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Axios
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- Axios
Champion your neighborhood news
Few pieces of surprise mail have delighted me quite like the Calvert Street Loop, a print quarterly spearheaded by my D.C. neighbors who had a quirky idea. Zoom in: We at Axios are fans of local journalism, but this publication is hyper local. Its circulation includes the doormats and mailboxes of residences on just three streets in my charming Adams Morgan neighborhood. Catch up quick: The Calvert Street Loop founders are a bunch of 20-somethings living in group houses who wanted to feel more connected to their community, the Washington Post reported in a recent profile. Only one of the publication's creators is a working journalist, whose tweet about the project instantly went viral. In true anti-Zoom spirit, these entrepreneurial Gen Zers threw an in-person party at a park in tandem with the inaugural edition. The big picture: The quarterly print publication has put out two issues so far. They've included a letter from the editor, a news story or two, a recipe, an advice column, recommendations, poems, a crossword, and classifieds (fake and real). It required very little money, advertising or marketing — and it's a hit. I can't wait for the next edition. Zoom in: The latest issue had reporting on the history of our local Walter Pierce Park, which was once an African American and Quaker cemetery. There was also a weekend itinerary pointing to coffee shops and restaurants unlikely to be on any trendy list and a convenient schedule showing meeting times and places for local pickleball, tennis, volleyball and running groups. Try it! Here's how they did it: The first edition cost under $500 and was supported by "a donation from a decades-long resident of Calvert Street NW." The DIY website delivered 350 copies. The global organization Awesome Foundation has committed funding for at least two more editions. The intrigue: Young people may be keeping the spirit of print media alive. Another project, The Ditch Weekly, is run by teens and does seasonal coverage of Montauk in the Hamptons, the New York Times recently reported. The paper's staff has grown for its second summer of publishing, with the goal to distribute "2,000 copies of the paper a week through Labor Day, funded entirely by ad sales."
Los Angeles Times
an hour ago
- Los Angeles Times
Scientist and green-card holder detained at SFO for more than a week, lawyer says
A Texas Lyme-disease researcher who came to the U.S. from South Korea at age 5 and is a longtime legal permanent resident was detained at San Francisco International Airport for a week, according to his lawyer. Tae Heung 'Will' Kim, 40, was returning from his brother's wedding in South Korea on July 21 when he was pulled out of secondary screening for unknown reasons, said Eric Lee, an attorney who says he's been unable to talk with his client. Lee said that he has no idea where Kim is now and that Kim has not been allowed to communicate with anyone aside from a brief call last week to his family. A Senate office told him that Kim was being moved to an immigration facility in Texas, while a representative from the Korean Consulate told Kim's family that he was going to be sent somewhere else. 'We have no idea where he is going to end up,' Lee said. 'We have no idea why.' Kim has misdemeanor marijuana possession charges from 2011 on his record, but his lawyer questioned whether that was the kind of offense that would merit being held in a windowless room underneath the terminals at the airport for a week. Representatives from the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the L.A. Times. But a spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection told the Washington Post, which first reported the story, that 'this alien is in ICE custody pending removal hearings.' The spokesperson also said: 'If a green card holder is convicted of a drug offense, violating their status, that person is issued a Notice to Appear and CBP coordinates detention space with [Immigration and Customs Enforcement].' Kim's attorney said if his client was detained because he 'had a little weed when he was pulled over 15 years ago in his 20s,' that was absurd, adding: 'If every American who had a tiny amount of weed in their car was detained under these conditions…' Kim's mother, Yehoon 'Sharon' Lee, told the Washington Post that she was worried about her son's health in custody. 'He's had asthma ever since he was younger,' she told the Washington Post. 'I don't know if he has enough medication. He carries an inhaler, but I don't know if it's enough, because he's been there a week.' His mother told the paper that she and her husband entered the U.S. on business visas in the 1980s but by the time they became naturalized citizens, Kim was too old to get automatic citizenship. Kim has a green card and has spent most of his life in the U.S. After helping out in his family's doll-manufacturing business after the death of his father, he recently entered a doctoral program at Texas A&M and is helping to research a vaccine for Lyme disease. There have been multiple reports nationwide of U.S. permanent residents being detained at airports, particularly those with criminal records, no matter how minor. These cases have prompted some experts to warn that green-card holders should avoid leaving the country, to reduce the risk of not being allowed back.
CNN
6 hours ago
- CNN
Analysis: Trump says Epstein poached young women from Mar-a-Lago. That raises new questions about what he knew.
President Donald Trump wants to move on from his administration's fiasco over the Jeffrey Epstein files, but he keeps hampering that effort by opening his mouth. The most recent instance has to do with precisely why the two men had a falling out about two decades ago. Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that the employees who he said Monday that Epstein poached from him, triggering their breakup, were young women who worked in the spa at his Mar-a-Lago club. 'The answer is yes, they were,' he told reporters on Air Force One while traveling back from Scotland. The answer doesn't just call into question Trump's honesty about his relationship with Epstein, but also his potential knowledge of the accused sex trafficker's misconduct. (Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.) A day earlier, the president said they'd fallen out because Epstein 'stole people that worked for me' – including after he had warned Epstein not to do it again. But Trump had made no mention of the employees being young women. And the White House last week had said Trump barred Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club 'for being a creep.' (Trump on Tuesday said the two reasons were 'sort of a little bit of the same thing.') But back in 2019, reporting traced their fallout to another factor entirely: the two powerful real estate men competing for the same Palm Beach property. It's clear that this is something of a sensitive subject. After Epstein's arrest in 2019, Trump declined to go into detail about their falling out, telling reporters, 'The reason doesn't make any difference, frankly.' But it surely does now. So where does the truth lie? Trump was the most forthcoming so far on Tuesday. Epstein hired away Mar-a-Lago spa employees more than once, Trump said, even after being warned against it, prompting him to cut ties with Epstein and throw him out of the club. 'I said, 'Listen, we don't want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa,'' Trump told reporters. 'And then not too long after that he did it again and I said, 'outta here.'' He also acknowledged that one of those employees may have been Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's most prominent accusers, who died by suicide earlier this year. 'I think she worked at the spa,' Trump said. 'I think that was one of the people, yeah. He stole her.' With these answers, there's clear overlap between Trump's account Monday and what the White House said last week. 'I wouldn't talk [to him] because he did something that was inappropriate. He hired help,' Trump said of Epstein on Monday, adding: 'He stole people that worked for me. I said, 'Don't ever do that again.' He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non-grata. I threw him out, and that was it.' And last week, the White House communications director said: 'The fact is that the president kicked [Epstein] out of his club for being a creep.' Both of those accounts differ from the falling out that's portrayed in a 2019 Washington Post report about the two men competing for a bankrupted oceanfront property called Maison de l'Amitié – a process that included plenty of hardnosed tactics. (The first Trump White House at the time did not comment on or deny that story.) When asked by CNN on Tuesday to reconcile these accounts, the White House said, 'Nothing more to add to POTUS' comments.' There are still plenty of unanswered questions. Trump casting Epstein as merely having stolen employees – even young women from the spa – would be a pretty shocking way to characterize recruiting someone into a sex-trafficking ring. The whole thing certainly adds to questions about what Trump knew and when about Epstein's activities. Those questions had already been relevant for a host of reasons. There's the infamous 2002 Trump comment about how Epstein 'likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.' There's the Florida businessman who has said he expressed discomfort to Trump about putting on a 'calendar girl' event with Epstein. 'I said, 'Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can't have him going after younger girls,' he recalled telling Trump, according to The New York Times. And then there's longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone's 2016 book, in which he quoted Trump citing how Epstein's 'swimming pool was full of beautiful young girls.' 'How nice, I thought,' Trump said, according to Stone, 'he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.' And then there's another reported scene at Mar-a-Lago. A 2020 book by reporters for the Miami Herald and Wall Street Journal reported that Trump actually severed ties with Epstein after he hit on a Mar-a-Lago member's teenage daughter. 'The way this person described it, such an act could irreparably harm the Trump brand, leaving Donald no choice but to remove Epstein,' one of the book's authors said. What's particularly striking here is the timeline. In former Trump aide Sam Nunberg's telling to the Washington Post in 2019, Trump's excommunication of Epstein from his club for recruiting a young woman for massages came years before Epstein's sex-trafficking investigation became public knowledge. That would mean years before 2005. But that — and Trump's own comments Tuesday – suggest the president might have known something unsavory was going on before a lot of other people did. Giuffre, after all, was a teenaged employee during the relevant period. The president doesn't seem to want to talk about that. But as with so many of his other answers on Epstein, that only leads to more questions.
