DAVID GREENE, HOST: Scientists have taken one more small step toward understanding what makes the human brain unique. As NPR's Jon Hamilton reports, they've identified a type of brain cell that exists in people but not in rodents. JON HAMILTON, BYLIN...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The federal official in charge of protecting student borrowers from predatory lending practices stepped down this morning. In a scathing resignation letter, he says the Trump administration, quote, has turned its back on young peop...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Every month, NPR and Kaiser Health News take a close look at medical bills that you send us. And this week, you're going to be hearing the word surprise a lot. And that is never a word you actually want to hear in the same sentenc...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Catholic dioceses across Pennsylvania are still dealing with the fallout from a grand jury report that came out recently alleging widespread childhood sexual abuse in the state. Virginia Alvino Young from member station WESA has...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Trump administration's rollback of coal plant regulations last week has renewed hopes for those in the industry that some plants might stay open a little longer. The share of coal in the country's energy mix has dropped dramat...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: In Florida, a man opened fire during a video game tournament yesterday. Two people were killed, and at least nine others were wounded in this shooting before authorities say the suspect shot himself. The suspect we're told was par...
Welcome To Delaware, Home Of The $410,000 License Plate SCOTT SIMON, HOST: License plates are strictly utilitarian in most states - a number to identify a car. Some states a little artwork - oranges in Florida, a peach in Georgia - slogans like land...
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: And finally today, we'll journey into the soulful world of Rita Ekwere, aka Ray BLK. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, CHILL OUT) RAY BLK: (Singing) Oh, yeah, I told you I was trouble when we first met. But I guess you never got the message. S...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now the latest chapter in the Trump administration's defense of ending temporary protected status, or TPS, for hundreds of thousands of people living in the U.S. Newly released internal emails show the Department of Homeland Secu...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Democratic Party appears poised for a big change in the way it chooses its presidential nominees by reducing the role of party leaders known as superdelegates. The DNC has been meeting in Chicago this week. They'll vote on prop...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Here's a recipe for romantic comedy. Take two people... (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY...) MICHELLE NICASTRO: (As Amanda) Sally, this is Harry Burns. Harry, this is Sally Albright. BILLY CRYSTAL: (As Harry Burns) Nice to...
Opinion: 'National Enquirer' Publisher's CEO Could Testify About Trump And UFOs SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The reports that David Pecker, head of the company that publishes National Enquirer, received immunity to testify about those payoffs Michael Cohen han...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A River Of Stars is a kind of road story. Scarlett and Daisy, a factory worker from China and a Taiwanese-American teenager, go on the lam from the Perfume Bay, a secret home in Los Angeles where women from China are sent - by rich...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So what do you do when bad things happen to good puppets? Well, that's what Melissa McCarthy is investigating in a new movie called The Happytime Murders. She plays a detective trying to solve a string of puppet killings. (SOUNDBI...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: This week marks the one-year anniversary of what the Rohingya have begun to call the genocide. In late August of last year, Myanmar government soldiers and pro-government militias began coordinated attacks against the Rohingya Mus...
