AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's taken Marvel's Avengers 63 days to make $2,750,000,000. Don't do the math. It's a lot. The Disney movie Avengers: Endgame is now just a hair shy of toppling Avatar for the top spot in Hollywood's record books. Critic Bob Mon...
NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump heads to Japan this afternoon for the G-20 summit. But much of the focus will be on the G-2, the United States and China. President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have a chance to diffuse their ongoing trade w...
NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump heads to Japan this afternoon for the G-20 summit. But much of the focus will be on the G-2, the United States and China. President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have a chance to diffuse their ongoing trade w...
'A Lot Of Gray Area': A Legal Expert Explains 'How To Read The Constitution' RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: What is the president allowed to do under the U.S. Constitution? This is a question that comes up from time to time on this program. And when it does, w...
Skywalker, The Joker, Now Chucky: Mark Hamill Takes On Another Iconic Character RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: You know Mark Hamill as the greatest Jedi the galaxy has ever known. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE) MARK HAMILL: (As Luke Sk...
(SOUNDBITE OF KOJI KONDO'S OVERWORLD THEME) GAVIN WALLACE: Captain MarvelYoshi (ph) from Build-A-Bear. ANYA KAMENETZ, HOST: Gavin Wallace, a little kid with a big grin, is showing off his favorite stuffed animal that somehow mashes up Captain Marvel...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The shooter who attacked a municipal building in Virginia Beach used a gun accessory called a suppressor. They're made to muffle the sound of gunfire. Suppressors have become a focal point of the gun debate in Virginia. The Democ...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Originals is the latest posthumous release from Prince's estate. It's a 15-song compilation of previously unreleased songs Prince wrote and demoed for other artists, including Sheila E's The Glamorous Life, Kenny Rogers' Yo...
'Chasing Cosby' Author Says Covering The Cosby Case Was A Journey Of Disillusionment NICOLE WEISENSEE EGAN: Last Sunday, Bill Cosby's official social media account sent out a message wishing everyone a Happy Father's Day from America's dad. Not too l...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There are two sets of reptiles in Sadie Jones' new novel The Snakes. There is the slithering kind and the human version. Bea is a newly married psychologist and the daughter of a ruthless billionaire, and she wants nothing...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This coming week marks the 50th anniversary of an event that proved to be a catalyst for the gay rights movement. June 28, 1969, New York City police raided an illegal bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn. A new opera called...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: If you knew of a child who was being forced by a parent or guardian to sleep on a cold concrete floor in overcrowded surroundings, with screaming lights always on overhead that made it hard to sleep, had limited access to a bathroo...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: If you want to commune with animals while doing yoga, there are many options these days - puppy yoga, cat yoga, goat yoga, yoga with B.J. Leiderman who writes our theme music. In Fairbanks, Alaska, there's a yoga class with a fauna...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Many works of literature have been written about Louis Armstrong. But now, jazz journalist James Karst has written about the effort to decipher a few seconds of old film that may show Louis Armstrong as a 13 or 14-year-old boy - a...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Evvie Drake is about to make a dramatic change in her life. She's planning to leave her husband when she gets a phone call that changes her life for her. He's dead. She's a widow who doesn't feel much grief. Evvie winds up living a...
