Kathryn Fink
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Former CDC official explains his decision to leave the agency
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the former director of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, about his resignation after the CDC director's firing.
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Joe Hickerson didn't just document American folk music. He shaped it
Library of Congress archivist Joe Hickerson has died at 89. For decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music and served as director of the library's American Folklife Center.
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President Trump wants to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook. Can he do that?
President Trump wants to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook. Can he do that? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Columbia University law professor Kathryn Judge about the legalities.
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In navigating hearing loss, poet Raymond Antrobus explains his views on 'deaf gain'
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to poet Raymond Antrobus about his new memoir, The Quiet Ear, and how he has navigated between the worlds of hearing and hearing loss.
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Conservative-leaning thinktank weighs in on what's next for the Education Department
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Petrilli, head of the education policy thinktank Thomas B. Fordham Institute, about the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Education Department.
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How one couple survived a shipwreck and kept their marriage afloat
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sophie Elmhirst, author of A Marriage at Sea, which chronicles the voyage of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, a British couple who was lost at sea for 118 days in 1972.
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Interstellar navigation and New Horizons
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.
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How Medicaid cuts could impact rural hospitals
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sarah Jane Tribble, chief rural correspondent for KFF Health News, about how the Reconciliation Bill's cuts to Medicaid could impact rural hospitals.
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'Death at the White Hart': When the publican is found dead, everyone's a suspect
NPR's Mary Louise talks with Chris Chibnall, author of Death at the White Hart.
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Marianne Faithfull's posthumous EP is a return to her folk and pop roots
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Andrew Batt, executive producer of Marianne Faithfull's posthumous EP Burning Moonlight.