Leon Dash
@DashDeCosta
Barefoot 🦶🏾boy from Harlem. Lincoln U. (PA) student. WP reporter. Howard U. graduate.👨🏾🎓1 of 44 Founders, NABJ. Africa correspondent. Journalism Prof.
News veteran Edith Chapin says she is stepping down as editor in chief of NPR of her own accord. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…
Edith Chapin is leaving her post at National Public Radio. NPR CEO Katherine Maher said decision came ahead of the Senate’s vote to pass President Donald Trump’s rescission bill, which stripped the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of $1.1 billion. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…
The MAGA base has rallied as they see him under attack. The White House is trying to change the subject. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
Save the Date: Yes, Black People in the Pacific Like -Fresh Prince- and Tyler Perry, Too - journal-isms.com/save-the-date-…
PEPFAR, the campaign to end H.I.V. globally, would morph into an effort to detect disease outbreaks and sell American products, according to documents obtained by The Times. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/hea… via @NYTimes
Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in the spring that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to three people with knowledge of the exchange. nytimes.com/live/2025/07/2… via @NYTimes
After focusing his second-term ire on other individuals and institutions, President Trump is again seeking prosecution of his most prominent rivals — this time with aides more inclined to carry out his wishes. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/…
History forgot the horrors endured by slave laborers on the automaker’s massive cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon. But a priest had recorded it all. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
The Trump administration said it was protecting Americans unjustly held abroad. One of the rescued men, Dahud Hanid Ortiz, killed three people, according to court documents. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/wor… via @NYTimes
New Jersey’s federal judges declined to appoint Alina Habba to continue in her role as acting U.S. attorney. The Justice Department fired the prosecutor the courts chose to replace her. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
A spokesperson for Obama said that while the office “does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” the Trump administration’s new “bizarre” and “ridiculous” allegations warranted one. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
Massachusetts is reacting to the Trump administration’s attack on offshore wind by holding regular talks with Canada about the possibility of renewable energy partnerships. newbedfordlight.org/o-canada-massa…
Public dissent prompted Mayor Jon Mitchell to back off his plan to close the nation’s only Portuguese-language focused public library. Casa da Saudade will remain open — at reduced hours — after widespread outrage. newbedfordlight.org/after-public-o…
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Remember all of those hefty handouts Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski won in exchange for sealing the deal on Donald Trump’s behemoth budget bill? It looks like the president has found a way to get out of delivering. “I feel cheated." trib.al/kKjOO4F
Krissah Thompson Leaving Washington Post - journal-isms.com/krissah-thomps…
Agents are arresting immigrants in cities such as Los Angeles and New York. Their expanding reach has sparked concern in law enforcement and immigrant communities. washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…
Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September in order to head off Democratic demands for votes calling for the release of files from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. nytimes.com/live/2025/07/2… via @NYTimes
The decision is the White House’s latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
