DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Trump administration has been clear - immigrants in the country illegally, quote, should be afraid. Those were the words of Thomas Homan, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And that stance has put his agency on t...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A couple of years ago, analysts thought that Britain's Labour Party had sealed its doom. The party chose as its leader Jeremy Corbyn - a fringe politician considered much too far left to ever become prime minister. DAVID GREENE,...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: It's Friday and time for StoryCorps - and today, a story about a woman who was attacked in public and who found support from an unlikely source. In 2015, Asma Jama was out to dinner with her family at an Apple...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is going to be speaking to the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC in Denver today. And her appearance drew hundreds of protesters who marched yes...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Few inventions in modern history have been as successful as plastic. It's in vehicles, building materials, most of our electronic devices. We wrap stuff in it. Maybe we even wear it. Now a research team has tallied up how much pla...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news - O.J. Simpson finds out today if he will be released soon from a Nevada prison. He's been in there almost nine years. Nine was the minimum. He received a sentence of 9 to 33 years for armed robbery and other char...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Republican effort to replace the Affordable Care Act failed in part because of the changes they wanted to make to Medicaid. The proposal would have cut federal spending on the program by a third. Opposition came from all side...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: In England, there's something known as the Dunkirk spirit. It's really shorthand for coming together in times of adversity. It refers to the heroic efforts of British sailors, soldiers and the civilians who rescued them in small b...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: With a little help from blind luck, the late Maurice Sendak, who died in 2012, will have a new book out next year. Sendak wrote and illustrated Where The Wild Things Are, In The Night Kitchen. He illustrated the Little Bear serie...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And we're going to speak next with two new additions to the NPR family. Pioneering New York City hip-hop radio DJ Stretch Armstrong - hey there, Stretch. ADRIAN BARTOS, BYLINE: Are we doing this right now? CORNISH: We're doing it...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's listen to a story now about young men and extremism. This is a murder case in Florida that involves both radical Islam and the far right, two extremist threats that pose an ongoing challenge to law enforcement nationwide. NP...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's commission to look into voter fraud and other election problems will hold its first public meeting today. Already, this panel has come under fire. Let's remember, it was formed by President Trump to look into his...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Facebook has a news feed. And soon when you go to Google to search whatever it is you search, you're going to get a kind of news feed there, too - although it's just going to be called a feed. NPR's Aarti Shahani reports. AARTI S...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: You'd like to think that a kid learning to cook would do it by spending hours in the kitchen with a loving parent. But failing that, there is YouTube. For our series on children's media, NPR's Neda Ulaby introduces us to a celebr...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Just in time for these hot days of summer, British historian Rosemary Ashton has written the history of one very hot summer in London many years ago, in 1858. That year, the talk of the town was all about marital mores and public...
