SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Now we check in on the Greenes. Pansy is one of the 5.7 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease. She and her husband Winston call her illness part of their journey together. We first met the Greenes in 2013 when they talked abou...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Reboots are all over television right now from Roseanne to Will And Grace. But updating a show that's aimed at children and teenagers often means reworking the friendship between female characters. NPR's Neda Ulaby has more. NEDA U...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Grizzly bears may be on their way back to rural Washington state. The Trump administration is thinking about reintroducing the predators just south of the Canadian border and about 100 miles north of Seattle. And rural farmers an...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Shakespeare wrote great tyrants - Macbeth, the Scott who plots a bloody route to the throne. Richard III, the brother of a king and rudely stamped, in Shakespeare's phrase, who murders his way into power and madness. Coriolanus, th...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The new movie Beast is a psychological thriller set on a quaint island in the English Channel called Jersey. Twenty-seven-year-old Moll lives a quiet, stifling life with her controlling mother. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, BEAST) JESSIE B...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Republican Senator John McCain has not stepped foot in the Capitol this year. His brain cancer treatment and related health problems have kept him back home in Arizona. NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis reports McCa...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: As Venezuela gets ready to hold its presidential election next Saturday, Nicolas Maduro, the country's authoritarian president, predicts he'll win another six-year term despite chronic food shortages, hyperinflation, widespread une...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Today President Trump laid out his plan to deal with the high and still-rising prices of prescription drugs. He called it the most sweeping proposal in history, and he promised people will see results soon. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCH...
Earth's 'Bigger, Older Cousin' Maybe Doesn't Even Exist AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Ever since astronomers started to detect planets beyond our solar system, they've been trying to find another world just like Earth. A few years ago, they announced that the...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR has learned that hospitals in Michigan and New York this week started testing an experimental treatment that could tackle one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. More than 700 Americans die every day from sepsis. This...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Federal employees can be forgiven for feeling whiplashed by the Trump administration. The president has proclaimed this to be Public Service Recognition Week, acknowledging the nation's civil servants for, quote, their hard w...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Climb Every Mountain, Rocky Mountain High, Night On Bald Mountain - music and mountains have long been linked in the public imagination. Critic Bob Mondello says a documentary called Mountain finds a new sort of purity in the con...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: General John Kelly is at the center of what is arguably the most turbulent presidential administration in modern times. A decorated four-star Marine Corps general with four decades in the service, he serves as chief of staff in t...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Department of Homeland Security is defending the Trump administration's tough stance on immigration. Kirstjen Nielsen says her agency is simply enforcing laws already on the books, and she is responding to critics who say...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Police in the U.S. have been using facial recognition software for years, usually after a suspect is caught on camera during a crime. Now real-time facial recognition is on the horizon. In China, authorities are touting a new...
