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Erin Cunningham

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🪬Middle East News Editor @washingtonpost; previous life as a correspondent in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. Now in D.C. All the pieces matter.

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Erin Cunningham·Apr 14

Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Erin Cunningham·Jan 10

A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Erin Cunningham·Dec 8

Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination, two senior army officers told Reuters www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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“Sending an email, having a conversation with a colleague, putting together a PowerPoint — sub-tasks will increasingly become digitized, automated, and we can basically generate more and more of them.” Exactly what the world needs… more emails and PowerPoint presentations. apple.news/A10bSJXPFRlO...

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Erin Cunningham·Jun 1

Scott Pelley is a national treasure. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

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Erin Cunningham·May 22

Mullin’s proposal, which would cut federal screening of international passengers and cargo at airports in cities with “sanctuary” policies, “appears to reflect a thin grasp of global-travel logistics….” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Erin Cunningham·May 21

Sanctions were lifted after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a suit brought by Albanese’s husband and daughter, who is a U.S. citizen. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Erin Cunningham·May 20

I forget, who was it that made changes to the Washington Post "product" that caused 300K+ subscribers to stop paying for it?

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Erin Cunningham·May 19

So glad we’re destroying all knowledge for this. www.wired.com/story/google...

In Google’s example of how these can work, a user asks AI Mode through the Google app to keep them “updated when any of my favorite athletes announce sneaker collabs or signature drops.” Then, AI Mode generates an info agent unique to that user, designed to monitor the request. When a new shoe drops that fits these criteria, like A'ja Wilson’s pink Nikes, the user gets a notification alert with critical context and ways to buy the sneaks.
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