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A Water Crisis Is Growing In A Place You'd Least Expect It

The Great Lakes are one of the world's largest sources of fresh water, but many Americans in surrounding cities face a dark irony: They can't afford their rising water bills.

People celebrate Saturday at Black Lives Matter Plaza across from the White House in Washington, D.C., after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Biden And Harris Supporters Celebrate In D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza

Crowds are gathering to cheer the news of Joe Biden's presidential win near the White House at Black Lives Matter Plaza.

Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., on the Senate shutdown deal and the division it caused

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts about divisions within his party over the shutdown deal in the Senate.

The first shipment of face shield parts that Amy Kuceyeski, of Cornell University, dropped off to health care facilities.

One Way to Help Strapped Hospitals? Print PPE Using 3D Printers

As coronavirus cases soar globally and medical workers face a dearth of protective gear, citizens are stepping up in unique ways to combat the health crisis.

Encore: Inmates give Washington, D.C., officials ideas for curbing gun violence

An innovative educational program in the D.C. jail asks incarcerated people how to stop gun violence. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 8, 2022.)

Fatouma Zahara Hasan, a widow with a large family from the town of Chifera, has her photograph taken on a tablet as part of a vast registration drive to ensure that food aid funded by the United States in parts of Ethiopia is only provided to recipients that qualify.

'I am struggling all alone,' says a widowed Ethiopian mother of 6. Now there's hope

After months of disruption in a massive national feeding effort by global groups, there's a scramble to digitally register more than 6 million Ethiopians to make sure food aid goes to those in need.

Jazz, politics, continents collide in Oscar-nominated 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union and the U.S. jockey for influence in the "new world."

The site of Trump International Hotel, due to open in fall 2016 in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump's campaign announced he will open a campaign office in D.C. next week.

Trump Gets Serious About Convention Fight, Plans To Open Shop In D.C.

The campaign's increasing emphasis on the nominating process comes amid criticism that star power may not be enough to get Donald Trump a majority of delegates before the convention.

A demonstrator holds a poster of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a gathering outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, on Oct. 25, 2018. Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor, was killed on Oct. 2, 2018 after a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

D.C. council renames the street in front of the Saudi embassy after Jamal Khashoggi

The decision marks a rebuke to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who according to U.S. intelligence approved the killing of the former Washington Post journalist and critic of Saudi policy.

Ina Jaffe

Ina Jaffe is a veteran NPR correspondent covering the aging of America. Her stories on Morning Edition and All Things Considered have focused on older adults' involvement in politics and elections, dating and divorce, work and retirement, fashion and sports, as well as issues affecting long term care and end of life choices. In 2015, she was named one of the nation's top "Influencers in Aging" by PBS publication Next Avenue, which wrote "Jaffe has reinvented reporting on aging."

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