DAVID GREENE, HOST: Be prepared. Get naloxone. Save a life. That summarizes a campaign launched by U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams to tackle the opioid epidemic. But one woman who heeded that call and got the overdose reversal drug found that it wa...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Oscar-winning director who stranded us in space and transported us to Hogwarts now invites audiences into his childhood home. Alfonso Cuaron's new film Roma is named for the middle-class neighborhood in Mexico City where he g...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have news this morning of almost 15,000 children held in shelters by the United States. Federal contractors run the shelters, and they are filling up with young people, young migrants, mostly from Central America. The U.S. can...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We travel next to the center of an alleged case of election fraud. It is Bladen County, N.C., part of North Carolina's 9th Congressional District. It's rural, about 150 miles east of Charlotte. It is home to a facility that is pa...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Sepsis is a medical condition caused by an overwhelming immune response to an infection. It is a major killer in both the United States and the rest of the world. Could a cheap combination of vitamins help conquer it? Several stu...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Former pro football player Tim Green was a well-known voice on this program in the '90s. He offered commentaries on a violent sport. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) TIM GREEN: My parents told me when I was a boy, if I was going...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: How is it that police officers sometimes shoot the wrong person? That question has grown more urgent after recent police killings of two black men. Emantic Bradford Jr. was killed while running from a shooting at an Alabama mall....
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Michael Flynn is asking for no prison time. That is a request made by lawyers for the former national security adviser. In 2016, Flynn was a retired general passionately supporting Donald Trump for president. He led chants of loc...
Jerry Brown's Exit Interview: Don't Say He Didn't Warn You ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When California Governor Jerry Brown took office in 2011, he had the weight of his predecessors on his shoulders. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) JERRY BROWN: It's soberi...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When President Trump meets Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer today, two realities will be apparent. One is that the president needs a deal with the top two Democrats in Congress to avoid a government shutdown. The other is that Demo...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It has been more than a century since American soldiers seized three church bells from a town in the Philippines. That was back during the Philippine-American War in 1901. Today, those bells are being returned. NPR's Julie McCart...
Often Quiet On Wars, Congress Challenges White House Over Yemen RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Something very rare is stirring in Congress. There's growing sentiment to force the president to end U.S. involvement in a war - in this case, the war in Yemen. Cong...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For months, Congress has promised to overhaul how it handles allegations of sexual misconduct against its own. But for all the energy around the Me Too movement, nothing has changed on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers say they will pass som...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Maria Butina has reached a plea deal. She's the Russian woman accused of launching a secret political influence campaign in the United States. NPR national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson reports. CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Ima...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We know that exercise benefits health - kind of obvious. And we're learning more about that. Researchers find people who exercise regularly throughout their lifetimes may be able to keep their hearts and muscles decades younger....