Biden Defends Major As A Sweet Dog Just In Need Of Some Training
President Biden walks with his dogs Major and Champ in the Rose Garden of the White House.
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President Biden came to the defense of his rescue dog Major after the German shepherd caused what the president described as a minor incident last week at the White House.
Biden said Major, one of his two German shepherds, was just startled in his new home when he caused what the White House called a minor injury to someone last week. You turn a corner, and there s two people you don t know at all, Biden said in an interview with ABC s
Justin Bieber: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit stripped-down sets, an intimate setting just a different space.
If you were to apply one of those how it started/how it s going memes to Tiny Desk (home) concerts which began, it turns out, almost exactly one year ago you d have, under how it s going, the image of pop superstar Justin Bieber as he and his band perform the world premiere of a new song called Peaches.
Grammy Winner Burna Boy Makes Music And Social Noise By Ifeanyi M. Nsofor | NPR
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Burna Boy accepted the Best Global Music Album award for Twice as Tall from Chika at the Grammy awards on March 14. His acceptance speech was dedicated to all of Africa.
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Burna Boy s Grammy Award win for Best Global Music Album makes me feel – as we Nigerians say Proudly Naija. And I am not alone. Nigerians everywhere are ecstatic that he has won the prestigious award.
In case you re not familiar with his music, here s how NPR described it when he came to perform a Tiny Desk concert in 2019:
On The Last Friend, Michael League Imagines Death As A Benevolent Companion
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Jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy, led by League, recently won the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards.
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Morning Edition Song Project is the series where songwriters are asked to write an original song about the COVID era. The newest addition is brought by Michael League. He plays all kinds of instruments; he s a producer, too and the lead of the jazz-fusion group Snarky Puppy.
League is American, but when he s not on tour, he lives in Spain. And it was 12 months ago this very week that Spain went into lockdown. League remembers the weekend it was announced: he lived in the north of Spain and his girlfriend lives in the south. He had to act fast. Saturday night, they made the decision. I packed an overnight bag, bought a flight, he says. And on Sunday, I f
What It Would Take For Biden To Revive The Iran Deal
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A man reads the news about the U.S. elections on Nov. 9 in Tehran. Many Iranians are hopeful that President Biden will lifts sanctions imposed on Iran by his predecessor.
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One of President Biden s campaign promises reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is at a standstill. Iran has been ramping up its nuclear program and demanding that Biden lift economic sanctions imposed to deprive the regime of cash.
The nuclear deal between world powers and Iran was based on lifting the crippling international sanctions like blocking billions in dollars of Iranian oil sales in return for Iran limiting its nuclear program.