DAVID GREENE, HOST: I mean, let's listen to this. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES) JAMES DOOHAN: (As Captain Montgomery Scott) Ready to transport. WILLIAM SHATNER: (As Captain James T. Kirk) Energize. D. GREENE: Yes, the familia...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And one of the biggest tournaments in women's golf tees off today. It's taking place on one of President Trump's golf courses in New Jersey. The U.S. Open is going ahead despite protests from women's rights activists who urged org...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Cancer patients are a step closer to an entirely new way to fight their disease. It's something scientists call a living drug. Today a pharmaceutical company cleared a crucial hurdle toward offering the treatment widely to patien...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions account for the vast majority of health spending in the U.S. Some health plans are beginning to offer free maintenance care for people with chronic health problems. The hop...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Let's talk about where the Russia story is now. It's certainly been a public relations nightmare for the White House. Some are even using the word treason to describe the Trump campaign's now-proven interest in cooperating with t...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Marti Noxon made her name as a TV writer, director and producer, working on shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Glee, also, Mad Men. Now she's making her debut as a film director with To The Bone. It is a movie about her own stru...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Perhaps no American writer is more associated with a place than Henry David Thoreau. And that, by the way, is the family pronunciation. In 1845, Thoreau went into the woods near Concord, Mass., at Walden Pond. He built a small ca...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And, you know, sometimes the key to landing a good story is to just make the call. Well, that is exactly what Teddy Fischer did. And it landed him an interview with the normally media-shy Jim Mattis. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: You know,...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Now a rare interview with a man who stands accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in his native country, Turkey, all of this from his home in the Pocono Mountains. Yesterday, he sat down with our colleague Robert Siegel at hi...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Britain's upcoming exit from the European Union dominates the news headlines in Europe. It cast a shadow over last month's election in the U.K. and the recent G-20 summit in Germany. It's the topic of family arguments over many B...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society tells the story behind the Eloise children's books. For one, author Kay Thompson was not a fan of children. Thompson died in 1998. The illustrator of the books, Hilary Knight, i...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In the new novel Refuge, Dina Nayeri tells a story very much like her own. Nayeri left Iran with her mother when she was 8 years old. Her father stayed behind. The same is true of this book's protagonist, a character named Niloo. N...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Microsoft is announcing a new effort to connect more people to the Internet - not people far away in the so-called emerging markets, where other American tech giants have built Internet balloons and drones. Instead, Microsoft is...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Donald Trump Jr. says he agreed to that meeting last June at the request of an acquaintance from the Miss Universe pageant. The Washington Post says that person was Rob Goldstone. He's a British-born music promoter. Goldstone say...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: You don't see many people with disabilities on television unless you're watching a certain popular HBO show that starts its seventh season on Sunday. (SOUNDBITE OF RAMIN DJAWADI'S GAME OF THRONES THEME) SHAPIRO: Game Of Thrones is...
