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Josie Ensor
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Chief US Reporter @TheTimes. Previous postings in Beirut, San Fran and London with @Telegraph. Recipient of Marie Colvin Award. Associate Fellow at @CSNS_UK
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Joined December 2008
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    Josie Ensor
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    Feb 24, 2020
    I wrote a final goodbye. I sign out today after 5 years in Beirut with an impossibly heavy heart as Syria faces its greatest tragedy yet. It's hard thing for journalist to acknowledge, looking back on a body of work, to realise it has had so little impact
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    My memories of Syria, where the world collectively lost its humanity
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    Josie Ensor
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    Nov 6, 2020
    Ballot boxes dancing to Missy Elliot is how Philadelphia is doing right now
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    Aug 20, 2020
    Reuters sketch of Steve Bannon appearing handcuffed in court in Manhattan today.
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    Josie Ensor
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    Nov 9, 2020
    Wow: "I was asked to lie about Hunter Biden, admits Ukrainian businessman. Hares Youssef claims he was promised a US visa and legal immunity in return for information that would damage Joe Biden’s presidential campaign
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    I was asked to lie about Hunter Biden, admits Ukrainian businessman
    After an election campaign built on attacking the reputation of his rival’s son, Donald Trump is facing calls for a new legal investigation into his activities
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    Josie Ensor
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    Aug 12, 2022
    Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, sent an update on his condition to NYT, saying Rushdie was on a ventilator and could not speak. “The news is not good," he said. "Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged."
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    Josie Ensor
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    Oct 10, 2020
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    Mike Pence is the head of the Coronavirus task force. This is his event in a retirement village today when numbers in Florida are rising
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    Josie Ensor
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    May 3, 2024
    I interviewed a suspended Columbia student protester - facing a criminal record and potential expulsion, she's not worried. "If Columbia keeps taking the stand it does then I’m not sure there’s a lot this university can teach me” thetimes.co.uk/article/gaza-p…
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    Josie Ensor
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    Jan 20, 2021
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    Here is Eugene Goodman. On the left escorting Kamala Harris up the stairs of the Capitol. On the right, defending it from an insurrectionist mob
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    Josie Ensor
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    Oct 10, 2020
    At a Mike Pence rally in The Villages, Florida. I’d say about a quarter of people here are wearing masks. People have pushed their socially distanced chairs together. The Villages is America’s largest retirement village, aka the most vulnerable to Covid-19
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    Oct 10, 2020
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    I asked Secret Service guy if there was an upper limit to the event. His response “you’d think so, but no”
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    Josie Ensor
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    Apr 13, 2019
    According to sources I’ve spoken to Shamima Begum was not “just a housewife” during her time with ISIS as she made out, she was in fact working with Hisba, or the “morality police” repressing local Syrian women telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/1…
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    Josie Ensor
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    Oct 2, 2020
    A play in two acts
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    Josie Ensor
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    Jan 6, 2021
    Unprecedented. For the first time, Twitter deletes Trump's tweets
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    Josie Ensor
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    Oct 11, 2019
    Coalition official tells me after Turkish bombing near US base Mashtenour hill: “They know we are there, we told them our position. There’s no other target in the area. They’re trying to drive us out. If Turkey can get us to leave so they can seige Kobane, it’s all over.”