Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) at Center for American Progress, 29 July 2026

Catherine Herridge speaking at the National Press Club, 21 July 2026

The Technology News & Literature portfolio at the Alamy photo agency has new images of political and media figures available for download. Photos of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and television journalist Catherine Herridge were captured and added to our collections in late July 2026.

Sen. Cortez Masto spoke on 29 July at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. about legislation she introduced to address the needs of long-term undocumented residents of the U.S. Cortez Masto said the proposed Fairness for Immigrant Families Act provides a pathway to citizenship for long-term undocumented residents, limits their detention time for immigration infractions, and cracks down on fraudulent immigration law representatives called notarios.

Herridge — who reported on national security and intelligence matters for ABC News, Fox News, and CBS News — read a statement at a 21 July National Press Club event on press freedom about her pending Federal civil contempt case. In that case, she refuses to disclose sources of her reporting at Fox News in 2017, for which a Federal court imposes fines of $800 a day. Herridge says her legal team plans to appeal the case, with its First Amendment implications, to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The new photos of Sen. Cortez Masto and Herridge are found in the TechNewsLit portfolio at the Alamy photo agency. That portfolio also has separate collections for recent photos of government and political leaders, as well as media and business notables.

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The current portfolio has bird species — American oystercatchers, geese, osprey, and red-winged blackbirds — both adult and juvenile. The collection also has a cityscape image, shot this past spring in midtown Manhattan. We plan to add more street and urban photography later this summer.

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The National Press Club holds its 27th annual members photography exhibit again this September, which we've organized for the 11th straight year, and this time with plenty of help. The exhibit is NPC's celebration of visual storytelling, with the show's theme this year of “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

NPC's annual exhibit highlights special images produced by its members, displayed in the Club's main lobby in downtown Washington, D.C. for the entire month of September. Images in the exhibit are displayed digitally on four large monitors in continuous slideshows. Participants are asked to submit up to five of their best photos, not previously shown in the Club's annual show. The event is an exhibit, and not a contest. No judging, juries, or prizes are involved.

The exhibit gives Press Club members a chance to display their photography skills to professional colleagues, as well as employer and client prospects among the membership and the thousands who visit the Club for events. But you have to be an NPC member to take part. Here's more about membership.

The show draws participants from throughout the Club's journalist and communicator members. While there are still news photographers out there (myself included), many reporters are also asked to do their own photography. Plus, editors and publishers need to commission and recognize quality photography, and use visual media effectively to tell their stories.

Since it began in 1999, the Club's exhibit displayed outstanding photojournalism, but in recent years also shown street, art, landscape, and wildlife photography. Starting last year, the show introduced a theme to help focus contributions. This year, the theme is “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” reflecting the nation's 250th anniversary of independence. But photos on any subject are accepted.

The exhibit has become one of the Press Club's most participative events, with 50 or more participants each of the past few years exhibiting some 200 photos each year. We first organized the exhibit in 2016, and since then added digital image displays to print photos shown earlier and online exhibit catalogs beginning in 2019. Links to the catalogs are on the TechNewsLit exhibits page.

Plus, this year a dozen volunteers from the Press Club’s photography group are providing their advice and professional media skills to make the exhibit even more spectacular. The exhibit logo shown above, theme, instructions, and newsletter stories reflect their invaluable contributions. Many thanks gang.

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Robert Costa, 8 June 2026.

Dasha Burns, 12 May 2026

James Fallows, 24 June 2026

The TechNewsLit portfolio at the Alamy photo agency added more leading media figure photos over the past few weeks, from events in Washington, D.C. The images are available in our Alamy media and business leader collection and the TechNewsLit portfolio at large.

The new additions include:

• CBS News correspondent Robert Costa, who interviewed Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and former vice-president Mike Pence at the National Press Club this month.
• Politico White House correspondent Dasha Burns, conducting a live podcast with Iranian crown Prince Reza Pahlavi at the Politico Security Summit in May.
• Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman, interviewing Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) this month.
• Author, commentator, and longtime reporter James Fallows at the University of Southern California campus in Washington, D.C. talking about his book and HBO documentary on resilient American communities.
• Former CBS News president Susan Zirinisky, ABC News correspondent Bob Woodward, and Emmy award-winning producer Tom Bettag at the National Press Club in May talking about a new documentary, “Tiananmen Tonight”.

For photos of the people interviewed by these journalists — Senators Sanders and Scott, former V.P. Mike Pence, and Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi — see the TechNewsLit government and political leaders collection and overall portfolio.

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Photos of two leading U.S. political figures are now available for download from the TechNewsLit portfolio at the Alamy photo agency, former vice-president Mike Pence, top, and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. (Sort on “most recently uploaded” to quickly find the newer photos.)

Pence, who served as V.P. during Donald Trump’s first term, spoke to a full house at the National Press Club on 15 June about his conservative philosophy. He says that philosophy traces directly back to 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and the later presidency of Ronald Reagan.

Pence says he spells out that history in his new book, “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience”, on display during his National Press Club talk. Yet he barely mentioned his key role on 6 Jan. 2021 that allowed the electoral college process to play out and certify the election of Joe Biden as president, despite Trump’s demands and audible threats from rioters storming the Capitol.

Sanders, officially an independent who caucuses with Democrats in the Senate, spoke to another full house at National Press Club on 8 June. He gave his now-familiar stump speech reflecting his self-described socialist philosophy, pointing out the damage caused by growing economic inequality in the U.S. and continuing need for universal, single-payer health care.

In his talk and later Q&A, Sanders described proposed legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund with proceeds from a 50 percent stake in artificial intelligence or A.I. companies, which he justifies as payments for the companies using materials without permission copyrighted by the U.S. government, to train their algorithms. He also introduced legislation calling for a moratorium on new data centers that provide processing power for A.I., until stronger safeguards are in place.

In both the Pence and Sanders appearances, the speakers were interviewed by CBS News correspondent Robert Costa. Photos of Costa and Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman are also recently added to the TechNewsLit collection of media and business leaders.

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Each month, Washingtonian magazine’s print issue offers a two-page photo spread, with the publication’s June 2026 issue featuring one of our images. The photo is from an open practice I visited in March of the Old Glory DC rugby club, the area’s Major League Rugby franchise that plays at George Mason University stadium in Fairfax, Virginia.

At the practice, I got a ground-level shot, sprawling out on the pitch (field) as the ball is pushed in the middle of a scrum. The photo, shown above, has Old Glory DC’s assistant coach Stan South standing over the scrum as the forwards, the bigger players, push their opponents to take possession of the ball.

I pitched the images to publications in the region, and Washingtonian responded. Washingtonian is a glossy monthly politics and lifestyle magazine that features a two-page photo spread they call the Big Picture, in its Capital Comment section toward the front of the print issue. And the magazine’s art director chose that photo for the June issue’s Big Picture.

Big Picture photos are available only in the print issue and not online, but Washingtonian sent me a PDF of the spread, which I posted on technewslit.com. More photos from the open practice and the club’s first home match at George Mason University stadium are found in the TechNewsLit collections on Smugmug.

Each of the photos in these galleries carries a Creative Commons – Attribution license.

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Exiled Iran crown prince Reza Pahlavi interviewed for a live podcast at the Politico Security Summit in Washington, D.C. 12 May 2026.

New photos from the Politico Security Summit this week are now available exclusively from the Technewslit portfolio at the Alamy photo agency. At the event, Politico journalists interviewed current members of the U.S. House and Senate from both parties overseeing national security matters, as well as former Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

Also, several technology leaders at the U.S. Defense Department answered questions about new drones and artificial intelligence projects. And German parliament member Roderich Kiesewetter advocated for increased support for NATO and Ukraine’s continuing battle against Russia.

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) at the Politico Security Summit in Washington, D.C. 12 May 2026.

Lockheed Martin sponsored the event. At a few points in the program, protestors against Lockheed Martin and American policy in the Middle East broke out from the audience, with security literally dragging out the protestors kicking and screaming. More photos from the summit, including the protestors, are in a gallery at the TechNewsLit Smugmug collection.

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The team played its initial three matches on the road, first losing to Seattle, then beating New England and Carolina before taking on California Legion, a team from Southern California. It was also Old Glory DC’s first match at George Mason University stadium in Fairfax, Virginia, with fans filling most grandstand seats and touch-line (sideline) boxes and spaces. In previous years, the team played its matches in exurban Maryland, a longer distance from D.C.

Both DC and California moved the ball up and down the pitch (field) during the match, but California took advantage of DC turnovers to score early and run-up a big lead at halftime. DC scored two tries, like touchdowns in American football, late in the match, but it was not enough to overtake California.

TechNewsLit also covered Old Glory DC’s open practice on 28 March. Photos from both the 26 April match and the open practice carry a Creative Commons – Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. See usage requirements and specifications at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .

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Sullivan asked Reps. Murphy and Schrier about steps Congress can take to make specialty health care more affordable and accessible. Both of these representatives are physicians; Murphy is an urologist while Schrier is a pediatrician. While some partisan differences emerged in their interviews, much of their discussion addressed medical and health care economics issues.

Earlier in the event, Axios health reproter Maya Goldman talked with Priscilla VanderVeer, executive director of the group No Patient Left Behind, a biotechnology and health care industry group.

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On Tuesday (14 April 2026), Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democratic member of Congress from California, spoke at the National Press Club about his vision for the country and answered questions from Mark Schoeff, NPC president and financial services correspondent for CQ-Roll Call. The event should put to rest any questions of Khanna running for president.

Exclusive photos from Khanna’s event at the National Press Club are available in the TechNewsLit portfolio at the Alamy photo agency.

Khanna became well known for his work on the House Oversight Committee to release the Department of Justice’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Despite deadlines written into legislation passed by Congress and signed by the president, DoJ has yet to release all of the files, and recently fired Attorney General Pam Bondi has so far ignored a subpoena to appear before the commitee on this topic.

While Khanna made several references to Epstein and the files, he framed many of his arguments on economic inequality in terms of the “Epstein Class” vs. most everyone else. In Khanna’s view, the Epstein Class is made up of super-rich individuals who feel their wealth and power makes them exempt from laws all others must obey. Their disrespect for sex offender laws is just one example.

Khanna’s main pitch was for plans with bold direct actions addressing economic inequality: universal health care, affordable child care, faster conversion to green energy, and more support for college or vocational education. He said reversing the Trump tax cuts and ending the blank check for defense spending would pay for those programs.

Khanna noted that incrementalist or technocratic proposals from Democrats only got Donald Trump elected twice. He also said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), should step down from his Democatic Party leader post. Khanna did not say anything about Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the party leader in the House where he serves.

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