Ari Shapiro

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Writing novels has created a quiet happy place for talk show host Graham Norton

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with talk show host and writer Graham Norton about his new novel Forever Home.

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Putin's meeting with Kim Jong Un is about getting weapons and ammunition, experts say

Monday, September 11, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jean Lee, the former Pyongyang bureau chief for the Associated Press, and Georgetown University's Angela Stent, about the upcoming meeting between Kim Jong Un and Putin.

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A 150-year-old shipwreck was found in Lake Michigan

Friday, September 08, 2023

A long-lost shipwreck has been discovered in Lake Michigan by two maritime historians. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Brendon Baillod, one of the historians who discovered the shipwreck.

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Air Force secretary: Hold on confirmations is a 'disruption to military leadership'

Friday, September 08, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall about accusations that Sen. Tommy Tuberville is putting national security at risk by blocking Pentagon confirmations in protest.

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Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES has a brand new solo career — and a sound all her own

Wednesday, September 06, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lauren Mayberry, lead singer of CHVRCHES, about launching her solo career with a performance at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

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Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry goes solo — and we got exclusive backstage access

Wednesday, September 06, 2023

At the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Lauren Mayberry announced herself as a solo star.

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Minnesota is returning 1,400 acres of land to the Upper Sioux Community

Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Minnesota is returning the Upper Sioux Agency State Park, once used for religious and communal ceremonies, to the Native people whose ancestors were killed on the land more than a century ago.

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The Verge's Nilay Patel talks Google's legacy and its future on its 25th anniversary

Monday, September 04, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, about Google's 25th anniversary, and how the company's past and current challenges bode for its future.

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Migrants from majority-Muslim countries were unequally imprisoned in Del Rio, Texas

Friday, September 01, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hamed Aleaziz of The LA Times about his reporting on asylum seekers from majority-Muslim countries getting disproportionately imprisoned in a Texas district.

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The novel 'Between Two Moons' is Aisha Abdel Gawad's 'love letter' to Arab Americans

Friday, September 01, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with novelist Aisha Abdel Gawad about her new novel Between Two Moons. It's a coming of age story about teenage twins in Brooklyn and takes place during one month of Ramadan.

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Novel 'The Covenant of Water' tells of a family in India haunted by a medical mystery

Thursday, August 31, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the author Abraham Verghese about his new novel The Covenant of Water in which a family in India is haunted by a medical mystery.

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Arkansas lawmaker describes going on the first congressional trip to Syria in 5 years

Thursday, August 31, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with GOP Rep. French Hill of Arkansas about his trip that he took to Syria with two other Republican members of Congress.

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Millions of bees fell off a truck in Ontario. Local beekeepers jumped in to help

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Millions of bees spilled onto an Ontario highway Wednesday. Beekeepers sprung into action. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with one of the beekeepers, Mike Barber of Tri-City Bee Rescue, about the effort.

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More than half of wetlands no longer have EPA protections after Supreme Court ruling

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Marla Stelk, executive director of the National Association of Wetland Managers, about the EPA's new rules that comply with a ruling limiting the Clean Water Act's scope.

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Big changes are coming to college football ahead of the sport's playoff expansion

Friday, August 25, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Nichole Auerbach of the Athletic about the return of college football — which has been through a dramatic transformation during the off season.

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Presidential photographer says Trump Mugshot will be 'most published photograph ever'

Friday, August 25, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with David Hume Kennerly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has photographed 10 U.S. presidents, about former President Trump's mugshot.

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Russia expert says it would make sense that Putin was behind the death of Prigozhin

Thursday, August 24, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Fiona Hill, senior policy advisor at the Brookings Institute and former white house advisor, about the apparent death of Wagner Group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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How a week's worth of plastic adds up

Thursday, August 24, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with LA Times environmental reporter Susanne Rust about what she learned from logging her plastic use for a week.

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The book 'In the Upper Country' looks at the Underground Railroad's history in Canada

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Kai Thomas about his debut novel In the Upper Country and exploring the Underground Railroad's little-known history in a community of free Black people in Canada.

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Kate Zernike's book explores the long battle for gender equality at MIT

Monday, August 21, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Kate Zernike about her book The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science.

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