Mary Louise Kelly

Mary Louise Kelly appears in the following:

Here's what some people in Kyiv, Ukraine, have to say about the tension with Russia

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with people in Kyiv about the possibility of a Russian invasion into Ukraine.

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Author Imani Perry explores the South to reveal the soul of America

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Imani Perry discusses what it meant to write a book about her own home, and why the South is so important to comprehend the rest of the nation.

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What the recently approved bankruptcy deal means for Puerto Rico

Friday, January 21, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Natalie Jaresko, executive director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, about the territory's recently approved bankruptcy deal.

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French diplomat talks about the stakes of the ongoing Ukraine conflict

Friday, January 21, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Emmanuel Bonne, the diplomatic and national security advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron, about Russia and Ukraine.

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'We can't live in fear': Texas rabbi held hostage says he'd give a stranger tea again

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker says we cannot live in fear. He and three congregants were held hostage by a man who knocked on the synagogue door and came in for tea.

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Why finding the missing pieces of Anne Frank's family story is still important today

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Rosemary Sullivan about working on a book that potentially reveals who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.

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Reporter John Leland on the lessons he's learned from spending time with the very old

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with New York Times reporter John Leland about the end of his series of articles following several people who were 85 years and older to the end of their lives.

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Texas Rabbi who was held hostage says we can't live in fear

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, from the congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. He and a few other congregants were held hostage at gunpoint for 11 hours.

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Former army general on how the U.S. could back a Ukranian insurgency against Russia

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Peter Zwack, former U.S. Army Brigadier General and global fellow at the Wilson Center, about the possibility of the U.S. arming Ukraine in an insurgency.

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In Afghanistan, a food crisis is worsening

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Filipe Ribeiro, the Afghanistan representative for Doctors Without Borders, to hear about the severe lack of food the country is facing.

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Sudan's pro-democracy movement hopes to force a transition to civilian rule

Monday, January 17, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly chats with Kholood Khair, managing partner of a think tank in Khartoum, about ongoing pro-democracy protests in Sudan.

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Florida hospitals caught in limbo over differing federal and state vaccine mandates

Monday, January 17, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mary Mayhew, president of the Florida Hospital Association, about how the state's hospitals are navigating the Supreme Court's decision on vaccine mandates.

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Debris 'as far as the eye can see' along Los Angeles train tracks following thefts

Monday, January 17, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with CBS photojournalist John Schreiber about the thousands of abandoned packages along the Union Pacific train tracks in Los Angeles, signaling large-scale cargo theft.

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Why the man who held Texas synagogue hostages invoked the name of Aafia Siddiqui

Monday, January 17, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mubin Shaikh, counter extremism specialist and public safety professor at Canada's Seneca College, on Aafia Siddiqui's influence in the recent Texas hostage crisis.

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U.S. is 'fully prepared' if Russia invades Ukraine, secretary of state says

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is planning "things that we have not done in the past" if Russia invades Ukraine. Where do things stand now, and what can the U.S. do at this point?

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Secretary of State Blinken says Russia will face consequences if it invade Ukraine

Thursday, January 13, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the United States' role in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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The life of Yao Pan Ma, who died of an attack prosecutors say was racially motivated

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Yao Pan Ma, 61, died on New Year's Eve of injuries from an April 2021 attack. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with his family's spokesperson Karlin Chan about ongoing violence against Asian Americans.

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Over $5 billion in welfare spends were left unspent by states

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Hannah Dreyfus from ProPublica about the $5.2 billion of welfare funds that were left unspent by states, despite poverty in the U.S. worsening.

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Writer Gwen Kirby on debut collection and how being a complicated woman is empowering

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Gwen Kirby about her debut collection of short stories Shit Cassandra Saw and why it is empowering to get to be a complicated woman.

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'A Hero' tells the story of how complicated a good deed (and a small lie) can be

Friday, January 07, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi about his new film, A Hero. The story examines the complexity of what appears to many to be a good deed.

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