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Investigative reporter for The Guardian US “By their fruits, you will know them.” Signal: 929-486-4865 Email: george.joseph@theguardian.com

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Just one in four Americans supports US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
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01.03.2026 23:22 👍 254 🔁 86 💬 32 📌 46
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PGN presenta denuncia por adopciones irregulares en caso que involucra a Consuelo Porras La Procuraduría General de la Nación (PGN) es la primera institución estatal que acciona por posibles adopciones irregulares ocurridas durante el Conflicto Armado Interno en Guatemala, denunciadas por...

#Actualidad | La Procuraduría General de la Nación presentó una denuncia a fin de determinar acciones legales en procesos de adopciones irregulares, que Consuelo Porras habría facilitado.

Lee los detalles en la nota 👇
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18.02.2026 04:13 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

“But why are building owners facing distress today? The answer in most cases is that they borrowed too much to buy buildings at inflated prices, based on an expectation that rents would rise faster than they actually did.”

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

13.02.2026 12:19 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Ghost fleet: How New York City lost control of the tow truck industry The number of unlicensed tow trucks on city streets has increased, putting drivers and pedestrians at risk.

A mob of unlicensed tow truck operators in NYC is quietly growing. They speed through red lights, race to respond to car crashes, and menace city officials

Pedestrians are in danger but the NYPD is doing little to crack down

New @liamquigley.bsky.social investigation

gothamist.com/news/ghost-f...

11.02.2026 12:53 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

04.02.2026 14:07 👍 2044 🔁 648 💬 18 📌 51
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2/ Transcript of the NYT video (available at same link)

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

08.01.2026 14:59 👍 161 🔁 52 💬 4 📌 1
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

Highly important video of the ICE Minnesota shooting.

"The driver ... waves for other [vehicles] to go ahead"

"The agent is not being run over. In fact, his feet are positioned away from the SUV"

"Agents blocked...a physician" from providing medical care.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

08.01.2026 14:56 👍 480 🔁 190 💬 21 📌 9
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Senators claim UnitedHealth is withholding internal documents from inquiry UnitedHealth says it will ‘continue to engage’ with lawmakers who began investigating their involvement in nursing home care after Guardian investigation

NEW: UnitedHealth is withholding key internal documents from senate investigators—according to a new letter from @wyden.senate.gov + @warren.senate.gov

Lawmakers are investigating bonuses UnitedHealth pays to nursing homes that cut hospitalizations for seniors
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

08.01.2026 15:29 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Mayor Adams appears to be in Georgia (the country) for the opening of a new room at a hotel.

22.12.2025 17:03 👍 36 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 4
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Among the newly released files, investigators probing Steve Bannon's role in the "We Build the Wall" scheme found a photo of Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell on Bannon's phone in June 2021. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

23.12.2025 11:29 👍 629 🔁 209 💬 21 📌 15
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Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020

'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

23.12.2025 13:30 👍 5097 🔁 1893 💬 110 📌 117
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Anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr circulates false assertions amid measles outbreak Children’s Health Defense using familiar playbook to defend health secretary as it downplays dangers of disease and exaggerate risks of vaccines, public health experts say

South Carolina is dealing with a measles outbreak. Here is the latest (and first public health story!) from @bymichellersmith.com on how the anti-vaccine group RFK Jr led for years is coming to his defense www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

19.12.2025 17:47 👍 16 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside DoJ’s controversial prosecution of a Texas ‘antifa cell’ charged with terrorism DoJ says a group of protesters at an ICE detention center was part of a terror cell; legal experts say it is an effort to crack down on leftwing groups and deter protesters

New: Inside the Trump administration’s effort to prosecute a group of protesters in Texas with terrorism charges. The case is more complex than the administration has let on, according to a Guardian review of court records and interviews with family www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

18.12.2025 14:49 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Shocker.

@politico.com #Epstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

19.12.2025 15:48 👍 820 🔁 276 💬 100 📌 49

@scotgirl72.bsky.social Hi, this is George Joseph, reporter for The Guardian. Could you please DM me or get in touch? Thank you 🙏

19.12.2025 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly

UnitedHealth sued The Guardian after we reported on bonuses it paid nursing homes that cut hospital transfers for seniors.

We kept reporting.

Now we’re publishing this on allegations that delayed or denied transfers led to the deaths of nursing home residents:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

19.12.2025 15:19 👍 56 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 2
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Analysis: how prices for the cheapest World Cup tickets have rocketed A Guardian study of past ticket prices for the men’s World Cup, compared with current 2026 figures, shows how the barrier for entry has been raised for most fans

NEW: The 2026 #FIFAWorldCup was priced beyond many fans' budgets. Comparing ticket prices dating back to 1994 shows the scale of next summer's mark-up, and where the steepest hikes were felt.

With Andrew Witherspoon, for @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

18.12.2025 15:41 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly

10/ Read our latest report here, which also includes details from four whistleblower complaints that have never previously been made public by the press or government agencies:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

17.12.2025 18:33 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

9/ In the wake of the suit, @theguardian.com stood by its story, and continued its reporting process, which identified these allegations of wrongful nursing home deaths.

17.12.2025 18:31 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics

8/ In June, UnitedHealth sued the Guardian alleging defamation for a previous story about UnitedHealth’s efforts to reduce hospitalizations among nursing home residents. More on that from NYT here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...

17.12.2025 18:30 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

7/ The company says its staff reduce "unnecessary" hospitalizations, which can be dangerous for elderly residents.

Those are hospitalizations the insurance giant would otherwise have to pay for.

17.12.2025 18:29 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

6/ UnitedHealth has denied some of these claims in court and says many of them are “unsubstantiated or based on incomplete or embellished information.” It says it works with nursing homes to deliver care in the “most appropriate setting.”

17.12.2025 18:28 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Cindy Louise Deal Obituary October 23, 2019 - Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes View Cindy Louise Deal's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

5/ Cindy Deal, 58, died because UnitedHealth's Optum and her nursing home failed to hospitalize her for hours after she started foaming at the mouth and appeared to be having a seizure, a lawsuit alleges:
www.lordandstephens.com/obituaries/C...

17.12.2025 18:28 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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4/ A physician’s assistant named Chris Bieniek alleged in a complaint to NY authorities that a nursing home resident died due to “gross negligence” by an Optum employee. The employee refused to hospitalize him—despite his kidney failure, according to texts Bieniek says he shared with investigators.

17.12.2025 18:27 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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3/ Mary Grant, 70, died after UnitedHealth's Optum and her nursing home failed to hospitalize her after she had suffered a traumatic head injury and began vomiting, a lawsuit filed in Ohio alleges.

17.12.2025 18:26 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents

2/ The three cases involve a UnitedHealth partnership initiative that places medical staff from the company’s direct care unit, Optum, inside nursing homes to care for residents insured by the company’s insurance arm.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

17.12.2025 18:25 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly

NEW STORY: Three nursing home residents died because employees of UnitedHealth Group helped delay or deny them critical hospital care, 2 pending lawsuits and a complaint to state authorities have alleged

🧵 on our 6,000 word story below:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

17.12.2025 18:24 👍 48 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 3
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Press arrests used to silence protest coverage in 2025 More than 30 journalists detained, nearly all released without charges or with them quickly dropped

NEW: This year, @pressfreedomtracker.us documented 32 arrests, detention of journalists in the U.S.

- Nearly 90% of the incidents occurred while journalists were covering demonstrations.

- They all also centered around a single issue: immigration.

Read full report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social⬇️

15.12.2025 17:07 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
03.12.2025 14:27 👍 667 🔁 263 💬 36 📌 20
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US schools face big price swings for basics under Amazon’s ‘dynamic pricing’, report claims Amazon calls the report ‘flawed and misleading’ and says it offers lower prices than competitors

Schools across US have agreed to Amazon’s “dynamic pricing” contracts—subjecting them to big price swings for basic supplies, new report finds.

On the same day, Denver Schools paid $114 for a case of markers, but $149 for another.

Amazon disputes the data:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

04.12.2025 14:20 👍 12 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 3