DAVID GREENE, HOST: Pretty soon, the United States might be producing more natural gas than it needs. And yet, there is a pipeline construction boom in the Northeast. Critics say this may be less about providing gas and more about profit. StateImpact...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Staying with health care, we turn now to a new report on Alzheimer's disease. African-Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia compared to those who are white. NPR's Jon Hamilton r...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Who do we become when we lose a parent? That transformation is at the heart of Zinzi Clemmons' novel What We Lose. The central character, Thandi, grapples with the loss of her mother to cancer, a woman she revered but often...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Paris where audiences are enjoying the first stop of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's European tour. For almost 60 years, the company has been performing modern dance inspired by the African-American experience. (S...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This summer, we are taking a deeper look at climate change and the profound effect it's having on people around the world. Today, we're going to Chile in South America. NPR's Philip Reeves visited a community whose landscap...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's summertime. And if you have a young kid, chances are they're covered in a film of sweat and dirt. It can be kind of gross. We went to New York Avenue Park in Washington, D.C., and asked parents how comfortable they are...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A federal judge in Hawaii says grandparents should be exempt from President Trump's travel ban. An order issued late Thursday greatly expands the list of family relationships that allow visa applicants from six mostly Muslim countr...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Happy Friday. Time for a drink. KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Bill Schroh has a bottle that he may or may not open for happy hour. BILL SCHROH: It has a very clear label. It says Lenox Madeira, Robert Lenox of Philadelphia. And it has a dat...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The new movie Lady Macbeth doesn't deal with royalty or take place in medieval Scotland. It's not even based on Shakespeare. But our critic Bob Mondello says the leading lady still lives up to the title. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: We...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Lawrence Osborne is a writer whose life and work are deeply connected to places. He has set books in Morocco, Cambodia and France, and he has lived in half a dozen countries all over the world. He joined me from a studio in Bangkok...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The third and final movie in the Planet Of The Apes trilogy opens today. In this retelling of the original movies, the apes are in an epic battle for their survival. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES) ANDY SERKIS...
(SOUNDBITE OF CRICKETS) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's summer. You can pack the car, slather on some sunscreen and head to camp. And this summer, we're visiting a few of the most unusual camps around the country. There is a retreat in New Hampshire where ho...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have an update now from the wild, Wild West of fake news technology. This is a little scary. A team of computer scientists figured out how to make words come out of the mouth of former President Barack Obama on video by using a...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: There's this great recurring sketch from the Comedy Central show Key And Peele where Jordan Peele plays President Obama and Keegan-Michael Key plays his alter ego, the guy who's actually allowed to say what Obama thinks. He's cal...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Our TV critic Eric Deggans often says there is so much good TV out there these days the Emmys are a way to help us know what's good and what we should pay attention to. So now that the Emmy nominations are out, let's talk about t...