SCOTT SIMON, HOST: If you are the kind of reader who goes straight to the obituaries, here's something to look forward to - a documentary opens this week called Obit. It follows the staff writers of The New York Times obituary desk. And to learn more...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Fifty years ago, a documentary came out that shook up the media. Titicut Follies depicted life in a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane. It launched filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's Oscar-winning career. Now, it's back as...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It was supposed to be an exclusive luxury music festival on a tropical island. Instead it became a target of ridicule and a social media feeding frenzy. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The brand new Fyre Festival - that's F-Y-R-E - was suppos...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's a truce in Utah's Canyon Country between preservationists and off roaders in Recapture Canyon, which is prized for its sensitive Native American cultural sites. And as NPR's Kirk Siegler reports, the agreement there could r...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We check in each month with music maestros in public radio. Here is a sample of what they're currently playing in heavy rotation. BILL DEVILLE: I'm Bill DeVille, one of the deejays at The Current in St. Paul, Minn. And my pick is a...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: According to scout law, Boy Scouts must be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly. But do they really have to be boys? A teenager in New York City wants the Boy Scouts to grant official membership to girls, including herself. Yasmee...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: America's top diplomat says he wants direct talks with North Korea. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says this is the goal - North Korea must end up with no nuclear weapons at all. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Tillerson called for direct...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Tomorrow is President Donald Trump's hundredth day in office, and we have been taking stock of his early days in the White House. Today we turn to the generals. Donald Trump is clearly enamored with the military. He went to a mili...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's easy to just assume this as fact - as a society becomes more modern, it becomes more secular. People separate their religion from their institutions and from parts of their lives. Sociologists have a name for this idea. They...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Republicans in Congress say they are getting closer to an agreement on health care. House Speaker Paul Ryan said today we're going to go when we have the votes. It's unclear when that might be. Yesterday, lawmakers put forward an a...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump will sign an executive order tomorrow that aims to expand offshore drilling. The order will essentially try to undo actions taken by his predecessor, Barack Obama, that restricted drilling in the Arctic Pacific and...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Nearly a hundred days into his administration, President Trump has drastically reduced the flow of immigration, both legal and illegal, into the U.S. He's been able to accomplish that despite the fact that many of his signature i...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Now promising news for moms-to-be around the world. Doctors say they have found a drug that prevents deaths during childbirth. It could save tens of thousands of lives each year, especially in poor countries. NPR's Michaeleen Dou...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tonight, in Arkansas, the state plans to execute its final inmate after a string of executions before its lethal injection drugs expire. Attorneys for the condemned men have argued about their innocence, intellectual abilities, m...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Artifacts found in Southern California have puzzled scientists for years. Some now say they are proof that humans lived in the area 130,000 years ago, well before anyone thought. That would make them the oldest evidence of humans i...
