DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have some exclusive reporting from NPR to bring you this morning. For years, the U.S. government has tried to entice promising college students to become teachers in schools that serve lots of low-income families. They've done...
NOEL KING, HOST: The curtain rises today on Act 2 of extreme partisan gerrymandering, a play in three acts currently onstage at the U.S. Supreme Court. NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg updates the plotline of the biggest legal controv...
NOEL KING, HOST: Good morning. I'm Noel King. There are certain things that are really fun as long as you're really good at them. Karaoke - if you've got a beautiful voice, you probably love it. If you're tone-deaf like me, singing in public is a nig...
(SOUNDBITE OF DAN ROMER'S NOW THAT THIS OLD WORLD IS ENDING) ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The award-winning composer Dan Romer is best known for scoring TV shows and films like Beasts Of The Southern Wild. Recently his career took a turn from movies to video g...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un, is not known to have left his country on an overseas trip until this week. He went where North Korean leaders normally go for their first foreign visits, neighboring China. And he did it in...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: City leaders in Baltimore estimate that nearly a quarter of people there lack access to healthy food. Many go to mini-marts for groceries where prices can be high and fresh produce scarce. Now the Salvation Army is trying to fill t...
NOEL KING, HOST: Voters in the U.S. have not always seen women and men as equals in politics. Research has shown that women running for office have to work extra hard to be seen as likable and to prove their qualifications. But in a year when women a...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have reported here before on a conflict between Christian conservatives and supporters of LGBT rights. Religious colleges can be a battleground in that struggle. Many of those schools hold to a belief that marriage is only for...
NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump has said that he wants to testify in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. He may also have to testify in two pending lawsuits. Trump has a long history of suing and being sued. And as a result, he's...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The 1973 kidnapping of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty's grandson in Italy was the subject of the recent movie All The Money In The World. Now it's the center of a new TV series called Trust. It debuted yesterday on FX. NPR TV critic Eric...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This next story takes us inside a dystopian thriller called The Walk. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SHAPIRO: It's a tale of mistaken identity, terrorism and a life or death mission to walk across Scotland. The format is unusual. The Walk is...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: You know, there seems to be a smartphone app for everything. You need a taxi, you use a ride-sharing app. You want food, you have delivery apps that are a dime a dozen. Well, now access to birth control is a few clicks away. Onlin...
NOEL KING, HOST: The CIA does not often speak publicly, which makes sense. It's the CIA. But when it comes to recruiting, the agency can't seem to stop talking. NPR's Greg Myre went to CIA headquarters and brought back this story. GREG MYRE, BYLINE:...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Judd Apatow was just a kid when he saw the comedian who would change his life. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, THE TONIGHT SHOW) JOHNNY CARSON: Would you welcome Garry Shandling? GREENE: He was watching The Tonight Show. (SOUNDBITE OF TV S...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Today marks the anniversary of the deadliest industrial disaster in New York City history. In 1911, 146 garment workers - most of them immigrants - lost their lives in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The fire devastat...
