STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: So many Cabinet nominees, so little time. One of the nominees who has a hearing today is Scott Pruitt. He is the attorney general of Oklahoma - now President-elect Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. He f...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to one of Donald Trump's most politically important Cabinet picks. Georgia Congressman Tom Price goes before the Senate Health Committee today to make the case that he should be the next secretary of Health and Human Services...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Betsy DeVos has spent much of her career and her own money trying to create alternatives to public schools that aren't giving students the education they need. Donald Trump has tapped her to lead the Department of Education. And...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: A director looks sideways at a musical that goes backwards. That's what happens in a new documentary about a Broadway flop that is now viewed as a classic. The film is called Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened. Critic...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today the United States Supreme Court considers just what you can trademark. Most familiar names and logos are registered trademarks, from the McDonald's golden arches to the apple on an iPhone. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the last t...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today the United States Supreme Court considers just what you can trademark. Most familiar names and logos are registered trademarks, from the McDonald's golden arches to the apple on an iPhone. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the last t...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have an investigation this morning of drug companies gaming a system designed to help desperate patients. It's a story of orphan drugs. DAVID GREENE, HOST: These are life-saving drugs that pharmaceutical firms don't develop be...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Muslim-Americans are anxious about a Donald Trump administration. During his presidential campaign, Trump said he favored halting all Muslim immigration to the U.S. He also suggested he would support increased monitoring of Musli...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The last person to leave footprints on the moon has died at age 82. Gene Cernan was big, brash and gregarious, and if he hadn't been lucky, he could have missed his chance to walk on the moon. NPR's Russell Lewis has this remembr...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Hey, let's talk about the 21st century strategies for making a song a hit. The music industry has always had its ways over the generations, from the musicians known as song pluggers who were paid to promote sheet music in the ear...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A group of scientists are gathering this week in the U.K. to discuss a giant crack in Antarctica. It's a crack in an ice shelf there that could soon split off a frozen chunk the size of Delaware. Here's NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell to...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A thing I am totally guilty of, David - messing up names. I've definitely called... DAVID GREENE, HOST: Yeah. MARTIN: ...My kids the wrong names. I know it's really... GREENE: That's terrible. MARTIN: No, it's very confusing in m...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Dramatic developments this morning in South Korea for one of the world's biggest companies. Prosecutors have asked a court to issue an arrest warrant for the leader of Samsung. It's all in connection to this ongoing corruption sc...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: More than a hundred female inmates who were given sentences in federal prison faced a different fate. They were instead held for years in two windowless rooms in a detention center in New York City, and the conditions there have b...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law. Those r...
