RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a new probe in orbit around the moon. And sometime earlier in this new year, it's expected to land on the Moon's far side, the side we never see from Earth. It is a Chinese probe. And as NPR's Joe Palca explains, although...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. The city of Detroit has reached a major milestone. Five years ago, it went bankrupt - was saddled with more than $18 billion in debt. Well, now Detroit is not only out of bankruptcy but is issuing bonds backed by its own credi...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Is coconut oil a healthy food? - certainly is promoted as one. Survey a broad group of Americans and 72 percent say, yes, coconut oil is healthy. Talk with some nutritionists, and they say, no, it's not. NPR's April Fulton report...
NOEL KING, HOST: All right, the holiday season is winding down. This time of year often feels like it's all about the cute and the cuddly. Take a listen to this clip from Disney's Lady And The Tramp in which the wife, Darling, gets a big-eyed puppy o...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The arrival of the new Congress means the retirement of Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. NOEL KING, HOST: Hatch was elected 42 years ago in 1976, when Gerald Ford was president. Presidents have come and gone since then - seven president...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: After election day violence that claimed more than a dozen lives, the ruling party in Bangladesh has won another term. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been in power since 2009. And out of 300 seats in Parliament, Hasina's party,...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: To reach the latest news about our solar system, you have to travel out to Pluto, really far from the sun. And then you travel about a billion miles more. That's what a spacecraft has done. And now it's about to get a look at a m...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: Nancy Grace Roman led a remarkable life. She joined NASA in 1959, not long after it was created, and went on to become the agency's first chief of astronomy and relativity. She was also known as the mother of the Hubble Space Teles...
DON GONYEA, HOST: About 30-plus years ago, I was right out of college. And I got a job as a disc jockey at a country western radio station in Michigan. And I found out that the great Johnny Cash was coming to play the local county fair. So I hung aro...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This Sunday in Utah, the legal blood alcohol limit will drop from .08 percent to .05. It's the lowest DUI limit in the country. Nicole Nixon of member station KUER has this report. NICOLE NIXON, BYLINE: A couple blocks on Main Stre...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: New Year's Eve is almost here. Time to say goodbye to 2018 and our holiday advice series Help, I'm Hosting, where we asked you for your hosting challenges and dilemmas. It's our final installment, and it's a special one. We've got...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen traveled to the southwest border today. She went to see conditions for herself after two migrant children died this month while in the custody of Customs and Border Protect...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Netflix show Black Mirror has always asked viewers to imagine technology slightly more advanced and more sinister than we have today. Well, this morning Black Mirror dropped an episode that uses a technology most of us haven't...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A phone and Internet outage has been disrupting 911 services across the country since yesterday, and today the FCC says it's launched an investigation. Montana Public Radio's Eric Whitney reports. ERIC WHITNEY, BYLINE: Louisiana-ba...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The U.S. says intellectual property theft by Chinese hackers is growing, and the U.S. will keep naming and shaming suspected cybercriminals. The Chinese are targeting the country's technology - from major corporations, Silicon Vall...
