RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Donald Trump has taken aim at the intelligence community. He's also targeted immigrants. Protesters are going to converge on Washington D.C. this weekend for a rally about immigrants' rights. Trump has pledged to deport millions...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to politics across the Pacific, where the minority party in Japan's parliament is also led by a woman. NPR's Elise Hu in Tokyo reports on the political rise of women in Japan. ELISE HU, BYLINE: At this monthly Tokyo networkin...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: FBI Director James Comey is facing an extraordinary investigation. Watchdogs at the Justice Department announced they will review public statements that he made before the November election. Hillary Clinton has said Comey's dispa...
GUY RAZ, HOST: On the show today, ideas about the Power Of Networks how those connections, those pathways define the world around us. AVI RUBIN: Well, in my house, my doorbell is connected to my cell phone which is connected to my laptop which is con...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: How many tacos is too many tacos? That is a question that our next guest can answer. He is the food critic for The San Antonio Express-News, and he says he will eat a taco every day in 2017 and write about the experience. And thi...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Time again for StoryCorps. And today, we're remembering a man who fought for the right to vote in Mississippi and was murdered for it. His name is Vernon Dahmer, and he was a civil rights leader in the mid-19...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When President Obama gave his goodbye speech this week, one of hip-hop's most politically active stars was watching. Killer Mike is a rapper who actively campaigned for the man he calls that old crazy haircutted (ph) white guy fr...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Senate overnight voted to approve a budget resolution which amounts to the first step of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. There's a long, long, long way to go. Republicans and Democrats have yet t...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Well, just before 1:30 this morning, Senate Republicans completed the first step toward repealing the Affordable Care Act. The Senate passed a budget resolution which sets the repeal process in motion. It happened after seven hou...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Rudolph Giuliani, who's being mentioned as a possible secretary of state in a Trump administration, is best known for having been mayor of New York City on 9/11. In fact the terrorist attacks were near the end of his eight-year a...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: I've got a stack of books here. (SOUNDBITE OF BOOK PAGES FLIPPING) INSKEEP: Stack of books sent to me by librarian Nancy Pearl, who's in Seattle, Wash., joins the program from time to time to suggest books that are under the rada...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: They are popping up in neighborhoods across the country, hand-built little boxes that people put in front of their homes, churches or businesses. And they go by different names, like Little Free Pantry or Blessing Box. They are a...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A new novel called Lucky Boy centers around two women and two different pictures of immigration. In one story, an 18-year-old named Soli enters the U.S. from Mexico without papers. In the other, an Indian-American woman named Kav...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Fighting between ISIS and Iraqi forces has devastated cities in northern Iraq. Jalawla is a small city in that part of the country, and it's in the middle of land claimed by both the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the Kurdish re...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: After construction wrapped up on his new hotel in Washington, D.C., President-elect Donald Trump declared it the height of luxury. The Trump Organization spent $200 million to renovate the historic post office building, redoing a...
