An Axis of Evil Meets To 'Coordinate Positions' on Iran's Nuclear Program. Plus, Court Tells Pulitzer Board It Can’t Micromanage Trump’s Schedule.

Axis of evil: As the Trump administration engages in nuclear talks with Iran, officials from the Islamic republic sat down with their counterparts from two other top American adversaries—Russia and China—to "coordinate their positions" on Tehran's nuclear program, our Adam Kredo reports.

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Judge Rules Pulitzer Board Can’t Tell Trump How To Manage Schedule

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday rejected the Pulitzer Prize Board’s argument that President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against the board should be delayed until after Trump leaves office in order to avoid distracting him from his presidential duties.

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Free Beacon Editor Grills Pulitzer Board. Plus, Dem Megadonor Faces Sex Abuse Suit.

Pulitzer Prize fight: In November, the Pulitzer Prize committee invited our own Eliana Johnson to serve on the nominating jury for the National Reporting category. This week, she found herself on the receiving end of a rebuke from the Pulitzer board after trying to ask its members a few questions—like why a prize went to a Palestinian “poet” who mocked Israeli hostages.

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‘We Occasionally Misjudge’: Pulitzer Board Told Me I Was out of Line When I Asked Why the Organization Gave an Award to Palestinian ‘Poet’ Who Made Hateful Comments About Israeli Hostages

We don’t get a lot of emails from the Pulitzer Prize committee here at the Washington Free Beacon, so when I received one in November of last year asking me to serve as a member of a Pulitzer Prize nominating jury, I was sure it wasn’t real—possibly a sophisticated phishing attempt, or more likely a joke at our expense.

As it turns out, the invitation wasn’t the joke—the Pulitzers were. The committee asked me to serve on the nominating jury for the National Reporting category. That meant reviewing the applications to that category and deliberating over them with four other jurors at Columbia University in February, narrowing the pool down to three finalists. Before doing so, I signed an agreement to keep my membership on the jury and our selection of finalists confidential "pending the formal announcement of the winners."

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Freed Hamas Hostage Slams Pulitzer Board for Awarding Prize to Activist Who Denied Her Captivity

Former Hamas hostage Emily Damari on Thursday condemned the Pulitzer board for awarding a prize to a Palestinian poet who publicly questioned her captivity and defended Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.

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Columbia Leadership Refuses To Talk With School Newspaper as Trump Slashes Funding, Editors Say

The Columbia Daily Spectator on Tuesday condemned Columbia University's lack of transparency after administrators denied the student newspaper's request for an interview with acting university president Claire Shipman.

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Columbia’s Pulitzer Disgrace

The increasingly irrelevant Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday to a slew of left-wing news reports, chronicled by our colleague Andrew Stiles here. 

The prize for commentary went to the “Palestinian poet” Mosab Abu Toha for his work in the New Yorker—“deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir,” as the Pulitzer board put it—chronicling the evils of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

It took just more than 24 hours for Abu Toha’s public statements defending the atrocities of Oct. 7 and assailing the Israeli victims of those attacks to surface. ("How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” he wrote of Emily Damari, a 28-year-old IDF soldier abducted by Hamas. He objected to the media’s humanization of Israeli “hostage” Agam Berger: “These are the ones the world wants to share sympathy for, killers who join the army and have family in the army!”)

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The Pulitzer Prize Remains A Crown For Left-Wing Propagandists

'Once you realize Pulitzers are awarded for propaganda, it’s kind of funny to see who wins and who loses." -The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway.

Rubio Shuts Down De Facto Palestinian Embassy. Plus, the Pulitzers Are Back on Their BS.

State Department glow up: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is shuttering the Biden administration’s Office of Palestinian Affairs (OPA), “a Biden-era creation that elevated relations with the Palestinian Authority,” our Adam Kredo scoops. The move aims to restore “the Trump administration’s first-term vision for a unified U.S. diplomatic mission in Israel’s capital” and eliminates what critics have described as a de facto Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem.

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SANDOVAL: Liberals Can’t Stand This Photo Of Trump Or What It Symbolizes

They couldn’t stand to recognize a visual symbol of triumph for Trump and his supporters