Tamara Keith
Stories
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Politics
Colorado's governor treated COVID differently than many Democrats. It may pay off
Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., canceled Colorado's state of emergency last July. As omicron surged, he refused to reinstate state-wide mask mandates. His approach seems to have made him popular.
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Health
Democratic governor who lifted mask mandate early explains why it was the right move
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis says that prioritizing vaccine and testing availability over masking helped the state achieve a high rate of immunization and relatively low death rate.
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National
Americans are looking for a way to memorialize their loved ones lose to COVID
Efforts are underway to create a memorial for people who died from COVID. Some are pushing for a monument, others are working for a day of remembrance.
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Politics
You can order free COVID tests from the government again
More than half of U.S. households have ordered at-home tests for COVID-19 tests to be shipped to their homes. Now they can get more.
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Business
Biden considers banning Russian oil but gas prices are already creeping up
The White House is hesitant to halt imports of Russian oil, but the administration is not ruling it out.
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Politics
The White House has a new plan for COVID-19 aimed at getting things back to normal
If you think you might have COVID, you'll be able to get tested at a pharmacy and treated with antiviral drugs right away, under the next phase of the pandemic plan.
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National
An old-fashioned crime is on the rise: bank check theft
NPR's Tamara Keith talks with David Maimon, director of Georgia State University's Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group, on how criminals are targeting mailboxes to steal and sell bank checks.
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Politics
COVIDtest.gov has been helpful in getting tests out — but there's more work to do
The White House committed to buying a billion rapid COVID tests to distribute in the U.S. The launch of COVIDtests.gov has made it easy for Americans to order free tests, but there are still issues.
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Latin America
7 years later, parents of missing Ayotzinapa students are still searching for answers
NPR's Tamara Keith talks with Reveal reporter Anayansi Diaz-Cortes about the podcast After Ayotzinapa. The show digs into the 2014 disappearance of a group of young men at a rural Mexican college.
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National
Check fraud is on the rise. Here's what you need to know and how to avoid it
Check fraud has spiked in the U.S. as thieves use age-old tricks to swindle Americans out of their money and then sell bogus checks on the darknet, a monitoring group has found.