STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: If you should fly into Haines, Alaska, you'll be on a propeller plane so small that your pilot will call the roll. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Melissa. MELISSA BLOCK, BYLINE: Yeah. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Mary. MARY: Yes. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Josep...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Jobs can be hard to come by for Americans who did not finish high school. Their unemployment rate is almost double the national average. And so Goodwill, the nonprofit best known for its retail stores, is now in its second year o...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This is what pillow talk on television sounds like these days. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, I LOVE DICK) KATHRYN HAHN: (As Chris) Why do you think that we are - have been monogamous all these years when we don't even believe in it? Lik...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now we're going to have the time of our lives. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, DIRTY DANCING) COLT PRATTES: (As Johnny Castle) What's your name? ABIGAIL BRESLIN: (As Baby Houseman) Baby. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Oh, yes. Get out. SHAPIRO: ABC is h...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're starting off a new series this month that's all about family. We're calling it Generations, and it's where we bring together family members who came of age in different eras. And they talk about topics that were important t...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Commentator and longtime U.S. soccer star Julie Foudy has had some big moments in her life. (SOUNDBITE OF 3RD FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP MATCH) UNIDENTIFIED SPORTS ANNOUNCER: (Unintelligible) In front. (Unintelligible) Foudy - it's i...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: With songs like Anything Goes and I've Got You Under My Skin, Cole Porter was one of America's greatest songwriters. But unlike those classics, Porter's more political work is rarely performed. Nearly a hundred years ago, he wrot...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Our TV critic says you need to know about this season of The Bachelorette. For the first time, a black woman is the star of ABC's dating show. And here's why Eric Deggans says last night's episode was important, even if you don't...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The British actor Roger Moore has died after a short battle with cancer. He was 89 years old. Moore was the dapper star of TV's The Saint. He went on to become the longest serving of the many actors who have played James Bond. By s...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: More states than ever are funding preschool. That is according to a new report from the National Institute for Early Education Research or NIEER. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports. CLAUDIO SANCHEZ, BYLINE: Forty-three states plus the...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we are sad to report this morning that the actor Sir Roger Moore has died at the age of 89. Roger Moore played the role of James Bond between 1973 and 1985. He was knighted in his home country of England in 2003. Reporter Jack...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Trump administration has been dogged by controversy for the past few weeks, but now, even as the president is traveling overseas, his administration is proceeding with the business of government. It's presenting the 2018 budg...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This year, another inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, would have turned 200 years old. If you're wondering who, he's the Frenchman who beat Thomas Edison in the first recording of sound. Edison's New Jersey lab recently...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: NBC's hit show The Voice pairs famous recording artists with aspiring singers competing for a chance at a recording contract. The stars sit in big red chairs as the competitors give it their all on stage. Also giving it their all -...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news now, jury selection in the criminal trial of Bill Cosby begins in Pennsylvania today. It's a year and a half since Cosby was charged with felony counts of sexual assault over a 2004 encounter, which Cosby contends...
