STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the country, finished its annual meeting awkwardly. Vice President Mike Pence was the featured speaker and delivered a speech befitting a campaign rally. (SO...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, a powerful banking regulator who was appointed by President Trump is facing questions today in the Senate. Joseph Otting is a former bank executive. He now runs a federal agency that oversees some of the very companies...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So the U.S. Supreme Court building is directly across the street from the U.S. Capitol. But yesterday, the two branches of government were at odds over who should direct how the judicial branch deals with sexual harassment. Here's...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A surprising number of common medications list depression or suicidal thoughts as possible side effects. Those meds include pills to treat acid reflux and anxiety as well as common painkillers and high-blood pressure medications....
U.S. Judge Approves ATT's $85 Billion Merger With Time Warner ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A federal judge handed ATT a huge victory today. Judge Richard Leon approved an $85 billion bid to take over the Time Warner media conglomerate. Justice Department lawye...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Attorney General Jeff Sessions is imposing sharp new limits on who can get asylum in the United States. Under the changes, most asylum seekers fleeing domestic violence or gang violence will not qualify. Here's Sessions speaking...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Part of a parent's job is to help a kid do their best. But pushing too hard can bring unintended consequences. As part of NPR's series How To Raise A Human, Allison Aubrey reports on one community that is trying to dial back the...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here's one reason many Republicans may be very careful about criticizing President Trump - most Republican voters approve of him, and Republican lawmakers are going through primaries. Tomorrow's South Carolina primary is a test f...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: So the story from the White House is President Trump does not want to look weak. In particular, he does not want to look weak as a summit with North Korea's leader looms. And adviser Larry Kudlow said over the weekend that that i...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, so when President Trump meets with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, tonight in Singapore, there is going to be a language barrier. A lot is going to be riding on the skills of interpreters. Now, typically, they are in...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Americans are not just shopping online. They are buying pricey items on the Web. Nearly 3 out of 10 online shoppers in the United States have bought a product that costs a thousand dollars or more. That is according to an NPR/Mari...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: School architecture has changed over generations. We've gone from one-room schoolhouses to open classrooms, from blackboards to whiteboards to tablets. And yet, schools designed for one era often have to meet the needs of students...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There's a new head of the New York Stock Exchange, and for the first time in the history of the NYSE, it's a woman. That history, by the way, stretches back to 1792. Stacey Cunningham is president of the NYSE group, and she...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you have a picky eater in your house, listen up. Getting kids to try new things and eat a healthy mix of good food has become such a struggle, but it doesn't have to be this way. As part of an NPR series, How To Raise A Human,...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Tonight, the 2018 Tony Awards, Broadway's highest honors, will be handed out at Radio City Music Hall. They'll go to lead and featured actors in plays and musicals but can't go to some performers who shared the stage with t...
