RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There has been a major development in a case to determine who bears the responsibility for America's opioid crisis. This morning, four drug companies reached a tentative deal in a landmark case in Ohio, where the crisis has claim...
NOEL KING, HOST: Boeing says it hopes to have the 737 Max jet back in service by the end of this year. That model was involved in two crashes in the past 12 months, one off the coast of Indonesia, one in Ethiopia. Three hundred and forty-six people d...
NOEL KING, HOST: In the French port city of Marseille, there is a fight going on to save a McDonald's. For France, McDonald's is often a symbol of everything that's despised about American fast food culture and globalization. But when a franchiser wa...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There's a struggle still going on over an opioid settlement worth billions of dollars. It's being offered by Purdue Pharma, the company that makes Oxycontin. As North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports, a growing par...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's Election Day tomorrow in Canada, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the battle of his political life. The young liberal leader swept to power four years ago on a message of change and hope, but he's been implicate...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: In recent weeks, smoke drifting from Indonesia has been so heavy across Southeast Asia it's forced residents of Singapore inside and closed schools. The smoke comes as Indonesian farmers burn forests, clearing land for palm oil p...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Interlocking steel beams, sometimes painted vivid red or orange, attached at sharp angles, zigzagging up to a hundred feet in the air - this is the work of Mark di Suvero, who went from studying philosophy to working constr...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: If you were a kid growing up in the '90s or the parent of a '90s kid, then you might remember Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, VEGGIETALES THEME SONG) PHIL VISCHER: (As Bob the Tomato, singing) If...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to begin with what has been one of the most explosive and potentially consequential weeks in the Trump administration so far and a week that seen the president's penchant for breaking long-held norms of governance app...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: George R.R. Martin has sold more than 90 million books around the world. He's written all kinds but, of course, is best known for his epical fantasy series A Song Of Ice And Fire, which was adapted into HBO's Game Of Thrones. His f...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The World Series begins next week - the Washington Nationals against the Astros or Yankees. When was the last World Series with a team from Washington, D.C.? Like most everything in the town these days, it's a matter of debate. 193...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: A publisher plans to add an advisory to future copies of a book on China after one of the people quoted in the book was revealed to have been made up. The book is not supposed to be fiction. Rather, it's a work about China's rising...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When Mark Morris was a 6-year-old in Seattle, he'd stuff his feet into Tupperware juice cups so he could walk en pointe. I guess it worked. He grew up to be a celebrated dancer, choreographer, director and creator. He founded his o...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Mexican security forces are facing criticism for freeing the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman. They let him go after cartel hitmen led an hours-long siege on the capital of Sinaloa state. Critics say the govern...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Taika Waititi is best known for directing the Marvel blockbuster Thor: Ragnarok. But what got him that job were smaller movies that might best be described as quirky. Critic Bob Mondello says that description also fits his latest f...
