Ari Shapiro

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An Arctic shark found in Belize has researchers pondering deep sea discoveries

Tuesday, August 02, 2022

The Greenland shark can live for centuries and is typically found in cold arctic waters. One found in the warmer waters of Belize has researchers rethinking how widespread the marine species could be.

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FEMA coordinator describes catastrophic flooding in Kentucky

Tuesday, August 02, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with FEMA's Federal Coordinating Officer Brett Howard overseeing the disaster response to massive floods in the Appalachian mountain communities in Kentucky.

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Dems could pass the most ambitious climate package in years — but would it be enough?

Monday, August 01, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, about the climate investments and actions in the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Resuming Ukrainian grain exports may help reduce food insecurity in the Middle East

Monday, August 01, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Corinne Fleischer, the World Food Programme's Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe regional director, about what grain shipments from Ukraine means for some areas.

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How a New Jersey city has achieved 0 traffic deaths in 4 years

Monday, August 01, 2022

With motor vehicle traffic fatalities rising, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hoboken Director of Transportation and Parking Ryan Sharp on how Hoboken, N.J., has had zero traffic deaths in four years.

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Only 31 new emoji were proposed this year

Friday, July 22, 2022

We've reached peak emoji. The Unicode Consortium proposed 31 new emoji this year, a quarter of the approved 112 emoji last year.

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New baseball rule hopes to reverse decades of fan loss

Friday, July 22, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with LA Times baseball reporter Bill Shaikin about the defensive "pie-slice rule" and other ways the MLB is attempting to bring more excitement back to baseball.

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Encore: Margo Jefferson's new memoir is like a kaleidoscope into someone's life

Thursday, July 21, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winner Margo Jefferson about her memoir, Constructing A Nervous System, in which she tells her story through the creators and art that shaped her.

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Can deleted text messages actually be retrieved?

Thursday, July 21, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Paul Luehr, a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, about what happens when texts message get deleted.

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How prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine compares to hunting Nazis

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Eli Rosenbaum spent his career hunting down Nazis after World War II. Now, he will use those skills to seek out war criminals in the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Eli Rosenbaum on how prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine compares to hunting Nazis

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Department of Justice official Eli Rosenbaum on his investigation into war crimes that occurred in Ukraine.

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Putin met with leaders from Turkey and Iran

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul about Putin's visit to Tehran on Tuesday.

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In his new book, Jamil Jan Kochai writes of war, displacement and haunting memories

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Jamil Jan Kochai's new book, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and other Stories, explores war, displacement, family and the memories that haunt us.

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Monkeypox keeps spreading. Here's what authorities are doing to stop it

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Public health experts know what it takes to control a disease outbreak: access to testing and vaccines. But in the last two months of the monkeypox outbreak, the response has not met the need.

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A head injury gave Ingrid amnesia. Then came the journey to rediscover her history

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Author Ingrid Rojas Contreras was forced to relearn the supernatural legacy of her family when faced with an injury that left her with amnesia.

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In her memoir, author Ingrid Rojas Contreras shares her family's mystical history

Monday, July 18, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Ingrid Rojas Contreras about her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, and how writing it helped her rediscover herself after losing her memory.

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Africa is being left behind as wealthy nations push 4th COVID booster shots

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Institutional racism, greed, and a broken global health system are all working against African nations where people are dying from COVID in silence, according to a scathing assessment from one expert.

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The James Webb telescope had 344 'single point failures' before launch. Then, success

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Bill Ochs, the project manager for the James Webb telescope shares the trials and tribulations of the launch and what it's like having the images out in the world.

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Hannah Marks' road trip film follows a familiar path — with a few unexpected exits

Friday, July 15, 2022

Hannah Marks directs John Cho and Mia Isaac in Amazon's new film Don't Make Me Go, a comedic but melancholy story of a father and daughter's road trip across America.

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Here is the CDC director's plan to fight monkeypox

Friday, July 15, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with CDC Director Rochelle Walensky about the monkeypox outbreak in the United States and the steps the federal government is taking to manage it.

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