STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: As a possible summit approaches between President Trump and North Korea's leader, a poem that kids learn in school comes to mind. The poem says, in its entirety, so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: One of the oldest and most distinguished Spanish-language theaters in the U.S. is New York's Repertorio Espanol. It presents hundreds of performances every year. This year, it's celebrating its 50th anniversary with a world p...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We've all been there - a darkened theater, the reminder to silence your phones, of course, and then... (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM) BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD: (As Claire) What is that thing? CORNISH: ...It's movi...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Increasingly, the VA and other organizations are recognizing that women leaving military service have unique needs which aren't being met. Here's one telling statistic. Female veterans are nearly 2 1/2 times more likely than civi...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: By some estimates, at least 700,000 ethnic Rohingya refugees are living in sprawling camps on the Bangladesh side of the border with Myanmar. It's one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our time. Whether or not they can return...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We have a sense today for how deadly Hurricane Maria's impact on Puerto Rico truly was. A new study estimates the number of dead could be around 5,000, which is much higher than the official figure, which was 64. In a moment, we'...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A ruling by the United States Supreme Court affects just how much police can do when they grow curious about your home. The court ruled that police may not search the area around a private home without a warrant even when they ha...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer except in Hollywood. These days, the first summer blockbusters arrive in April. Still, with schools getting out, things are about to get busier at your movie theater. Here is...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: It's not every day that one of the most famous chefs and restauranteurs in the world shows up at your front door and offers to cook you lunch. But Ruth Rogers has a new cookbook out celebrating three decades since she co-foun...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: This Memorial Day, my co-host Ari Shapiro brings us a story of one of the lives that was shaped by the Vietnam War. We begin at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial here in Washington as evening falls. ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: By this t...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: California is also taking on the issue of online privacy. An initiative headed for November's ballot would be one of the broadest online privacy regulations in the U.S. and would likely affect standards throughout the country...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A growing number of startups are trying to drive a revolution in lab testing. You can buy a test to check your thyroid, sleep hormones or even vitamin deficiencies from the privacy of your own home. But these online ventures may...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's said that many businesspeople prize stability. No matter the taxes or regulations they face, there's a case to be made for keeping the rules that your business already knows. Business owners in Saudi Arabia do not have that...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Like many American manufacturing towns, Massena, N.Y., has hemorrhaged jobs in the past decade. GM and Reynolds Metal closed. Aluminum company Alcoa downsized. But now Massena is banking on a new opportunity to boost its economy...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next we have a discovery about the ocean, which scientists learned from great white sharks. NPR's Merrit Kennedy has a story that reveals how much we don't know about what's underwater. MERRIT KENNEDY, BYLINE: Barbara Block has b...
