ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There's a provision in the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act that blocks Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid dollars for at least a year. Opponents of abortion rights say public funds for serv...
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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A big policy question facing the country is what to do with the 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally - today the story of how that population grew so large. It's a long story. It's mostly about Mexico, and...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There has been drama in Washington lately over the judiciary. Take the political fight over the vacant Supreme Court seat or the president calling some in black robes so-called judges. All this has got movie critic Bob Mondello thi...
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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President Trump has yet to fill hundreds of senior-level positions throughout the government. He's questioned the need for, as he put it, all those jobs, but simply leaving post vacant may not be the best way to accomplish what h...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Timothy Snyder has written some sprawling, compelling books about war, genocide and the descent into dictatorship in mid-20th century Europe. So the Yale historian's latest book called On Tyranny is a departure. It is a slim, alm...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: For a country not currently fighting a full-blown war, North Korea fires an awful lot of missiles. Last night, North Korea's military fired a series of missiles into the sea near Japan. NPR's Elise Hu reports. ELISE HU, BYLINE: J...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The president's two adult sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., have been traveling the world since their dad's election. They work for the Trump Organization. They run it now, in fact. Their business travel comes at a cost to U.S. ta...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have an early warning in Your Health this morning. Ecologists are expecting a really bad season for Lyme disease. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Their warning applies to parts of the Northeast this spring and summer. NPR's Michaeleen Do...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to take a few minutes now to talk about some of the ways people are engaging with faith and religion. There are 173 million American adults who identify as Christian. But what if you're one of the millions of American...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a clearer picture this morning of how President Trump's White House views government ethics rules. In the view of a White House lawyer, ethics rules do not apply to the president's staff. By now, we've heard exceptions to...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The fight to force ISIS from the Iraqi city of Mosul has resulted in more casualties than expected, both for combatants and civilians. That has led the Iraqi government and international aid groups to step up emergency care....
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And we begin this hour with the story of Russia, a Kremlin critic and maybe poison. This is the story of Vladimir Kara-Murza. VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA: This time it began about 4:30 in the morning. So I woke up because my heart wa...
