RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The school walkouts that happened yesterday around the country channeled an intense feeling of anger and frustration for a lot of young people. A month after 17 people died in the Parkland, Fla., shooting, students walked out of...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist who likes to explore private, secret lives. His characters are often gay men, sometimes living in an earlier era when they wouldn't use the word gay to describe themselves. Hollinghurst won...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. I want you to consider these objects - an American flag, a target and a number. Would you ever think to make paintings of them? Well, the American artist Jasper Johns did that. And now six decades of his work are on vie...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the most famous scientists of our time has died. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist whose early work on black holes transformed how scientists think about the nature of the universe. But his fame wasn't just a res...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: And now a true crime story that involves a theft, an anonymous tip and a very special tuba. (SOUNDBITE OF TUBA MUSIC) SHAPIRO: That is the missing tuba - a sousaphone, to be exact. Here's its owner to tell us about his instrument,...
Trump Replacing Secretary Of State Tillerson With CIA Director Mike Pompeo ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Today began with a bang - or rather, a tweet. President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Trump later explained that it was because of a lack of...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now to Ethiopia where recently, hundreds of blind people arrived at a remote hospital. They were hoping for a miracle, the ability to see again. For a week, the hospital compound held a campaign to remove cataracts, the world's lea...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: A man who dressed some of the most glamorous women in the world has died. Hubert de Givenchy died at 91. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, he helped import French couture to America partly by way of Hollywood. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, SAB...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: President Trump also is setting up a commission on school safety. He's asked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to lead it. It will look at everything from arming teachers to age restrictions on gun purchases to video game violence...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. If you haven't been an avid exerciser, never fear. It's not too late, necessarily. A recent study shows that if you take up routine exercises even in late middle age, you can actually reverse some of the damage that a...
NOEL KING, HOST: Here at home, the Trump administration is moving to limit who gets asylum in the U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is using his authority to reshape the law on who qualifies for asylum. Advocates for immigrants' rights warn that th...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the fashion world's most famous designers has died. Hubert de Givenchy styled some of the world's most fashionable women, icons like Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy and Princess Grace of Monaco. NPR's Paris correspondent El...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The writer Junot Diaz wanted to publish a children's book for more than 20 years. In the meantime, he stayed busy. He wrote several grown-up books, including The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He al...
Trump's Plan To Secure Schools Calls For Arming Teachers, Improving Background Checks RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Almost one month after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed, the White Hous...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is The Call-In. (SOUNDBITE OF CORDUROI'S MY DEAR) MONTAGNE: These past few days saw changes to our gun regulations on both the national and the local level. In Florida, Governor Rick Scott signed a package of new gun regula...
