DAVID GREENE, HOST: City planners can play a role in the effort to slow down climate change. How? Well, for one thing, they can create neighborhoods and transit systems that let people live without cars. For one city manager here in California, thoug...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Despite mounting evidence and a stream of dire warnings, federal regulators and mining companies failed to protect coal miners from toxic dust. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: NPR and the PBS series Frontline spent more than a year lookin...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Trump administration has come under fire for holding a record 15,000 migrant children in shelters across the country and for long delays in releasing those children to relatives. Today NPR has learned that the Department of Hea...
ICE Detained The Wrong Peter Brown MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Every year, dozens of U.S. citizens are detained because they're thought to be immigrants in the country illegally. In the Florida Keys, one such U.S. citizen filed a lawsuit after being det...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So here's a question - what do you do when a medical device fails? And when it fails, who pays for it - the manufacturer, the hospital? Or are you stuck with the bill? Well, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal from our partner Kaiser Health N...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Oyster harvests along the Gulf Coast have been in decline for decades now. Actually, this year, Alabama canceled its season because there were so few oysters. NPR's Greg Allen reports that help may be on the way thanks to millions...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Two reports out today provide the clearest picture yet of the extent to which Russia went to influence voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The reports focus on a Russian troll factory's use of nearly every major social...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: So as we just heard, it's still unclear at this point how a shutdown can be avoided since most lawmakers are out of town until later in the week. Even a partial shutdown of the government could have widespread impact. It could affe...
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today the Senate considers a bill to reduce federal sentences for some drug offenses. It is also meant to prepare inmates for life after prison. Supporters say this bill would not have made it this far without a surprising suppor...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Doctors are solving health mysteries for families who've run out of options. These specialists across the country form what is called the Undiagnosed Disease Network. This sounds almost like a television drama, but this is very r...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is a tense time to travel between North America and China. A Chinese executive was arrested in Canada at the request of the United States. She is accused of fraud. Her company allegedly got banks to help it do business in Ir...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The author of a famed relationship book is rethinking his own advice. Joshua Harris wrote the book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye. More than 20 years ago, it became a bestselling text of the evangelical purity movement. That movement p...
Deep Seagrass Bed Could Stall Climate Change, If Climate Change Doesn't Kill It First MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Staying on the subject of climate change for a few more minutes, there was another bright spot this past week amid all the dire warnings we hav...
In 'Capernaum,' The Chaos Of Lebanon From A Homeless Child's Perspective LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: OK. This is the time of year when film critics announce their best of lists. Among the Hollywood titles, there is one film from the Middle East that r...