NOEL KING, HOST: Butchers in France say they are under threat from so-called militant vegans, and they've asked the French government for protection. Butchers say what's at stake is not just the right to eat meat but a way of life. NPR's Eleanor Bear...
NOEL KING, HOST: The woman who is accused of conspiring to act as a Russian agent inside the United States will appear in court today. Her name is Maria Butina. And she's been detained since Sunday on a charge of conspiracy. Prosecutors say she was t...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Justice Department is charging a Russian woman with conspiracy as part of the attack on the 2016 presidential election. Her name is Maria Butina, and she has a hearing in court on Wednesday. We're going to talk now about where...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Now, in Helsinki yesterday, Presidents Trump and Putin also embraced restarting stalled arms control talks. For all the bad blood between the U.S. and Russia, those two nations still inspect one another's vast nuclear a...
NOEL KING, HOST: Insurance companies and data brokers are more and more often using your personal information from social media to predict your health care costs. And they are exploring ways to use that data to determine the rates that you will pay....
NOEL KING, HOST: This is a crucial time for Brazil. In a couple months, Brazilians will elect a new president. It's not clear yet who will win. The country is trying to dig out from a huge corruption scandal and the worst recession in its history. NP...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In most countries, a conversation with the director of a film festival would not be a revolutionary act. In Zimbabwe, I recently spoke with Nigel Munyati. He directs the Zimbabwean International Film and Festival Trust, and he told...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There were many astonishing moments in today's press conference with President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. One of them involved the way forward in Syria. Putin sent Russian forces into Syria about three years ago to...
Feds Charge Russian Student, Linked To NRA, With Conspiracy ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Just hours after the meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, the Justice Department had a surprise. Authorities charged a Russian graduate student with carryin...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Immigration has become a central wedge issue in American politics. And whether you identify as Republican or Democrat is a very good indicator of how you feel about the border wall, also about the travel ban and a host of other im...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: For now, were going to turn to a story about a heat wave that is affecting much of the country this summer. NPRs Allison Aubrey reports that all of this warmth can slow us down in ways we might not even realize. ALLISON AUBREY, BY...
NOEL KING, HOST: There's growing evidence that when your blood pressure goes up, so does your risk of developing dementia, so one of the country's top brain doctors is urging people to protect their brains by controlling their blood pressure. As NPR'...
NOEL KING, HOST: Last month, Los Angeles County announced that the number of homeless veterans dropped by 18 percent. Those who are seeing this firsthand say that's good news. But LA still has the highest number of homeless veterans in the country -...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: As we've heard, President Trump meets his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, tomorrow in Helsinki, Finland. Over the decades, summits between the two countries have often been filled with high tension and great drama - an...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Before there was the talk, the conversation black parents have quietly had with their sons about how to avoid violent or upsetting encounters with police, there was the talk about Emmett Till. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy fr...
