RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All week on the program, we're taking a look at school choice. Today we're going to meet two special needs families in Florida. President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have repeatedly touted the state as a national mo...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The famous Renaissance painting Birth Of Venus has truly proven itself to be timeless. The image of the nude goddess on a clamshell has been appropriated and satirized countless times since the original was painted 500 years ago. T...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The state of Texas excluded Planned Parenthood in 2011 from its women's health program. That meant foregoing millions of dollars in federal Medicaid money. More than 80 women's health clinics, most of them not Planned Parenthood,...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Two cybersecurity firms say they have found some technical similarities between the WannaCry ransomware and earlier attacks from hackers in North Korea, though they are not calling these clues proof that North Korea is behind the...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: It's been quite a whirlwind the last few days for Microsoft. That company's operating system, Windows, was the target of a massive cyberattack that took down hundreds of thousands of computers across 150 countries. While it's too...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse shares something in common with President Trump. Both are serving in elected office for the very first time, but the similarities pretty much end there. Before his election in 2014, Sasse was a federal h...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Federal investigators are looking into banking records to examine the ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. One thing they're looking for is evidence of money laundering. Now, U.S. officials keep records of suspicious finan...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Alex Tizon carried a secret his entire life. It's one he wrote about in a new cover story in The Atlantic called Lola's Story. Tizon wrote, quote, She lived with my family for 56 ye...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Tax cuts for individuals as well as businesses are still very much a live issue in Washington. President Trump wants both, but economists are worried his plan could push up annual deficits and the country's overall debt. As NPR's...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Colorado is reviewing its oil and gas operations after a house blew up last month, killing two people. A pipe from a nearby oil and gas well had been abandoned but not properly sealed. The tragedy is prompting many questions about...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now we're going to tell you about someone who had a remarkable life. Simone de Beauvoir was a bisexual French atheist who wanted to be a nun when she was little, a pioneer feminist and prolific author who moved in elite philosoph...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The mythology of King Arthur has all the ingredients for a hit blockbuster movie - magic, romance, shirtless guys with muscles swinging swords. Guy Ritchie's newest take on the story is King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, and it's no...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Lawmakers never really stop campaigning even when they're in office. Politics and public perception dictate a lot of what they do and how they think. Our next story is an example of that. The congressman at the center of it is Re...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Preventing yawning in teenagers - and one way to do it is to take a nap at school. And there's some public high schools in New Mexico actually providing napping pods for students. Here's NPR's Patti Neighmond. PATTI NEIGHMOND, BYL...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: So obviously, teens aren't the only ones yawning. It's something everyone does - humans but also bears, bats, guinea pigs, giraffes. Yawning is common animal behavior. Here's reporter Michelle Trudeau. And no matter how interesti...
