RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It seems like we've been hearing a lot about unsafe food these days. Just this year, there have been recalls for romaine lettuce, some varieties of the snack Goldfish and a Taco Bell-brand queso dip. McDonald's stopped selling sa...
In Germany, Construction Has Begun On Controversial New Russian Gas Pipeline RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A new pipeline that will allow Russia to increase its natural gas exports to Europe is ruffling feathers in Europe and in the U.S. President Donald Trum...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There are parades, and then there are parades. In Pyongyang today, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, in attendance, they laid on quite a show. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly was there. MARY LOUISE KELLY, BYLINE: This is Kim Il...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Geneva Robertson-Dworet is one of the rarest things in Hollywood - a female superhero screenwriter. Her resume includes Tomb Raider and the upcoming Captain Marvel. She's a breakout success in a billion-dollar industry that...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: People from across the country gathered this weekend in a small North Carolina manufacturing town to celebrate Bigfoot. The first-ever Bigfoot Festival in Marion, N.C., brought everyone out from Sasquatch skeptics to yeti e...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the book Ordinary People, the latest novel by Diana Evans, two sets of friends - 30-something, black Londoners - navigate friendship and relationships and parenthood during pivotal moments of the early 2000s. Evans borro...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Switching gears here. OK, so the summer travel season is behind us, but Thanksgiving is going to be here soon enough. So air travelers, listen up. There is new information that could save you from catching a cold on your trip. As...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Over the last five years, the United States has seen a steep increase in sexually transmitted diseases - 2.3 million Americans now have some form of STD. One county in Oregon is asking people diagnosed with the more serious forms t...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Rick Pitino has an amazing record in college basketball. He led three different schools - Providence, Kentucky and Louisville - to the Final Four championship series. He's a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. But Rick Pitino wa...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Bobi Wine says the people who tortured him in an ambulance last month unscrewed an overhead light bulb to hide the beatings from the press. Bobi Wine is a politician and a pop star in Uganda, where he's been an outspoken critic of...
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED SINGER: (Singing) There she is, Miss America... SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's been a year of change for the Miss America pageant. For one thing, it's no longer called a pageant. These days, Miss America is bil...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Burt Reynolds has died at the age of 82. He played a man on a hunting trip gone wrong in Deliverance. He played an unstoppable beer smuggler in Smokey And The Bandit. Bob Mondello offers an appreciation. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: The...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today we begin a new series with our friends The Kitchen Sisters, producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson - stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians, keepers of the...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There was a time when journalist April Ryan was just another face in the crowd at the White House press briefing room. She started covering the White House for American Urban Radio Networks more than 20 years ago. And she looks b...
Ex-Trump Aide Papadopoulos, 1st Charged In Russia Probe, Sentenced To 14 Days ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Today brought a milestone in the Russia investigation. A federal judge in Washington handed down a sentence for George Papadopoulos. He was the first per...
