Asma Khalid
Asma Khalid is a White House correspondent for NPR. She also co-hosts The NPR Politics Podcast.
Khalid is a bit of a campaign-trail addict, having reported on the 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 elections.
She joined NPR's Washington team in 2016 to focus on the intersection of demographics and politics.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, she covered the crowded Democratic primary field, and then went on to report on Joe Biden's candidacy.
Her reporting often dives into the political, cultural and racial divides in the country.
Before joining NPR's political team, Khalid was a reporter for Boston's NPR station WBUR, where she was nearly immediately flung into one of the most challenging stories of her career — the Boston Marathon bombings. She had joined the network just a few weeks prior, but went on to report on the bombings, the victims, and the reverberations throughout the city. She also covered Boston's failed Olympic bid and the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger.
Later, she led a new business and technology team at the station that reported on the future of work.
In addition to countless counties across America, Khalid's reporting has taken her to Pakistan, the United Kingdom and China.
She got her start in journalism in her home state of Indiana, but she fell in love with radio through an internship at the BBC Newshour in London during graduate school.
She's been a guest on numerous TV programs including ABC's This Week, CNN's Inside Politics and PBS's Washington Week.
Her reporting has been recognized with the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Gracie Award.
A native of Crown Point, Ind., Khalid is a graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington. She has also studied at the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the American University in Beirut and Middlebury College's Arabic school.
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We look at President Biden's push to get his trimmed-down spending plan past Congress, as two Democratic lawmakers continue to oppose key provisions.
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In light of newly-leaked documents on its membership, we look at Oath Keepers, a group charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with Mahan Gafari, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, about the state of the pandemic in Iran and what we can learn about herd immunity.
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The small city of Greensburg, Ind., wants to grow, and is offering incentives for people to move in: cash, a YMCA membership — and grandparents on demand. -
Global supply chain issues have hampered the economic recovery. The Biden administration is trying to fix some of those issues through deals with the private sector.
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Democrats blasted former President Donald Trump for launching a trade war with China. But President Biden's top trade official is vowing to enforce the Trump-brokered trade deal.
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The Biden administration will lay out its approach to trade with China on Monday after months of examining what to do about massive tariffs put in place by former President Donald Trump.
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So far, President Biden has kept the steep tariffs on Chinese goods put in place by his predecessor. On Monday, his administration plans to unveil details of its own trade policy with China.
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Recapping today's memorial services and ceremonies for the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
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Vice President Kamala Harris is attending the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, memorial event. Shanksville was the site of the Flight 93 crash.
