Miles Parks

Miles Parks appears in the following:

Bill Hader on the HBO's 'Barry', a show he co-created, directed and stars in

Saturday, April 15, 2023

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to Bill Hader Bill Hader, the co-creator, co-writer, director, and star of HBO's "Barry." The show's fourth and final season stared this week.

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The Supreme Court stepped in to issue a temporary stay in the Texas mifepristone case

Saturday, April 15, 2023

The Supreme Court has stepped into the legal fight over the abortion medication mifepristone, pausing restrictions mandated by a lower court.

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The intelligence community is doing damage control after the Pentagon leaks

Saturday, April 15, 2023

President Biden is ordering the intelligence community to further secure sensitive information after a major breach, allegedly by a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman.

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Saturday Sports: Washington Commanders sale; historic streak in the MLB; NBA playoffs

Saturday, April 15, 2023

NPR's Miles Parks talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the sale of the NFL's Washington Commanders, a historic streak for the Tampa Bay Rays in the MLB, and the NBA Playoffs.

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Young voters want abortion rights and gun control. Will that bring them to the polls?

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Access to abortion and gun control are issues that young people say are important to them but do these issues also drive young voters to the polls?

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On its full-length album 'the record,' boygenius' friendship has never been stronger

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to the members of indie supergroup boygenius about its new full-length album, the record.

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Ari Tison on her novel 'Saints of the Household'

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Two brothers with an abusive father come of age in a new book for young adults, "Saints of the Household." NPR's Miles Parks talks with author Ari Tison about her novel.

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Despite sky-high prices, airlines are struggling to accommodate the spring break rush

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Spring break season has hit and airline tickets prices are high. Jet fuel, consumer demand and airline staffing shortages are all to blame. But there are other issues in play as well.

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Cash Carraway on her new HBO series 'Rain Dogs'

Sunday, March 26, 2023

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to Cash Carraway, the creator and Executive Producer of "Rain Dogs" - a new HBO series set in London, following the life and challenges of a single mom.

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Why the COVID-19 death rate varies dramatically across the U.S.

Sunday, March 26, 2023

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to Thomas Bollyky, the co-author of a new report examining why COVID-19 death rates varied dramatically across the U.S. — and how that might improve future outcomes.

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Does the perfect Oreo cream-to-chocolate ratio exist? One research study says yes

Sunday, March 26, 2023

NPR's Miles Parks speaks with PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT, Crystal Owens, about her scientific study, "On Oreology, the fracture and flow of 'milk's favorite cookie®.'"

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AI deepfakes could advance misinformation in the run up to the 2024 election

Sunday, March 26, 2023

New artificial intelligence tools make it cheap, easy and fast to make convincing fake video, audio and text. Going into the 2024 election, the misuse of this technology could have huge consequences.

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Politics chat: What Biden's diplomatic trips say about U.S. foreign policy

Sunday, March 26, 2023

We look at what the Biden Administration is trying to accomplish on a number of trips, both domestically and internationally.

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Communities across the Deep South are reeling from deadly tornadoes

Sunday, March 26, 2023

We bring you the latest from Mississippi, where tornadoes tore through the state earlier this weekend, leaving at least 25 dead in the state and an additional fatality in neighboring Alabama.

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In Senegal, the government is cracking down on human rights

Sunday, March 26, 2023

NPR's Miles Parks speaks with Ousmane Diallo, a researcher at Amnesty International, about the state of democracy in Senegal, amid government crackdowns on human rights and political opposition.

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Fox News is fighting a $1.6 billion lawsuit. But advertisers haven't shied away

Sunday, March 26, 2023

In court: a rough week for Fox News as it defends itself against a $1.6 billion lawsuit over lies it broadcast about the 2020 presidential election. But the network otherwise seems as strong as ever.

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Ohio becomes latest Republican state to leave a key voting data partnership

Friday, March 17, 2023

Six GOP-led states have now pulled out of the Electronic Registration Information Center, despite it being considered one of the best tools states have to detect voter fraud.

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3 more GOP states announce they're leaving a key voting data partnership

Tuesday, March 07, 2023

Florida, Missouri and West Virginia announced their intention to pull out of a voting data consortium called the electronic registration information center or ERIC. Here's why it matters.

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3 more Republican states announce they're leaving a key voting data partnership

Monday, March 06, 2023

Florida, Missouri and West Virginia announced they're pulling out of the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, the only system states have to share voter registration data.

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The Senate passes election reform designed to head off another Jan. 6

Thursday, December 22, 2022

The bipartisan legislation would update the certification process for presidential elections, which Donald Trump and his allies tried to exploit after the 2020 election.

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