Ben Pershing
@benpershing
Supervising Editor @CNN Washington Bureau. Former @WSJ, @nationaljournal, @washingtonpost & @rollcall. @UCBerkeley alum. L.A. native. Vin Scully forever.
Finally, we hit back.
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Scoop: The Trump administration is moving to rapidly deport some migrant children who arrived in the US without a parent or guardian by having federal agents ask teens whether they want to voluntarily depart the country, I'm told. cnn.com/2025/07/23/pol…
Sources: @ChmnMendelson close to announcing a deal with @Commanders that will change some of financial terms of @MayorBowser original deal and open door for @councilofdc vote within days after public hearings. @nbcwashington
NEWS from @priscialva: The Trump administration is moving to rapidly deport some migrant children who arrived in the US without a parent or guardian by having federal agents ask teens whether they want to voluntarily leave the country. cnn.com/2025/07/23/pol…
Glass Break: Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) announced y-day he was leaving WaPo after 25 years. Alison Cotsonika, The Athletic's senior managing editor, NFL, sent this letter to staff welcoming him as new NFL managing editor. Subscribe to @fos TunedIn: frontofficesports.com/newsletters/tu…
Trump’s Justice Department seeks voter rolls from Michigan, a key battleground cnn.com/2025/07/23/pol…
The IG’s possession of the document with its original classification markings appears to further undercut Hegseth’s claims that nothing classified was shared in the Signal chat Also confirms what we reported back in March -- that the details shared were classified at time:…
New: The Pentagon’s inspector general has received evidence that the military plans shared from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Signal account were taken from a US Central Command document that was marked classified at the time, sources tell me and @ZcohenCNN The Pentagon…
Pentagon watchdog has evidence Hegseth’s Signal messages included classified information, sources say cnn.com/2025/07/23/pol…
NEW Huge gender gap in party ID among young people in @pewresearch's annual benchmarking survey (NPORS). Under 30 men: 52% identify w/ (or lean toward) GOP vs. just 34% who align with Democrats Women: 58% ID as Democrats (or lean Dem), 37% align w/ GOP. pewresearch.org/methods/fact-s…
Rep. Clay Higgins, the GOP chairman of the Oversight subcommittee, just told me that he expects D motion to subpoena the Epstein files to pass his panel. “I do,” he said, anticipating some GOP support, though he doesn’t back the measure. He said there could be some amendments
The role of “Elon Musk” has been cast in the big OpenAI-Sam Altman movie starring Andrew Garfield from Amazon Studios. Elon will be played by….wait for it…Ike Barinholtz (Sal Saperstein from The Studio).
Too much moose meat and antlers caused a plane crash in Alaska that killed congresswoman’s husband, the NTSB reports cnn.com/2025/07/23/us/…
ESPN and the NFL are inside the 5-yard line on another ground-breaking deal for ESPN to acquire NFL Media, the arm of the league that focuses on content and runs the NFL Network. nytimes.com/athletic/65097…
This is great news. Welcome to the DC enterprise team, @ikhurshudyan.
Isabelle Khurshudyan has joined CNN as Senior Enterprise Reporter/Writer. Welcome, @ikhurshudyan! More: bit.ly/44MaMSh
NEW: Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group is making a last-minute bid for The Dallas Morning News, which reached a deal with Hearst earlier this month. MediaNews offering $16.50 a share to Hearst's $14 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…
Key GOP congressman says he doesn't think Trump can block sale of stadium to the Commanders cnn.com/politics/live-…
