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Daniel Lathrop

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Daniel Lathrop is an investigative data journalist on the Pennsylvania Avenue Unit at Scripps News and member of the Emmy Award-winning Scripps News Data Team.

 Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Joined February 2009
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@ByrneHobart3 Jun 2025
Delighted to discover that BlackRock has a page on their site whose two key takeaways are: 1. You're thinking of Blackstone, and 2. Our lawyers refused to let us use the word "Blackstone."
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Of course, Ukraine didn't inform the U.S. of their attack on Russia. And of course we know why.
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He Built an Airstrip on Protected Land. Now He’s in Line to Lead the Forest Service. nytimes.com/2025/06/03/clima…
He Built an Airstrip on Protected Land. Now He’s in Line to Lead the Forest Service. (Published...

He Built an Airstrip on Protected Land. Now He’s in Line to Lead the Forest Service. (Published...

Michael Boren, nominated by President Trump, is accused of threatening trail workers with a helicopter, building an airstrip without a permit and putting a cabin on federal property.

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Terrible #Iowa #media news.
J🛰seph Patton (@JosephPattonWx) profile pictureJ🛰seph Patton@JosephPattonWx18 Jan 2025
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KWWL (NBC) in Waterloo, IA will cut ties with all of its local meteorologists in favor of national weather coverage in March. they also serve Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, & Dubuque, an area hit by 140mph winds from a derecho in 2020, the costliest thunderstorm in US history
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Ben Welsh@palewire3 Sep 2024
A fun, nerdy thing about working at Reuters, a company that's taken data seriously for over a century, is that there's a code for everything. I enjoy stumbling on the edge cases for the first time. TIL the country code for outer space.
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It will be hard, as usual, for anyone to outdo Steve Kerr.
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Steve Kerr also took a few minutes away from the 2024 election to discuss ... Minnesota high school football.
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I'll be tweeting the convention for @scrippsnews the rest of the night. Stop by, give us a follow, and say, "Howdy." #DNC
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Dog bites man is not a story. Man bites dog is a story. What about dog bites math? web.archive.org/web/20240724… @StockholmPolis
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Because they had to sell their house.
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Because of a dangerous dog in their neighborhood.
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A panel US Court of Appeals for D.C. has found that the DMCA's on "antitrafficking" provision does *not* violate @matthew_d_green and @bunniestudios rights the First Amendment. Next step would appealing to the full circuit or to SCOTUS. cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/o…
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Re-upping this piece on what I should probably have dubbed “the Selina Kyle vote”.
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Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance caused outrage when he described childless Democrats as a "bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable." trib.al/9qPiaTJ
Vance's 'childless cat ladies' comment caused outrage. Here's a look at the group by the numbers

Vance's 'childless cat ladies' comment caused outrage. Here's a look at the group by the numbers

Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance caused outrage when he described childless Democrats as a "bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable."

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This is what happens when you give a reporter unfettered access to Census Data. cc: @KeshaRose
Scripps News (@scrippsnews) profile pictureScripps News@scrippsnews1 Aug 2024
Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance caused outrage when he described childless Democrats as a "bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable." trib.al/9qPiaTJ
Vance's 'childless cat ladies' comment caused outrage. Here's a look at the group by the numbers

Vance's 'childless cat ladies' comment caused outrage. Here's a look at the group by the numbers

Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance caused outrage when he described childless Democrats as a "bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable."

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Vim, am I right?
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