Deepa Shivaram
Deepa Shivaram is a multi-platform political reporter on NPR's Washington Desk.
She joined NPR as a digital reporter in 2021, covering domestic and international breaking news, and reported on stories about climate change, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's resignation, the Afghan refugee crisis, the Tokyo Olympic games and Asian American representation on screen.
Since joining the Washington Desk, she's covered the midterm elections, the Biden administration and issues like the immigration debates around Title 42 and the leaked Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. Wade.
Prior to NPR, Shivaram was a political reporter and campaign embed at NBC News where she followed Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren during the 2020 primary elections, and covered Harris again when she was tapped as Joe Biden's vice presidential nominee. She also previously worked as an associate producer at NBC's Sunday show, Meet the Press.
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The memo outlines how government agencies can implement artificial intelligence and requires that agencies have a chief AI officer.
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The Biden administration is announcing guidelines for how federal agencies can and can't use AI, and ways the government will be transparent in using it — but there are still lingering questions.
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Florida passed a red flag law after the 2018 school shooting in Parkland. During a visit to that site, Harris announced a new White House effort designed to get more states to put those laws to work.
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Because of past administrative failures, the some 78,000 affected public service workers such as nurses and teachers never got the relief they were entitled to under the law, Biden said.
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President Biden was in the battleground state of Arizona to make the biggest announcement yet in his plan to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to America.
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Vice President Harris toured a Minnesota abortion clinic during a trip to the Twin Cities on Thursday. It's believed to be a first for a vice president or president.
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Vice President Harris will walk through Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on March 23 with the families of the victims who were killed there in a mass shooting.
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President Biden's re-election campaign is kicking into a higher gear. Tonight he holds a rally in Georgia, a state where he's got some work to do to repair his coalition of supporters.
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Here's what we know about the speech, the guests and the stakes for this election-year State of the Union address.
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The White House supports a bipartisan bill that would ban TikTok unless its Chinese parent company sells it. It's a popular app with young voters, who the Biden campaign is working to woo.