Bob Ortega

Senior writer, CNN Investigations. Retweets and links are not endorsements.

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The oceans are in deep trouble. The Trump administration is ditching a vital deep-sea monitoring system https://t.co/p6bdeu0zid

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Exclusive: How understaffing and DHS policy drives rising deaths in ICE detention centers https://t.co/idTFBKKa30

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Fact check: Hegseth twice made a false claim to Congress about troops being sent to voting places under Biden. It didn't happen https://t.co/bNOoMRNo5o

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US drops to 64th in Reporters Without Border rankings of press freedom: https://t.co/fn1mq2OFMG

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In more than a dozen FBI interviews, victims told authorities Epstein or Maxwell facilitated sexual encounters with his rich and powerful friends. They named more than a half dozen other men, including Wall Street executives, a former senator... https://t.co/grGhcI3gbG

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Exclusive: Beatings, restraints and isolation: Allegations of abuse at a migrant children’s shelter trigger federal review https://t.co/njCRBdUUc5

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A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents is weakening and closer to collapse than thought, new studies find... "An event which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate" https://t.co/s8gqBxu6x9

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Fact check: The lies Trump is using to sell his latest attack on mail-in voting https://t.co/hYnJwrAg4S

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It's not just vaccines: Parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns https://t.co/VRvzJfw3FG “Nature will allow 1 in 5 human infants to die in the first year of life."

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US downgraded in democracy index as concerns grow over press freedom and suppression of dissent https://t.co/6A9nGKnvQb

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Michigan synagogue attacker’s relatives killed in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, officials say https://t.co/0Haz8YrYha

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Meanwhile: Millions of Americans are skipping meals or cutting back on utilities to afford health care https://t.co/f1VNFj2ZMj

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CNN investigation: Missing teenager repeatedly appeared in d4vd’s orbit before her body was found https://t.co/IP8jdQkalr

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‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of tests: https://t.co/k1oZ8cHuk1

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Fake explosions, fake missiles, fake troops: AI videos and images of Iran war spread widely on social media https://t.co/LQXx2POqGS

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Congrats to Mica Rosenberg of ProPublica for winning the Sidney Award for telling the stories of kids in ICE Detention https://t.co/A0dqY0T9Un

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How Trump has undermined the agency tasked with making sure America never has another nuclear meltdown https://t.co/QO8DRDKaCV

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Those include cases where officers deployed chemical weapons near children and where officers fired less-lethal weapons at protesters’ heads and faces from close range. In most cases, agents had no obvious reason to fear for their safety

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Lost eyesight and broken bones: Federal agents flout rules when using less-lethal weapons against protesters, CNN analysis finds https://t.co/mxcbtPJ5YJ

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US Tomahawk struck Iranian base next to school destroyed in deadly attack, video appears to confirm https://t.co/DOBikDQ0cW