RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the live-free-or-die state of New Hampshire, the state Legislature is wrestling with how much free speech may be too much for its members. This is all because of revelations that one lawmaker is the founder of The Red Pill for...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The character actor Michael Parks has died at 77. He appeared in TV shows and in movies for decades and was known for his roles in Twin Peaks and also Kill Bill. NPR arts correspondent Mandalit del Barco reports on just how far h...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: On a Thursday, it's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And I'm Rachel Martin. Good morning. Writer Vaddey Ratner is used to processing pain through fiction. Her best-selling debut novel was bas...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Plastic, surgery, private jets, toddlers in designer clothes, magnums of champagne served by costumed fairies who fly through the air - looking through the 500-page book Generation Wealth, you see all of that. It's a new collecti...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today, the secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is giving the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University. It's a small, private, Christian historically black college in Daytona Beach. This invitation has sparked an outcry,...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The mayor of Seattle announced Tuesday that he is not running for re-election. This is because of allegations that he sexually abused minors three decades ago. NPR's Martin Kaste has more from Seattle. MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: Ed Mur...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: There's a lot of money to be made in affordable housing. Banks and developers are making millions of dollars by building housing for the poor under a federal incentive program. And at the same time, each year, fewer poor people a...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Screening healthy people to look for thyroid cancer does more harm than good. That's the word from doctors on a federal health advisory committee. NPR's Richard Harris has the story. RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: More and more people a...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Many House Republicans are back in their districts this week after voting for a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. A few are holding town hall meetings. And in some cases, those town halls are loud. (SOUNDBITE...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It seems like it was only yesterday that my friends here on the show said goodbye to American Idol. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Fifteen years of bad tryouts. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, AMERICAN IDOL) UNIDEN...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So a moderate House Republican from upstate New York is the latest lawmaker to be heckled at a town hall meeting. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik was one of a handful of last-minute yes votes on the House bill to repeal and replace m...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Sinclair Broadcast Group is based in Maryland. This is a conservative company that owns more local TV stations than any other company in the country. And Sinclair is about to get bigger with a $3.9 billion deal with Tribune Media....
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Anybody in business can tell you that connections matter. And if you want a connection to the president of the United States, what better way than through his family? Jared Kushner is the president's son-in-law and close adviser....
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Right now under the Affordable Care Act, people with pre-existing conditions have a lot of protections. But the House bill passed last week leaves a lot of those provisions up to state politics. Bram Sable-Smith of member station...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: For millions of Americans, what they flush down the toilet goes into a septic tank. Septic tanks are convenient, but sometimes they pollute our waterways. Scientists are trying to track down that pollution with help from a federa...
