DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now, President Trump has prayed with evangelicals at the White House. He's nominated judges to federal courts that his evangelical supporters like, and he has pleased them with his decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. N...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: 2018 has been a big year for supporters of data privacy. Europe enacted a tough law in May, and then California passed comprehensive legislation in June. And tech companies are feeling the heat, so they are working behind the scen...
NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump has boasted about the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal. And indeed, some analysts are cautiously optimistic about it. But for many Americans from farmers to factory workers, the biggest news is not what's in the deal...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: If you have trouble sleeping, well, join the club. And we all might be interested in a new study that suggests people with insomnia might find relief in a mobile phone app. There are many sleep apps out there, but as NPR's Rhitu C...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to our series on China's growing influence in the world. That influence is felt particularly strongly in Latin America, where Chinese investments are growing rapidly. It's often said that Brazil provides the food on China's d...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: More than a week after a deadly earthquake and tsunami laid waste to parts of the Indonesian city of Palu, international aid has begun arriving. And power has been restored. The death toll now exceeds 1,700. An excavation o...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The word first comes up a lot when talking about the latest album from Cat Power. It's the singer's first in six years, its first since she gave birth to a son. And it's her first since leaving her longtime record label. Bu...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There is a trade war underway between the U.S. and China, and it is a big concern to the global economy. But there's another deeper rift brewing between Washington and Beijing. And that stems from China's effort to unseat t...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We were in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, where the hospitality and gaming industries drive most of the economy, employing some 300,000 people, which is why a 2017 study predicting a massive disruption - the loss of up to...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Something's going on at the University of Washington. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Chanting) Go Huskies, go. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Jake Browning is the star quarterback for the Huskies. But get this, the...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: China is aggressively looking outward. It's investing heavily in Africa, South America, Australia and in its own hemispheric backyard, Southeast Asia. China's Belt and Road Initiative looks to link China to the world through high-s...
A Veteran Finds Relief Through Fashion: 'It Was So Much About Finding My Peace' SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Time now for StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, recording the stories of veterans and their families. Duane Topping has tattoos up and down his ar...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Alice Walker has a new collection of poems, nearly 70, about issues of the world and in her own backyard. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Color Purple, The Temple Of My Familiar and many other belov...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Some musicians arrive at their gigs in a tricked-out tour bus, others perhaps in a limo. And there's BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. He likes to arrive by paddleboat. In downtown Los Angeles, there's a popular band that l...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The protests on Capitol Hill, coming years since the advent of the #MeToo movement - the #MeToo movement began when many actresses, models, employees and others said they had sexually harassed or assaulted by Harvey Weinstein, the...
