Kelly McEvers
Kelly McEvers is a two-time Peabody Award-winning journalist and former host of NPR's flagship newsmagazine, All Things Considered. She spent much of her career as an international correspondent, reporting from Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. She is the creator and host of the acclaimed Embedded podcast, a documentary show that goes to hard places to make sense of the news. She began her career as a newspaper reporter in Chicago.
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The band's frontman and founder talks to Kelly McEvers about being "a now-ist," working with Mark Ronson and Iggy Pop and the dancey sound on the band's new record, Villains. -
The rapper tells stories of loss, love and violence on his new debut album. He speaks with Kelly McEvers about his childhood in Chicago and how he views his responsibility to the city today. -
The Senate effort to undo the Affordable Care Act has failed. The promise of repeal has animated the Republican Party for seven years; the defeat was a devastating loss for the GOP and the president.
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The White House grapples with a big legislative defeat on health care at the same time feuding among President Trump's senior staff escalates.
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From his cancer diagnosis to his dramatic return to Washington to casting a decisive "no" vote on the health care repeal, Sen. John McCain had an eventful week.
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NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Jordan Blisk, an ex-senior airman for the U.S. Air Force Reserves, about being trans in the military and implications of President Trump barring trans people from serving.
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The Senate has another day of debate on healthcare. Tuesday a repeal and replace proposal fell short of the votes needed to pass and on Wednesday, lawmakers will take a vote on a repeal only option.
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Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, reached a deal Tuesday with the Judiciary Committee to provide information to the panel. He will not testify in an open hearing.
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Key's new Netflix show is about how even in your 40s, you can still make mistakes. The actor tells NPR he never expected to make it in the entertainment industry: "I stumbled up into this," he says. -
The Netflix show follows a 1980s women's wrestling circuit. Showrunner Carly Mensch says you can see wrestling as "super reductive" orsee it as "storytelling at its most potently inclusive and epic."
