NPR's Melissa Block talks with Peter Ford, reporter for the Christian Science Monitor in Baghdad, about the largest gathering in four years of Shia Muslims attending Friday prayers in Baghdad.
As special correspondent and guest host of NPR's news programs, Melissa Block brings her signature combination of warmth and incisive reporting. Her work over the decades has earned her journalism's highest honors, and has made her one of NPR's most familiar and beloved voices.
We thought we'd check in to see how the headlines have been affecting your lives and your budgets, and what better way to do that than at the grocery store? In this ongoing series, HPR plans to go to various grocery stores and learn more about what people are seeing amid Trump's tariff hikes.
As the Trump administration attempts to reshape the federal workforce, the head of the Hawaii Government Employees Association, Randy Perreira, gives insight into the direct impacts on labor unions.