DAVID GREENE, HOST: World leaders are gathering at a U.N. climate summit in Madrid this week to talk about how to reduce greenhouse emissions. In the search for alternatives to fossil fuel, some countries have now turned to one of the oldest energy s...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It is estimated that more than 1 million tons of plastic garbage contaminates the world's oceans every year. But one artist on the Oregon coast is making a small dent in that. NPR's Kirk Siegler has the story from the seaside vil...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: An exclusive now, an NPR investigation into what's happening to hundreds of thousands of Americans with student loans and a significant permanent disability. According to U.S. federal law, these borrowers are entitled to have the...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: When Donald Trump Jr.'s new book first topped the New York Times bestseller list, it raised eyebrows and not just because of who the author is. Beside the title of the book, which is Triggered: How The Left Thrives On Hate And Want...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Close to 100 Montanans are taking on one of the largest corporations in the world today at the U.S. Supreme Court. Residents of two small towns say Arco, the Atlantic Richfield Company owned by BP, needs to go beyond what the law...
NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump is reimposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from Brazil and Argentina. The president announced that news on Twitter this morning. NPR chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley is here to explain what's goin...
Gun Rights Case Is First Before The Supreme Court In A Decade DAVID GREENE, HOST: When and how to regulate guns is one of the biggest issues across this country, but the Supreme Court has rarely weighed in. In 2008, it ruled for the first time that t...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's trade war looks like it's backfiring for many of the nation's factories. Manufacturing activity has slumped in recent months, and analysts say the ongoing tariff battle between the U.S. and China is partly to bla...
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, DIAMONDS FROM SIERRA LEONE (REMIX)) JAY-Z: (Rapping) I got it from here, 'Ye, damn. The chain remains. The gang is intact. The name is mine. I'll take blame for that. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Jay-Z turns 50 this week. It is hard to su...
Impeachment To Hang Over Trump Trip Overseas, Just As It Did For Clinton NOEL KING, HOST: There is an old saying in this country - politics ends at the water's edge. At the moment, that feels kind of out of date, and here's why. President Trump will...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Mose Allison grew up in the South. By the time he moved north to make it as a pianist and songwriter in the mid-1950s, he'd taken the rough edge blues of the Mississippi Delta, smoothed it out with New York City jazz and ad...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Jimmy Kimmel's debut children's book has a straightforward motive - turn a no-nonsense, smile-free goose silly. The comedian has spent his late night career cracking up adult audiences. But in his new book The Serious Goose...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Protesters in Hong Kong have been out on the streets for six months now. And close by, Taiwan is watching carefully. It's election season there. They go to the polls on January 11 to elect their president and legislature. N...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Children Of Blood And Bone was an instant success when it was published last year. The young-adult fantasy novel by then-24-year-old author Tomi Adeyemi has so far spent 89 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It ma...
Storm Systems Crashing Across Country Turn Post-Holiday Travel Into A Slog LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Good morning - or is it? Maybe not if you are traveling. The weather is a beast today across much of the country as millions head home from the holi...
