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- White House editor @npr / former White House correspondent @Reuters.
- Roberta Rampton is NPR's White House editor.
- A senior White House official who was helping negotiate nuclear issues with Iran has been fired after being unmasked as the acidic voice behind a Twitter.
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'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' rakes in the green
ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST:
Andy Warhol's paintings of Marilyn Monroe were some of his most iconic work. Now, one of them, known as Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, has set the record for the most expensive work by an American artist sold at auction. Yesterday it sold for $195 million at Christie's in New York. To talk about this stunning sale is art critic Blake Gopnik, who wrote about it for the New York Times this morning. Blake, thanks for joining us.
BLAKE GOPNIK: Nice to talk to you, Adrian.
FLORIDO: I think a lot of people would recognize this 1964 silkscreen painting if they saw it, but describe it for us, would you?
GOPNIK: It's a gorgeous silkscreen painting of Marilyn Monroe glowing with beautiful colors. I think, as you say, most people would recognize it because it's just about Warhol's most famous painting. It was reproduced on posters all over the place in the 1970s, so people really became familiar with it.
FLORIDO: And what made this painting so influential?
GOPNIK: You know, it's kind of a distillation of everything
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The White House recently hosted its fifth annual Science Fair and invited students from across the country to exhibit their projects. All of them were impressive (far more so than the simple projects I undertook as a student!), and I was particularly pleased to see so many inventions included. Through their displays, students showed an understanding not just of scientific concepts but also of their applications, and illustrated what we at the Lemelson Center know well—that everyone is inventive.
Here are a few of my favorite inventions from this year’s White House event:
Emily Bergenroth, Alicia Cutter, Karissa Cheng, Addy Oneal, and Emery Dodson, all age six, worked together to invent a battery-powered page turner for people who have arthritis, are paralyzed, or have other disabilities. The girls, who are members of a Daisy Girl Scout troop and nicknamed themselves the Supergirls, created their invention using LEGO components.
Inspired by watching her grandfather, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, struggle with a regular cup, Lily Born, 11, invented the Kangaroo Cup
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Joe Biden
President of the United States from 2021 to 2025
"Joseph Biden" and "Biden" redirect here. For his first-born son, Joseph Biden III, see Beau Biden. For other uses, see Biden (disambiguation).
Joe Biden | |
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Official portrait, 2021 | |
| In office January 20, 2021 – January 20, 2025 | |
| Vice President | Kamala Harris |
| Preceded by | Donald Trump |
| Succeeded by | Donald Trump |
| In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Dick Cheney |
| Succeeded by | Mike Pence |
| In office January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009 | |
| Preceded by | J. Caleb Boggs |
| Succeeded by | Ted Kaufman |
| Born | Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (1942-11-20) November 20, 1942 (age 82) Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic (since 1969) |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (1968–1969) |
| Spouses | Neilia Hunter (m. ; died ) |
| Children | |
| Relatives | Biden family |
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| Awards | Full list |
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