Cherelle Parker likely to become Philly's first female mayor after November election Transcript NPR's A Martinez talked to Democratic mayoral candidate Cherelle Parker after she won Tuesday's primary election in Philadelphia. She is expected to becom...
An alligator got safely across Highway 80 in Pearl, Miss. then the jokes started Transcript One person responded to the police department's post suggesting they give it a vest and make it an investi-gator. Someone else suggested that since it was on...
Remembering the man who busted the inflation-employment myth Transcript A look at how Nobel Prize winning American economist Robert Lucas changed the field of macroeconomics. He died this week at 85. LEILA FADEL, HOST: The world of economics lost a m...
Kennedy Ryan's romances are coming for your heartstrings Transcript Romance books all have one thing in common: A Happily Ever After. And Kennedy Ryan's love stories are packed with scenes of friendship and spicy sex along the way. But the impulse th...
Leaders from across the Middle East are meeting in Saudi Arabia Transcript Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is officially ending years of isolation by the region's powers over his brutal civil war that has killed an estimated half a million people....
LA Mayor Bass plans to spend $1.3 billion to address homelessness in the city Transcript In her first budget, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass wants to spend $1.3 billion combatting homelessness. Some advocates say the plan doesn't get to the root of LA'...
Advisers to the FDA support approval of an RSV vaccine to protect infants Transcript An expert panel advising the Food and Drug Administration has recommended approval of a Pfizer vaccine that would be the first to protect babies against RSV. LEILA F...
Disney cancels plans for $1 billion Florida campus Transcript The Walt Disney Co. is cancelling plans to build a nearly $1 billion office complex in Florida and move more than 2,000 jobs to the state. Disney Parks Chairman Josh D'Amaro told employees...
Volunteering at the U.S.-Mexico border helped a nurse find meaning in her work Transcript Angelina McCall talks about volunteering as a nurse at a clinic on the U.S.-Mexico border after struggling to work in the ER at the height of the COVID-19 pande...
More states increasingly restrict access to medical care for transgender people Transcript Laws passed in Florida and Texas will restrict the care available to transgender persons. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Joseph Knoll, a nurse-practitioner, about...
The first mention of kissing was much earlier than previously known, researchers say Transcript Some papers suggest romantic kissing began about 3,500 years ago. But a new review in the journal Science shows it was mentioned in much older clay tablet...
A ride with Boot Girls, 2 women challenging Atlanta's parking enforcement industry Transcript A small round key has unlocked a world of fame and fortune for two balaclava-clad women who are among the most in-demand entrepreneurs in Atlanta. That key...
Democrats urge Biden to use his constitutional right to raise the debt limit Transcript NR's A Martinez speaks with Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota about Democrats efforts to invoke the 14th Amendment to resolve the debt ceiling impasse wit R...
Heaven has a bathrobe-clad receptionist named Denise. She's helping TikTok grieve Transcript If you ask anyone on TikTok what happens when you die, there's a decent chance they'll put it this way: You appear in a waiting room. You're wearing a bathro...
Being a new teacher is hard. Having a good mentor can help Transcript Outside Chevak School, in western Alaska, the lake is ice, and the snowy tundra unfurls to the Bering Sea. But that doesn't stop new, first-grade teacher Amelia Tulim from trying t...
