MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Conservatives who accuse the FBI of bias have pointed fingers at one special agent in particular - Peter Strzok. Well, today Strzok defended himself before Congress. He admitted that he did send highly political text messages...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Scientists announced today that for the first time, they have been able to pinpoint the source of a particle called a high-energy neutrino. It was detected by an observatory at the South Pole. And as NPR science correspondent...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Seven big fast-food chains have backed down under pressure. They've agreed to stop blocking workers from taking jobs at other restaurants in the same chain. Washington state's attorney general was threatening to sue over this. And...
NOEL KING, HOST: Beijing says it will retaliate if President Trump goes ahead with plans to impose tariffs on more Chinese products. The U.S. and China are locked in what could become a full-on trade war. And China's economy is better positioned than...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Trump Administration announced this morning that it has completed the first phase of reuniting immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes two days after it missed a court-imposed deadline to reunite roug...
NOEL KING, HOST: Centuries' worth of shoes are getting oohs and aahs at the New-York Historical Society. The shoes are from the personal collection of shoe designer Stuart Weitzman. The exhibit is called Walk This Way, and NPR special correspondent S...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: With the balance of the U.S. Supreme Court in question, abortion rights advocates are beginning to prepare for a future they hope never to see - one without the protections of the Roe v. Wade decision. The confirmation of Presiden...
NOEL KING, HOST: The secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, has proposed a change. The idea is to allow housing authorities across the country to require that low-income people work in order to live in affordable housing. Now, Carson...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The head of the U.S. Census Bureau is preparing to face a major challenge. His agency is required by law to count every person living in the U.S. in 2020. But the bureau is running into many hurdles, including a legal fight over a...
NOEL KING, HOST: This summer, millions of vacationers are expected to visit Branson, Mo., to see acts like Tony Orlando and the Oak Ridge Boys. Summer is a boom time for Branson, but for many of the people who keep the good times rolling there, life...
NOEL KING, HOST: Yesterday, the Trump administration missed a court-ordered deadline to reunify about a hundred small children who were separated from their immigrant parents at the border over the past two months. Federal officials scrambled to rejo...
Regulators Investigate Fast-Food Chains' Limits On Whom They Hire ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A common workplace practice affecting millions of franchise restaurant workers is coming under fire. It involves what are essentially non-compete agreements that pre...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's getting harder for people to seek asylum in the U.S. Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced stricter rules on people fleeing domestic abuse and gang violence. Now some applicants are hoping to increase their ch...
NOEL KING, HOST: Literature often reflects the times in which we live. And there's a recent trend in literature for young people that deals with one of the world's biggest crises - the global wave of refugees. Now, books that tell the story of the re...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The actor Lakeith Stanfield is having a moment. My co-host Audie Cornish recently sat down with him to talk about how he picks his projects and what's next. AUDIE CORNISH, BYLINE: Stanfield was in Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning horro...