ROBERT GARCIA, HOST: What's up, everybody? Please - just heads up. There may be some strong language in this episode - ooh (ph). ADRIAN BARTOS, HOST: Some bad words. EDGARDO MIRANDA-RODRIGUEZ: I identified in a funny way with Spiderman because he was...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Jury selection is beginning today in Chicago in the trial for a white police officer accused of killing the Laquan McDonald, a black 17-year-old. This trial is getting underway just a week after a case in Texas where th...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Top executives from Facebook and Twitter are here in town today with some important meetings. They're going before House and Senate committees on Capitol Hill, and they will be grilled again about what social media companies coul...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Congressman Michael Capuano, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has been in office for nearly two decades. He's pretty popular at home, and yet he could not win his primary race yesterday. Ayanna Pressley beat him. It was yet another...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: I'm David Greene in Culver City, Calif., not far from where I met Viola Davis the other day. The actress was working on her ABC show How To Get Away With Murder. It was an insanely busy day of shooting, and yet she found some time...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has begun dramatically. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) AMY KLOBUCHAR: We believe this hearing should be postponed. CHUCK GRASSLEY: I know this is an exciting day for a...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Florida gubernatorial election has started out with issues of race at the center. The morning after the primary last week, Republican nominee Ron DeSantis told voters not to monkey up the state by electing his Democratic oppo...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: This summer, the Trump administration decided to remove Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears. They spent more than four decades on the threatened list, and now the government says they are safe. The Mon...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Being a victim of child sexual abuse can affect a person's entire life from health and relationships to spirituality. And the loss of income can be enormous. We're going to consider those long-term monetary costs by looking at th...
Rise Of LGBTQ Candidates Could Usher In A 'Rainbow Wave' In 2018 DAVID GREENE, HOST: Democrats have a lot of diverse candidates running this year. There's a record number of women, African-Americans and Native Americans running in some high-profile r...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: There was an age growing up when my mom let me go anywhere on the block by myself so long as I did not cross the street. A bit later, I could ride my bike about as far as I could go. Surely, many kids still grow up that way, but...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Syrian refugees who are in Lebanon need all the help they can get. But now they're getting it from a group of anti-immigration extremists from Germany. This group's help comes with a catch. For them, it's part of an effort to keep...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Nowhere Boy is a young adult novel about Ahmed, a Syrian refugee whose father dies on the journey to Europe. Ahmed and his father were originally trying to get to England, but now, as an orphan alone in Brussels, that dream fades....
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, consumers who buy their insurance through the Affordable Care Act markets might be pleasantly surprised about their premium costs come this fall. The price of premiums could actually drop in several states, as NPR's Ali...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: There is a big divide between older Americans who are ready for retirement and those who don't quite have the money. Our colleague Marilyn Geewax retired from her post as an NPR business editor, and then she attended her 45th hig...