Brianna Scott
Stories
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Sports
Will Lionel Messi finally make the U.S. a soccer nation?
After a move to Inter Miami, the world's biggest soccer star has more than a new team to take on — he's being counted on to popularize Major League Soccer too.
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National
'The Big Break' reveals how D.C.'s oddball influential players gamble and schmooze
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Washington Post political reporter and author Ben Terris on his hew new book The Big Break.
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Politics
Mitch Landrieu is Biden's man to rebuild America and deliver broadband to millions
This is the year that a lot of the money from Biden's 2021 infrastructure law starts flowing to states and local governments. Mitch Landrieu is tasked with implementing and promoting the effort.
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Arts & Life
Writer Sam Irby bears her soul – again – with new essay collection 'Quietly Hostile'
Writer Sam Irby talks about her newest collection of essays, Quietly Hostile.
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Politics
3 generations of trans Americans reflect on what has (and hasn't) changed
Trans people in the U.S. have gained more rights in recent years, yet in many states those same rights are under attack. Now they are grappling with their newfound visibility – and vulnerability.
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Arts & Life
What's at stake for TV and movie writers who went on strike this week
TV writer and Writers Guild of America member Jeane Phan Wong talks about what writers want and what's getting in the way.
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National
'Dead Ringers' shows pregnancy's beauty, horrors as Rachel Weisz plays Mantle twins
NPR's Melissa Block speaks with actress Rachel Weisz and screenwriter Alice Birch about the new series Dead Ringers, about a pair of celebrity OB/GYN twins in New York.
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Books
Self-coined 'Financial Hype Woman' Berna Anat spills financial tidbits in a new book
Author and self-coined "Financial Hype Woman" Berna Anat talks about her new book Money Out Loud: All the Financial Stuff No One Taught Us.
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Arts & Life
How these art sleuths reunited a family after centuries apart
In 1626, a father and son sat for a portrait. Nearly 400 years later their story is still being examined by experts in Europe.
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Arts & Life
Two halves of a 17th-century family portrait have been reunited
Art history sleuths in Europe have determined that two separate portraits by a 17th-century Flemish artist actually belong together — and the two works of art have been reunited in a Danish museum.