Here’s a gift link to my conversation published today with the Platner story editor, @felicebelman.bsky.social
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Our reporters Lisa Lerer and Katie Glueck did careful, sensitive work. They’re two of the best in the business. They’ve been accused of everything from hurting Platner to helping him to doing catch-and-kill. No. Our job is not to take sides but to fairly report the facts.

How did we work to report and corroborate these allegations? What’s the threshold for The Times to publish allegations? And what did we know about a rape allegation against Platner that led him to drop out of the Senate race this week?

We’d welcome you sharing your feedback in the comments section of the interview. Here's a gift link. nyti.ms/3Z4wRYq

The transcript has been lightly edited for length and to account for instances where Trump spoke off the record. On those occasions the reporters quickly returned the interview back on the record. We noted those places in the interview transcript.

And here is a gift link to Amy's story. Thanks for reading and your feedback. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Here​'s a gift link to Ernesto's story... nyti.ms/486W2xA

“I think I’ve lost my country,” she recalled thinking as she watched Mr. Trump's inaugural speech where he declared that the U.S. government would now recognize only two genders, male and female. “This is not the America I thought I had represented or that I grew up in.”

The second story, by my colleague Ernesto Londono, is about Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as transgender. She walked Ernesto through her life story and fascinating career, and why she has decided to leave the United States.

Imara Jones, a transgender journalist who runs the media company TransLash, said to Amy: “What this says is that you, as a transgender person, do not matter to the state, and the state gets to tell you who you are.”

​​Brianna Wu, a fund-raiser who has had an “F” on her passport but expects to receive an “M” when it expires​, told Amy: “A trans woman in sports understands that they’re kind of playing on the edge of something. But this makes me out myself every time I use my passport."

​My colleague @amyharmon.bsky.social spoke with trans Americans about the new rule that US passports must reflect the sex on a person’s original birth certificate. They described how and why that rule is a direct blow on their identity and participation in public life.

We will keep reporting and update the story with more news and information as we learn and confirm it. Here is the latest version of the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Some readers thought we were ignoring the "Free Palestine" claim. We weren't. We were reporting carefully and publishing confirmable facts. The New York Times faces outside pressures to bend its standards sometimes and push one side's agenda. That's not what independent journalists do.

We kept reporting, and soon the attorney general of New Hampshire made a statement, and we updated our story with our reporting and his statement:

Our New York Times standards are clear: we work to confirm information for ourselves, and we try to get confirmation from multiple sources. We are independent journalists, and that means we don't recycle what others write, and we don't have an agenda in our reporting. We seek facts.

No one else confirmed the "Free Palestine" remark; some people told us they only heard other people saying they heard it. Authorities refused to answer questions about it. Meanwhile, other news outlets had the "Free Palestine" detail high up in stories, and some readers asked me why we didn’t.

The "Free Palestine" comment was attributed in several news reports to that same one witness. Our reporters called the witness; he declined to speak, and a woman who answered his phone (and who also witnessed the shooting) said she wasn't sure herself what the gunman said.

After this shooting happened at the New Hampshire country club, we published a breaking news story based on information from authorities and our interviews. Then we started seeing other news outlets report that a witness said the gunman was yelling "Free Palestine." www.foxnews.com/us/witness-s...