Daniel Ofman
Stories
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FDA commissioner explains new food pyramid, encourages greater uptake of core childhood vaccines
Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on the push against ultra processed foods and added sugar, and what that could mean for school lunches and food labels, and says the administration's hierarchy of vaccines is meant to encourage childhood vaccine uptake.
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Minneapolis' police chief gives his perspective of the deadly ICE shooting
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Brian O'Hara, the police chief in Minneapolis, about the shooting in which an ICE agent killed a 37-year-old woman.
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Aldrich Ames, CIA officer who spied for Soviet Union, has died at 84
One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold highly classified secrets to the Soviet Union starting in the mid 1980s.
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Covering US-Russian relations and a rapidly changing wartime Russia
NPR's Charles Maynes in Moscow on how the White House's Russia rhetoric shifted this year and how it is landing in Moscow.
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Can the U.S. claim a law-enforcement justification for entering Venezuela?
Scott Anderson, an international law expert at the Brookings Institution, weighs the legal case for the U.S. operation in Venezuela.
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Resolve to a new year, fun you — and it just might stick
What would 2026 look like if your resolutions were ruled by fun? That's what one science writer suggests.
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The crafters powering the AI boom
America's AI boom requires a lot of power. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer Hiller about the workers who are building the electric grid one transformer at a time.
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Do Trump's claims about Christian persecution in Nigeria match reality?
Aaron Zelin, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, analyzes the U.S. strike on ISIS targets in Nigeria and the message it sends.
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Rediscovering delight in the kitchen when cooking feels like a burden
Tamar Adler, chef and author of 'Feast On Your Life', writes about food as a daily practice of care rather than obligation.
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A neighbor's Christmas gift that keeps on giving
In the days leading up to Christmas 2018, the Williams family were told that their neighbor had passed away. He left behind a sack of 14 gifts for Cadi Williams to be opened each year on Christmas.