Salama wsj.com/politics/polic…

Good story from Vivian Salama on how Mike Johnson, Lindsey Graham and others got Trump's ear on Ukraine wsj.com/politics/polic…

President Biden spoke with Ukraine's President Zelensky following the passage of the security supplemental in the House.

Columbia University was holding classes virtually Monday, while police have arrested some students demonstrating at Yale University, as protests over the Israel-Hamas war continue to engulf college campuses wsj.com/us-news/educat… via The Wall Street Journal

Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as US advances aid package apnews.com/article/israel…

New in Punchbowl News AM — Is Biden the real winner of the 118th Congress?

Despite GOP House, Biden has gotten pretty much everything he’s asked for from this Congress w/o having to concede much in return, even with the months-long Ukraine delay.

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The lawmakers’ plan was to expand on the idea of the loan, and make it Trump’s idea, so that he would embrace it. Trump, officials said, was open to the idea—so long as the U.S. is guaranteed something in return. wsj.com/politics/polic…

'The lawmakers’ plan was to expand on the idea of the loan, and make it Trump’s idea, so that he would embrace it.'

Why Donald Trump Didn’t Sink Mike Johnson’s Ukraine-Aid Bill - ⁦Vivian Salama⁩ wsj.com/politics/polic…

Why Donald Trump Didn’t Sink Mike Johnson’s Ukraine-Aid Bill wsj.com/politics/polic…

New Darfur Attacks Feed Concerns Over More Large-Scale Violence wsj.com/world/africa/n…

Finland Long Believed It Could Tame Russia. Now Moscow Is Enemy No. 1.— I did a similar story from the Norwegian-Russian border last year. They find themselves walking a fine line between basic border cooperation and their decision to stand up to Russia wsj.com/world/europe/f…