Ukrainian fighters are making their last stand in a steel mill in Mariupol Transcript A Ukrainian fighter calls on the world to save their lives and extract them and civilians out of the destroyed city of Mariupol. LEILA FADEL, HOST: In Ukraine, the...
White House puts out a playbook to help rural areas get infrastructure funding Transcript President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill is great for small towns, where raising money is challenging. But rural communities have fewer staff to appl...
A Jack Russell terrier in Ukraine makes a heroic name for himself Transcript Patron, the mascot of the State Emergency Service is saving lives by sniffing out undetonated landmines and bombs in Chernihiv. So far, he's rooted out more than 90 explosiv...
A number of jazz recordings will be released Saturday in honor of Record Store Day Transcript Zev Feldman, co-president of Resonance Records, is the guy who single-handedly made Record Store Day a red-letter date for fans of classic jazz. STEVE INSKE...
Ukrainian forces in Mariupol are refusing to surrender to Russian forces Transcript NPR's Leila Fadel talks to retired Gen. Ben Hodges about how the Russian assault in eastern Ukraine will be different from Russian President Putin's initial plan to t...
A mental health bill in Georgia shows how conspiracy theories are affecting politics Transcript On its surface, there wasn't supposed to be anything controversial about Georgia's Mental Health Parity Act introduced earlier this year. In a time where...
A mental health bill in Georgia shows how conspiracy theories are affecting politics Transcript On its surface, there wasn't supposed to be anything controversial about Georgia's Mental Health Parity Act introduced earlier this year. In a time where...
Justice Department works to curb racial bias in deciding who's released from prison Transcript The Justice Department is moving to reduce racial disparities in a tool it uses to assess a prisoner's risk of a return to crime, after scholars and justic...
Decades after the USSR collapsed, Eurasian countries struggle to maintain democracy Transcript NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Michael Abramowitz of Freedom House about the state of democracy in 29 formerly communist nations of Central Europe and Centra...
Student loan borrowers will get help after an NPR report and years of complaints Transcript The U.S. Department of Education says it will retroactively help millions of federal student loan borrowers who have been hurt and held back by its troubled i...
Multiple explosions hit near school in Afghan capital Kabul The blasts struck near Afghan educational institutions in Kabul Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding more. It's the latest in a country that's been wracked by decades of violenc...
A Virginia Tech entomologist named a new millipede species after Taylor Swift Transcript Derek Hennen is a huge fan of Taylor Swift. When his team discovered a new species of millipede in Swift's home state of Tennessee, he named it after her. It's c...
European officials are debating whether they can stop buying natural gas imports from Russia. Many say it can't be done. But the biggest city in Switzerland Zurich is already taking ambitious steps to wean itself off gas. It's shutting down the flow...
DOJ may appeal mandate ruling, if the CDC says masks are still needed Transcript Commuters and travelers react to a judge tossing a mask mandate. NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Lindsay Wiley, professor of public health law at UCLA, about how the ruling cou...
French voters go to the polls in 4 days to choose between Macron or Le Pen Transcript A lot has changed in the five years since French President Macron met far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in a contentious debate. Ahead of the runoff, the two will d...
