MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Let's turn now to a mystery that has taken scientists more than 150 years to solve. It involves the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and a skeleton. NPR's Scott Greenstone has the story. SCOTT GREENSTONE, BYLINE: In 1852, w...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: You may recognize our next guest from her role as Rue in the movie The Hunger Games. Amandla Stenberg made her mark as the smart sidekick to Katniss Everdeen played by Jennifer Lawrence. Stenberg is also making her mark outsi...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: There is no better, faster way to start a barstool argument with another sports fan than to trot out a list of the world's greatest teams. That's a line from the new book The Captain Class. The author is Sam Walker, and he se...
Soul Queen Of New Orleans Has Been Performing On Mother's Day For 35 Years MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Well, Happy Mother's Day to all you moms and grand-moms out there. Today tends to be a day of traditions - breakfast in bed, maybe a nice brunch. In N...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Russia, one of the most enduring legacies of Communist rule is a housing stock that was often hastily built, long-neglected and now falling into various stages of dilapidation. Earlier this year, Moscow's mayor, who's a close...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Stay seated - three, two, one, ignition. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WOW IN THE WORLD) UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Get ready for an adventure of magnificent proportions. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WOW IN THE WORLD) THE POP UPS: (Singing) I don't know...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And we turn now to Alaska, where providing health care means overcoming a lot of hurdles - fickle weather that can leave patients stranded, for one, and complicated geography. Many Alaskan villages have no roads connecting th...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: To California now where there's a new wave of Chicano art on the streets and in galleries. Chicano art was born during the political unrest of the 1960s and '70s, and it has bubbled along ever since. But as Rachael Myrow of m...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Now this Mother's Day, a story about mothers on a mission. They were united in grief after losing children in accidents involving large trucks. They're pushing Congress to toughen truck safety standards, hoping to save othe...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Simone Schmidt is a Canadian singer-songwriter who does solo work under the name Fiver. Her latest album is an ambitious project, a novelistic undertaking to tell the stories of real people who were committed to an institut...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's springtime and hiking season. For Israelis, hiking has long been a popular pastime. It's an expression of national identity, exploring the land. Hiking is also gaining popularity among Palestinians for similar reasons....
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to focus now on one particular change that's coming as part of this U.S.-China trade deal, the idea that U.S. will import cooked chicken from China. And joining us to talk more about it is Maria Godoy. She's editor of...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's been just about 50 years since Otis Redding died. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, SHAKE) OTIS REDDING: (Singing) Shake - let me hear the whole crowd. Shake - everybody sing it. Shake - a little bit louder, shake... SIMON: Otis Redding ign...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Brockmire is back. Jim Brockmire, the beloved old voice of the Kansas City Royals baseball team, who became one of the first Internet sensations 10 years ago when he shared the shock of a profound personal embarrassment without dro...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Jeffrey Tambor is a star at an age which a lot of other stars have already burned out. He's been a professional working actor since the early '70s. He's done Shakespeare and Avis commercials, Hollywood Squares and La Cage Aux Folle...
