GERRY MARROCCO: This is the Green behind you. We call it Battle Green today, but it's really a common in the... SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In April 19, 1775, the shot heard round the world was fired on the Lexington, Mass., town Green. Though Gerry Marrocco,...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Craig Ferguson is in his upper 50s. And it's a small - maybe not so small - kind of miracle that between drinking, drugs and hard living, he's around and a quarter-century sober to write this book. Riding The Elephant: A Memoir of...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Seychelles magpie robin is about nine inches long with inky, blue-black feathers and white patches along its wings. There may be only 200 or so of these beguiling birds in the world, all in forests of the Seychelles Islands in...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Cuban singer Omara Portuondo has been performing for nearly 70 years. She's danced at Havana's famous Tropicana Cabaret in the 1950s. She sang with an all female vocal quartet. She had a solo career and was the only woman in the Bu...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Her photograph has been everywhere - long, red hair. Often she cradles a gun, and she's often accompanied by headlines posing this question. Is she a Russian spy? (SOUNDBITE OF MEDIA MONTAGE) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Is Maria Butina...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's Friday morning, which is when we hear from StoryCorps. And on this Friday before Mother's Day, we hear from Sada Jackson, who lost her mother, Ileana, in 2016. Jackson came to StoryCorps in Kansas City, Mo., with her mom's b...
NOEL KING, HOST: And now a story that takes the long view - the very long view. In 2010, at the age of 90, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens retired after 35 years on the nation's highest court. Since then he's been busy writing lots of article...
NOEL KING, HOST: The price of stuff, lots of stuff, from canoes to floor lamps to bicycles, went up literally overnight - last night, in fact. The Trump administration raised tariffs on $200 billion worth of imported Chinese products. The U.S. and Ch...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Scientists are about to launch a major study to find out whether a drug can silence the gene that causes the devastating illness Huntington's disease. This follows the discovery that the experimental drug reduced levels of the dama...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: When musician Dan Tepfer was a kid, he taught himself to code on an early Macintosh computer that his dad brought home one day. DAN TEPFER: What I love about programming is it's so powerful. You can be a little kid, you know, with...
NOEL KING, HOST: Uber goes public tomorrow. It's expected to be one of the biggest IPOs in U.S. history. The company's grown massively over the last 10 years. You can hail Ubers all over the world. But it has never turned a profit. So is Uber actuall...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to the president's son Donald Trump Jr. This is the first time a member of the Trump family has been subpoenaed in the congressional investigations of Russian interference in...
NOEL KING, HOST: And now a story about unintended consequences. The number of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. is spiking. This is especially true in states like Tennessee, which have growing gun rights laws. They make it easier for people to keep g...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: From its hit show Jersey Shore to the Video Music Awards, MTV is all about youth culture in its many forms. And now, it's branching out. The network has announced a new documentary division. Sheila Nevins will lead it. She is 80 ye...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: And while all this is happening with China, there's another trade skirmish on the horizon. It's going to play out in the supermarket produce aisle. The Trump administration is preparing to level tariffs on fresh tomatoes imported f...
