Skip to main content
Nevada Public Radio
  • News 88.9 KNPR
  • Classical 89.7 kcnv
  • Magazine Desert Companion
  • About

    How to reach us

    1289 S. Torrey Pines Dr.
    Las Vegas, NV 89146

    Main Number:  1-702-258-9895
    Toll Free: 1-888-258-9895

    More contact info

     

     

      • Staff
      • Board of Directors
      • Employment
      • FCC Applications
      • CPB Compliance
      • Our Policies
      • Listen on the Radio
      • Other Ways to Listen
      • Sign-up for NVPR News
      • FCC Public Inspection File
      • CPB Funding
      • History
    • News 88.9 KNPR
    • Classical 89.7 KCNV
    • Desert Companion
  • Programs
  • Events
  • Support
  • myPublicRadio
  • Donate Now

Main menu

Search

Listen

News 88.9 KNPR
Classical 89.7 KCNV
Podcasts view all

member station

Support

Subscribe to rex tillerson

rex tillerson

NPR
Law
Environmental activists rally outside of New York Supreme Court in October in Manhattan, the first day of the trial accusing ExxonMobil of misleading shareholders about its climate change accounting.

Exxon Wins New York Climate Change Fraud Case

Dec 10, 2019
The state's attorney general argued that the oil giant misled shareholders about the financial risks from climate change.
  • Listen Download
NPR
Politics
In <em>War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence</em>, Ronan Farrow writes about his time at the State Department and describes what he sees as a dangerous whittling away of the agency's influence.

'Shoot First, Ask Questions Later': Ronan Farrow On A Diplomacy-Less State Department

Apr 18, 2018
Journalist Ronan Farrow worked for years in the State Department. In his new book, he describes what he sees as a dangerous whittling away of the agency's influence.
  • Listen Download
NPR
Parallels
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at its headquarters in Langley, Va.

Gina Haspel Used To Work For Me. She's A Great Choice For CIA Director

Mar 19, 2018
Former CIA case officer Robert Baer supervised Gina Haspel and says she's the right person to talk President Trump out of potential foreign policy disasters.
NPR
Politics
CIA Director Mike Pompeo (right) is President Trump's choice to replace Rex Tillerson, who has been fired as secretary of state.

Tillerson Vs. Pompeo: What Trump's Cabinet Shakeup Might Mean For Policy

Mar 14, 2018
If confirmed, CIA Director Mike Pompeo would be a very different secretary of state than his predecessor, Rex Tillerson. Here is where they stand on North Korea, Iran, trade and chemistry with Trump.
NPR
Politics
A man at the Seoul, South Korea, train station last August watches a news program featuring President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

White House Says North Korea Meeting Will Happen Only With 'Concrete' Action

Mar 09, 2018
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said a meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will only happen once the country shows a commitment to denuclearization.
NPR
Parallels
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are expected to continue to square off in 2018.

President Trump's Biggest Foreign Policy Headache For 2018

Dec 29, 2017
After trading bellicose barbs with North Korea throughout 2017, the U.S. heads into 2018 with an increasingly capable foe and no clear diplomatic exit ramps to temper the tensions.
NPR
Parallels
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson makes his way to his seat before the Strategic Dialogue on Disrupting Transnational Criminal Organizations at the State Department on Dec. 14.

For Rex Tillerson, A Rocky First Year As Trump's Secretary Of State

Dec 27, 2017
Tillerson says he has scored no diplomatic wins for 2017 but believes his redesign plan will improve the State Department. Critics argue he has done so much damage that it may take years to recover.
  • Listen Download
NPR
Politics
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo in as soon as a few weeks, according to multiple media reports.

Trump Reportedly Considers Replacing Secretary Of State Tillerson

Nov 30, 2017
The move could come within weeks, according to multiple media outlets. President Trump brushed off questions on the topic during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday, saying only, "Rex is here."
NPR
Politics
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Congress's power to authorize the use of military force.

Tillerson And Mattis Warn Against Repealing War Power Authorizations

Oct 30, 2017
Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, senior Trump national security officials argued existing use-of-force measures are doing the job, despite being on the books for 16 years.
NPR
The Two-Way
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson steps off the plane as he arrives in Qatar after returning from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Monday. Tillerson paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan to meet with President Ashraf Ghani and other officials.

Tillerson Affirms Afghanistan Commitments In Unannounced Visit

Oct 23, 2017
In remarks delivered after landing, the secretary invited "moderate voices" within the Taliban to renounce violence. He also called on Pakistan to stop providing safe haven to terrorists.
NPR
The Two-Way
Mission San Jose, one of five missions in San Antonio designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The cultural aid agency has designated more than 1,000 such sites around the world — including more than 20 in the U.S. — to celebrate their "outstan

U.S. Says It Will Withdraw From UNESCO, Citing 'Anti-Israel Bias'

Oct 12, 2017
The State Department said the withdrawal from the United Nations' cultural agency will take effect Dec. 31, 2018. The U.S. had cut funding to the group years ago for offering Palestinians membership.
NPR
Politics
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said at a briefing Wednesday that a news report that he intended to resign was "intended to divide" and that he was "not going to deal with petty nonsense."

Tillerson Says He Never Considered Resigning, Doesn't Deny Calling Trump A 'Moron'

Oct 04, 2017
The secretary of state denied a report that he considered stepping down, but did not deny that he called the president a "moron" after a hotly political speech before the Boy Scouts over the summer.
NPR
The Two-Way
President Trump in Morristown, N.J., in September and Kim Jong Un following a military parade in Pyongyang earlier this year.

Trump Says Tillerson Is 'Wasting His Time' On Talks With North Korea

Oct 01, 2017
The tweets from the president come just one day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson noted the U.S. has channels of negotiation "open to Pyongyang."
NPR
The Two-Way
The State Department is suspending visa services at the U.S. Embassy in Havana indefinitely.

State Department Orders More Than Half Its Staff Out Of Cuba After 'Specific Attacks'

Sep 29, 2017
The move follows reports in August that U.S. diplomats in Havana had been subjected to mysterious "sonic" attacks that led to hearing loss, headaches and other health problems.
NPR
The Two-Way
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says North Korea's Kim Jong Un "doesn't seem to understand diplomatic language."

Tillerson: Trump Is Using Language Kim Jong Un Can Understand

Aug 09, 2017
When asked if Americans should be worried about tensions with North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson replied, "I think Americans should sleep well at night."
NPR
The Two-Way
South Korean army soldiers patrol on Monday along the barbed-wire fence in Paju, near the border with North Korea.

North Korea Threatens 'Ultimate Measures' Over New U.N. Sanctions

Aug 07, 2017
North Korea is blaming the United States and threatening "something thousands of times worse" in response to a package of sanctions that the U.N. Security Council passed unanimously over the weekend.
NPR
The Two-Way
Tourists bow before statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung (left) and Kim Jong-Il, in Pyongyang last month. The U.S. will ban travel to North Korea starting Sept. 1.

State Department Bans Travel To North Korea On U.S. Passports Starting Sept. 1

Aug 02, 2017
Americans currently in North Korea were told to depart by the end of August. Journalists and aid workers may apply for exemptions from the ban.
NPR
The Two-Way
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, photographed by NPR in the George C. Marshall room at the State Department in April.

Tillerson Arrives In Kuwait, Opening Days-Long Dialogue On Qatar Standoff

Jul 10, 2017
The U.S. secretary of state will also visit Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The latter has joined three other countries in isolating tiny Qatar. The shuttle diplomacy marks a shift in approach for Tillerson.
NPR
The Two-Way
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit on Friday. Shortly after they met, the United States said the two countries had agreed to a cease-fire in southwestern Syria.

U.S., Russia Agree To Syrian Cease-Fire

Jul 07, 2017
The truce, for a section of the country's southwest, also includes Jordan and Israel. Several such cease-fires in the past have been short-lived.
NPR
The Two-Way
Warmbier is escorted to his March 2016 trial in Pyongyang, North Korea, at which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison and hard labor.

American Student Freed By North Korea Arrives Home

Jun 14, 2017
Otto Warmbier is said to have been in a coma since sometime after his sentencing in North Korea in March 2016. The American student was sentenced to a 15-year prison term after his arrest.
NPR
The Two-Way
This satellite photograph taken on April 18 depicts what the State Department describes as a crematorium — in the bottom right of the image — built to dispose of the bodies of victims at Saydnaya military prison outside Damascus, Syria.

Syria Has Been Burning Bodies To Hide Prison Executions For Years, U.S. Says

May 15, 2017
"We believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place" in a military prison outside Damascus, a State Department official said Monday.
NPR
The Two-Way
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, pictured in Moscow last week, says Iran has been abiding by a 2015 nuclear agreement. But he told Congress in a letter that the Trump administration was reviewing the lifting of U.S. sanctions against Iran to determ

Iran Sticks To Nuclear Deal, But U.S. Says It Will Review Sanctions

Apr 19, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tells Congress that the Trump administration will take another look at sanctions to see if lifting them was in line with U.S. national security interests.
NPR
The Two-Way
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the start of their meeting in Moscow. Russia has accused the U.S. of breaking international law with its missile strike on Syria last week.

Putin, Tillerson Meet At Kremlin, Discuss Tensions Between Russia And U.S.

Apr 12, 2017
"The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot cannot have this kind of relationship," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
NPR
The Two-Way
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sits at a table surrounded by foreign ministers from G-7 countries on Tuesday, the second day of a meeting in Lucca, Italy. Tillerson headed to Moscow later that day for the start of a series of what promise to be some to

Before Their Tete-A-Tete, Tillerson And Russians Trade Verbal Tit-For-Tat On Syria

Apr 11, 2017
Before the secretary of state even touched down in Moscow, heated words were already flying between the two sides over Syrian President Bashar Assad and the U.S. missile strike last week.
NPR
The Two-Way
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson waits for the start of a meeting last month at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Tillerson is scheduled to travel to Russia on Tuesday, in what promises to be a difficult round of talks after the U.S. missile strike in

Syria Casts Long Shadow Across Rex Tillerson's Big Trip To Italy And Russia

Apr 10, 2017
The secretary of state is meeting with G-7 diplomats, then heading to Moscow on Tuesday for some rather tough discussions. All the while, the U.S. strike on Syria is likely to be Item 1 on the agenda.

Pages

  • 1
  • 2
  • next ›
  • last »
  • home
  • How to reach us
  • About
  • Support
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • NVPR News
  • Instagram

© All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Policy

PRXNPRAPMBBC INN