As Trial Begins In Charlottesville Protest Death, Community Reflects RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The man accused of ramming his car through a crowd of protesters at a white supremacist rally goes on trial this week in Charlottesville, Va. Jury selection sta...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Mars is about to get a new visitor from Earth tomorrow. If all goes well, a NASA probe called InSight will land near the Martian equator. Its mission is to study the interior of the planet. But, before it can carry out its missio...
Trump Push For 'Energy Dominance' Boosts Drilling On Public Land SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: In parts of the West, the Trump administration is opening up millions of acres of public land to oil and gas leases. That's fueling a drilling boom in places like...
Decades After Clashing With The Klan, A Thriving Vietnamese Community In Texas SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: The Trump administration wants to turn down the heat on America's melting pot by creating policies that would slow the rate of even legal immigration...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Women in the United States are more likely to die from childbirth complications than in other developed countries, and the problem's getting worse. One way to stop the deaths is to do fewer C-sections. Martha Bebinger at WBUR in Bo...
Why Are So Many Election Ballots Confusing? MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Several of the midterm races that went into overtime this year were slowed down in part by poor ballot design. In Florida, 30,000 voters in Broward County voted for a candidate for gove...
SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: More than two weeks after the nation's deadliest fire in a century erupted in Northern California, crews are still trying to find hundreds of people. The Camp Fire has killed at least 85. It's now fully contained. But dozens of...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. But it's been preventable since a vaccine was introduced in 1963. So public health officials are surprised that Europe is now reporting tens of thousands of new cases in...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Sometimes, it takes an outsider to recognize what's remarkable about a culture. That's what the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak did when he came to the U.S. at the end of the 19th century. He was an immigrant thrown into a new world...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This year's list of U.S. Rhodes Scholars is remarkable for many reasons. Almost two-thirds are women. Nearly half are first-generation Americans or immigrants. But one scholarship recipient has specially made history this year. Jin...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Today is Small Business Saturday. There is a small, family-owned business in the small town of Show Low in Navajo County, Ariz., which sells a huge range of items that lauds, celebrates and otherwise supports that marketing celebri...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Tamara O'Neal grew up in La Porte, Ind., sang in her church choir and returned every weekend from Chicago, where she was an emergency room physician at a South Side hospital that cares for many who have been shot on the city's stre...
Many California Farmworkers Forced To Stay Behind During The Wildfires SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Woolsey Fire in Southern California has been contained, but it destroyed almost 1,500 structures across Los Angeles and Ventura counties. And while some res...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Woolsey Fire in Southern California has been contained, but it destroyed almost 1,500 structures across Los Angeles and Ventura counties. And while some residents are beginning to return home, thousands of people had to stay an...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We are in the middle of open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act. It goes until December 15. People can sign up for health insurance plans under Obamacare. And holiday health insurance shoppers are finding something new this y...
