Erika Ryan
Stories
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Syrian aid group leader says U.S. lifting sanctions is historic moment
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, about President Trump's decision to lift US sanctions against Syria.
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Report finds dire risk of starvation in Gaza as Israeli blockade continues
NPR's Juana Summers talks to Antoine Renard of the U.N. World Food Programme about the increasing risk of famine in Gaza, as Israel's block on humanitarian aid into the strip continues.
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What Pope Leo XIV means for the LGBT community
Pope Francis welcomed the LGBT community into the Catholic Church. What will his successor mean for the community?
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Can the new pope inspire young Catholics?
How are young Catholics thinking about the American Catholic church during the papal transition. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to the hosts of American Magazine's Jesuitical podcast.
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His Catholic prayer app is one of the world's most popular. What's his conclave take?
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the CEO of the Hallow app, a Catholic prayer app, about the next pope.
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This priest has focused on the LGBTQ community. Here's what he thinks of the conclave
Pope Francis worked to make the Catholic church more open to the LGBTQ community than ever. On the eve of the papal conclave, Scott Detrow speaks with the Rev. James Martin about what happens now.
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If your shopping bill is already high — tariffs will make it higher
Tariffs are driving prices up on lots of things Americans buy. Martha Gimbel of Yale's Budget Lab takes an imaginary walk through a big box store to examine how much more consumers will have to pay.
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Southern Appalachia's future — and present — involve wildfires
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Robert Scheller, landscape ecology professor at North Carolina State University, about the increasing risk for wildfires in southeast and southern Appalachian regions.
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Democratic Senator Mark Warner reacts to leak of military strike information
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia about questioning top Intelligence officials today on Capitol Hill about war plans being leaked in a group chat with a journalist.
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How a journalist became an inadvertent eavesdropper on national security secrets
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg, who was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders, about imminent military strikes on Yemen.