STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Senator Kamala Harris was at the Capitol yesterday, voting against one of President Trump's judicial nominees. Then she went down the street and walked into a Democratic Party office. She pulled up a chair and gave us the opening...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And I'm David Greene in Culver City, Calif. Good morning. NPR has learned new information suggesting that the special counsel's Russia investigation is done. A key prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, is leaving the office. He helped bui...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Follow This Thread is an instruction and a title. Henry Eliot's latest book is about mazes and labyrinths. And like a maze, it takes several twists and turns through history, philosophy, myth and pop culture. Henry Eliot told me si...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The opioid epidemic claimed 70,000 lives in 2017. To put that in perspective, that is more than the number of people who died annually at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. And the pharmaceutical industry is going to spend much...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Drummer Hal Blaine died yesterday at the age of 90. Blaine helped shape the sound of American music in the 1960s. He was part of the Wrecking Crew, a loose collective of Los Angeles session musicians. Blaine's drumming can be hea...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And I'm David Green in Culver City, Calif., a state that has by far the largest death row population of any U.S. state. Now, those inmates will remain there. They won't be sent for execution. Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to s...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Walk through an American city, and there's an increasing chance you will need to maneuver around an electric scooter just parked there on the sidewalk. While driving, you pass people riding those scooters. They're for rent by the...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Every year when it's time to give out the Nobel Prize for literature, British bookies lay odds on who might win. And every year, Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is viewed as a contender. His work includes novels and plays and ess...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump is calling for a big increase in defense spending next year - another $8.6 billion to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and deep cuts to many domestic programs. That's all in the blueprint for the annual...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Few American women choose to give birth at home, but the number is increasing. In fact, the number of babies born outside the hospital almost doubled in the last 15 years. Is that safe? Lesley McClurg from member station KQED is...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The first full week of South by Southwest is underway with a big focus on the 2020 election. More than half a dozen candidates showed up in Austin, Texas, over the weekend for the annual music, arts and technology convention. And...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Walking your dog is a good way to get regular exercise. But a new study included in the surgery publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association finds there is some risk in this as well. Here's NPR's Patti Neighmond....
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some Americans want to address a fundamental problem in fighting climate change. It's the problem of how to imagine solutions vast enough to make a difference. It is easy to dismiss almost any climate plan as too small or unworka...
Scientists Thread A Nano-Needle To Modify The Genes Of Plants MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Researchers may have cracked a problem that has vexed scientists for decades - how to easily modify the genetics of plants. Being able to do that efficiently would mak...
Exclusive: White House And Ivanka Trump Propose New Spending On Child Care STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Back to this country now - the federal budget President Trump proposes today includes a line for child care. The proposal to increase funding is a priorit...
