A 63-Year-Old Lifeguard LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This year's summer weather is broiling. And if you're off to the beach or pool to cool off, you might notice a different type of lifeguard on watch - seniors. And we're not talking about the high sch...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: The Island of Vieques is part of Puerto Rico, but it is set apart, too, a short distance off the big island's eastern coast. Vieques is an isolated place known for its remote beaches and for the decades during which the U.S. N...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Friends and neighbors, a new movie is making its way to your town from The Rock - Dwayne Johnson, former pro wrestler, current action movie superstar. It's called Skyscraper. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, SKYSCRAPER) DWAYNE JOHNSON: (As...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Here's something pretty wonderful. Meet actress Marsha Hunt. Now 100 years old, she was part of the golden age of Hollywood and then the golden age of live television. Off screen, she lived through the McCarthy era and survive...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Anne Tyler's latest novel is about a woman in her 60s who married young, had two children and then is widowed young. She remarries and finds her life truly changed by a phone call that was probably made in error. But, of cours...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Have you seen Nanette? That is the question I kept hearing in the hallways, reading all over social media. And then when I saw Nanette, I couldn't stop asking that question myself. Nanette is Hannah Gadsby's stand-up comedy special...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Environmental Protection Agency gets a new leader next week. Andrew Wheeler will take over as acting administrator. Of course this is because Scott Pruitt resigned yesterday amid many allegations of ethical violations. We'll ge...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Summertime brings algae blooms to many parts of the country - those mats of bright green organisms that can blanket waterways. In places like Florida's Lake Okeechobee, the blooms hurt tourism. They kill fish. They threaten w...
NOEL KING, HOST: People who are living with Alzheimer's disease need caregivers. And often, that job falls to a family member or a close friend. It is a difficult role. And now some caregivers are getting some extra support. Blake Farmer reports from...
NOEL KING, HOST: With the success of Gone Girl, the novelist Gillian Flynn helped spawn a bunch of best-selling mystery novels featuring deeply flawed women as the main character. Flynn's first novel Sharp Objects was turned down by many publishers w...
NOEL KING, HOST: And it's time now for a StoryCorps. Today marks two years since the death of Philando Castile. He was a black man killed by a police officer after being pulled over in Minnesota. To students at J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School, Cas...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Boys In The Band opened off-Broadway 50 years ago. Since then, the play has been lionized as a groundbreaking portrayal of gay life in the 1960s. But it's also been criticized for depicting attitudes that run counter to the cur...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: In a not-so-distant dystopian future, people are pitted against their neighbors one night a year. And on that night, all crime, including murder, is legal. That is the premise of an incredibly successful horror movie franchise. The...
NOEL KING, HOST: Democrats are having an identity crisis. Last week, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat New York Democrat Joe Crowley in a major upset. Ocasio-Cortez ran on a bold, progressive platform. And so now there is a lot of talk about...
NOEL KING, HOST: Ranchers are bracing to lose money as tariffs hit beef exports in the U.S. this week. Many of them still support President Trump. Anna King reports for the Northwest News Network. ANNA KING, BYLINE: When it comes to the trade wars, J...
