New: A Times investigation reveals how lax government oversight allowed shadowy oil tankers, covered by American insurance, to move $2.8 billion in Iranian oil since last year.

By Christiaan Triebert Blacki Migliozzi Alexander Cardia David Botti and me

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Delighted to share this news:

Some news: In a couple weeks, I’ll be joining the The New York Times Visual Investigations team. I’m very excited to work with some of the most innovative and talented investigative journalists out there.

Update! I’m very, very excited to join The New York Times and this incredible team.

It's a -30- for me with NBC News and NBC Politics after seven years and countless stories. Thank you Catherine Kim and Chris Berend. Thank you Tom Namako, and @ggbirnbaum and David Firestone. Thank you to my reporters, my editors, my friends.

So wonderful to get a call from the wonderful Sandy Close this morning to hear that the story is on page 21 of the The New York Times. Pinching myself!

Officials say the city discovered the broken mainline pipe in 2016 and left it to gush, even as the water gouged out a swimming pool-size crater in the earth and city residents were forced to endure one drinking water crisis after another.

My latest on Jackson water:

Me news: I'm joining Tampa Bay Times as a senior reporter on March 27. I'll write watchdog stories about state and local police, prisons and jails, DeSantis' election crimes office and more. I'll also craft trainings and essays for Poynter Institute. Excited to start this new role!

Super excited to welcome our new news applications editor at Reuters: the one and only Ben Welsh. Buckle your seatbelts, people. Can’t wait to see what he does!

A bit of news here. I’m thrilled to be joining ⁦The New York Times⁩ as a Supreme Court reporter. I’m so grateful for my colleagues and friends ⁦The Marshall Project⁩ and ⁦UC Berkeley IRP⁩, and I’m looking forward to getting started. nytco.com/press/abbie-va…

Today I start my first week covering NYPD for the The New York Times! Please send any tips and ideas to maria.cramerThe New York Times.com.

!! Nassau County GOP chair Joe Cairo says @Santos4Congress told him he was a star on the Baruch College volleyball team

A recent Times study showed that between 2019 and '21, 97 lawmakers reported trades by themselves or immediate family members in stocks or other financial assets that intersected with the work of committees on which they served. That piece: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Former Senator Richard Burr announced that the SEC's investigation of his Covid trades had been closed today. A parallel matter involving his brother-in-law over the same issues was also closed. No explanation was provided. #SEC #Burr
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Even Judy Blume had a hard time telling the difference between essays by Chat-GPT-3 and real kids. Try for yourself in this quiz from Claire Cain Miller + Adam Playford + Aaron Krolik + Larry Buchanan (with extra-terrific LB art)

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NEW: We found that recalled toys can still be purchased weeks or months after they were deemed dangerous by US Consumer Product Safety Commission
➡️More than a third of the toys recalled this year are being offered on Facebook Marketplace, eBay, and other third-party sellers
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NEW: As the country's two largest chlorine producers battle to continue using asbestos at their plants, workers are speaking up. “There was nothing safe about it,” one worker told me and Neil Bedi.

Our latest for ProPublica: propublica.org/article/asbest…

New: She scraped dry asbestos off the locker room floor and threw away workers’ protective suits... She said she was offered no protective gear herself, and worked around asbestos even when she was pregnant.
w/ Kathleen McGrory ProPublica photos by Rich-Joseph Facun
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Thinking of everyone and everything affected by Gannett layoffs. For those who were working on a local investigative story, or had plans to get into investigative reporting, apply for The New York Times's Local Investigations Fellowship (remote). nytimes.com/localinvestiga…

What a week in Florida

On Wednesday we learn Pinellas School Board candidate Dawn Peters took the Qanon oath, shared a tweet saying 9/11 was a hoax

Now the Florida surgeon general aligns with a QAnon pushing conspiracy show

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