(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Today on StoryCorps, we are going to hear from two brothers. Russell Wadsworth is 28. Remmick is 27. They both have autism. As kids, they had trouble with social interactions, and they relied on eac...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's April, which means the college-bound students of the class of 2022 are hearing yes or no from the schools they've applied to. Increasingly, though, they're getting a maybe. That's because more and more colleges are putting s...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Sheryl Sandberg, one of the top executives of Facebook, says she had to come to grips with the reality - a building full of social media users in Moscow linked to the Russian government spread election disinformation in the Unite...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: South Korea's former president may be spending the rest of her life in jail. A Seoul court handed down a 24-year sentence to Park Geun-hye on more than a dozen abuse of power and bribery charges. That happened just hours ago. Thi...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, we still don't know if the tariff threats being lobbed back and forth by the U.S. and China will become a full-blown trade war, but farmers in the Midwest are already feeling effects from these early skirmishes. Earlier...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today, the U.S. Center for SafeSport banned a former Olympic taekwondo coach from the sport. The organization found Jean Lopez guilty of sexual misconduct against athletes. In some cases, those athletes were minors. Reporter Alex...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The opioid crisis continues to ravage many communities in the U.S., so much so that the U.S. surgeon general says Americans should be as prepared to handle an opioids overdose as they would be to administer CPR. Today, the surgeo...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Black students and students with disabilities are disproportionately disciplined in America's public schools. That is the conclusion of a sweeping new review by an important government watchdog. And NPR's Cory Turner has more...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right. To another story now, a story involving the number 87 million. Facebook says that's the number of people whose information may have been improperly shared with the political data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Th...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Video of the death of Stephon Clark in Sacramento has rekindled anger over police shootings of unarmed people. Some are asking whether the protests and media attention of the last few years really made any difference in how p...
KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: In 2015, two children, ages 10 and 6, were walking home alone from a park in Silver Spring, Md. They were picked up by police and held by child protective services. Their parents were charged with neglect. But they were supporter...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to return now to our series on pivotal events from 1968 and a violent confrontation that happened on this day. It set events in motion that led to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn. Collecti...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning, I'm David Greene. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, DREAMS) FLEETWOOD MAC: (Singing) Thunder only happens when it's raining. GREENE: Thunder only happens when it's raining, or apparently, when Twitter goes crazy over a meme. This...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: When ISIS started expanding its hold on Iraq and Syria a few years ago, tens of thousands of foreign fighters went to join the caliphate - and not only fighters. In Norway, two teenage girls decided to leave their family for Syri...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In Europe, if you find a webpage about you and you don't like it either because it says something not true or because it's too personal, you can make Google hide it from the search results. It is the law. Google has done this...
