Justine Kenin
Stories
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Goalball: The Paralympic sport that has brought meaning, independence for athletes
Goalball is a paralympic sport created for blind and vision-impaired athletes. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Andy Jenks, a former member of the U.S. goalball team and a silver Paralympic medalist.
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The athletic director of the University of Washington on leading a Big 10 school
As Week 1 of the college football season approaches, NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Pat Chun, athletic director for the University of Washington, about his school's decision to join the Big 10.
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Understanding the NFL's tweaks to game kick-offs
The NFL's made some tweaks to the game's kick-off for safety reasons. Advocates say the change creates upwards of 2,000 more play calls during the season. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with David Dennis Jr., senior writer for ESPN's Andscape.
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Here's why tonight's blue supermoon is so special
Monday marks a rare cosmic event: a blue supermoon. It’s a combination of a supermoon, when it’s closest to Earth, and a blue moon, which is the third of four full moons in a season.
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He was recently leading Bangladeshi student protests. Now he's a government minister.
NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Nahid Islam, one of the Bangladeshi student protesters who is now serving as a minister of the country's interim government after their former prime minister fled.
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A gospel choir is telling the story of house music with reimagined dance classics
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.
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How criminal syndicates traffic, torture and enslave people to send scam text messages
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Feliz Solomon, a Wall Street Journal reporter who tracked a network of criminal syndicates that enslave people in a multibillion dollar cyber fraud industry.
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The Google antitrust case shows the century old law can hold up in modern times
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rebecca Allensworth, who teaches antitrust law at Vanderbilt Law School, about what comes next for Google and its users after it lost a major antitrust lawsuit.
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In 'Bringing Ben Home' a wrongfully convicted Black man believes truth will prevail
In 1988, Benjamin Spencer was sentenced to life in prison for a brutal robbery and murder he has always insisted he did not commit. He finally walked out of prison in March of 2021.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. admitted to dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. admitted to dumping a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park and making it look like a bicyclist had hit the animal.