DAVID GREENE, HOST: So one of the fastest growing markets for genetic testing is for future parents who want to know their risk of passing something onto their child. But more genetic information does not always make decisions easier and can result i...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now back to the border. According to the most recent U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics, more than 76,000 people were apprehended on the southern border in February. Administration officials have projected th...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When a hospital closes in a rural area, the economic shockwaves go beyond lost health care jobs. A closure may scare off heavy industries that need to be near an emergency room. And it makes it harder for rural towns to att...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This is a story about something that didn't happen - a movie that was never made. It was supposed to be a collaboration between the surrealist artist Salvador Dali and the Marx Brothers, which is amazing. And now it's getti...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: People cross the U.S.-Mexico border daily for work and school. We're going to go now to El Paso, where President Trump's threats to shut down the border earlier this week created anxiety and uncertainty among many residents. Mall...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The Washington Wizards have a new dance squad this season - Wizdom. It's made up of performers 50 and older. And it has been a hit at basketball games in Washington, D.C. NPR's Samantha Balaban caught their latest performan...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Skiing's long been an expensive sport. It's not uncommon for a lift ticket to set you back upwards of $200 a day. While the price of day passes has been rising, the industry has been embracing new multi-resort season passes that ar...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Facebook was once praised for spreading free speech values, but with the company's ban on white extremist content, we have reached an inflection point. The world is pushing back with different values, which are now being imported...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Sometime between the invention of the coloring book and the touchscreen came paint-by-numbers. The man who helped invent that system, Dan Robbins, died this week at age 93. NPR's Elizabeth Blair takes a moment to remember his leg...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It has not been uplifting for Americans to look across the ocean the past few years and see Great Britain's Brexit imbroglio. Almost three years ago, a slim majority, 51.9 percent, voted in a referendum to leave the European Union....
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Ann Beattie first made her mark as a writer when The New Yorker began to publish her short stories in the 1970s. Back then, she was hailed as the voice of her generation, a distinction that she never took very seriously. In her lat...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Closing arguments wrapped up today in the trial of onetime billionaire John Kapoor, the founder of the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics and other former Insys executives are charged with racketeering. Federal prosecutors...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We're going to spend the next few minutes hearing about 1 million Rohingya refugees who are living in camps in Bangladesh. They were in the news a lot of year ago when a huge flood of people left neighboring Myanmar, fleeing what t...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump is scheduled to visit the California border city of Calexico tomorrow. It's a city on edge, as are many others along the southwest border, after the president threatened to shut down the border. He's since walked...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's time now for StoryCorps. Today, a story from El Paso, Texas. Dee Westenhauser grew up there in the 1950s, but had a hard time fitting in. Last year, at the age of 63, Dee came out as a transgender woman....
