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Jaclyn Diaz

Reporter, Newshub

Jaclyn Diaz is a reporter on Newshub.

She frequently covers breaking news and major events for NPR's digital desk. She traveled to China to cover the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (which involved staying in a strict COVID-19-safe bubble) and Israel to cover the attacks of Oct. 7 and the war's impact on Palestinians and Israelis.

She also regularly covers criminal justice issues, with a special focus on our nation's prisons and jails.

During the summer of 2023, she spent a few months on the Washington Desk to help cover the Justice Department during one of the busiest summers for the agency — when former President Donald Trump faced multiple criminal indictments.

Before coming to NPR in 2020, she was a reporter for Bloomberg Law, covering labor issues, and for The Norwich Bulletin, covering the small communities of Eastern Connecticut.

While she's at home in Maryland with her husband and cuddling with her dog, Duncan, you can read her stories online and occasionally hear her on Morning Edition, Up First or All Things Considered where she discusses things like why there's an uptick in human and owl confrontations.

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Healy Hall, the flagship building of Georgetown University's main campus in Washington, D.C., is seen in 2011. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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An investigator looks over the scene at a Tesla Collision Center after a person used incendiary devices to set several vehicles on fire on Tuesday in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said that five Teslas were damaged and believe that the suspect fired three rounds from a firearm at the vehicles and spray painted the word "RESIST" on the entrance. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption

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3 people face federal charges for Tesla attacks. Are such acts domestic terrorism?

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Loni Long's cousin Benita Long has been missing since March 2022. Jovelle Tamayo for NPR hide caption

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Benita Long disappeared. So why wasn't she added to this missing person database?

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Canadian former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, 43, who is a fugitive, is seen top left, with 15 other defendants who have been charged in a 16-count superseding indictment for allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, from Colombia, through Mexico and Canada and other locations in the United States. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption

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The Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons will go forward with a plan to move transgender women currently housed in women's facilities into men's facilities, and vice versa. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption

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President Trump's executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, led the State Department to suspend its policy allowing transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to update the "sex" field on their passports and to eliminate the X gender as an option. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption

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Trump's passport policy leaves trans and intersex Americans in the lurch

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A court found that President Trump's administration had not complied with an earlier court order. Experts worry about the potential of a constitutional crisis. Al Drago/Getty Images hide caption

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A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption

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'Everything is changing every minute': New prison rules for trans women on hold

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Early Thursday morning, search-and-rescue efforts take place around the wreckage site in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption

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First responders search the crash site of American Airlines Flight 5342 along the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., on Thursday. Michael A. McCoy for NPR hide caption

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Containers of Zyn, a smokeless nicotine pouch, are displayed for sale among other nicotine and tobacco products at a newsstand in New York on Feb. 23, 2024. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption

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Inmate firefighters walk along Highway 120 during the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif. in 2013. California currently has about 400 inmate firefighters battling the LA county wildfires. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption

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