(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's Friday, which is when we hear from StoryCorps. Back in 2011, this series of conversations featured a talk between two people who could have been enemies but instead became friends. Mary Johnson met Oshea...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now let's talk about movies. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, LA LA LAND) RYAN GOSLING: (As Sebastian, singing) City of stars, are you shining just for me? SHAPIRO: Academy Award nominations are out today, and the musical La La Land sang and da...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: After the Brexit vote in Britain and President Trump's rise here, some see a populist movement spreading. And this week, we're introducing you to leaders in Europe who are part of it, like Marine Le Pen of France who thinks voter...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: On Monday, a team of ethics lawyers and legal scholars filed suit claiming that President Trump's many foreign business dealings violate the Constitution. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: They cite the Emoluments Clause, a provision in the Co...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Americans said goodbye yesterday to Mary Tyler Moore, who died yesterday at the age of 80. She won seven Emmy Awards for her work on TV, but that number doesn't quite describe her place in the culture. She played characters to wh...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The highest court in the state of Massachusetts is considering roadside sobriety tests, specifically whether the tests that police use to determine drunk driving can also prove a driver is high on marijuana. As NPR's Tovia Smith re...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump is spending his first week in office reversing Obama administration policies. He's already signed executive actions on health care, two controversial oil pipelines, and he is promising to undo President Obama's plan...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A moment now to remember Mary Tyler Moore. The actress died today at age 80. Moore helped redefine women's roles on TV, first playing the earnest and stylish homemaker Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show and later playing Mary...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs has not been confirmed yet, but two of the executive orders the president signed this week could have a direct effect on the department and also the veterans it...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's talk about what to call a fact that is not a fact. President Trump made a string of statements at the CIA over the weekend. Our correspondent Mary Louise Kelly used this language to describe some of them. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHI...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: There's been a little bit of political wrangling recently in this country as well of course. Red states fought hard against the Obama administration. And now governors of left-leaning states are ready to do battle with the Trump W...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It used to be the only place to find great television was on the big broadcast networks, then cable was where all the best stuff was airing. More recently, Netflix and Amazon have been racking up the Emmys. And now Apple wants a...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Hundreds of people around the country are still suffering medical complications from getting injections of tainted steroids produced at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy in 2012. The former head of New England Compounding Cent...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is coming back to life on Spanish-language television. A new series which will be aired in the U.S. this spring recounts how Chavez rose from obscurity to lead a socialist revolution and...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: On his first day on the job, President Trump made some changes to the Oval Office. He installed gold drapes and moved some statues. First families do have some leeway to make changes to the White House, including changes througho...
