SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The new season of Saturday Night Live debuts tonight. Stand-up comedian Melissa Villasenor will debut as a full cast member. She's been called an impression machine for impersonations of celebrities both real and imagined, includin...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: I think a lot of people might have felt a jolt in their souls when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee that one of the most vivid, indelible memories she has of the night she says she was sexually assaulte...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Mike Nussbaum is earning rave reviews for his portrayal of Rudy, a grandfather who's confronting loss and decline in Rachel Bond's play Curve Of Departure at the Northlight Theatre near Chicago. Mike Nussbaum won a Drama Desk Award...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Do you know your birthday? BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: (Laughter) No, I don't. SIMON: Buffy Sainte-Marie has joined us. The acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter and social activist and member of the Cree Nation, who's now in her 70s, has c...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Over this week, there's been a small revolution in Kenya across movie screens. For the first time, a same-sex love story is on the big screen. And NPR's Eyder Peralta reports it's making people consider freedom of expression, the c...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's Friday and time for StoryCorps. Today, the launch of a new project - it is called One Small Step. And it's an effort to bring together Americans with differing political views. After the 2016 election, J...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here's a little-known version of a well-known song by Tom Petty. He's playing live in Hollywood in 1977. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, BREAKDOWN) TOM PETTY: (Singing) It's all right if you love me. It's all right if you don't. INSKEEP: It'...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: An Army major named DJ Skelton retired on Monday at a ceremony in Arlington, Va. In attendance were family, friends and fellow soldiers, also a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior Pentagon officials. A fou...
ROBERT GARCIA, HOST: What's up, everybody. Peace. Just a heads up, there may be some strong language in this episode. ADRIAN BARTOS, HOST: Ooh, some bad words (laughter). MAIMOUNA YOUSSEF: So my mother, she tells the story that she knew I could sing...
Hannah Storm, Part Of First All-Women NFL Broadcast Team, Is Set For Kickoff RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you tune into Thursday Night Football via Amazon Prime tonight, you'll be able to watch something unprecedented. I'm not talking about what could hap...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: At a Senate Education Committee hearing today, the conversation turned again and again to one question. Is it legal for schools to use federal dollars to arm teachers? NPR's Cory Turner reports. CORY TURNER, BYLINE: The feder...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Using a so-called air ambulance can be expensive, which is why such flights are usually only used by the critically ill. But a legal quirk means that paying for one of these flights can actually lead to financial ruin. Congress h...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's been almost a year now since many Americans first heard the term bump stock. A reminder, this is that piece of hardware you can use to adapt certain guns to make them shoot faster, deploy more bullets. The Las Vegas gunman i...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's go inside a Trump Tower meeting room now and take a look at that now infamous June 2016 meeting between high-level Trump campaign officials and a delegation from Russia. NPR's Miles Parks has been talking with the British-b...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Earlier this year, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had tested a new kind of nuclear missile. Putin declared it a success. But satellite images shared exclusively with NPR suggest the missiles testing may have had a different...
