STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Melania Trump takes the spotlight today. As first lady, she has been seen more often than heard. Last year, she did talk about her job on CNN. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MELANIA TRUMP: It's a very exciting life. And it's a...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It is tick season, and with it comes the risk of Lyme disease. Once found mainly in New England, Lyme disease is now being reported in a much wider range of the U.S. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports that cases have more than doubled...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Richard Cordray was expected to be unbeatable in tomorrow's Ohio Democratic gubernatorial primary. The former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has high-profile name recognition and support from powerful people in...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Gina Haspel, the first woman nominated to lead the CIA, almost stepped aside over the weekend. The Washington Post reported that Haspel was willing to withdraw rather than face tough questions over her role in the CIA's waterboar...
Under Pressure, Tronc Recognizes 'Chicago Tribune' Union RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Chicago Tribune has taken a big step closer to unionizing for the first time in the paper's 170-year history. The Tribune's owner Tronc has agreed to negotiate with a u...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The hashtag #MuteRKelly started trending last week. The online campaign calls for companies to cut ties with R. Kelly, the singer-songwriter, because of allegations of decades of abuse of girls and young women. The campaign...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Stacy Shapiro of Everett, Wash., came to our New York studios a couple of days ago... STACY SHAPIRO: Can you hear me OK? GARCIA-NAVARRO: ...To talk about her son Ethan. He's 16, and he struggles with - well, a lot. SHAPIRO:...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Milk, that humdrum household staple, has been at the center of some of today's big food fights. And some of those arguments over the importance of breast feeding, the healthiness of milk, even which animals make the best mi...
Springtime Weather Finally Warms Up Inland Alaska LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Imagine a winter where there's only four hours of daylight, and temperatures regularly drop 30 below zero. If you're in Fairbanks, Alaska, you don't have to imagine it. But...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Rumaan Alam writes women well. His first acclaimed novel, Rich And Pretty, followed two young women, best friends who grow up and then part. His new second novel, That Kind Of Mother, begins as another story about a female...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, we revisit the Cold War. It wasn't just an arms race. It was also a battle about values and culture. And one of the U.S.'s weapons of choice... (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) DIZZY GILLESPIE: The weapon that we...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: High schoolers, celebrities, parents, even sports teams are copying some of the signature dance moves from the video game Fortnite. Capital Public Radio's Adhiti Bandlamudi brings us this. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ADHITI BANDLAMUDI, BY...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner and Bria Snell should only be proud this week. The 17-year-old women, all juniors at Benjamin Banneker High School in Washington, D.C., created a simple way to use copper shards, drinking straws and...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Kentucky Derby day - sorry if we didn't mention that in sports - post time this afternoon, 6:46 Eastern. Midway University - an hour's drive away from Churchill Downs to the east in the Kentucky bluegrass - it's a small school with...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Dylan Marron makes videos about social justice issues. And his videos get shared. They get comments. And he reads those comments. Some are supportive. But this being the Internet, others are pretty harsh with offensive language....
