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  • What’s happening with the U.S. and Venezuela?

    What’s happening with the U.S. and Venezuela?
    Jan 8 2026

    One week ago, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was leading the country. Now, he’s sitting inside a detention center in Brooklyn.


    Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR international correspondent Carrie Kahn in Bogotá about what she’s hearing from Venezuelans, and NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman about the Trump administration’s plans for the country. Bowman also shares his reporting that the Pentagon will review the role of women in ground combat units.

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    25 Min.
  • Venezuela leader captured. Trump says U.S. to 'run' the country. Here’s what we know

    Venezuela leader captured. Trump says U.S. to 'run' the country. Here’s what we know
    Jan 4 2026

    After months of threats, warnings and seizing of alleged drug boats – tensions between the United States and Venezuela have now come to this: the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.


    Now, President Trump says the United States is “running the country.”

    In this special episode of Sources & Methods, host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with national security correspondent Greg Myre, Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman, international correspondent Carrie Kahn and Rep. Adam Smith about the latest from Venezuela.
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    20 Min.
  • Undercover for the holidays: Some of our favorite spy novels

    Undercover for the holidays: Some of our favorite spy novels
    Dec 29 2025
    What's more thrilling than a great... thriller? As national security buffs, we have thoughts.


    Host Mary Louise Kelly chats with national security correspondent Greg Myre and books and culture reporter Andrew Limbong about some of their favorite books and authors in the world of espionage fiction.

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    29 Min.
  • From CIA Officer to Governor: Abigail Spanberger on intelligence and politics

    From CIA Officer to Governor: Abigail Spanberger on intelligence and politics
    Dec 22 2025

    Virginia governor-elect Abigail Spanberger will be the first woman and the first former CIA officer to lead the commonwealth.

    Host Mary Louise Kelly talks to Spanberger about her unconventional career path that took her from Langley to D.C. and now to Richmond, and how some of her skills from gathering intelligence come in handy in politics.

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    26 Min.
  • Is ISIS making a comeback?

    Is ISIS making a comeback?
    Dec 18 2025

    The terrorist group has been linked to the mass shooting in Australia and a deadly attack in Syria. What do these two attacks reveal about the group's strength?

    Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and Middle East correspondent Jane Arraf about how the Islamic State has adapted in a post-caliphate world and what American forces are doing in Syria.

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    28 Min.
  • Without a press corps, who holds the Pentagon to account?

    Without a press corps, who holds the Pentagon to account?
    Sep 25 2025
    And the president designates Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.


    This episode, we dig into the Pentagon's demand that reporters sign a pledge commiting not to gather any information -- including unclassified reports -- that hasn't been authorized for release, or lose their press credentials. Mary Louise Kelly talks with Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman about how how it could change his reporting. And domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef clarifies what President Trump's executive order means in practice and what it signals.

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    25 Min.
  • Introducing Sources & Methods

    Introducing Sources & Methods
    Aug 25 2025
    National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week.


    With decades of reporting from battlefields and the halls of power, they bring you inside the Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community to help you understand America's shifting role in the world, and how events in faraway places matter here at home. Additional episodes feature interviews with power players from the NatSec world -- current and former military officials, intelligence experts, diplomatic leaders, and more.


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    2 Min.