Alice Crites
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Researcher/Librarian/Journalist at The Washington Post.
Joined March 2018
Legal drinking age in Maryland changed to 21 when Brett Kavanaugh was 17 years old:
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Don’t forget the 20% service charge @Fahrenthold even though they served themselves.
Good point. Trump Org says it charges the US govt only “at cost” — but in reality, charged the govt $18.62 for each glass of liquor that White House staffers drank at Mar-a-Lago.
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“One prevalent issue remains lingering, whether President Trump still considers Mar-a-Lago Club his residence. He still can’t have it both ways. It’s either a club or a residence — not both . If he resides there, he will have to close the club.”
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@Timcast @TaylorLorenz Dude, New York State provides those licenses with the office address for the public to look up on a state website so people can check if a person is properly licensed. Lots of people and the company listed the same office address. You are wrong.
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The government fought us for two years to keep these records a secret. We sued, and won.
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BREAKING: Georgia certifies Ossoff and Warnock victories, paving way for Democratic control of Senate. By @AmyEGardner @ericawerner.
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"In 1982, the court determined that removing books from a school library because certain people simply disliked the ideas contained in those books violated the First Amendment rights of students"
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The selfie photos that off-duty officers took inside the Capitol during the siege were a wake-up call for many who have long denied the extent of ties to extremist groups. By @kimberlykindy @markberman @bellwak.
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NEW via @partlowj @thamburger @CarolLeonnig: Former Trump club employee says management kept her off Secret Service screening list because she is undocumented
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NEW: At donor dinner, Giuliani associate said he discussed Ukraine with Trump, according to people familiar with his account by @PostRoz @mattzap @thamburger @jdawsey1
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Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Arizona lawmakers to help reverse Trump’s loss, emails show @emmersbrown
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SCOOP: Graham’s post-election call with Raffensperger will be scrutinized in Georgia probe, person familiar with inquiry says.By @AmyEGardner @thamburger @jdawsey1.
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Confidentiality is enshrined in the Census Act, which says the Commerce Department, which oversees the survey, cannot share the data with any other government agency or court.
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“I don’t understand why we are still having these (debates) in person,” an infectious disease expert told @michaelscherer. Next up: VP debate Wednesday night.
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Maybe he'll even register to vote this year! You think someone with dragon energy and personal assistants could manage it.
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"“You can hear his voice and the voices of men speaking Arabic,” this person said. “You can hear how he was interrogated, tortured and then murdered.” A second person briefed on the recording said men could be heard beating Khashoggi."
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U.S. generals who directed the war in Afghanistan have thrived in the private sector -- none more than Stanley McChrystal, who has made millions consulting, speaking and sitting on corporate boards since Obama dismissed him, via @isaacstanbecker .
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In Georgia, get-out-the-vote operations that helped Biden win haven’t stopped, via @MsVanessaW and @ReisThebault.
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“Usually when emails are leaked, what investigators look for is the actual email file, and we don’t have that here”
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Why a small-town restaurant owner asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave — and would do it again
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Pope: “We see it happening again now in rallies where populist leaders excite and harangue crowds, channeling their resentments and hatreds against imagined enemies to distract from the real problems.”
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NEW: Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Arizona lawmakers to help overturn Trump’s defeat, emails show @emmersbrown
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“Historians will long remember that America’s moral compass in this time of trial was a frozen meat company,” declared Denver television anchor Kyle Clark.
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Trump allies work to place supporters in key election posts across the country, spurring fears about future vote challenges .By @AmyeGardner @thamburger @jdawsey1 .
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Here are the Trump projects where Ivanka and her dad misled buyers
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A female classmate added: “I am so sorry we all failed you when you needed help.” And another: “I’m disgusted by my own behavior at the time and I apologize.”
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WaPo’s Moore-Veritas team @PulitzerPrizes with @ericrich @mccrummenWaPo @byaaroncdavis @bethreinhard @ShawnBoburg & David Finkel. So proud to be part of this amazing story and amazing team.
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NEW via @PostRoz @thamburger @CarolLeonnig: Russians interacted with at least 14 Trump associates during the campaign and transition
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NEW: Capitol Police intelligence report warned three days before attack that ‘Congress itself’ could be targeted.By @CarolLeonnig .
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NEW: Secret Service plans to ramp up protection of Biden in anticipation of his possible win by @CarolLeonnig
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‘Reverse Freedom Rides’: An echo of Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights 60 years ago - last time they were organized by white supremacist Citizens’ Councils and now by GOP governors
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NEW: Two proposed bills would impose a 20% tax on revenue earned by manufacturers of assault weapons and would require firearm manufacturers implement a system to track crimes committed with guns they have sold. via @JaxAlemany
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Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, via @jonswaine @byaaroncdavis @amyegardner & @emmersbrown
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‘How’d you find me?’: Mark Judge has been holed up in a beach house in Delaware amid a media firestorm via @Gabriel_Pogrund @CarolLeonnig @byaaroncdavis
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NY Post is really confused about what happened between James O'Keefe and The Washington Post
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Trump uses power of the presidency to try to overturn the election and stay in office, by @PhilipRucker @AmyEGardner @jdawsey1.
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NEWS - Trump withdraws Mar-a-Lago dock plan 3 days after @washingtonpost reports his proposal during Covid crisis raised questions about legality of him changing official residence to Florida. via @RoigFranzia
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LaPierre told associates he was worried about being targeted and needed a more secure place to live after 17 people were gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the people said. @CarolLeonnig @bethreinhard
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White House plans a packed season of holiday parties amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials and guests say. @jdawsey1
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On at least 15 occasions, the president barreled over those who told him to accept his loss and instead took actions to circumvent the democratic process and set the nation on a course for violence, according to the J6 committee’s evidence. Via @PostRoz.
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Thank you Josh! We are lucky to work for a media organization that still supports researchers and librarians.
This is the kind of story where it's important to credit @alice_crites. No one in the business is better at helping track people down, and the Post (and all of us) are so lucky to have her.
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"Part of the character of the 'big lie' is that it turns the powerful person into the victim," he says. "And then that allows the powerful person to actually exact revenge, like it's a promise for the future."
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is being fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots.
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Thank you Margaret! I am just honored to be part of the best news organization out there.
Sometimes at the end of an especially impressive @washingtonpost piece of reporting like this one, you'll see the italicized name @alice_crites or @JulieATate, both incredibly skilled journalists with a specialty in research. This story has both of them.
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“It’s such a different standard of justice,” said Cecile Scoon, president of the League of Women Voters of Florida. “The people in The Villages got such nice treatment. They didn’t have SWAT teams coming to their front door.”
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NEW: Trump keeps touting New Jersey fraud case to attack mail voting. Local leaders say he’s not telling the whole story. By @PostRoz
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Mo Brooks has faced intense scrutiny over his fiery speech on Jan. 6. But a Post review of his tweets, speeches and court filings reveal the key part he also played in the lead-up to the insurrection. via @PostKranish .
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Cassidy Hutchinson's path from trusted insider to explosive witness. via @PostKranish @JDawsey1 @JaxAlemany @Eugene_Scott .
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Trump Org partner accused of setting up a fraudulent web of companies and entities and phony charges to divert more than $147 million into their own pockets.
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Federal prosecutors leading a criminal probe have sought financial records of fundraising groups Sidney Powell set up as she challenged the 2020 election. via @IsaacStanBecker @emmersbrown @PostRoz.
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Essential timeline in advance of today's Senate hearing on the 1/6 riot : How law enforcement and government officials failed to head off the U.S. Capitol attack.Via @byaaroncdavis + @washingtonpost staff:.
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@KFILE You should make her birthday an online fundraiser for ATRT cancer research. Team Beans is very large and motivated.
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Roy Moore issues grievance-laden plea for money: ‘My resources have been depleted’
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The White House is debating how to vaccinate the world, and officials like Tony Fauci want Biden to take a harder line with pharma companies that control vaccine patents. by @ddiamond and @JStein_WaPo.
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‘Find the fraud’: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction by @AmyEGardner
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RNC paid nearly half a million dollars to law firm representing Hope Hicks and others in Russia probes, via @myhlee @anu_narayan:
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EXCLUSIVE: Sidney Powell’s secret witness Spyder is an IT consultant. He told The Post he never worked in military intelligence. With @emmersbrown & @byaaroncdavis .
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“The real takeaway from this is the state of Georgia is using a methodology for maintaining its voter rolls that is both more expensive and less accurate than what industry would use to maintain a high-quality mailing list"
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Biden today will unveil a $775 billion plan for universal preschool, child care and elder care, via @annielinskey and @mviser
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In wake of 2020 election, Democratic senators urge Biden to expand voting rights protections. By @AmyEGardner
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"He clearly calculated that any admission of blacking out, or anything less than 100 percent recall, would discredit his denial of the sexual misconduct allegations."
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Cawthorn was homeschooled all the way up through high school so that is his only experience, he never went to a public or private school.
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Trump, under fire for alleged comments about veterans, has a long history of disparaging military service, @PostKranish reports.
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At a fundraiser Thursday night, Trump said dealing with officials in his own government was more difficult than dealing with North Korea or Russia or China. Inside his years-long frustration with the civil service, by @reinlwapo @jdawsey1 @ToluseO:
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. “There is no limit to how much Donald Trump can pay himself or any member of his family under ‘Save America’”
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CDC wrote a 450-page manual for handling public health crises. Trump is breaking every rule. "They have literally thrown out the book.” by @Carolynyjohnson & @thewanreport
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I think of my mother, a refugee, all the time. This is the stamp in her childhood passport that saved her life. The Nazis had invaded her country earlier that month. She eventually became a British citizen before immigrating to the US.
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Lots of seniors have already voted and the intentional postal service slowdown may cause the mailings to miss the election deadline.
EXCLUSIVE: Officials are racing to finalize Trump’s promised “drug-discount cards” before Election Day. Taxpayer-funded plan could include letters from Trump to 39 million Medicare patients *next week*, touting effort to lower their drug prices.
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A majority of GOP nominees on the ballot this November – 299 in all – deny the 2020 election results. Although some will lose, most are expected to win, with big implications for 2024 and for American democracy. A WP exclusive from @AmyEGardner.
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At least 163 Republicans who have embraced Trump’s false fraud claims are running for statewide positions with authority over elections, according to a @washingtonpost tally @AshleyRParker @AmyEGardner @jdawsey1.
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The Washington Post wrote about this very topic on Sept 3, 1993 @ktumulty @CheriJacobus :
@CheriJacobus Not true. I covered the Hill from 1983 to 1996 (with the exception of 1988-1992). Think @jackiekcalmes can back me up on this as well.
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Trump and his White House minimize pandemic surge as he focuses on denying election loss, by @AshleyRParker @jdawsey1 @yabutaleb7 @PhilipRucker.
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Eight minutes with the president: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the lone Palestinian American in Congress, gains relevance in Israel debate, by @PostKranish
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“mounting anecdotal evidence indicates that lost or reduced sense of smell and loss of taste are significant symptoms associated with Covid-19, and that they have been seen in patients who ultimately tested positive with no other symptoms”
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“In the past, the IRS audited virtually every tax return filed by large corporations and rejected tax breaks it deemed inappropriate”
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So happy and honored to be part of this . .
Our story of a vet’s 50-year quest to find & thank two “Donut Dollies” of the Vietnam War drew hundreds of tips, tearful calls & emails. With help from the great @alice_crites we found them
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The Post collected data on nearly 40,000 settlements at 25 of the nation’s largest police and sheriff’s departments within the past decade to uncover thousands of police officers whose alleged repeated misconduct cost taxpayers $1.5 billion.
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New financial-disclosure reports released by the Supreme Court show the justices were paid thousands to teach at law schools and give speeches @amarimow & @emmersbrown
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A Saudi company wanted to conserve the kingdom's water. So it came to Arizona to farm instead. An investigation into how that happened — and why the company's deal might now be in jeopardy -- from @isaacstanbecker @partlowj @yvonnewingett.
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The Senate will hold a hearing Aug. 3 on @SenatorCollins and @Sen_JoeManchin's bill to update the Electoral Count Act. But two leading Democratic lawyers, @marceelias and @NormEisen, raised concerns about the text. @theodoricmeyer @LACaldwellDC @tobiaraji
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As Trump appointees flout the Hatch Act, civil servants who get caught get punished. By @Reinlwapo.
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NEW via @PostRoz @jdawsey1 @roigfranzia: Stone associate Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel, according to a person with knowledge of the talks
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"Judge and his high school buddies went on to create a newspaper called the Heretic, a riff on their school newspaper the Saint. One of the main objectives of the paper . was to chronicle 'the 100-keg quest and everything that happened on the way.' "
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Echoes of Watergate: Trump's appointees reveal his push to topple the Justice Department. via @PostKranish @PostRoz .
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North Dakota's hospitals are desperate for nurses. But a broken immigration system is blocking the way. via @ReinLWapo .
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NEW: Giuliani discussed interests of a former Ukrainian client during summer meeting with top Zelensky aide by @postroz @paulsonne @loydstern @jdawsey1
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When media organizations projected Joe Biden had won the presidency, Republican attorney Cleta Mitchell appeared on Fox News with her own projection: The election was far from over. By @PostKranish @thamburger.
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Project Veritas claimed James O’Keefe risked group’s nonprofit status.A @washingtonpost exclusive from @isaacstanbecker
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NEW: How Trump drove the lie that the election was stolen, undermining voter trust in the outcome by @AmyEGardner
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U.S. firms shipped millions of dollars of face masks and other protective medical gear to China in January and February with encouragement from federal officials, per a Post analysis. By @eilperin @JStein_WaPo @desmondbutler @thamburger and @andrewvandam
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Federal judge guts Florida law requiring felons to pay all fines and fees before they can register to vote.
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