MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, we're going to talk about a new film that brings the searing social commentary of James Baldwin to the screen. It's called If Beale Street Could Talk, and it's based on Baldwin's 1974 novel of the same name. It...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Alaska's halibut and black cod fishermen are in a food fight with killer whales. But some fishermen are now using a new piece of gear that prevents the whales from stealing their catch. From member station KBBI in Homer, Al...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte, often a harsh critic of the United States, praised Americans today as generous for returning church bells stripped by U.S. forces in 1901. The town of Balangiga celebrated...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: I do not doubt that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did all they could to try to save the life of Jakelin Caal Maquin, a 7-year-old girl from Guatemala who died in their custody. The little girl and her father were among...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSICAL, HAMILTON) AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Create and star in a blockbuster hip-hop musical, and you get to do pretty much anything you want. For Lin-Manuel Miranda, that means taking a role in the sequel to a Disney classic. (SOUNDBITE OF...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Dakota Winters isn't a novel set on frozen prairies but in the rarified precincts of maybe the most famous apartment house in New York, the Dakota on the Upper West Side, the place in which luminaries lived and, perhaps the mos...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A little boy takes his parents to court in the new film Capernaum. In Lebanon, that title means chaos, and critic Bob Mondello says that's an accurate description of the world the boy lives in. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Zain is skinny,...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Today the U.S. Department of Education is emailing about 15,000 people telling them their student loans are forgiven. And all the loans amount to $150 million. The reason for the forgiveness is in part due to a judge's order. NPR's...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When you drive around LA, it's impossible to miss the problem of homelessness. LA County has about 53,000 homeless people. That's more than any other metropolitan area in the U.S. besides New York City. ANNA SCOTT, BYLINE: So you s...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today marks a dark day in American history. It has been six years since 26 children and educators were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. The gunman later killed himself. Now a group of Sandy Hook par...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Puerto Rico, cockfighting has been a tradition for centuries. Now it's on the brink of being declared illegal. The farm bill, passed by the U.S. Congress and sent to the president's desk earlier this week, includes a provision...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's time now for StoryCorps. Today, a story about the railroad. It comes to us from Barnie Botone in Bismarck, N.D. In 1875, his ancestor, along with dozens of other Native American leaders, was taken by tra...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Some of the best stories begin at home. That's where Tony DiTerlizzi got the idea for his latest book. The Caldicott-winning author and illustrator perhaps best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles took a big leap into the unknown...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Tomorrow is the deadline to sign up for health insurance on the federal government's HealthCare.gov marketplace. So far, people are choosing health plans at a slower pace than in previous years. NPR's Alison Kodjak reports that it...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Senate is expected today to pass a resolution demanding the U.S. end its support for Saudi Arabia's ongoing war in Yemen. The bipartisan effort is being viewed as a rebuke to Saudi Arabia and the Trump administration even tho...
