Mary Louise Kelly

Mary Louise Kelly appears in the following:

'Chevalier' tells the forgotten story of a Black composer in the 1700s

Thursday, April 20, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. about starring in the new movie Chevalier, which tells the forgotten story of Joseph Bologne, a Black composer and violinist of the 1700s.

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Tennessee GOP Rep. Barrett on why he voted to expel two colleagues but not the third

Friday, April 07, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Republican Tennessee Rep. Jody Barrett about his vote to expel two Democratic colleagues over leading a gun control protest on the House floor.

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A hundred years later, a Welsh women's peace petition returns home

Friday, April 07, 2023

A Welsh petition for world peace sat forgotten in the Smithsonian for nearly 100 years. This week, it finally returned to Wales for its signatures to be digitized and its history remembered.

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The truth and half-truths of George Soros' relationship to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg

Thursday, April 06, 2023

Conservative politicians often use liberal philanthropist George Soros as the bogeyman. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with journalist and author Emily Tamkin about why.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court election has given hope to the state's medical community

Thursday, April 06, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks OB-GYN Kristin Lyerly what doctors and patients in Wisconsin have been dealing with before the Supreme Court election — and how it affects abortion in the region.

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Alvin Bragg's former colleague explains the D.A.'s working style

Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Donald Trump is the first former president to be criminally indicted. Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg's former colleague Peter Skinner talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about Bragg's working style.

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A peek behind the curtain of NPR's coverage of Trump's indictment

Monday, April 03, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with NPR's executive editor Terry Samuel about how and why our organization plans coverage around Trump's indictment.

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A peek behind the curtain of NPR's coverage of Trump's indictment

Monday, April 03, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with NPR's executive editor Terry Samuel about how and why our organization plans coverage around Trump's indictment.

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Colleen Oakley's grandma inspired the intergenerational friendship in her new novel

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Colleen Oakley's new book is "The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise."

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ProPublica finds questionable timing of executives' trades on competitors' stocks

Friday, March 24, 2023

Never-before-seen IRS records show that CEOs are sometimes making multimillion-dollar bets on the stocks of direct competitors and partners — and doing so with exquisite timing.

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Strikes continue in France as the public protests higher retirement age

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Three days after France's president Emmanuel Macron enacted reforms to the country's pension system without the approval of parliament, nation-wide protests resumed.

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Iraqi-American photojournalist returns to homeland after more than two decades

Thursday, March 23, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Iraqi-American photojournalist Salwan Georges about his trip back to a war-torn Iraq for the first-time since he and his family fled in 1998.

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New UN report paints a grim picture for the future of the world's water

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Richard Connor of UNESCO about Wednesday's report on the state of the world's water supply.

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Exiled opposition leader doesn't want the world to forget about oppression in Belarus

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. After being tried in absentia, she was recently convicted to 15 years in prison on charges of treason.

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A look at Alvin Bragg, who has been the Manhattan DA for 15 months

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

If Donald Trump is to be indicted, Bragg would be the first prosecutor to bring criminal charges against a former U.S. president. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with journalist Erica Orden about him.

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2 senators sponsor a bill to repeal the Iraq War Authorization Act

Monday, March 20, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sen. Todd Young and Sen. Tim Kaine about their new bill. Today, 20 years later, the act is still in effect.

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Coverage and resources for women's basketball lag behind the surge in fan support

Friday, March 17, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Chantel Jennings, senior writer for women's basketball for The Athletic, about March Madness and the women's game.

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on re-imagining public diplomacy

Thursday, March 16, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Robert Gates, former defense secretary and founder of the Gates Global Policy Center, about the center's new report focused on re-imagining public diplomacy.

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Returning to work is hard enough as a new mom — then add a warzone trip with Biden

Monday, March 13, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with The Wall Street Journal's Sabrina Siddiqui about going to report on President Biden's secret trip to Ukraine shortly after coming off of maternity leave.

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With their bank collapsed, a tech startup struggles to make — and receive — payments

Monday, March 13, 2023

Kamal Kapadia's tech startup had all of its money in Silicon Valley Bank. They're still trying to access their funds, days after it collapsed.

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