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May 23, 2019 • 1min
Coming Soon: Mitch
Coming soon from NPR's Embedded: How did Mitch McConnell become one of the most powerful people in the world? And how did he change America in the process? Episodes available beginning May 30, 2019.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Apr 18, 2019 • 23min
How It Ends: The Search
In 2015, Bashir Shikder returned from an overseas trip to an empty house. His wife had taken his two young children to live in the Islamic State. For the past four years he's done everything he can to try to get them back. And now that ISIS has lost all his territory, he wants to know... Where are they?Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Apr 11, 2019 • 24min
How It Ends: Judgment
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Apr 6, 2019 • 30min
How It Ends: The Brother
What would you do if your brother wound up far away, having made a terrible mistake? What would you do if it involved ISIS? How far would you go? On today's show, we find out.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Mar 28, 2019 • 2min
Coming Next Week: How It Ends
Now that ISIS has lost its territory, what happens to all the people from around the world who ran off to join it? Their governments don't want them. But their families do. We follow them as they try to get their loved ones out.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Feb 21, 2019 • 25min
After The Storm
For months, officials claimed fewer than 100 people died from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Then, all of a sudden, the official estimate rose to nearly 3,000 deaths. How did that happen? We have the story of one family that helps make sense of it.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Nov 1, 2018 • 34min
The Hearing
This is a story about who is allowed to vote... and who is not. In Florida, the ultimate swing state, 1.5 million people cannot vote, because they have a past felony on their record. And there is one way to try and get that right back: Ask the governor directly.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Aug 17, 2018 • 36min
Trump Stories: The Apprentice
Omarosa Manigault Newman has a new book. What about those tapes? We re-visit an episode from our "Trump Stories" season.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Jul 4, 2018 • 35min
The Waiver
President Trump's travel ban has been upheld by the Supreme Court. People from the seven banned countries can still come to the U.S. if they get a special "waiver." So far, few people have gotten them. We follow one Yemeni family as they try to get a waiver to escape a civil war. Supreme Court audio in this episode comes from Oyez.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Jun 27, 2018 • 37min
The Red Line
From 2011-2013, Kelly covered the war in Syria, where people would ask, "Why won't the U.S. intervene?" Then came a chemical attack, ordered by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, that killed more than 1,000 people, and the U.S. almost intervened, but didn't. Now, a new book tells why.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
