Jeffrey Pierre
Stories
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Sports
Naomi Girma makes soccer history with Chelsea transfer
Naomi Girma's move to Chelsea marks the first ever million-dollar transfer fee in women's soccer. iThe Athletic's Meg Linehan explains what the move means.
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Up all night for Van Gogh: The National Gallery stays open for 24 hours
The Van Gogh exhibit there is in its final weekend at the National Gallery in London. It's staying open 24 hours to give everyone a chance to come see it. So far, almost 280,000 visitors have come.
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Environment
Invasive crabs threatened West Coast ecosystems for decades. One solution? Otters
NPR's Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year.
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Latin America
Venezuelans prepare for a tense inauguration day
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Raul Stolk, the managing director of Caracas Chronicles, which covers Venezuelan politics. Friday will see President Maduro sworn in despite disputed results.
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Technology
This year's list of breakthrough technologies that might shape the future
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Amy Nordrum of the MIT Technology Review about the magazine's list of breakthrough technologies for 2025.
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World
Authorities have recovered two black boxes from Wednesday's plane crash in Kazakhstan
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks about the Azerbaijan Airlines crash with The Ohio State University's Shawn Pruchnicki. He was trained in accident investigation at the National Transportation Safety Board.
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Science
Football stadium-sized balloons launch in Antarctica for science experiments
Scientists with NASA are launching enormous balloons, the size of a football stadium, from the Antarctic ice. They're carrying experiments on dark matter and other mysteries.
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Sports
American swimmer Gretchen Walsh breaks 11 world records
The American swimmer Gretchen Walsh had a historic performance this weekend. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Braden Keith, the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com, about this moment.
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National
Former detective weighs in on the hunt for the UnitedHealthcare CEO's killer
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with David Sarni, a retired NYPD detective and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about the hunt for the gunman who killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO.