STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK. Brakkton's story grows out of a survey that comes from NPR News, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The survey director was Robert Blendon, who says the aim here was to capt...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Thirty-two million dollars - that's how much money Bill O'Reilly agreed to pay to a colleague at Fox News to keep her allegations of sexual harassment a secret. That was in January, and it just came out in a report over the weekend...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Remember John Hodgman, Daily Show expert on just about everything, co-star of the Apple Mac commercial campaign in which he played the clunky PC, cataloger of nonsensical histories in the three-book series called The Areas Of My...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A top critic of Vladimir Putin has been accused of murder. Financier William Browder lives in London. American-born but now a British citizen, Browder was once the largest private foreign investor in Russia. He made a lot of mone...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You might remember the viral video in 2015 from a high school in Columbia, S.C. A white school resource officer confronts a student who is black. He flips her desk on the ground and drags her out of her chair. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVE...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's party now has a two-thirds super majority in the parliament. That's after voters cast ballots in a snap election over the weekend. Abe sought a mandate for issues ranging from the economy to t...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Food and Drug Administration is set to decide soon on a matter that could help you rethink fiber. Yeah, we're talking about fiber. We're told to eat a whole lot more of it. It's good for us, right? But what exactly counts as...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Turns out there are some workouts that can improve your memory. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on two approaches to brain training. JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Brain training programs often target something called working memory. KARA BLAC...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When Hurricane Harvey dumped 50 inches of rain on Houston, the floodwater a drain somewhere. Much of it went to the Houston Ship Channel, and it brought along a lot of contamination. Now scientists are sampling the channel mud to...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When Khizr Khan heard of President Trump's awkward phone call with a widow of a fallen soldier, the call where Trump said he knew what he signed up for, Khan had no doubt what to think. What is wrong with that statement? KHIZR KH...
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: For the first time, Playboy will feature a transgender woman as its Playmate of the Month, including its centerfold. She is 26-year-old French fashion model Ines Rau. Ms. Rau is among a small group of transgender individuals who...
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: And now from the big screen to the page. Author Dan Brown has used his books to challenge people with questions of God and faith all while sending readers on globe-trotting adventures that leave you feeling both dizzy and satisfi...
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: A village in Alaska is one of the latest to rebury human remains that have been studied and stored at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Hundreds of thousands of Native American graves were excavated in the 19th...
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: The film Te Ata tells the true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, who is considered one of the greatest Native American performers. And it was produced by the Chickasaw Nation, which started a film production arm to tell its own stor...
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Finally today, it's been nearly three weeks since the Las Vegas massacre, and another victim has been laid to rest. Yesterday, families and friends attended the funeral of Las Vegas Metro Police Officer Charleston Hartfield. He w...
