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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Georgetown researcher Badar Khan Suri calls 2-month immigration detention a ‘nightmare, like a hell’Suri spent nearly two months in a Texas detention center after ICE agents arrested him outside his Virginia home. Suri is one of a number of international scholars and students tangled up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on campuses.
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President Trump is in Qatar on Wednesday, the second stop on his trip in the Middle East. He's also getting criticism for considering accepting a luxury jet from Qatar as a gift.
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President Trump appeared on "Meet the Press with Kristen Welker" and was asked about the due process rights of immigrants. When asked if a he needs to uphold the Constitution, he said, "I don't know."
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Trump said he would make Secretary of State Marco Rubio his interim national security adviser. It's the first time since the Nixon era that one person will do both jobs. -
President Trump has begun speaking differently about tariffs on China, saying the rate will come down substantially. And while it's not clear Trump is actually changing policy, he is changing tone.
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The entire LIHEAP office was slashed in the HHS firings earlier this week. LIHEAP provides heating and cooling assistance to low-income families--and experts worry that its disappearance will put families at risk in the upcoming heat season.
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Many thousands of people turned out today to protest President Trump's policies at rallies across the nation.
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President Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke Tuesday about a potential ceasefire in Ukraine as analysts voiced skepticism about Putin's motivations.
