Alina Selyukh
Alina Selyukh is a business correspondent at NPR, where she covers retail, low-wage work, global brands and other aspects of the consumer economy. Her work has been recognized by the Gracie Awards, the National Headliner Award and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
She's covered Walmart's change of policy for workers with disabilities, Amazon and Starbucks unionization pushes, the post-pandemic Great Resignation and what it takes to live on minimum wage. Selyukh has shopped the going-out-of-business sales at Bed Bath & Beyond and Party City, delivered groceries with an Instacart gig worker, tracked years of shrinkflation and tariffs at one superstore and spent 24 hours inside Mall of America.
Selyukh joined NPR in 2015 as a tech reporter. Previously she reported for Reuters in New York and Washington, for CNN in Moscow, for ABC News in Nebraska and for Nebraska's PBS station, NET. She launched her career at age 13, freelancing for local newspapers and TV in her home town of Samara in Russia. Selyukh studied journalism and political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Business people had their fingers above the keys, ready to go, when the U.S. government launched its tariff-refund portal Monday morning.
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Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, businesses that paid those levies began requesting refunds Monday. -
A murky corner of the financial world is now the fastest-growing source of funding for small businesses. One state, Connecticut, had given these lenders unusual power. That may be about to change. -
U.S. Customs told the trade court it aims for a streamlined process in 45 days to return importers' money without requiring individual lawsuits. -
Anyone who paid the taxes should get reimbursed, but the high court did not address how. Business owners wonder if they'll need lawyers, brokers, money — or luck. -
Following a Supreme Court ruling that rejected about half of President Trump's tariffs, U.S. businesses question whether refunds are coming their way.
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In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business. -
Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie are testing DNA they hope will point them toward a suspect. The DNA comes from a glove that was found about two miles from Guthrie's house.
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The glove was found about 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home and resembles those worn by a masked person seen in a video at her front door the night she vanished. -
Tom Homan says this federal force will stay "for a short period of time" to protect immigration agents who remain as the sweeping crackdown draws down.
