DAVID GREENE, HOST: The town of Ferryland in Newfoundland, Canada, has a visitor that seems to be staying for a while. It is a massive iceberg that floated south and ran aground just off the coast. And when I say massive, I mean, this thing is huge....
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The United States Supreme Court is busy this week with a ninth justice, Neil Gorsuch, on the bench. Today, the court hears arguments in a Missouri case with the potential to open state coffers for aid to parochial schools. Like M...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This weekend, France holds the first round of its presidential election. DAVID GREENE, HOST: The future of Europe is set to be on the line. One candidate, Marine Le Pen, opposes immigration and more broadly opposes the European U...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Today's federal income tax deadline has triggered new calls for President Trump to reveal his taxes as other presidents have done. Trump has repeatedly refused to do so, saying he is under an IRS audit. As NPR's Jim Zarroli repor...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: People who have recently fled the Iraqi city of Mosul are sharing stories that reveal just how dangerous life has gotten there. Some 300,000 people are trapped in areas of the city held by ISIS and now under siege by Iraqi securi...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Thirty years ago today, TV watchers met one of America's most enduring families, The Simpsons. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, THE TRACEY ULLMAN SHOW) JULIE KAVNER: (As Marge Simpson) Hold on, all of you. There's no need to slurp your sou...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An evangelical Christian group is trying again to offer an alternative girls magazine. The group Focus on the Family once published Brio. It positioned itself as a more wholesome alternative to magazines like Seventeen and Teen V...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has been at the forefront of progressive politics over the last year. She sparred with Donald Trump on Twitter. She was reprimanded by Republicans on the Senate floor earlier this year. Our...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: James Forman Jr. may change the way you think about the mass incarceration of African-Americans on drug charges. Foreman is a law professor at Yale who used to be a public defender in Washington, D.C. He's also the son of a famou...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Many immigrants living in the United States illegally are not in hiding. Hundreds of thousands check in with federal authorities on a regular basis. Past administrations considered them a low priority for deportation. Now that onc...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: One of the biggest names in retail a century ago was Sears, Roebuck Company. Sears was the amazon.com of its time, a booming innovator that spread merchandise and dreams across the country by mail order and department stores. Now,...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now we have a story of an unplanned experiment that is underway in the northern Rocky Mountains. Spring is arriving earlier there. And it's generally warmer and drier than before. And that is messing with some of the fish that liv...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now we have a real-world experiment in how to attack drug addiction. Many parts of the United States are fighting the spread of opioids or heroin. Portugal fought its own drug problems differently. That country decriminalized dru...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The chief of the Office of Government Ethics says his small staff has been inundated with questions and complaints about the Trump administration, but there's only so much his office can do. It coaches officials on how to obey et...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Neil Gorsuch took his seat on the nation's highest court today. He quickly proved himself to be an active, persistent questioner. NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reports. NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: Gorsuch emerged fro...
