STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have news this morning about the American Red Cross. The charity organization acknowledges it forced out a senior executive amid allegations of sexual harassment and worse in 2012. The dismissed executive was then hired by Sav...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: This week, we have been exploring the realities of modern work. A new NPR/Marist poll found a lot of confidence in the future among American workers. A vast majority said they actually don't feel that threatened by the economic fo...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Spotify, the music streaming service, is popular and also unprofitable. And now Spotify is planning a very unconventional initial public offering. Embracing its status as an industry disruptor, Spotify's breaking with convention a...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Alabama Senator Doug Jones is in our studios. He's the Democrats who just won a special election in a deep red state. He had hardly arrived here in Washington when disputes over spending and immigration led to a brief government...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: This is a story about a standoff between the United States and North Korea. We are not talking about the current tensions over nuclear weapons. This standoff occurred 50 years ago today when North Korean forces attacked the s...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: One of the towering figures in science fiction has died, although she never really liked being called a sci-fi writer. Ursula K. Le Guin was best known for the Earthsea fantasy books and for her influential gender-bending spa...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Twenty-five years ago, it seemed all eyes were fixed on Waco. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT) WALTER RODGERS: The federal agents came under heavy and sustained fire as they approached a ranch owned by Texas religious...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Academy Award nominations were announced today. And if you're looking for an early front-runner, you could do worse than Guillermo del Toro's romantic science fiction fantasy The Shape Of Water. It led the way with 13 nominat...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Come with us on a journey inside the Earth. Well, inside a special layer in the Earth. A quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered with what's called permafrost, and for the first time in centuries, the permafrost is beginning...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We're going to hear now what it's like to be trolled by white supremacists and also how hard it is for victims to do anything about it. NPR's Kirk Siegler takes us to Whitefish, Mont. That is where neo-Nazis have aimed what they c...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we have an update now on a series we have been doing all this month. It is about online dating. And Rachel, I know that's something you know a thing or two about. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Little bit - it's true. I met my husband o...
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST: We've all experienced miscommunications. They can range from hilarious to disastrous. The actor Alan Alda - yes, that Alan Alda from M*A*S*H and The West Wing and 30 Rock - wants to help us all communicate better. (SOUNDBITE O...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow. There's a good chance the movie Get Out will be the first horror film to be nominated for best picture in nearly 30 years. The Silence Of The Lambs won back in 1992. As NPR's Neda...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: As we just heard, Get Out is getting lots of attention as a possible Oscar contender this year. The nominations come out tomorrow morning. And missing from the list will be films that at one point were considered Oscar contenders...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When the Affordable Care Act became law, the state of Oregon embraced it. As a result, some 95 percent of Oregonians now have health insurance, one of the highest rates in the nation. That's due in part to Medicaid expansion. Tod...
