RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Since President Trump took office, he's been named as a defendant in more than a hundred lawsuits. Most of them involve immigration or civil rights issues. There is one that stands apart. Here's NPR's Peter Overby. PETER OVERBY,...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's banned in many Muslim countries, but instant divorce persists among India's Muslims. There, men have the power to end a marriage just by uttering a single word which means divorce. Now India's supreme court is heari...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Christina Ricci's career in movies began early - really early. She was only 10 when she played the adorably malevolent Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family. She went on to play fascinating, often dark and damaged women....
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Looking at Claire Rosen's photographs can feel like walking into someone else's dreams. CLAIRE ROSEN: I have a very sort of whimsical, surreal view of the world that is deeply rooted in magic and fairy tales and this ide...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Spending long stretches of time in the hospital can be emotionally draining. There's the loss of basic comforts, the sterile environment, fluorescent lights and indignities, like those open-backed disposable gowns. To tr...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We've been talking to some of the musicians who made an impression on the judges of NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest. This week... DIANA GAMEROS: My name is Diana Gameros. I live in the Bay Area. I am originally from Ciudad...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: March Madness, a college basketball tournament, is primetime for marketing to men - trucks, beer, pizza and vasectomies. From KQED in San Francisco, April Dembosky has the story. APRIL DEMBOSKY, BYLINE: About eight years ago, a u...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Spoiler alert for fans of The Americans - was that woman in a babushka going over dented cans in a nearly empty shelf at a Moscow food store that doesn't seem to sell much food Martha? Martha, who had to be smuggled out of America...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The NBA might have a substance-use problem, what ESPN Magazine calls the NBA's secret addiction - peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Baxter Holmes wrote the story, and he joins us now over Skype from Los Angeles. He covers the Lak...
(SOUNDBITE OF VALERIE JUNE SONG, JUST IN TIME) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The passage of time weaves through Valerie June's new album, The Order Of Time. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, JUST IN TIME) VALERIE JUNE: (Singing) Take my breath away and you put me down, teach...
(SOUNDBITE OF VALERIE JUNE SONG, JUST IN TIME) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The passage of time weaves through Valerie June's new album, The Order Of Time. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, JUST IN TIME) VALERIE JUNE: (Singing) Take my breath away and you put me down, teach...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In the United States, about 1 in every 10 students is an English-language learner, and many schools struggle to get these students comfortable with their new language. Getting them ahead and to college is another hurdle. One school...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: There are a lot of reasons why people get cancer. Sometimes it's exposure to something toxic like smoke. Sometimes it's just bad genes. New research finds most of the genetic mutations that lead to cancer crop up naturally, and t...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump may have suffered a setback this week with health care reform. But he did score a victory when it comes to his five-star hotel here in Washington, D.C. There had been a controversy over a particular clause in the...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: U.S. forces are playing a bigger and more direct role in the fighting in Syria. This week they have increased air strikes around the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. American special operations troops have rappelled out of helicopters a...
