ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President-elect Donald Trump says his family will not move into the White House as soon as he's inaugurated. His wife and young son will remain in New York City. For the Secret Service, that means setting up shop in one of the mo...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: What if scientists could genetically modify mosquitoes to wipe out a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year? They're trying to do that with a new genetic engineering technique. They hope it will help them fi...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now to another of Donald Trump's cabinet picks who might have a tough time managing his new agency staff. His name is Mike Pompeo, and the president-elect has tapped him to lead the CIA. He's a Republican congressman from Kan...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A little advertising history now. Decades ago, products had jingles, songs or fragments of songs whose music and lyrics were composed to sell just one thing. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) Mr. Clean...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today marks exactly one year since the mayor of Flint, Mich., declared a state of emergency because of lead in the city's drinking water. While the water system as a whole is improving, Michigan Radio's Lindsey Smith reports filt...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Late Show With Stephen Colbert made headlines earlier this week. Vice President Joe Biden sat for his first TV interview after the election. It was a bright spot for a show that once struggled to find its voice. NPR TV critic...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Before the election, candidate Trump called school choice the new civil rights issue of our time, and his signature education proposal is a $20 billion school voucher plan. Again, traditional vouchers let parents use public money...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Two roommates from Massachusetts recently set out to solve the mystery of a plane crash that took place in South America more than 30 years ago. As Craig LeMoult of member station WGBH reports, they found a grim reminder of the tra...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: South Korean lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to impeach their president, who is at the heart of a corruption scandal. As NPR's Elise Hu reports, the Korean political drama is far from over. ELISE HU, BYLINE: Outside the Nationa...
Say, What? Monkey Mouths And Throats Are Equipped For Speech SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Humans can talk. I'm not always the best ad for it. But we can. Monkeys and apes can't talk. But what if they could? NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports on a new study tha...
PETER SAGAL, HOST: And now the game where we make important people wonder how much more important they have to be in order to have avoided this. It's called Not My Job. So a few years ago, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was approached by an aide a...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Ballet companies all over the country are putting on The Nutcracker. For most of these companies, this holiday classic helps them to stay in business. In Chicago, a new $4 million production for the Joffrey Ballet premieres tonight...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Imagine a home whose residents include retired opera singers, jazz musicians and movie and Broadway stars. This is the Lillian Booth Home just outside of New York City. John Kalish visited The Lillian Booth Home and caught up with...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Kirk Douglas turned 100 years old yesterday. He was born with a name that would have been a little harder to fit on a marquee - Issur Danielovitch. He changed his name, but he kept that cleft in his chin. Kirk Douglas became one of...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Writer and director Damien Chazelle's new movie La La Land is very different from his first one, Whiplash. That was about a jazz drummer's struggles with his abusive mentor. Now, La La Land is also about struggle and jazz. But in...
