Donna Brazile forwards this, dated a few days ago, from our friend Minyon Moore, who is traveling with Bill Clinton:
The latest email from Jay Newton-Small:
Latest email from Jay Newton-Small:
From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
Please follow Jay Newton-Small on Twitter. Her tweets are heartbreaking: 2late, 2late, they say. I tell myself that i’m doing more good writing than digging, but it’s hard not to agree w/them. Heart wrenching UPDATE: Here is Jay’s account on TIME.com.
In a conference call late Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced an 18 month grant of Temporary Protected Status to the estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Haitians now living illegally in the United States. This will allow these people to legally get jobs. Napolitano made clear that the order does not apply to Haitians who [...]
I’m posting this for our colleague Jay Newton-Small. It arrived by email at 5:39 a.m.: En route overland from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to Haiti I’m on assignment for TIME heading to earthquake-stricken Haiti. Word is emerging of a strong aftershock this morning. I was meant to embed with the USS Vinson but, having missed [...]
The White House is speechless. Pat Robertson is clarifying. But fellow evangelical pastor Rick Warren has perhaps the final word on the matter, via Twitter: Labeling any natural disaster as God’s judgment is nonsense. True “judgment begins with God’s family” 1Peter4:17, not others UPDATE: Warren, for his part, has responded to the Haiti tragedy like [...]
Bill Clinton has been in hiding. Not literally, of course. But in practice–totally. Since his dispiriting turn in the 2008 elections–offending Ted Kennedy, calling Obama a “fairy tale,” bumbling in South Carolina–the former president made the hard call: He volunteered to leave the public spotlight so that his wife could become Secretary of State. And [...]
There are a number of ways that you can give money to help the humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti. (The White House suggests giving to the Red Cross International Response Fund, or through groups recommended by the Center for International Disaster Information.) There are also a number of ways to get ripped off. From our [...]
