DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, the relationship between Washington and Islamabad has already been pretty tense, and now this. The Pentagon says it is going to suspend $300 million in aid to Pakistan. The Pentagon says Islamabad is just not doing enou...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Ordinarily, we wouldn't be bringing you news of a local school board election, but this one has special resonance. This past Tuesday, Lori Alhadeff of Parkland, Fla., was elected to the Broward County School Board. Her 14-year-ol...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: It turns out that fall has become the most popular season for weddings. And one reason could be that rising temperatures have made summer nuptials a little sticky. As part of our series on heat, NPR's Adelina Lancianese looks int...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A weeklong tribute for the Queen of Soul came to a close in Detroit yesterday. Thousands turned out for Aretha Franklin's funeral at Greater Grace Temple to celebrate a superstar and her musical legacy. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: For centuries, scientists and amateur botanists scoured the country to document and preserve plant species. Their findings were prized like fine art. Now there's a new effort to digitize these collections, a treasure trove for re...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And now let's go to Philadelphia, the first capital of the United States, and retrace the steps of a lesser-known but fascinating Founding Father, a Benjamin who does not have his face on the $100 bill. His name is Benjamin Rush....
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: In the new documentary film Minding the Gap, we see a message hand-painted on a smashed skateboard. It says, This device cures heartache. There's a lot of heartache in this movie. And if skateboarding doesn't cure it, it offers a...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Close to 10,000 protesters descended upon the small East German city of Chemnitz today, sparked by the stabbing death a week ago of a German man allegedly by two Middle Eastern asylum-seekers. The demonstration raised new concern...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We are going to end this program where we started it - by remembering a towering figure from American life. On Friday, the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit embodied the spirit, the fierceness and the joy of Aretha Franklin. Thousa...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Republicans, Democrats, soldiers, sports stars, celebrities, conservatives and liberals are among John McCain's pallbearers. So is Vladimir Kara-Murza. John McCain called him a personal hero whose courage, selflessness and idealism...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In June of 2017, Nicole Smith-Holt lost her 26-year-old son Alec when he couldn't afford the insulin he needed to treat his diabetes. Since his death, Smith-Holt has been vocal about the rising price of insulin, which has more than...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Four transgender women have been shot this year in Jacksonville, Fla. Three of the women died. There's been an outcry over how police have handled the cases. And as Lindsey Kilbride from member station WJCT reports, the sheriff's d...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The line of immigrants applying to become U.S. citizens has become longer. There's been a backlog of citizen applications for years, but it has increased dramatically since President Trump took office. As NPR's Richard Gonzales rep...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Drew Calver has had a week. He's the high school teacher who after a heart attack was rushed to St. David's hospital near his home in Austin, Texas. Later he got a bill for more than a hundred thousand dollars. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: T...
German Farmers Struck By Drought Fear Further Damage From Climate Change ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In Germany, there have been record-high temperatures and no rainfall since early April, and that has led to a drought. Thousands of farms are now facing bankr...
