Michele Kelemen
Michele Kelemen has been with NPR for two decades, starting as NPR's Moscow bureau chief and now covering the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps. Her reports can be heard on all NPR News programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
As Diplomatic Correspondent, Kelemen has traveled with Secretaries of State from Colin Powell to Antony Blinken and everyone in between. She was part of the NPR team that won the 2007 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the war in Iraq.
As NPR's Moscow bureau chief, Kelemen chronicled the end of the Yeltsin era and Vladimir Putin's consolidation of power. She recounted the terrible toll of the latest war in Chechnya, while also reporting on a lighter side of Russia, with stories about modern day Russian literature and sports.
Kelemen came to NPR in September 1998, after eight years working for the Voice of America. There, she learned the ropes as a news writer, newscaster and show host.
Michele earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Russian and East European Affairs and International Economics.
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Randall Tobias, in charge of the Bush administration's foreign aid programs, stepped down this week after allegations were published that he retained the services of an escort service.
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As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes his first visit to the United States, an old issue is expected to emerge: Japan's World War II decision to force Korean women into brothels. Abe has been reluctant to apologize for the practice.
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Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the man once hailed as Russia's bold political reformer, has died at 76. For nine years, Yeltsin served as Russia's first freely elected president, engineering the end of the Soviet Union and a turn to democracy and a market economy. But Yeltsin's support also eroded.
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This week, President Bush threatened sanctions against Sudan to pressure the country into allowing a robust international peacekeeping force in Darfur. Activists say America's threats sound empty four years into the conflict.
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President Bush reiterates threats to impose sanctions against Sudan, which the U.S. says has ignored ethnic genocide in the Darfur region. The president made the comments while touring the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
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National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, who took over the 16 U.S. spy agencies less than three months ago, is signaling he wants a more aggressive posture for his office. McConnell says the country's surveillance law needs to be updated, what he calls a 100-day plan to accelerate intelligence reform.
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