RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The warming climate means some dramatic changes - more floods, intense wildfires, extreme heat, other changes you may not notice as much. As part of our Summer Series, NPR's Nathan Rott reports from the Rocky Mountains where risi...
KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: All roads may lead to Rome. But once you get there, have fun taking the subway. The sprawling metropolis is expanding its beleaguered mass transit system, but workers keep running into ancient ruins. As Christopher Livesay found...
KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Impressive statistics can spread quickly. The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, CNN and Time magazine have all reported that Americans throw away 500 million plastic straws every day. The National Pa...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: He is a rapper, an actor, a reality show star, an entrepreneur and, in his own words, the King of the South. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WHAT YOU KNOW) CLIFFORD HARRIS: (Singing) See me in your city, sitting pretty, know I'm shining dog,...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: An Alzheimer's diagnosis can be so frightening, doctors say, that many people would rather dismiss memory problems than investigate them. As a result, experts think only about half of all cases are actually diagnosed. Recent deve...
KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Four years ago, six delegates on their way to the International AIDS Conference died in the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine. Delegates and nearly 300 other people were killed hours after their flight...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Climate change disrupts our lives in all kinds of ways, including in the icebox. It turns out, global warming is hurting global milk production. As part of our summer series on heat, Mose Buchele of member station KUT has this. (SO...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And, finally today, Oakland, Calif., means different things to different people, but for many, it's the birthplace of groundbreaking art and politics. But Oakland, like many major cities across the country, is changing. That's th...
KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Let's talk about Beowulf. It's possibly the classic Anglo-Saxon text, a thousand-year-old epic poem written about the quintessential hero - a mighty warrior who defeats the monster Grendel, his mother - a sea witch - and eventual...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: President Trump met with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday. That very same day, Chris Gagin, the Republican Party chairman for Belmont County, Ohio, resigned his post. He tweeted (reading) the president is entitled to GOP party...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Recent Hollywood productions like The Mummy, Ready Player One and Transformers: The Last Knight have done better box office in China than the U.S. That's part of the reason Asian-American actors are starting to land more leading ro...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There was a conspicuous act of bravery in this week's World Cup championship game. The French team, which won 4-2, was bold and deft. Many of their players are immigrants, or children of immigrants, from Africa. Their victory was a...
Politics In Zimbabwe Has A New Soundtrack ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Music and politics have always been intertwined, whether the song is Yankee Doodle or A Change Is Gonna Come. This week, I've been reporting on a political transformation in Zimbabwe. Rober...
Doctoral Student Compiles Database Of Indigenous Women Who've Gone Missing SCOTT SIMON, HOST: As many as 300 Indigenous women go missing under suspicious circumstances every year in Canada and the U.S. We don't know the exact number because no one ha...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We're going to turn now to Branson, Mo., where 17 people were killed when a tourist duck boat capsized in a lake during sudden foul weather. Nine of the people killed were members of the same family, the Coleman family of Indiana....
