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Jul 23, 2021
Tracy Stone-Manning, who currently works for the National Wildlife Federation, has come under Republican fire for her ties to a radical environmental group when she was a graduate student 1989.
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Jul 23, 2021
The bottlenecks aren't just making it hard for Americans to get their hands on imported products. They're also hurting exporters whose containers may leave U.S. ports empty.
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Jul 23, 2021
In an exclusive NPR interview, CIA Director William Burns addresses Taliban advances in Afghanistan, and what U.S. intelligence can do once the U.S. military leaves the country.
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Jul 23, 2021
When author/podcaster Carlos Whittaker met Tonee Carter, a piano player at Atlanta's airport, he learned Carter has kidney disease. With the help of his followers, Whittaker raised $60,000 for Carter.
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Jul 23, 2021
The journal Science explains how Cockatoos are getting good at opening trash can lids. The birds learn from each other how to open the lid, hold it and walk along the side before flipping it over.
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Jul 23, 2021
A federal moratorium on evictions ends next week. But $50 billion from Congress to help Americans behind on rent isn't reaching many who need it. One problem: local rules that deny people the help.
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Jul 23, 2021
Greg Klatkiewicz and Gary "Zooks" Bezucha have been friends since 1972. At StoryCorps, the pair talk about how their bond has carried them through good times and bad.
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Jul 23, 2021
A federal judge is considering final approval of a $641 million settlement of lawsuits tied to the Flint Water Crisis, but some who are involved are raising objections to key elements of the deal.
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Jul 23, 2021
Jovenel Moïse will be mourned Friday in a funeral mass. The investigation into his killing has led to more than two dozen arrests, but no real answers as to who was responsible.
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Jul 23, 2021
A league of unfortunate writers had their books come out in the height of the coronavirus crisis — there are even several online support groups for authors who published mid-pandemic.
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Jul 23, 2021
The recovery from the pandemic-induced recession can differ from state to state. We dig into the reasons behind the vast disparities in jobless rates in New Hampshire and neighboring Massachusetts.
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Jul 23, 2021
As the security situation devolves, the CIA will remain in Afghanistan to gather intelligence. There's a funeral mass for Haiti's assassinated president. Also on Friday, the Olympics officially begin.
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Jul 23, 2021
Two high school students from Atlanta made history at the prestigious Harvard International Debate Competition. Jayla Jackson and Emani Stanton are the first duo of Black females to win.
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Jul 23, 2021
Emmy-nominated Ted Lasso begins its second season on Friday. Does it live up to Season One's hype?
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Jul 23, 2021
Refineries are still ramping up after the pandemic tanked fuel demand. That's causing shortages at the airports where firefighting tanker planes and helicopters fill up.
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Jul 23, 2021
The lawyers have been busy with court hearings, filings and talks with prosecutors. Some have had to deal with nasty emails, late-night phone calls and even death threats.
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Jul 23, 2021
As summers become hotter due to climate change, farmers are finding it more difficult to keep their animals cool. Some are investing in new facilities and technologies to keep livestock safe.
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Jul 23, 2021
Clarksdale, Miss., where blues guitarist-singer Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram hails from, is "pretty much the mecca of the blues," Ingram says in an interview with NPR's A Martinez on Morning Edition.
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Jul 22, 2021
Macron has ordered an investigation into reports that his phone was on a list of potential targets for the Pegasus spyware. At least 15 ministers in his government also may have been spied on.
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Jul 22, 2021
NPR's A Martinez talks to to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about the spread of COVID-19, and vaccine hesitancy. As case counts rise, the White House pushes for more Americans to get vaccinated.
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Jul 22, 2021
A study from China offers clues as to why the delta variant of the coronavirus is spreading so quickly around the world. The highly contagious strain accounts for more than 80% of U.S. COVID-19 cases.
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Jul 22, 2021
Perhaps the bear is an Olympic softball fan and wanted to watch Japan play Australia. Or maybe it was looking for food. Organizers tried using loud music and firecrackers to shoo it away
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Jul 22, 2021
Google tweeted that search interest in dating is at a five-year high in the United States. A lot of people are googling "virtual first date ideas" and "how to date."
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Jul 22, 2021
Several books about the Trump administration's final year, some including interviews with the ex-president, are arriving in bookstores. How do they change what we know about the Trump White House?
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Jul 22, 2021
Sports anchor Maria Taylor quit ESPN after contract talks broke down and a white colleague suggested that Taylor was promoted because she is Black.
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Jul 22, 2021
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Najib Sharifi, president of the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee, about the dangers of being an Afghan journalist as the Taliban gain ground in Afghanistan.
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Jul 22, 2021
The Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha finds people in Lebanon mired in an economic crisis that makes eating or paying rent difficult — let alone taking part in family celebrations.
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Jul 22, 2021
Aiming to make a record that fans would still listen to decades later, George Clinton and Funkadelic mixed R&B, psychedelic rock and a Black guitar hero's cry.
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Jul 22, 2021
Only one Republican will serve on a House committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. And, the Senate had its first test vote on the bipartisan infrastructure package.
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Jul 22, 2021
NPR's Noel King talks to Republican Rep. Billy Long of Missouri about what is driving vaccines hesitancy among his constituents as the delta variant continues to spread.
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Jul 22, 2021
Two GOP nominees are rejected from a panel set to probe the Capitol riot. States reach a $26 billion national opioid settlement. Maria Taylor is leaving ESPN after a colleague's remark about race.
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Jul 22, 2021
Smoke from wildfires is driving people indoors in places where COVID-19 vaccination rates are low, potentially heightening the risk of more infections.
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Jul 22, 2021
As overdose deaths climb, four of the nation's largest health corporations have agreed to a landmark $26 billion payout that state officials say will help ease America's deadly opioid epidemic.
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Jul 22, 2021
The U.S. and Germany have reached an agreement that will allow a controversial Russian natural gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, to be completed, without incurring American sanctions.
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Jul 22, 2021
NPR's online Joy Generator draws on nostalgia to help you feel happy. There's evidence nostalgia can be a powerful tool for coping with stress. That's why NPR included nostalgia triggers in its app.
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Jul 22, 2021
When companies don't want to directly raise prices, they often shrink the size of the product while keeping the same price. This tendency to downsize products has come to be known as shrinkflation.
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Jul 21, 2021
The risk calculus for companies whose leaders participate in perilous activities is more complicated today, as corporate titans Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have completed their travels to space.
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Jul 21, 2021
NPR's Noel King checks in with Dr. Jamil Madi, a critical care specialist at a hospital in Harlingen, Texas, about current levels of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and vaccinations.
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Jul 21, 2021
The public can vote on a list of names through July 25. Some options include Aster, Albus and Cottonwood. The ferrets, two males and one female, are living at a conservation unit in Virginia.
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Jul 21, 2021
WNY Gardeners in western New York has more than 7,500 members. The word "hoe" is what got them into trouble. Facebook's algorithms sometimes flag that word as "violating community standards."
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Jul 21, 2021
Thomas Barrack, who chaired former President Donald Trump's inauguration committee, has been arrested on federal charges that he acted as an agent of the United Arab Emirates.
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Jul 21, 2021
Florida is responsible for one in five new COVID-19 cases, according to the White House. In Miami, the number of those being hospitalized has doubled, and health officials are raising alarms.
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Jul 21, 2021
The Bootleg fire burning in southern Oregon is growing by miles a day and generating its own weather. It is the largest wildfire currently burning in the U.S.
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Jul 21, 2021
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to George Washington University Professor Bruce Dickson about the longevity of the Chinese Communist Party. He is the author of the new book: The Party and the People.
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Jul 21, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is pressing ahead with a procedural vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal. Republicans want it delayed until work on a final bill is completed.
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Jul 21, 2021
Known as a breakthrough case, it underscores another messaging challenge for the Biden administration. Only after news of this case leaked out in the media, did the White House acknowledge it.
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Jul 21, 2021
The State Department is looking into new reports of the mysterious Havana Syndrome. NPR's A Martinez talks to Adam Entous of The New Yorker about health complaints from U.S. diplomats in Vienna.
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Jul 21, 2021
It's monsoon season in the Southwest, a vital source of moisture that keeps pastures and rivers healthy and wildfires in check. But climate change is making it harder to count on the season's rain.
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Jul 21, 2021
The Bucks won their first NBA title in 50 years — beating the Phoenix Suns 105-98 in Game 6. After being down two games to none, the Bucks stormed back to take the next four straight.
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Jul 21, 2021
Competition got underway Wednesday in Tokyo for the pandemic-delayed Summer Olympics — two days before the Opening Ceremony. Participants are streaming into Japan under heightened COVID-19 concerns.
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Jul 21, 2021
NPR's Noel King talks to Arvind Subramanian of Brown University's Watson Center and former chief economic adviser to the government of India, about the likely undercount of COVID-19 deaths in India.
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Jul 21, 2021
NPR's Noel King talks to activist Carine Kanimba whose phone was infected with spyware. Her father is an imprisoned dissident, whose story inspired the film Hotel Rwanda.
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Jul 21, 2021
Most U.S. troops are out of Afghanistan. The survivors of a deadly helicopter crash there 15 years ago reflect on the close of the 20-year war, and why for them, time does not heal all wounds.
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Jul 20, 2021
The U.S. and other Western powers accused China of widespread cyberattacks. Now China is accusing the U.S. of the same offense.
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Jul 20, 2021
An extreme right-wing member of Israel's parliament is accused of stirring up violence. He, however, says he's standing up for his view of Israel as a Jewish state.
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Jul 20, 2021
With the highly contagious delta variant fueling a rise in cases, Dr. Jerome Adams says, "We cannot afford to send the message that if you're vaccinated you have no worries and no responsibilities."
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Jul 20, 2021
NPR's A Martinez speaks to Dr. Jerome Adams, former U.S. surgeon general, who says a CDC decision to lift mask guidance for vaccinated persons may be "harmful."
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Jul 20, 2021
Jerome Adams, who served under former President Donald Trump, once advised against mask-wearing. With cases rising, fueled by the delta variant, Adams says even the vaccinated may need to mask up.
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Jul 20, 2021
The song begins: "A screen door slams, Mary's dress ... and, what is Mary's dress doing: swaying or waving. The Boss's co-producer Jon Landau told The New Yorker that the correct word is "sways."
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Jul 20, 2021
The bed frames in the Olympic Village are made of recyclable cardboard. People online speculated that they were designed to prevent activities other than sleeping.
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Jul 20, 2021
As wildfires rage in the West, one Oregon town is raising new questions about what caused last year's historic fires. Residents have filed lawsuits blaming the local utility for the devastation.
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Jul 20, 2021
David Kaye, now a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, says privately sold software that's being used to spy on journalists, dissidents and others is a threat to democracy.
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Jul 20, 2021
NPR's Noel King speaks to author Katie Kitamura about her new novel: "Intimacies."
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Jul 20, 2021
The power struggle in Haiti has been resolved. Negotiators appear close to a settlement for opioid lawsuits. Blue Origin is set to make its first sub-orbital flight with passengers on board.
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Jul 20, 2021
Negotiators appear close to a final opioid settlement meant to resolve a tsunami of lawsuits against some of the nation's biggest drugmakers and distributors.
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Jul 20, 2021
NPR's Noel King talks to law professor David Kaye, a former U.N. rights expert, who calls privately sold software being used to spy on journalists, dissidents and others a "threat to democracy."
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Jul 20, 2021
There appears to be a political truce between the two men who say they were the prime minister following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Claude Joseph will step down.
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Jul 20, 2021
Billionaire Jeff Bezos and three crewmates are set to travel in the New Shepard spacecraft to the edge of space for what will be the inaugural flight of the Amazon founder's company Blue Origin.
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Jul 20, 2021
NPR's Joy Generator offers calming sounds to put your brain and heart at ease. How can sounds bring inner peace? One answer might be something known as A.S.M.R.: autonomous sensory meridian response.
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Jul 20, 2021
Extreme heat is causing problems for wildlife researchers. Outside San Diego, a volunteer died from heat stroke and the annual bighorn sheep count is now canceled.
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Jul 20, 2021
For centrist Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, balancing two big negotiations — the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Democrats' broader $3.5 trillion spending bill — is a challenge.
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Jul 20, 2021
Law enforcement is targeting illegal guns as violent crime rises in cities across the country. Residents of hard-hit neighborhoods in Chicago are stepping up to fight gun violence, too.
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Jul 20, 2021
Where do myths about coronavirus vaccines come from and why do they spread? NPR takes a look at how rumors about vaccines and fertility reached the public earlier this year.
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Jul 19, 2021
The military says it's changing to make the nation's fighting force more inclusive. Among those changes, the design of body armour to fit women could also save lives.
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Jul 19, 2021
NPR's Noel King talks to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, chairwoman of the Rules Committee, who will preside over a field hearing in Atlanta about GOP efforts in Georgia to restrict voting access in the state.
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Jul 19, 2021
They became friends and fixed up an old bus, and went on a months-long road trip across the U.S. Their ex-boyfriend told The Washington Post, "I think the best thing right now is to say nothing."
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Jul 19, 2021
If you thought snack is slang for "a sexy and physically attractive person," you are correct. That's because Dictionary.com has added over 300 new words and definitions.
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Jul 19, 2021
The delta variant is sparking concerns of a new COVID-19 wave in the U.S. Historic flooding devastates parts of West Germany. And, a federal judge ruled last week that the DACA program is illegal.
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Jul 19, 2021
NPR's A Martinez talks to Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg about a global media investigation into how spyware was used to hack the cellphones of journalists, human rights activists and others.
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Jul 19, 2021
The White House plans to appeal a ruling that limits DACA protections for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, moving immigration higher on the president's list of priorities.
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Jul 19, 2021
Morning Edition welcomes a new host to its ranks Monday morning: A Martinez. NPR's Noel King asks him some get-to-know-you questions.
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Jul 19, 2021
Tuesday night will be the first time that an all-female crew will broadcast a MLB game. The match-up between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Baltimore Orioles will be available exclusively on YouTube.
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Jul 19, 2021
COVID-19 relief funding includes $20 million for indigenous language programs. Critics say the money is spread too thin to make a difference. They say the investment is too little, too late.
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Jul 19, 2021
Landmines make the northern part of the Iraq-Iran border forbidding for humans, but they also seem to have created space for what's thought to be a growing population of rare leopards.
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Jul 19, 2021
The Boston Symphony Orchestra recently returned to its storied summer home, Tanglewood, after the pandemic canceled last season. With reopening comes normalcy, as well as an opportunity for growth.
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Jul 19, 2021
Melanie Newman, broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles, will handle play-by-play duties. "At some point soon, I think we're on our way to this just being a normal day in a broadcast," Newman says.
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Jul 19, 2021
Many churches spent December under lockdown, canceling traditional holiday services. This summer, some congregations are using loosened restrictions to hold a do-over: Christmas in July.
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Jul 19, 2021
At least two St. Louis schools are named after bishops who owned and purchased slaves. Students, alumni and parents weigh in on what they would like the Archdiocese of St. Louis to do.
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Jul 19, 2021
As COVID-19 cases rise due to the delta variant, we examine who is at risk, and what's the best way to protect yourself and others. Also, with a spate of outbreaks at camp, what parents need to know.
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Jul 19, 2021
Authorities are assessing the toll of historic floods that devastated parts of western Germany that killed more than 150 people. German Chancellor Merkel described the situation as "terrifying."
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Jul 19, 2021
Tadej Pogacar, 22, pulled ahead in the general classification standings on a rainy stage eight and never gave up the leading rider's yellow jersey, winning three of the race's 21 stages.
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Jul 16, 2021
Oliver Daemen got the seat after another passenger, who paid 28 million dollars, had a scheduling conflict.The teen will become the youngest astronaut to go to space.
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Jul 16, 2021
Customers at Apt Cape Cod were not being kind. They berated the staff and even made some cry. So the restaurant closed its doors one morning.
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Jul 16, 2021
Customers at Apt Cape Cod were not being kind. They berated the staff and even made some cry. So the restaurant closed its doors one morning.
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Jul 16, 2021
As Washington completes its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Asad Khan, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., about diplomatic developments in the region.
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Jul 16, 2021
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wants Congress to make the new child tax credit permanent. Haitian police hold the former head of President Moise's security. And, South Africa sees a violent week.
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Jul 16, 2021
The Los Angeles Fire Department depends on help from amateur radio volunteers when fire threatens communications infrastructure. NPR looks at how ham radio operators are keeping residents safe.
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Jul 16, 2021
A jury has found the gunman who killed five people at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, MD, in 2018, criminally responsible. His lawyers at argued that mental illness drove him to commit the shootings.
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Jul 16, 2021
The head of assassinated Haitian president Jovenel Moise's security detail has been arrested as the investigation increasingly focuses on the failure of Moise's guards to protect him.
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Jul 16, 2021
NPR's Noel King talks to Julie Appleby, a senior correspondent with Kaiser Health News, about how patients can benefit from a new law that forces hospitals to post their prices.
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