With midterms weeks away, candidates and their backers are spending more ad dollars Transcript You can learn a lot about how candidates and their backers think they can win an election by looking at how they spend ad money. Two themes are emerging: c...
A surprising treatment is helping people with gastrointestinal or stomach issues Transcript In the health industry, there is growing focus on providing effective therapies using on-demand care. That includes a hypnosis app to help manage the symptoms...
Remembering NPR's Ken Barcus, a tough editor with a big heart Transcript Ken Barcus, longtime Midwest bureau chief for NPR's National Desk and a revered mentor to public radio journalists, died Tuesday in Cleveland. He was 67. His death from complica...
Heavy rains in Dallas-Fort Worth area have led to an inchworm outbreak Transcript LEILA FADEL, HOST: Caterpillars are creeping their way across North Texas, feasting on foliage and leaving yards covered in silk. Member station KERA's Jacob Wells repo...
Tenants caught up in a California fraud probe are told to return rent-relief payments Transcript California has handed out more than $4.3 billion in emergency rent relief since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. State officials have told nearly 19,0...
Is 'rainbow fentanyl' a threat to your kids this Halloween? Experts say no Transcript The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has been raising a terrifying alarm in recent weeks. According to the DEA, bright-colored fentanyl pills designed to hook c...
Russia's strikes on Ukraine may also have been meant to quell doubts at home Transcript Russia carried out a barrage of airstrikes across Ukraine on Monday. But what has been the reaction in Moscow to its own military escalation? The Russian assaults...
Changing the gender imbalance in housework may start with how we understand time Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: If you walk into a house where a man and a woman live and you ask - who's making dinner? - the answer is usually the woman. OK, if a man...
Eight years ago, Shane Adams lost his horse Mongo in the Utah desert Transcript Adams was asleep in a tent when he heard wild mustangs and saw Mongo had joined the herd. Last week officers with the Bureau of Land Management found the 18-years-old sta...
San Antonio officer is fired after shooting teenager in a McDonald's parking lot Transcript Authorities are investigating after a rookie police officer shot a 17-year-old who was eating in his car in the parking lot of a San Antonio, Texas, McDonald'...
Examining Russia's influence on the most recent coup in Burkina Faso Transcript NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Rinaldo Depagne of the International Crisis Group about Russia's influence on the military coups in West Africa. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Burkina...
Monkeypox cases in the U.S. have been falling since a peak in early August Transcript New daily monkeypox cases have been falling, and the CDC says cases are probably going to plateau or decline over the next few weeks. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Just a few...
What does the leaked racist conversation tell us about local Los Angeles politics? Transcript NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Los Angeles Time columnist Gustavo Arellano about the president of the Los Angeles City Council resigning her leadership post aft...
Ahead of midterms, there's a focus on Senate races in Pennsylvania and Nevada Transcript Midterm elections are next month. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Republican strategist Scott Jennings about the Senate races in two key states: Pennsylvania and...
In 'Fen, Bog Swamp,' Annie Proulx pens a history of wetland destruction Transcript The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx may be best known for her works of fiction, titles like The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. But the 87-year-old au...
