Native American Leader: 'A Wall Is Not The Answer' DAVID GREENE, HOST: A Native American tribe whose land extends along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border says President Trump's proposed border wall would devastate its community. The Tohono O'odham Nati...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A new novel, The Field Guide To The North American Teenager, taps into all the raw anxiety of adolescence. Author Ben Philippe is able to take readers right to the heart of the matter. BEN PHILIPPE: When you're a teenager, that's...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today for our American Anthem series, a song that's been heard over and over and over again in many households where the kids dictate the soundtrack. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, LET IT GO) IDINA MENZEL: (Singing) Let it go, let it go, ca...
SAM SANDERS, HOST: What - this is about two weeks until show day? BRANDON VICTOR DIXON AND MICHAEL GREIF: Yes. SANDERS: Is the rehearsal schedule just epically crazy? DIXON AND GREIF: Yes (laughter). (SOUNDBITE OF FLEVANS' FLICKER) SANDERS: From NPR,...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of Amazon's shiny new headquarters will be located in a part of New York City that has long struggled. It'll be just a few blocks away from Queensbridge Houses, which is the name of the largest public housing complex in North...
STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: Some people who watch what they eat may be overlooking the most important things. Counting calories is a bit too simple. Cutting carbs is a bit too hard. So what can you do? NPR's Allison Aubrey has a different strategy. ALLISO...
TOMMY TOMLINSON: (Reading) I weigh 460 pounds. Those are the hardest words I've ever had to write. Nobody knows that number, not my wife, not my doctor, not my closest friends. It feels like confessing a crime. The average American male weighs 195 po...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: People who get grocery money through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are getting their benefits for next month now. The federal program that used to be called food stamps, now called SNAP, has issued its last paymen...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Senator Kamala Harris is running for president. The California Democrat made the announcement this morning. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, GOOD MORNING AMERICA) KAMALA HARRIS: My parents were very active in the civil rights movement, and...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: At least half a dozen Democrats interested in the 2020 presidential nomination are speaking today at events commemorating the Martin Luther King holiday. NPR's Asma Khalid reports that this is really a reminder of how important bl...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The biggest gathering of human beings anywhere in the world has kicked off in India. It's the Kumbh Mela, an ancient Hindu pilgrimage to dip in the waters of the Ganges River. Up to 120 million people are expected to do so...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: In a quiet college town, the fictional town of Santa Lora in Southern California, one by one, students fall victim to a bizarre contagious disease. They fall into a deep sleep and don't wake up. In fact, some will never wake up....
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Black lung, an epidemic of the coal miners' disease, is killing thousands of miners across Appalachia. NPR and the PBS program Frontline have been working together over the past year and uncovered that the U.S. government r...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Black lung, an epidemic of the coal miners' disease, is killing thousands of miners across Appalachia. NPR and the PBS program Frontline have been working together over the past year and uncovered that the U.S. government r...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Hackers love to try to breach U.S. computer systems. This now may be easier than ever before. With so many IT and cybersecurity workers furloughed by the shutdown, security professionals say government websites are more vul...
