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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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The ship Hammersmith Bridge, foreground, which has just arrived from Shanghai in China, unloads Chinese shipping containers at the Port of Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, on September 29, 2018. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.S. opens trade talks with China

The Trump administration opened high-stakes trade talks with China on Wednesday. The two sides have just over a month to reach an agreement, or risk an escalation.

7 years ago

News about the Brexit are seen on a television screen with the curve of the German stock index DAX in background at the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. (Michael Probst/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

EU leaders say No, non and nein to Brexit deal changes

Leaders across the European Union offered a united chorus of "No" on Wednesday to Britain's belated bid to negotiate changes to the Brexit divorce deal.

7 years ago

Venezuela's top prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, talks to reporters in Caracas on Tuesday. He announced that Juan Guaidó, now President Nicolás Maduro's most prominent opponent, is barred from leaving the country because of an investigation. (Marco Bello/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

United States warns Americans not to travel to Venezuela as tensions rise

The State Department warned Americans on Tuesday not to travel to Venezuela, citing crime, civil unrest and the arbitrary detention of U.S. citizens.

7 years ago

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned Congress on Tuesday that he expects foreign nations to try new techniques of interference in the 2020 elections. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Spy boss Coats warns Russia, others plot new interference techniques for 2020

Russia and other foreign actors will try new techniques to interfere in the 2020 elections, building off the tactics they used in the 2016 and 2018 campaigns.

7 years ago

Workers and customers gather at a wholesale food market in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. Economists agree that the longer the standoff between the U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido and President Nicolas Maduro drags on, the more regular Venezuelans are likely to suffer. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Politics & Policy

U.S. hits Venezuela state-owned oil company with sanctions

The sanctions will not likely affect consumer prices at the gas pump but will hit oil refiners, particularly those on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

7 years ago

Mahmud, 11, Ayyub, 7, and their mother, Felicia Perkins-Ferreira, walk toward the boat that will take them out of Syria, across the river to Iraq, so they can start their journey home to Trinidad. (Ruth Sherlock/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trinidadian mom reunites with kids taken by their father to ISIS

Roger Waters, a member of Pink Floyd, brought his celebrity power to help overcome many of the obstacles involved in securing the release of an ISIS fighter's children.

7 years ago

The Philadelphia Orchestra Group of the United States was welcomed by the Chinese audience as it gave a concert in Peking on Sept. 14, 1973.
The Why
Arts & Entertainment

From Mao to Mozart: The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 80-year relationship with China

Despite the U.S. and China's complex and often tense relationship, why has the bond between China and the Philadelphia Orchestra has endured for almost 80 years?

Air Date: January 28, 2019

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Venezuela's National Assembly head Juan Guaidó waves during a mass opposition rally, during which he declared himself the country's acting president on Jan. 23. (Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Who is Venezuela’s Juan Guaidó?

In less than a month, Juan Guaidó has risen from obscure, junior lawmaker to self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela.

7 years ago

An attendee wears a Venezuelan flag during a rally in Caracas Friday with Juan Guaido, president of the National Assembly, who swore himself in as the leader of Venezuela. (Marcelo Perez del Carpio/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Amid chaos Venezuelans struggle to find the truth, online

In Venezuela, where media is controlled by the government, figuring out what is truth, rumor or propaganda has always been difficult.

7 years ago

Teenage sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen of Bali have received many honors for their efforts to ban plastic bags. Above: They accept the 2017
NPR
Community

How teenage sisters pushed Bali to say ‘bye-bye’ to plastic bags

Five years ago, two young women decided they were going to do something about the plastic problem on their island of Bali. And Bye Bye Plastic Bags was born.

7 years ago

Climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
NPR
Community

Teen inspires youth demonstrations across Europe, demanding action on climate change

A Swedish teenager had a stark message for global elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.

7 years ago

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the United Nations Security Council at the U.N Headquarters on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019.  Pompeo encouraged the council to recognize Juan Guaido as the constitutional interim President of Venezuela. (Kevin Hagen/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Venezuelan showdown moves to UN as dueling presidents dig in

The United States urged all nations Saturday to support Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.

7 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro during a meeting outside Moscow on Dec. 5. (Maxim Shemetov/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Putin backs Maduro, as Kremlin critics cheer U.S. support for Venezuela’s opposition

If the U.S. decisively took sides in Venezuela's escalating political crisis this week, Russia wasn't sitting idly by.

7 years ago

Access to water is increasingly entangled with conflict situations. (Above) A young girl fills a bottle at a pump station at a camp for internally displaced people in Ain Issa, Syria.
(Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

A little optimism, a lot of pessimism: The 2019 outlook for humanitarian crises

The root causes are increasingly a messy mix of conflict, climate shocks, poverty and social inequalities.

7 years ago

A former GMO researcher explains how class plays into flawed perceptions of genetically engineered crops. (Image courtesy of Bigstock)
The Pulse
Science

Why opposition to GMOs is a First World privilege

How public mistrust in GMOs destroyed one scientist's dream of helping farmers in developing countries produce sturdier, higher-yield crops.

7 years ago

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