ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Over the long weekend, a lot of people saw Black Panther. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, BLACK PANTHER) LETITIA WRIGHT: (As Shuri) Hey, look at your suit. You've been taking bullets, charging it up with kinetic energy. SHAPIRO: It broke box o...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We're going to take the next few minutes to talk about our own organization. NPR's board of directors has released an outside report that looks at a sexual harassment scandal involving NPR's former top news executive Mike Oreskes....
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In the fall of 2008, an Indiana woman named Omega Young got a letter saying she needed to recertify for the state's public benefits program. VIRGINIA EUBANKS: But she was unable to make the appointment because she was suffering fro...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Among the Oscar nominees for best picture, Lady Bird stands out not just because it's directed by a woman, the actress Greta Gerwig - also because compared to the others - Dunkirk, Get Out or Shape Of Water - its story is deceptive...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Those students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School also have their eye on Congress. They're planning a big gun control rally in Washington next month. They've received a lot of praise from around the country, but as North Cou...
(SOUNDBITE OF WHALE CALL) ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Many animals that live in the ocean communicate with sound, like this humpback whale. (SOUNDBITE OF WHALE CALL) SHAPIRO: But these voices could soon be drowned out by powerful sonic booms set off in the oc...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, now more on a disease that maybe you've never heard of. It's called lymphedema. It can occur whenever lymph nodes are removed to stop the spread of cancer, and it's most common among breast cancer patients. NPR's Patti...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When fighters for ISIS abandoned their capital, they left behind a deadly parting gift. Islamic State fighters salted that city, Raqqa, with explosive booby traps. Now, young Syrian men are training to remove them. NPR's Tom Bowm...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Health experts would really like to vaccinate more young people against the virus called HPV, which can cause certain cancers. The vaccine was first introduced many years ago, but a new analysis from the Blue Cross Blue Shield As...
'He's Not A Leading Man': A Casting Director On Rembrandt's Self-Portraits DAVID GREENE, HOST: Los Angeles is pretty star struck these weeks before the Oscars, as usual. But over in nearby Pasadena, a crowd of art lovers is visiting this 400-plus-yea...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to start the program today in South Florida, where something remarkable is happening. In Parkland, the scene of that school shooting last week that left 17 people dead, the kids are organizing. High school students wh...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Four days ago, we received word about another one of those stories that we hate to report and you hate to hear - 17 people, many of them teenagers, were killed in a school shooting. And as journalists, I have to be honest with yo...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: At the Olympics, North and South Korea made headlines for making nice, but South Korea's relations have cooled with an ally, Japan. NPR's Elise Hu reports on the backdrop to a rivalry. (SOUNDBITE OF 2018 OLYMPIC GAMES) UNIDENTIFI...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Trump administration wants to dramatically cut funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That's the agency created after the financial crisis to protect Americans from abuse by financial firms. Elizabeth Warren an...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When a Navajo baby is born it's custom to bury the umbilical cord in the ground. The Navajo believe the ritual ties the child to the land forever. But a new generation are defying this belief as more young people leave the...
