ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Congress is back in Washington, and it's going to be a hectic September. Lawmakers were already facing urgent deadlines to avert a government shutdown and to raise the nation's debt limit. But then Hurricane Harvey hit, and today...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. Being a couch potato is not good for your health. No surprise there. But let's explore exactly what goes wrong if you sit around too much. It can increase your risk of heart disease and stroke. And new research finds that for...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now we're going to spend a few minutes having a conversation about race and Hollywood. We've been having these conversations more and more these days. And one reason for that is that audiences, as well as performers, are star...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Now to Houston and the devastation that city is facing due to Hurricane Harvey. Volunteers have come from all over to help - neighbors and strangers working together. NPR's Debbie Elliott takes us now to meet some of the pe...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're heading overseas now to Lebanon. It is home to more refugees per capita than any other country in the world. Most of them are Syrians. NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports on how public opinion in Lebanon is now turning against thos...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're heading overseas now to Lebanon. It is home to more refugees per capita than any other country in the world. Most of them are Syrians. NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports on how public opinion in Lebanon is now turning against thos...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Houston is beginning the long road to recovery after an historic flooding. And residents are just beginning to come to terms with the damage. Among those residents are the first responders, the reporters, the doctors but al...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: If you're looking to settle in for a long, meaty read as the days get shorter, the new novel The World Of Tomorrow is the sprawling story of three Irish brothers and their adventures in an America on the cusp of World War I...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the most difficult parts of disaster recovery can be finding housing. Tens of thousands of Texans left homes that were destroyed or too damaged to return to any time soon. NPR's Pam Fessler reports that government officials...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In Houston, Police Chief Art Acevedo has been helping to lead the city's response to Harvey. Now as the city begins to move from the search and rescue into the recovery phase, we wanted to check back in with him. Chief Acevedo is o...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: St. Joseph Medical Center is the only hospital in the heart of Houston's downtown. It is just down the street from the convention center where thousands of evacuees have been staying since Hurricane Harvey hit. From member station...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Many Europeans have become accustomed to seeing candlelight vigils and piles of flowers in city squares - memorials to terror victims. They're in Paris, Berlin, London and now Barcelona, where ISIS plowed a van into pedestrians las...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Dinner At The Center Of The Earth is a novel that winds together the stories of a prisoner, his guard, mothers, sons, spies, statesmen, traitors and lovers. Sometimes - maybe even more than sometimes - they're the same person. Dinn...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Maria Luisa is 12 years old. Her parents are divorced, and her mom just got a job at a new city. Things are not looking good. So Malu - that's the shortened version of her name, the version she prefers - puts on her headphones. (...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The movie Tulip Fever opens today in more than 700 theaters across the country more or less undercover. If you haven't seen any reviews of the movie yet, it's because the Weinstein Company placed an embargo on them until this aft...
