Jasmine Garsd Jasmine Garsd is NPR's Criminal Justice correspondent and the host of The Last Cup.
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Jasmine Garsd

Host, The Last Cup, and Correspondent, Criminal Justice

Jasmine Garsd is an Argentine-American journalist living in New York. She is currently NPR's Criminal Justice correspondent and the host of The Last Cup. She started her career as the co-host of Alt.Latino, an NPR show about Latin music. Throughout her reporting career she's focused extensively on women's issues and immigrant communities in America. She's currently writing a book of stories about women she's met throughout her travels.

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Friday

The character and fitness evaluation to practice law is discriminatory, advocates say

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Thursday

Bassist Juan Carlos Formell dies after a heart attack onstage. He was 59

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Thursday

New York state is becoming a battleground for migrant rights

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Thursday

New York rolls back bail reforms that gave judges more discretion

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Wednesday

Jacqueline Arellano hikes through a wash she suspects migrants move though on their way north after crossing the border. She volunteers with Border Kindness , a group that is extending its services to desert areas around Yuma, Ariz., to assist lost or hurt migrants. Ash Ponders for NPR hide caption

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Desperate migrants are choosing to cross the border through dangerous U.S. desert

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Friday

NYC Mayor Adams pressures the feds for more help with assistance to migrants

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Wednesday

A critic of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is led out of the room by police during a House Judiciary Committee field hearing on violent crime in New York on Monday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

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Some Republicans say New York is in the grips of a crime wave. Experts say not at all

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Monday

Wednesday

Floodwaters in the San Joaquin Valley threaten homes and residents' incomes

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Wednesday

California might get a break from the rain that has saturated the state

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Monday

Rob De Maria says he recently lost a friend to an overdose. Jasmine Garsd/NPR hide caption

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Are harsher fentanyl sentences the solution to the opiate crisis? Experts say no

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2 boats capsized off the San Diego shoreline and at least 8 people are dead

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Sunday

Friday

New York City says it has too many migrants and plans to send some elsewhere

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Wednesday

Gunman who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket has been sentenced to life

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Friday

The earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has impacted a community in New Jersey

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Friday

A California city seeing an influx of migrants reacts to Biden's border control plan

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Tuesday

NYC's mayor faces backlash for planning to involuntarily hospitalize homeless people

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Friday

Constituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation

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Wednesday

Los Gaiteros De San Jacinto on the cover of its 2006 album Un Fuego de Sangre Pura. Jorge Mario Múnera/Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways hide caption

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Cumbia: The musical backbone of Latin America

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Wednesday

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Encore: An Alt.Latino Christmas, with Cantigas in concert

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Monday

Lionel Messi's legacy solidified in Argentina after taking home the World Cup

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Argentina's Lionel Messi has been chasing a World Cup win for 16 years

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Monday

At the World Cup, Lionel Messi may finally be coming home

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