Schools across the country offer teachers more money to staff their classrooms Transcript Iowa's largest school district is offering a big incentive to address teacher shortages. Experienced teachers who put off retirement for one more year can make...
'The Mamas': Reimagining parenting through a lens of race and class Transcript NPR's Rachel Martin asks author Helena Andrews-Dyer what she has learned from moms who aren't like her. Andrews' book is, The Mamas: What I Learned about Kids, Class, and...
31 years ago Ukraine broke away from the USSR. Now the battle is against Russia Transcript It's been six months since Russia launched its full scale invasion on Ukraine. Now it's a war of attrition that has led to a global food crisis, inflation acro...
6 months of war: The view from the frontlines Transcript NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Ukrainian politician Volodymyr Omelyan, who left his job and family, and has been fighting against the Russians on the frontlines for the last six months. RACHEL MA...
White House mulls student loan forgiveness for millions of borrowers Transcript NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Jared Bass from the Center for American Progress about possible student loan relief from the Biden administration. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The...
2 Atlanta police officers won't face any charges in Rayshard Brooks shooting Transcript A prosecutor in Atlanta says he is dropping charges against two white police officers because he believes race was not a factor in the deadly 2020 shooting of Ray...
In converted buses and tin-roof sheds, migrant students get a lesson in hope Transcript In a small shelter made of cinder block walls and a tin roof, Armando Hurtado Medina writes on a whiteboard the size of the TVs in many American homes. It's 6pm a...
NASA says there is a misconception that there is no sound in space Transcript NASA released a sound from the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster. What you'll hear is pressure waves emitted from the black hole causing ripples in the...
Ex-cop pleads guilty to federal charge related to Breonna Taylor's killing Transcript NPR's Rachel Martin talks Billy Kobin of the Courier Journal in Louisville about a former detective pleading guilty to a federal charge for her role in the deadly p...
Trump asks court to appoint a third party to review records seized in FBI search Transcript NPR's A Martinez talks to former Justice Department official David Laufman about former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to review materi...
Renewable energy is maligned by misinformation. It's a distraction, experts say Transcript You can generally trust that when you flip a light switch in the U.S., the power will come on. But earlier this year, a forecast by the North American Electric...
2 men are found guilty of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer in 2020 Transcript A federal jury in Michigan convicted the men of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in what the FBI called a domestic terrorism case. Prosecutors say they...
An $18,000 biopsy? Paying cash might have been cheaper than using her insurance Transcript When Dani Yuengling felt a lump in her right breast last summer, she tried to ignore it. She was 35, the same age her mother had been when she received a breas...
What led to the deadly attack on a popular hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu? Transcript Terror group Al Shabab was responsible for last week's 30-hour siege at a hotel. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Omar Mahmoud of the International Crisis Group a...
Lawyers for the Parkland school shooter make the case for him not to be executed Transcript The defense for the admitted gunman in the 2018 Marjory Stone Douglas High School shooting in Florida has begun. Jurors will determine whether he should be ex...
