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Raw Story: ‘Why people hate politicians’: Senior Dem slams GOP senators for J6 payout bid
Exclusive reporting from www.TheLCB.com founder Matt Laslo for award-winning digital client Raw Story.
Ask a Pol Drugs exclusive: Cannabis Caucus Co-chair seeking state "exemptions" from new hemp THC ban
Exclusive from Matt Laslo’s interactive political journalism outlet www.AskaPolDrugs.com on Substack and all major podcast platforms.
Ask a Pol Politics: Rep. Becca Balint, Dems “very worried” Trump buries Epstein files he signed into law
Interactive political journalism startup www.AskaPol.com founded by veteran Washingigton, DC correspondent Matt Laslo
National Native News: “You’re saying that that’s not Native faces?” — only Native American US Senator accused of anti-native racism
U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (Cherokee/R-OK) is facing criticism for an exchange during a recent hearing on federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He’s accused of racial stereotyping based on looks. LCB Correspondent Matt Laslo has the story from Washington.
Marijuana Moment: GOP Senators discuss federal ban on marijuana users owning guns as Supreme Court considers taking up issue
Veteran political journalist and magazine feature writer Matt Laslo reports at the US Capitol on everything from marijuana to artificial intelligence and deepfakes
Ask a Pol Crypto — EXCLUSIVE: Democrats want "more time” for crypto negotiations, Sen. Bill Hagerty says
Ask a Pol Crypto is LCB founder Matt Laslo’s interactive politics news outlet.
'Sick of it': Republicans are increasingly frustrated with bungling on Epstein fiasco
LCB client AlterNet’s logo — an A.
Washingtonian magazine: 5 queer lawmakers we’re celebrating this month
Washingtonian magazine tapped The LCB founder Matt Laslo to profile five national LGBTQ+ lawmakers for their 50th Anniversary of PRIDE issue in 2025.
Can Trump give Crimea to Russia?Yes, and hardly anyone can stop him.
93rd Mechanized Brigade ‘Kholodnyi Yar’ – Frontline Hunter-Killer Drone Unit, The Donbas, Ukraine, March 2025, David Szyszko
Hunting drones on the front lines in Ukraine
93rd Mechanized Brigade ‘Kholodnyi Yar’ – Combat Training, The Donbas, Ukraine, March 2025, David Szyszko
NNN: LCB exclusive with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ahead of Biden’s apology for past US Indian boarding school policies
Since 2006 Matt Laslo and his wire service The LCB have covered Indian Country and Native issues in Washington for National Native News.
Salt Lake City’s KUER: Utah’s Democratic delegates are returning from Chicago’s DNC feeling electric
Salt Lake City’s KUER relies on the regionally-focused national wire service The LCB to cover Washington politics and the local Utah delegation for the award-winning NPR member station.
Salt Lake City’s KUER: ‘We’re tighter as a party’: What Utah’s delegates had to say about the RNC
Matt Laslo and his regionally-focused national wire service The LCB have covered the Utah delegation in Washington, DC and at political conventions across the US for more than a decade.
Ask a Pol AI — EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rounds wants US to use AI to fight deepfakes in 2024 election
Upending Washington one interview at a time Ask a Pol — ie, ask a politician — is your conduit to Congress. We're veteran journalists. The Capitol’s our office. Senators our sources — well, now your sources too.
Wyoming Public Media: Chris Christie called out Sen. Barrasso when he withdrew from the presidential race. Why does it matter?
Veteran Washington correspondent Matt Laslo covered energy, climate change, gun control, The Cheneys, the federal budget, tech, new media and wild fires, along with the Jan. 6, 2021 US Capitol insurrection, for Wyoming Public Media for more than a decade.
WIRED: Congress Sure Made a Lot of Noise About Kids’ Privacy in 2023—and Not Much Else
WIRED logo — The LCB founder and correspondent Matt Laslo is a WIRED magazine technology and politics correspondent covering AI, gun control and data privacy
WIRED: Joe Biden’s Big AI Plan Sounds Scary—but Lacks Bite
WIRED contributor and veteran data privacy and technology and generative artificial intelligence, AI expert Matt Laslo
Mississippi Today: Senate confirms U.S. attorney Todd Gee, who will inherit historic Mississippi welfare probe
After Mississippi Today’s Anna Wolf was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting, the nonprofit news outlet relied on The LCB to assist with follow-up reporting from Washington
Raw Story: Who runs Washington? US Senators sit quietly at feet of Silicon Valley billionaires in AI forum
The LCB covered generative artificial intelligence, or AI, for WIRED magazine and wire service client Raw Story.
