DAVID GREENE, HOST: So in case you were considering traveling to space, the private company SpaceX wants to make space flight a lot cheaper. And to do that, it plans to reuse its rockets over and over again. As NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, the first...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon is relatively peaceful, though a civil war raged there in the '70s and '80s. Often Lebanese people don't like to talk about what happened. NPR's Alice Fordham meets a woman trying to sta...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A new British costume drama debuts on Hulu tonight, but if this genre is not your cup of tea, don't tune out just yet. This is not Masterpiece Theater. The series, called Harlots, follows a female brothel owner and her daughters in...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The proposed budget that the White House has sent to Congress calls for cuts across a number of agencies, and it would also eliminate some programs that benefit many of President Trump's supporters in rural communities across Amer...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now let's consider something else here. Or maybe let's consider a few more things. Or actually, how about all the things? - which is what NPR's afternoon news show has tried to do for more than four and a half decades. (SOUNDBITE...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The NCAA March Madness tournament features some tough matchups - badgers versus gators, rams versus bulldogs, wolverines against cardinals. But what if those animals actually did face off, like in nature? Who would win? Kat Lonsd...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We are mourning the loss of a human rights champion. Ahmed Kathrada died today in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was 87 years old. Kathrada was a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement, and he spent decades in jail with Nelson Man...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The artist Kerry James Marshall has a remarkable history. He was born in Birmingham, Ala., and was a little boy when Martin Luther King Jr. was in jail there. Later, his family moved to Los Angeles not long before the Watts riots....
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So in Charleston, S.C., people are being reminded of wars that were fought long before they were born. Cannonballs from the Civil War, even the Revolutionary War are washing up on beaches or being unearthed during construction pro...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today in Your Health, we're going to take a look at a virus that can cause severe birth defects. Yes, as if Zika weren't scary enough, right? But this is something else. It's a virus called CMV, which causes disability for as man...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The courts have put President Trump's travel ban on hold. But the law still gives federal immigration officers broad discretion to turn away foreigners. Immigrants with special visas from Iraq and Afghanistan are also having trou...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Puerto Rico is grappling with a severe Zika outbreak. We still don't know how many people have been infected since the mosquito-borne virus appeared on the U.S. territory more than a year ago. Nearly 40,000 cases of Zika have been...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: I got to talk with the writer Emma Donoghue the other day. You might remember she got famous for her blockbuster novel Room, the one about a happy little boy growing up in horrifying conditions - born into captivity, mom abducted...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: I got to talk with the writer Emma Donoghue the other day. You might remember she got famous for her blockbuster novel Room, the one about a happy little boy growing up in horrifying conditions - born into captivity, mom abducted...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Bruce Feiler has gained an enormous following for his bestselling books and popular television programs and Ted talks for his ability to help people encounter the biblical story in fresh ways. For his latest book, he's asking rea...
