STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We go next to California's Central Valley. It's an agricultural region, the source of half the fruit, nuts and vegetables eaten in America, and also home to Congressman Devin Nunes. But ag policy is not what drives his national p...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Rural Americans say drug abuse and addiction, including opioid addiction, are the most urgent health problems facing their communities. That's according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harva...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's not every day that scientists announce a new season. But that's what ocean researchers just did on the west coast. They say waters off Oregon, Washington and California now have a whole season when the oxygen level on...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And once again, we are broadcasting today from WHYY in Philadelphia. That is where we were when we got the terrible news of the shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh this morning. And this in a week when two people were killed in...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's hard to remember a world before Harry Potter. The children's book series is a juggernaut that spawned a film series, a theme park, a Broadway play, a museum exhibit. ROBERTA OLSON: You enter the portal to Hogwarts. We...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Before authorities apprehended a suspect in the mail bomb spree, the case prompted all kinds of speculation about the motivations that could be behind it. Here's what a talk radio host, Michael Savage, had to say. (SOUNDBITE OF RAD...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The duo of Bob Cousy and Bill Russell was one of the greatest. They were the Tracy and Hepburn, the Rocky and Apollo of the basketball court. They could anticipate each other's play. They could put themselves into each other's mind...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Halloween is near, so how about a spooky story about a violin? (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SIMON: This piece of music is from the 1930s. It's called Hobgoblin or The Witch Of Harlem. It was written by a pretty unknown composer named Audre...
Feds Charge Florida Man With Mailing Improvised Bombs To Trump Political Critics ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Four days after suspicious packages began arriving in the mail for prominent Democrats and critics of President Trump, a suspect is in custody. (SOUND...
A Brutal Lynching And A Possible Confession, Decades Later SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A young man named Emmett Till was lynched in August of 1955 in the small town of Money, Miss. He was 14 years old, an African-American boy from Chicago who was visiting his...
NOEL KING, HOST: Across the Midwest, it's grain harvesting time. And this year, there are three big problems. One is wet fields, two, low crop prices exacerbated by a trade war that decimated the Chinese market for soybeans, and third, some twists fr...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Megyn Kelly and her NBC morning talk show may soon be off the air. Kelly was hired away from Fox News in 2017 with much fanfare and a big paycheck. Yet her time at the network has seen some controversy, including comments she mad...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Lynsey Addario was going to be a photographer no matter what. The first time she went to Afghanistan, she was 27. Addario didn't have an assignment. She just knew she wanted to photograph women and life under the Taliban. In...
Pritzker Breaks Campaign Finance Record, Annoys Illinois With $80 Million Of Ads AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's official. J.B. Pritzker has contributed more money to his own campaign than any other candidate in history. The Democrat is running for governo...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So in the final season of the hit Netflix series House Of Cards, Francis Underwood is dead, and the spotlight now turns to Claire Underwood, the first woman president of the United States. She's played by Robin Wright. (SOUNDBITE...
