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Thomas Watkins

Thomas Watkins

Washington Bureau Chief
Thomas Watkins is US bureau chief and foreign correspondent at The National. He has worked across America, Europe and South Asia and reported from 30 countries, primarily for Agence France-Presse as Pentagon correspondent and Af-Pak bureau chief. He joined The National in 2021 to help set up the Washington bureau and manage its 10-person team. Thomas holds degrees in psychology and journalism.
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Tucker Carlson attends the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, New Jersey on July 31, 2022. AP
Fox News tries to clean house with Tucker Carlson departure

Carlson's last show came just days after Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million in damages to a voting machine company

OpinionApril 25, 2023
Mourners at a vigil following the mass shooting at a birthday party in Alabama. Getty / AFP
An outside-in look at America's gun violence

Watching the latest US bloodshed unfold from the UAE has proven particularly jarring

CommentApril 18, 2023
Willy Lowry, US correspondent, and Jihan Abdalla, senior US correspondent, at work in Washington DC. The National
How The National's US office cut its teeth covering elections and the January 6 riot

Focus on providing platform for Arab Americans sets content apart, says bureau chief Thomas Watkins

WorldApril 16, 2023
Mr Trump delivers a speech at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach in Florida on Tuesday . EPA
Trump hits back at 'ridiculous indictment'

'I never thought anything like this could happen in America', former president says

USApril 05, 2023
Protesters gather in front of Trump Tower in New York City on Friday. AFP
Trump will surrender next week, but his war is just beginning

It will be up to a New York jury to decide if he is telling the truth about Stormy Daniels. And this is where things get tricky

CommentApril 01, 2023
An anti-Trump protester holds a placard outside Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office on Friday. Reuters
Trump warns 'death and destruction' could come if he is arrested

Congressional investigators last year said former US president should be criminally charged for his role in inciting deadly January 6 riot

USMarch 24, 2023
President George W Bush looks toward US Secretary of State Colin Powell as Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld in 2003. Reuters
How the mainstream media helped sell the Iraq invasion to America

In the hyper-patriotic fervour that gripped America after 9/11, debate was seen as dissent, which was deemed unpatriotic

CommentMarch 17, 2023
'One size fits all — those rules just don’t work,' Mr Trump said of the banking regulations when he was president. AP
Was Trump's banking deregulation a factor in SVB collapse?

Dodd-Frank Act, created to avoid bank collapses after 2008 financial crisis, was largely undone under former president

EconomyMarch 13, 2023
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, pictured in Ankara last week. EPA
US dismisses Iranian claim of prisoner-swap deal

'We have nothing to announce at this time,' White House says

WorldMarch 12, 2023
Will Donald Trump (L) and Ron DeSantis go head-to-head? Reuters
Trump's appeal grows over DeSantis for 2024 presidential race

Crowded field of Republican hopefuls remains a two-horse race — for now

USMarch 01, 2023
Former US president Donald Trump during an event to address the derailment of a train carrying hazardous waste in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 22. Reuters
How East Palestine became a front line in America's culture war

Biden administration too slow to recognise impacts of toxic train crash but Republican outrage is disingenuous

CommentFebruary 28, 2023
Presidents Biden and Zelenskyy in Kyiv. Photo: Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP
How did Biden get to Ukraine?

Top-secret visit was months in the making

USFebruary 20, 2023
A Japanese explosive balloon being inflated. Photo: Robert Mikesh Collection, National Museum of the Pacific War
Out of this world? America's long fascination with UFOs

The Chinese spy balloon may sound like a very modern phonemenon - but the fuss it has caused is as old as the hills

WeekendFebruary 17, 2023
A US surveillance blimp like the one that snapped free of its moorings in 2015 is pictured in Utah on February 3, 2014. Photo: US Air Force
What on Earth is going on with all the ‘UFOs’?

Pentagon officials scratch their heads after three unidentified flying craft shot down in as many days

CommentFebruary 14, 2023
A suspected Chinese spy balloon in the sky over Billings, Montana. AFP
'UFOs' shot down but White House says no indication of aliens

Pentagon says unidentified flying objects shot down were cylindrical or octagonal

USFebruary 13, 2023
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