The NATO summit in London has exposed quite a few rifts over the role of Turkey in the alliance, for one, and President Trump's close relationship with that country and also a few personal divisions as well. For that, we turn to NPR's Frank Langfitt,...
Leaders from NATO's 29 member countries are meeting in London this morning. For 70 years, U.S. leadership has been at the core of NATO, but President Trump has questioned the value of the alliance. And so of course, many people are wondering what he...
House Democrats, led by Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, have released a 300-page report on their findings in the ongoing impeachment investigation of President Trump. As expected, the report concludes that the president used the power of...
It is a revolution. That's according to one Iraqi man quoted in The Guardian newspaper. More than 400 demonstrators have been killed in Iraq since the anti-government protests began in October. Now the country's prime minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, is s...
The people who took down a man armed with a knife on London Bridge are being called heroes. One man grabbed a narwhal tusk; another man had a fire extinguisher. Two people were killed in the attack, and several others were injured, but it could have...
For people following the news, Thanksgiving was a relatively quiet holiday. For a moment anyway, events in the world did not seem to be moving quite so swiftly as they have in recent years. In the course of the day, we learned of a possible reason wh...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When the creators of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child were working on adapting the wizarding world for the stage, they knew a lot of people had seen the Harry Potter movies. And they didn't just want to reproduce those old...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: In the new movie Uncut Gems, Adam Sandler plays a New York jeweler and gambler always out for the next score. It's a cinematic panic attack. So why, reporter Tim Greiving asks, does it feature a cosmic New Age score? TIM GREIVIN...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Ilana Glazer wants you to know she's ready to be seen as the real Ilana and not Ilana Wexler, the freewheeling character she made famous on Comedy Central's Broad City. (SOUNDBITE OF COMEDY SPECIAL, THE PLANET IS BURNING) ILANA...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: NPR's Pam Fessler has reported on efforts to fight poverty in the U.S. for over a decade. Along the way, she's seen how sometimes a single person can have the most impact. On a recent trip to Albany, N.Y., she met three men who gre...
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NOEL KING, HOST: Money is pouring into the 2020 presidential election. Now, that would likely be the case anyway, but it's especially true this time because there are two billionaires in the Democratic primary who can fund their own campaigns. One of...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The movie Uncut Gems has been getting a lot of attention, especially for Adam Sandler's performance as Howard Ratner, a New York City Diamond District jeweler who, among other things, has a marriage that is falling apart. (SOUNDBI...
NOEL KING, HOST: Banishment is a rare but serious form of punishment in Indian country. People can lose their homes, their jobs, they can't enter the reservation. It mostly happens to violent offenders or drug dealers. But on one reservation in Utah,...
NOEL KING, HOST: The 2010s in Europe started with a financial crisis that threatened to break up the European Union. In the middle of the decade, more than a million migrants from the Middle East arrived. And at the end of the decade, populist moveme...
