Sacha Pfeiffer

Sacha Pfeiffer appears in the following:

An American family is home after years in a Syrian camp for ISIS militants' relatives

Tuesday, May 07, 2024

A family of 10 American citizens who were held for years in a Syrian refugee camp and detention center for relatives of ISIS militants have been repatriated to the United States.

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Remembering Frans de Waal, who studied empathy and emotion in primates

Friday, March 22, 2024

The primatologist Frans de Waal, who explored empathy and emotion in bonobos and chimps, died last week at 75. His colleague Sarah Brosnan remembers his legacy as both a scientist and friend.

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Mexico could strong-arm Biden over Texas' immigration law SB4

Friday, March 22, 2024

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Washington Post columnist Eduardo Porter about Texas' immigration law SB4, and Mexico's reaction to it.

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Netanyahu wants 'total victory' over Hamas. What would that even look like?

Friday, March 22, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he seeks "total victory" over Hamas. NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Middle East expert Daniel Byman about what that means for Gaza.

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Jennine Capó Crucet aimed to write an elegy of Miami in new 'Scarface'-inspired novel

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Jennine Capó Crucet about her new book, Say Hello to My Little Friend and how she drew inspiration from Scarface, Miami and the Seaquarium's killer whale, Lolita.

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Actor Michael Imperioli talks 'An enemy of the People' and its modern parallels

Monday, March 18, 2024

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with actor Michael Imperioli about his Broadway debut in An Enemy of the People and the relevance of this adaptation of the play, roughly 150 years after the original.

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How six more years under Putin will shape the war in Ukraine

Monday, March 18, 2024

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dara Massicot of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about how Vladimir Putin's reelection impacts the war in Ukraine.

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What's at stake for San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII

Friday, February 09, 2024

The Super Bowl is Sunday in Las Vegas, and it will be the San Francisco 49ers — hoping to win their first championship in almost three decades — versus the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Thousands of Palestinians try to survive Israel strikes on Rafah

Friday, February 09, 2024

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Hisham Mhanna from the International Committee of the Red Cross about Israeli military strikes in Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have taken refuge.

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A first-hand account from the frontline of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan and Chad

Thursday, February 08, 2024

We hear rare eyewitness testimony from Darfur, one of the worlds unseen and often forgotten conflicts — which has resulted in the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

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Empty office buildings litter cities, but real estate expert says expect change soon

Thursday, February 08, 2024

NPR'S Sacha Pfeiffer talks with David Smith, head of Americas Insights at the real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, about the empty commercial buildings across several U.S. cities.

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Sen. Krysten Sinema outlines border deal negotiations

Tuesday, February 06, 2024

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Arizona Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who was one of the chief negotiators of the border deal.

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How nicotine pouches became the latest political battle

Monday, February 05, 2024

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Semafor reporter David Weigel about the political fight over nicotine pouches and how conservatives think it could mobilize voters in this year's election.

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Why did some companies repay PPP loans that could have been forgiven?

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Some small businesses that received loans from the government's Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID pandemic were eligible for loan forgiveness, but they decided to repay the money anyway.

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Guantánamo Bay has been open for 22 years despite calls for its closure

Tuesday, January 09, 2024

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Scott Roehm of the Center for Torture Victims about how Guantánamo Bay still is operating despite calls for its closure.

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Some companies are paying back PPP loans when they could be forgiven

Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Most Paycheck Protection Program loans have been forgiven despite billions of dollars going to undeserving recipients. But some companies are voluntarily paying back their loans.

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Why progressive prosecutors face resistance from some police departments

Friday, November 24, 2023

The prosecutors face resistance from departments that see them as soft on crime. In St. Louis, resistance is so fierce a police officer is refusing to do one of the most important parts of his job.

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Disgusted by city's top prosecutor, a police officer refuses to testify

Thursday, November 23, 2023

In an extreme example of resistance to progressive prosecutors, a St. Louis police officer is refusing to testify in murder cases he investigated, even though he believes the defendants are guilty.

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New York Liberty hoping to extend WNBA Finals as Game 4 looms

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer catches up with ESPN's Rebecca Lobo, former professional basketball player, about the ongoing WNBA Finals.

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Can U.S. teams really be world champs without playing the sports world?

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal sports and humor columnist, about "world champion" status in American sports culture and why the U.S. devalues sports it's not good at.

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