ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And for more on the Trump administration's reaction to the chemical weapons attack in Syria, we're joined now by NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith. Hi, Tam. TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: Hi. SIEGEL: What has President Trump actu...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Even with all the VA clinics and hospitals, that $180 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, even with all those resources, the day-in-and-day-out care of disabled veterans often falls to their own family mem...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Even with all the VA clinics and hospitals, that $180 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, even with all those resources, the day-in-and-day-out care of disabled veterans often falls to their own family mem...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Attorney General Jeff Sessions is calling for a big change at the Justice Department. He wants federal authorities to approach local police in a different way. Rather than investigate cases of local wrongdoing, Sessions wants to...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here in the United States, some prison guards are defending the use of solitary confinement. It's been controversial for centuries. As long ago as 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, was shocked to le...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's hear the way President Trump's emerging border policy looks from the U.S.-Mexico border. On this day when a Senate committee in Washington considers plans for more border walls, we visit Nogales, Ariz., and its sister city...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: People in Ferguson, Mo., will vote to choose a mayor tomorrow. It's the town's first mayoral election since 2014. And that was the year a white police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old black man, Michael Brown. Then there we...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump will have his first face-to-face meeting with China's president this week. Front and center in that conversation will be what to do about the growing threat from North Korea. For more than two decades, the U.S. ha...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The dangers of obesity are well known. The dangers of carrying a little extra weight, though, are the subject of more debate. NPR's Patti Neighmond reports that a new study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine s...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: If the story of Russian influence in the 2016 election makes you uneasy, Clint Watts will not make you feel much better. The former FBI agent is now a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He testified before th...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The death last year of this musical great is no less shocking with the passage of time. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, POP LIFE) PRINCE: (Singing) Pop life, everybody needs a thrill. MARTIN: Prince's music is known and loved, though the man...
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO: (Speaking Russian). ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the Russian poet who was known for speaking out against anti-Semitism and the Soviet Union. He died over the weekend at age 83. NPR's...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: If you've been around long enough, you have seen this book - black cover, blocky white letters, instructions for making your own explosives inside. The Anarchist Cookbook was first published 45 years ago. And it comes with this w...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Last month, a car using self-driving features crashed with a human driver. That accident in Tempe, Ariz., did not result in any major injuries, but it did highlight new issues for the auto insurance industry. NPR's Yuki Noguchi a...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Have you ever seen one of those amazing wildlife photos of an owl swooping in - wings stretched out, coming, like, straight at the camera right at you? Well, how in the world did a photographer get that shot? Turns out, they used...
