DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. We're also keeping our eye this morning on a special election in the state of Utah. Officially, this is to fill the House seat abandoned by Jason Chaffetz, who resigned last month to join Fox News. But this is really shaping u...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Some people hoped that the show Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet Of 1812 would be the next Hamilton, a musical that invigorates Broadway, attracts young, diverse audiences and employs a multiracial cast. Instead it's closing, in...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's a new summer blockbuster, a clash of titans. Two entertainment giants that have been allies are planning to go head to head. The Walt Disney Company says starting in 2019 it will stop making its new movies and TV shows av...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been three years since 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. The documentary Whose Streets? takes place in Ferguson, but it doesn't explore what happened to Michael Brown. In...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Housing Secretary Ben Carson is pledging to do all he can to help hundreds of residents who will be displaced from two run-down public housing projects in Cairo, Ill. A few months back, Carson's agency announced it will close, rath...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Over the course of a career that spanned half a century, Glen Campbell sold more than 40 million records and scored more than 20 top 10 hits on the country and pop charts. He also acted in movies and hosted his own TV show. Glen...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Hundreds of criminal cases in Baltimore are in jeopardy after two incidents picked up by police body cameras show officers allegedly planting drug evidence. So far more than 40 criminal cases have been dropped because of the vide...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: ABC's romance-reality series The Bachelorette finished a landmark season last night as star Rachel Lindsay finally sifted through 31 suitors to get her marriage proposal. But NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the show's three-hour li...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: ABC's romance-reality series The Bachelorette finished a landmark season last night as star Rachel Lindsay finally sifted through 31 suitors to get her marriage proposal. But NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the show's three-hour li...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Barbara Cook could sing just about anything. And she sang it on Broadway, in cabarets and in concert halls around the world. She was one of the most acclaimed interpreters of theater tunes in American popular songs. Barbara Cook...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: It's an emerging idea in the fight against global poverty. Instead of offering poor people traditional aid, such as seeds or job training, why not just give cash? NPR's Nurith Aizenman traveled to Zambia where they've just finished...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now some words you don't often hear together - all-girl, teenage, Indonesian metal band. NPR's Ashley Westerman has this profile. ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE: The band's called Voice of Baceprot. Baceprot means noisy in the girl...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Chris Solomon recently burst onto the golf scene, but not by scoring birdies on the links. He's a blogger. He loves the PGA, and golf-clap coverage was just not doing it for him. CHRIS SOLOMON: There definitely is certain just kind...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Nashville, Tenn., the opioid epidemic has become a personal tragedy for the mayor. Her 22-year-old son died last month in an apparent overdose. Mayor Megan Barry spoke about it publicly for the first time yesterday. Barry is c...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Picture huge eyes, a beautiful smile and a sadness no child his age should have to endure. This is the story of a young boy who survived Boko Haram captivity in Northeast Nigeria and military detention afterwards. He shared his ex...
