Ashley Lopez is a political correspondent for NPR based in Austin, Texas. She joined NPR in May 2022. Prior to NPR, Lopez spent more than six years as a health care and politics reporter for KUT, Austin's public radio station. Before that, she was a political reporter for NPR Member stations in Florida and Kentucky. Lopez is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and grew up in Miami, Florida.
France beat Morocco to advance to the World Cup semifinals. The match drew crowds to Paris' streets to watch on big screens. In a country with a large Moroccan diaspora, many hearts were divided.
The world's two most populous countries — India and China — are missing from the expanded 48-team men's World Cup, highlighting corruption, bureaucratic rot and youth sports culture.
Michigan reports 1,250 cases of cyclospora and CDC surveillance shows cases in 17 states. The CDC has initiated a traceback investigation, as the source is not yet known.
Fiction provides it's own kind of travel — right from your couch. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish writer Tana French about her books and others' writing that immerse readers in Ireland.