Deepa Shivaram
Deepa Shivaram has been covering the White House for NPR since 2022.
She's extensively covered AI policy in the Biden and Trump administrations, economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the marathon that was the 2024 election. Her stories aim to contextualize the churn of White House politics and policy and how it impacts communities outside Washington.
Shivaram joined NPR in 2021 as a digital news reporter covering breaking news in the U.S. and around the world. Her stories are wide ranging, from live coverage of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, to analysis of Asian American representation in television.
She got her start in journalism freelancing for the BBC in Washington and producing at NBC News, where she worked for the longest-running show on television, Meet the Press. In 2019, she was selected as a campaign embed for the network, closely following then Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Elizabeth Warren and other 2020 presidential contenders.
Shivaram is a graduate of George Washington University, where she studied journalism and political science. She is an alum of several global journalism fellowship programs, including FASPE (Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics), RIAS and the U.S.-Korea Journalism Exchange through the East West Center. Shivaram is also a proud member of the Asian American Journalism Association.
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President Trump gave a speech in Las Vegas Wednesday, where he praised the U.S. economy but workers in the city say his administration's policies aren't helping.
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President Trump is lobbing new threats at Iran as polling shows even his base is getting weary of the Iran war.
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President Trump is now declaring the ceasefire between the US and Iran is over, and he's threatening to start striking Iran again tonight.
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There's been a lot of confusion and disruption about the legal authority the Trump administration has to suspend AI technology.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says the U.S. killed the leader of Tren de Aragua in coordination with Venezuela.
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Monday night, President Trump spoke optimistically about negotiations to end the war with Iran. Now, he has confirmed that Iran shot down a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, saying the U.S. must respond.
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Trump confirmed the two pilots in the U.S. helicopter, downed near the Strait of Hormuz, are safe. The U.S. responded by launching strikes on Iran, with Tehran attacking Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan soon after. -
The White House is saying little about President Trump's check-up at Walter Reed Tuesday, his third in 13 months. Critics say the lack of transparency only raises more questions about his health.
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President Trump struggles to make a plan for artificial intelligence regulation after initially taking a hands off position on the emerging technology.
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The Trump administration's approach on AI so far has been to prioritize innovation over regulation. But recently, there's been a shift in rhetoric.
