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Oct 26, 2020
The new film Martin Eden is an epic retelling of Jack London's 1909 novel set in Italy in the midst of a socialist revolution. It may well be a metaphor for the "Don't tread on me" America of today.
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Oct 26, 2020
NASA has announced the discovery of water in a sunlit crater on the moon. The water is likely trapped inside of little glass beads and may one day be useful for astronauts visiting the surface.
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Oct 26, 2020
With control of the Senate at stake, record amounts of outside money are flooding into races. In North Carolina, nearly $200 million has come in, dwarfing the money raised by the candidates.
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Oct 26, 2020
Tens of millions of dollars are being spent in states to turn enough state legislative seats to flip party control. After a Republican sweep in 2010, Democrats are on the offensive this year.
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Oct 26, 2020
The Senate is expected to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday in a mostly party-line vote. Her addition to the court days before the election has been a campaign issue.
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Oct 26, 2020
Nashville, Tenn., resident died of COVID-19 after being sent home from a hospital twice. Uninsured COVID-19 patients are rarely told their bills are covered by the government, an investigation shows.
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Oct 26, 2020
The national election will take place in eight days. NPR checks in on what the Trump and Biden campaigns are doing in their final stretch.
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Oct 26, 2020
Proceedings in a criminal trial of a priest charged with sexually abusing a minor and a second priest accused of covering it up are scheduled to resume Tuesday in the Vatican.
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Oct 26, 2020
The superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute has resigned. The move comes one week after the governor ordered an investigation following allegations of racism endured by Black cadets.
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Oct 26, 2020
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis about wildfires and the management of the coronavirus in the state.
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Oct 26, 2020
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Fargo, N.D., Mayor Tim Mahoney about a mask mandate for the city.
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Oct 26, 2020
A Senate race may be a toss-up in Arizona, a coronavirus hot spot. Latino and retired voters — groups the virus hit disproportionately hard — explain how their experience is informing their votes.
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Oct 26, 2020
The pianist joins Ari Shapiro to discuss Amplify With Lara Downes, a video series on Black musicians who have experienced renewed creativity regarding racial injustice.
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Oct 26, 2020
An NPR report prompted the U.S. to investigate if civilians were killed during the raid on the ISIS leader a year ago. The results still leave questions about whether innocent men were killed.
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Oct 26, 2020
Many single parents collecting unemployment benefits are running out of money to pay rent, with Congress still unable to pass a relief bill to help.
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Oct 25, 2020
Even as the league weathered a busy, unpredictable season in the "wubble," the Seattle Storm superstar carried on her colleagues' commitment to social justice activism.
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Oct 25, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin talks with Troy Harden, lead curriculum developer for the Metropolitan Peace Academy in Chicago, and Tyree Head, a recent graduate of the street outreach training program.
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Oct 25, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Heidi Schlumpf of the National Catholic Reporter, which published an editorial opposing Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination.
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Oct 25, 2020
Despite the pandemic, culinary union workers, who are predominantly Latino, are hitting the streets to campaign for Democrat Joe Biden in Nevada.
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Oct 25, 2020
North Carolina is a swing state to watch when it comes to the presidential election. But for North Carolinians, the races for governor and the state legislature may have greater consequences.
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Oct 25, 2020
North Carolina is a swing state to watch when it comes to the presidential election. But for North Carolinians, the races for governor and the state Legislature may have greater consequences.
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Oct 25, 2020
Four major museums have delayed a show that includes work by the late American artist Philip Guston until 2024 due to concerns about how Guston's images of hooded Klansmen would be received.
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Oct 25, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kaiser Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner about where health care policy stands today.
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Oct 25, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kaiser Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner about where health care policy stands today.
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Oct 24, 2020
President Trump's relationship with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had its ups and downs. NPR discusses what might happen to the U.S.-Turkey relationship if Joe Biden wins the election.
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Oct 24, 2020
The Emmy-award winning actor reflects on portraying the co-founder of the Black Panther Party in a new film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin about the landmark 1969 trial.
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Oct 24, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author and President Trump's niece, Mary Trump, about his tendency to insult those with whom he disagrees.
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Oct 24, 2020
Right now, we have "an entire government apparatus designed to foster falsehoods," says editor Ellis Cose, who has written a new book, The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America.
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Oct 24, 2020
Right now, we have "an entire government apparatus designed to foster falsehoods," says editor Ellis Cose, who has written a new book, The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America.
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Oct 24, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dino Grandoni, an energy and environmental policy reporter with The Washington Post, about the debate over the future of U.S. energy.
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Oct 24, 2020
As we spend more of our lives in the digital world, our personal information can be compromised. NPR's Life Kit spoke to experts on how to protect your digital privacy.
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Oct 24, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Cristina Tardáguila of the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network about disinformation targeting Spanish-speaking voters in the United States.
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Oct 24, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with columnist and editor Ellis Cose about his new book, The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America.
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Oct 24, 2020
Alicia Garza, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, reflects on her past two decades of activism, the upcoming election and her new book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart.
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Oct 23, 2020
The foiled alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer follows months of misogynistic attacks and a legislature casting her as a tyrant. How are residents reacting?
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Oct 23, 2020
The foiled alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer follows months of misogynistic attacks and a legislature casting her as a tyrant. How are residents reacting?
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Oct 23, 2020
As colleges across the country see rising coronavirus rates, many campuses have gone into lockdown. Are these lockdowns effective at stopping the spread of the virus?
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Oct 23, 2020
NPR's Tonya Mosely talks with Amaya Alvez Marin, associate professor of law and political science at the University of Concepción, about Chile's possible constitutional reform.
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Oct 23, 2020
A new play — directed and performed via Zoom — imagines workplace life at Russia's Internet Research Agency, a real life troll-farm indicted for its interference in the 2016 election.
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Oct 23, 2020
Ailsa Chang talks with Don DeLillo about his novel, The Silence.
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Oct 23, 2020
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Mike "Doc" Emrick, longtime hockey broadcaster, about his retirement and the future of sports broadcasting.
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Oct 23, 2020
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with musicians and activists Rami Nashashibi and Drea D'Nur about their new album, This Love Thing.
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Oct 23, 2020
The San Francisco 49ers legend has died of COVID-19.
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Oct 23, 2020
NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Karen Attiah of The Washington Post about how African leaders are turning a blind eye to the Nigerian government's violence against protesters.
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Oct 23, 2020
As the election draws closer, a record number of Americans are voting early. So far, fears about delays in ballots being returned through the mail haven't materialized.
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Oct 23, 2020
Two medical students looked for infection spikes in towns that hosted Trump rallies. The data isn't as clear cut as many might like.
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Oct 23, 2020
NPR's Tonya Mosely interviews NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff, who fact checks statements about immigration made during the last 2020 presidential debate.
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Oct 23, 2020
What considerations should you be thinking about as you plan holiday travel during the coronavirus pandemic?
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Oct 23, 2020
President Trump says he's brokered a deal for opening relations between Israel and Sudan, and asks Israel's leader if he thinks Joe Biden could have pulled it off.
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Oct 23, 2020
As the election approaches, several voters in Pueblo, Colo., share how they've fared during the pandemic and how that's shaped the way they think about their elected leaders.
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Oct 23, 2020
A new workplace comedy — yes, comedy — revolves around the antics of a group of workers in a Russian disinformation operation.
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Oct 22, 2020
Active Russian cyberattacks are underway against U.S. government systems across the board, federal authorities revealed on Thursday — including those of election systems.
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Oct 22, 2020
Russian state-backed hackers are targeting U.S. state and local governments in the run-up to November's election, the federal government issues a warning on Thursday.
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Oct 22, 2020
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Mia Kang, author of Knockout, about her history of body issues, modeling and the transition to Muay Thai fighter.
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Oct 22, 2020
Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous character from Kazakhstan, Borat, is back in a film that's making political headlines. Amazon Prime is set to stream the Borat sequel starting Friday.
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Oct 22, 2020
The start of the NFL season has not been a good one for New York's two teams. The Jets and Giants have a combined 11-1 record.
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Oct 22, 2020
Streaming service Quibi, featuring original shows with episodes of 10 minutes or less, will shut down 6 months after it launched. NPR discusses why it's the first big casualty of the streaming wars.
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Oct 22, 2020
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Samuel Moyn, a law and history professor at Yale University, about potential court reforms some progressives support.
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Oct 22, 2020
President Trump and Joe Biden are set to meet Thursday for their second and final debate. With 12 days until the election, it's perhaps the last opportunity for the campaigns to change course.
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Oct 22, 2020
President Trump may be losing his lock on white voters, who were critical to his 2016 win. NPR discusses why more white voters are supporting Joe Biden and what it means for Trump's reelection bid.
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Oct 22, 2020
In Wisconsin, rising coronavirus cases are putting pressure on hospitals. As a result, the state has opened a field hospital at the State Fair Grounds to help handle the overflow.
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Oct 22, 2020
An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration will hear the agency's plans for approving a coronavirus vaccine and provide advice for modifying them if necessary.
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Oct 22, 2020
Five-star basketball recruit Makur Maker chose Howard University. NPR's Tonya Mosley talks about the significance of this choice with Kenny Blakeney, soon to be Maker's new head coach.
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Oct 22, 2020
The housing market is on a tear, setting all kinds of records, including prices. But it's also a reflection of the uneven economic recovery and more first-time homebuyers are getting priced out.
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Oct 22, 2020
The election season's spotlight on the militia threat is glaring for Eric Parker. Federal authorities consider him a domestic extremist. That hasn't stopped his run for the Idaho legislature.
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Oct 22, 2020
Most landlords are not required to disclose if a property is in a flood plain or has flooded before. That's a big problem in cities where climate change is driving more frequent and severe floods.
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Oct 21, 2020
On Wednesday, the government reported foreign actions, taken to affect public opinion related to U.S. elections. It comes after voters in Alaska and Florida reported receiving threatening emails.
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Oct 21, 2020
Nick Gradisar, mayor of Pueblo, Colo., reflects on a spike in coronavirus cases in his town, contact tracing and how he's asking residents to prepare for the upcoming holidays.
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Oct 21, 2020
Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines a "close contact" as spending a total of 15 minutes within 6 feet of an infected person over a 24-hour period.
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Oct 21, 2020
President Trump granted clemency to five people on Wednesday, commuting their lengthy sentences. The five cases had been highlighted by clemency activists.
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Oct 21, 2020
Former President Barack Obama made his first in-person appearance on the campaign trail on behalf of his former vice president, Joe Biden, on Wednesday evening in Philadelphia.
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Oct 21, 2020
One of Georgia's two U.S. Senate races this year is close as Sen. David Perdue's ties with President Trump may be hurting his campaign in the increasingly diverse state.
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Oct 21, 2020
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lee Gelernt of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project about parents of over 500 children who can't be found after being separated from them at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Oct 21, 2020
COVID-19 antibody drugs appear to be helping people avoid hospitalization. Tens of thousands of people a day could be candidates to take the drugs, but the scarce supply has to be rationed.
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Oct 21, 2020
In the new documentary Francesco, Pope Francis calls for civil union laws for same-sex couples in what would seem to be a break from traditional Catholic teaching.
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Oct 21, 2020
Democrats are nine seats away from winning a majority in the 150-seat chamber in the Texas House of Representatives. A win would mean Democrats could help draw new political maps in 2021.
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Oct 21, 2020
NPR's Tonya Mosley talks with Brian Morgenstern, the White House deputy press secretary, about relief bill negotiations and the ongoing pandemic.
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Oct 21, 2020
President Trump calls himself the "law-and-order" candidate, and major police unions have endorsed him. Some worry that kind of political alignment may undermine the police's legitimacy.
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Oct 21, 2020
NPR's Tonya Mosley talks with Catherine Sanderson, author of the book Why We Act: Turning Bystanders Into Moral Rebels, about how willingness to stand up to wrongdoing affects political decisions.
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Oct 21, 2020
NPR correspondents in South America, the Middle East and Europe discuss the recent spikes in coronavirus cases in their regions.
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Oct 21, 2020
Looking to engage younger and future voters, Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar took to Twitch, the streaming platform for gamers. They played the popular game Among Us.
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Oct 21, 2020
In Los Angeles, Black Lives Matter activists are taking energy from the streets to the ballot box to oppose the reelection of a district attorney who faces pressure over police accountability.
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Oct 21, 2020
The diabolical ironclad beetle can withstand being run over by a car. Now scientists have figured out what makes its exoskeleton so tough — and that insight could help people build tougher aircraft.
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Oct 21, 2020
The diabolical ironclad beetle can withstand being run over by a car. Now scientists have figured out what makes its exoskeleton so tough — and that insight could help people build tougher aircraft.
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Oct 21, 2020
Some Republicans have started to express greater criticism of President Trump, with his reelection prospects looking weak. Some also worry other Republicans could be swept out of office.
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Oct 21, 2020
Critics say the settlement doesn't hold company executives or members of the Sackler family accountable for their aggressive marketing of OxyContin, which helped fuel the nation's opioid epidemic.
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Oct 20, 2020
The unequal division of household work leads to the "mom penalty." For highly educated, high-income women, it means giving up on promotions, future earning power and roles as future leaders.
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Oct 20, 2020
Though he's guided the careers of pop artists including Lorde, Katy Perry and Skid Row, the Lava Records founder is better known lately for his side gig — bringing aid to the wrongfully convicted.
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Oct 20, 2020
More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments make a big difference, but so does flattening the curve to keep hospitals from overfilling, researchers say.
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Oct 20, 2020
Though he's guided the careers of pop artists including Lorde, Katy Perry and Skid Row, the Lava Records founder is better known lately for his side gig — bringing aid to the wrongfully convicted.
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Oct 20, 2020
A lawsuit filed in a U.S. court charges that Saudi Arabia's crown prince directed the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and names two dozen others allegedly involved.
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Oct 20, 2020
California is preparing to allow Disneyland and other theme parks to reopen. In Florida, health authorities say reopening its parks in June hasn't caused outbreaks.
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Oct 20, 2020
DJ Jose Padilla died this week at age 64. He helped pioneer a genre of electronic music known as "chill-out music."
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Oct 20, 2020
The tourist economy in Hawaii has been decimated by the pandemic, with 1 in 6 people there unemployed. Now, the state hopes new traveler testing protocols will help bring visitors back to its beaches.
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Oct 20, 2020
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, about various election cases and lawsuits two weeks before Election Day.
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Oct 20, 2020
The closer Taiwan and the U.S. become, the greater the risk that China could lash out.
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Oct 20, 2020
NPR's Tonya Mosley talks with Timothy Wu, a law professor at Columbia University, about similarities between the 2020 antitrust lawsuit against Google and the Microsoft antitrust case in the 1990s.
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Oct 20, 2020
The British government has announced plans for a coronavirus vaccine challenge trial: Volunteers will receive an experimental vaccine and then be deliberately exposed to the coronavirus.
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Oct 20, 2020
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with therapist Kimberly Johnson of The Emotional PPE Project about an emotional toll the continuing pandemic is taking on health care workers.
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Oct 20, 2020
One Pensacola, Fla., family backed Trump in 2016, acknowledging it was a gamble. NPR checks in to see what they think of his presidency and how they might vote in 2020.
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