CDC: U.S. Suicide Rates Have Climbed Dramatically MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Suicide is a problem that is getting worse in the United States. A new study shows that suicide rates have increased in nearly every state. And in half of them, the rise is dr...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Senate plans a different sort of summer. Instead of going home this August, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell canceled the recess, says he wants to approve more of President Trump's judicial nominees, who face Democratic...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In five days, President Trump is expected to meet face-to-face with the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. There are a lot of countries in the region with a lot of things at stake, including Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's been one month since first lady Melania Trump unveiled her Be Best initiative in a ceremony at the White House. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MELANIA TRUMP: I feel strongly that, as adults, we can and should be best at e...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Women from around the world have started going to a clinic in Ukraine hoping to get pregnant. The clinic is doing something that no one else in the world will do for them - make babies using DNA from three different people. Earlier...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: From Coca-Cola to Kentucky Fried Chicken, heavily guarded secret recipes are the key ingredient to some of the world's most famous culinary success stories. In Portugal, one family has been keeping the original recipe for the count...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: CVID is an acronym you're about to hear a lot. The Trump administration has been using it in the run-up to next week's summit with North Korea. And those four letters have meant different things to different people, as NPR's David...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A Trump appointee running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has disbanded a consumer advisory board, and that board helped the bureau identify unfair practices at financial companies. Consumer advocates say they have b...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A new survey indicates just how much Amazon, the giant online retailer, has reshaped America, this nation of shoppers. Here's NPR's Alina Selyukh. ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE: OK. Here's a big number - 92 percent. The new NPR/Marist po...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Florida in the summer is a slow, hot drowning. That's the way Lauren Groff describes the state in her new collection of short stories. In another part of the book, she calls Florida a damp, dense tangle, an Eden of dangerous things...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A clinic in Ukraine has started making babies with DNA from three different people. They're doing this to help infertile women have children, but there are big concerns about so-called three-parent babies. NPR health corresponden...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: All this year, NPR is looking at the pivotal events of 1968. Fifty years ago today in the early hours of June 5, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had just won the California primary, a key win in his quest for the White House. But soon af...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Since he left the White House, Bill Clinton's found time to write books - memoir, policy tomes - never until today fiction. He told me writing a thriller has been a little scary. BILL CLINTON: I had so much fun, but it's - yo...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep in San Francisco. Just south of here yesterday, the CEO of Apple took the stage. (SOUNDBITE OF APPLE WORLDWIDE DEVELOPER CONFERENCE) TIM COOK: Good morning. (APPLAUSE) COOK: Good morning. INSKEEP: Tim Cook h...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to make sure he is heard when it comes to a nuclear deal. He and other top Democrats sent a letter to President Trump yesterday. It lays out five demands ahead of President Tr...
