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Dan Lamothe

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Oct 3

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NEW: After Hurricane Ian, working-class Pine Island braces for extended misery

My story from an island asking for more help.

Featuring an appearance by @chefjoseandres and the stories of numerous folks doing what they can with what they have.

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Some scenes from the ground to follow. First, here's the only bridge heading from mainland Florida to Pine Island.

Here's some of the damage in village of Matlacha, a fishing village heading to Pine Island.

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Dan Lamothe

@DanLamothe

Oct 1

SCOOP: In their first long-form interview since being released in a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine, U.S. military veterans Alex Drueke and Andy Tai Huynh detail their capture by Russian forces, weeks of beatings, and their unexpected release.

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I met Alex and Andy this week in rural Alabama, which Andy calls home. Their extremely close, occasionally finishing each other's sentences. And they're still piecing together what happened.

Alex says that after an unexpected firefight north of Kharkiv, he and Alex were sent to look for missing teammates. Then the Americans were "abandoned" in the woods while looking for them, he said.

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Dan Lamothe

@DanLamothe

Sep 12

The Pentagon held another backgrounder today about the war in Ukraine.

Given the quick-changing dynamics and array of Ukrainian success in recent days, a thread today on what is Day 201 since Russian’s invasion:

Up front: Pentagon officials acknowledge that Ukrainian forces have pushed deep into the Kharkiv region in recent days. But they are being very vague about it, citing operational security.

“Speculating on how far they will go, or what their plans are, that’s really something for them to talk about,” a senior U.S. military official said today of the offensive Ukrainian forces have planned.

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Dan Lamothe

@DanLamothe

Aug 27

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1563364355701321729

This is becoming a talking point, I see. Of course, it overlooks a very key detail: Even a cursory reading reveals that this story wasn't just about the horrifying bombing. It was about the whole awful 17-day evacuation, from the fall of Kabul on. The whole, bloody disaster.

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1563364355701321729

To compile this story, I talked to 14 service members on the record, and more off. That work came on the heels of a series of stories earlier this year that detailed how frustrated U.S. troops were with the situation, right up to the top commanders overseeing the mission.

You expect knives out in this business. Yesterday, for instance, there were Biden supporters who took exception to this story's subhead, which used the word "treacherous" to describe the very dangerous, unpredictable operation. It was an accurate description. It remains so.

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Dan Lamothe

@DanLamothe

Aug 24

EXCLUSIVE: Fourteen U.S. service members recall the violent U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan last year, adding new layers of understanding and heartbreak to a seminal moment in the Biden administration.

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I’ve been working on this story for months, looking for ways to advance understanding of what happened at Kabul’s airport as it became a hellscape last summer. I wanted to hear as much as possible from rank-and-file, whose voice has often been missing from the discussion.

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As part of this project, @washingtonpost also has produced a separate, full episode of its Post Reports podcast. It is here, where you can here from some of these service members in their own words.

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