SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Lillian Barnes and Harold Holland got married in 1955. They had five kids together, but after a dozen years, they divorced. Both Barnes and Holland remarried and spent decades apart. After both their spouses passed away in 2015, t...
SCOTT DETROW, HOST: On a growing number of dairy farms, people don't decide when the cows need to be milked. The cows do. That's because farmers have called in robots to do the milking - day or night. And for some families - the ones that run small d...
SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In Southern California, many homeowners are still digging out of the mud more than two months after a deadly 30-square-mile debris flow slammed into their homes. But as Stephanie O'Neill reports from Montecito, each weekend, hundr...
SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Joe Paterno's fall from grace was swift, sudden and completely unexpected. In November 2011, the Penn State coach set the record for the most wins in the history of Division 1 college football. Then less than two weeks later, it a...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This week, the city of Escondido north of San Diego became the latest in Southern California to pass a resolution condemning California's sanctuary law. That law aims to protect some immigrants in the country illegally by limitin...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The very first page of Meg Wolitzer's new book describes a chance meeting between two women. One is very young, 18, a freshman on a college campus where the other, who's in her 60s, a famous feminist, has come to give a talk....
SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In any political season, you'll hear some reference to suburban women. In the past, they've been called soccer moms and security moms, among other things. And it's all code for a similar voting bloc. This year, with many key House...
SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Louisiana's shrinking coasts face a new threat. In addition to sinking land, sea level rise and erosion, a tiny bug from the other side of the ocean is killing off marshes. This week the state issued an emergency quarantine. Travi...
As Border Crossings Tick Up, Migrants Bring Children, Take More Dangerous Routes AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The number of immigrants illegally crossing the southern border plummeted when Donald Trump took office, but the number is again on the rise. In res...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump has started filling in the details about his plan to send the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump says he would like to see 2,000 to 4,000 Guard troops sent to back up the U.S. Border Patrol. Now,...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: White evangelicals helped fuel Donald Trump's run to the White House, but now there are increasing concerns among some evangelical leaders about sex scandal allegations swirling around the president. They are worried that they cou...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: As part of their campaign against gun violence, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have been pushing members of Congress to hold town halls. Last night, some of the Parkland students brought their Never Again movem...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Immigration courts are so overwhelmed that their backlog is approaching 700,000 unresolved cases. Unlike other courts, immigration judges report to the attorney general, and Jeff Sessions wants to impose quotas on them to tackle...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Immigration authorities have detained more than 500 pregnant women since December. That's when the Trump administration ended a practice of releasing most pregnant women while their immigration cases are pending. The move, made p...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Little pop quiz here. What movie comes to mind if I say, is butter a carb or she doesn't even go here? Or there's this classic. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, MEAN GIRLS) LACEY CHABERT: (As Gretchen Wieners) That is so fetch. RACHEL MCADAMS:...
