AILSA CHANG, HOST: In the collection of short stories called The Wrong Heaven, grim realities meet magic and absurdity. The stories are all about women wrestling with familiar dilemmas - love, death, friendship, fertility. But these familiar journeys...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: World War II movies often focus on courage under fire and battlefield heroics. But the German film The Captain takes another tack. It's set in the last moments of the Nazi regime's collapse and centers on a German deserter. Criti...
DeVos To Make It Tougher For Defrauded Students To Seek Debt Relief AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It could become harder for students who were victims of fraud to get rid of their debt. That's because of new rules proposed by the Trump administration. It says...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today the Trump administration is out with details of another piece of a campaign which is called Patients over Paperwork. Doctors would no longer have to submit detailed notes to justify longer, complicated patient visits, but t...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's not hard to conjure up how difficult life could be for women who work in prisons. Obviously, there are the long hours and the tough conditions. But female prison workers sometimes have to deal with an additional burden. We'r...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) NOEL KING, HOST: OK. It's time now for StoryCorps. Every summer, for generations, the town of Peabody, Mass., has heard the sounds of Yankee Doodle coming from the ice cream truck of Allan Ganz. Over the years, he's watched his c...
NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump has been promising that his economic policies are going to launch our economy into overdrive. He's even predicted the country will achieve about twice the growth rate of recent years, up around 4 percent sustained ann...
NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump surprised the world this week when he announced a truce on tariffs with Europe. But the administration could still slap Asia-based carmakers with tariffs on imported auto parts and vehicles. Companies like Kia, which...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: You know it's going to be a good morning when NPR science correspondent Joe Palca is here in the newsroom. Sure enough, as I was doing all this last-minute prep for the show this morning in the wee dark hours, Joe comes into the...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This coming Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department will release a report card on how the U.S. economy is doing. The second quarter gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of the most anticipated numbers this year. It's going to give...
NOEL KING, HOST: All right. Here in the U.S., when we talk about gun violence, we usually talk about homicides. But two-thirds of gun deaths in this country are caused by suicide, by people deliberately harming themselves. As North Country Public Rad...
NOEL KING, HOST: In the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms runs an academy for dogs. They're trained to detect explosives and chemical accelerants used in arson cases. A powerful senator wants the faci...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Parker Posey is not the kind of movie star who seems distant and unapproachable. Instead, people shout her most famous lines at her when they pass her on the street. PARKER POSEY: I've gotten air raid for, you know, 25 years. (SOUN...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The U.S. government is racing to meet today's court-ordered deadline to reunite migrant families. Children were separated from their parents at the border to discourage other illegal crossings. But the federal government has ackn...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now the story of two Marines whose brains may have been injured by the powerful weapons they once fired. Military scientists are investigating whether the blast waves from these shoulder-fired weapons can damage a shooter's brain....
