12-year-old chess prodigy and his family are granted asylum in the U.S. Transcript Tani Adewumi won the New York state championship three years ago. At the time he and his family lived in a homeless shelter, after fleeing Nigeria due to threats from...
The long-awaited sequel to 'Avatar' is more than 3 hours long Transcript Avatar: The Way of Water is poised to become one of the year's biggest film releases. It's the sequel to the 2009 blockbuster Avatar, which is the highest grossing Hollywood fil...
'They are joining me. I'm not joining them': Netanyahu defends far-right allies Transcript Benjamin Netanyahu, soon expected to return to office as Israel's prime minister, is defending his effort to assemble a government with far-right ultranational...
How did COVID warp our sense of time? It's a matter of perception Transcript The pandemic did something strange to our sense of time. For Ruth Ogden, lockdown spent confined to her 3-bedroom duplex in Manchester, England, with a newborn and two boys...
What is the significance of the fusion breakthrough? Transcript Department of Energy scientists announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Scott Hsu, lead fusion coordinator at DOE, about what this means for the future....
What does the nuclear fusion breakthrough mean for the future? Transcript NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Dennis Whyte of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, about what the expected announcement about fusion energy means for climate and energy su...
U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet? Transcript Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy have reached a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. For the first time ever in a laboratory, researchers were able to gen...
Disgraced former CEO of FTX crypto exchange is arrested in the Bahamas Transcript Prosecutors will unseal a criminal indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, on Tuesday. He was taken into custody in...
Portland finds it's hard to disentangle the rise in crime from the housing crisis Transcript In Portland, Ore., officials are responding to business owners' concerns about crime and public safety, in part, by targeting homeless encampments. A MART?NE...
Michigan's Department of Transportation is cutting back on road salt Transcript The solution: beet juice. Officials say using beet juice instead of salt helps maintain the ecosystem, and protects the infrastructure while treating the roads. ROB SCHMI...
The last city-owned Confederate monument is being removed in Richmond, Va. Transcript The city is almost done relocating dozens of statues of Confederate monuments in a campaign that began two years ago. The last statue to be moved is that of Confede...
President Biden to host more than 40 African leaders at U.S.-Africa summit Transcript The summit is the centerpiece of a major effort to reset and improve U.S. ties with the continent at a moment when Africa's ties with China and increasingly Russia,...
Literature ambassador Jason Reynolds knows young people have a story of their own Transcript Some ambassadors handle multilateral negotiations and host elaborate events at embassies. But author Jason Reynolds spent his ambassadorship talking to young...
Why Tunisians are now risking their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe Transcript Overlooking the harbor in Zarzis in southeast Tunisia, fisherman-turned-caf owner Lotfi Bin Mohammed Issa serves up small cups of coffee. The fishermen a...
Alexandre Desplat scores 'joyous melancholy' in Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio' Transcript Darkness was bound to find its way into Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. The tale of the long-nosed wooden puppet who wants to become a boy is one for all time...
