NOEL KING, HOST: The new Christmas song that gets right to what this season is really about. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, SUGAR AND BOOZE) ANA GASTEYER: (Singing) I love snowmen and turtledoves in twos. Holly, ivy, mistletoe can take away my blues. Kriss Krin...
NOEL KING, HOST: Are you in the mood for a classic holiday story of comfort and joy? Well, this is not that. Years ago, the writer David Sedaris worked as a department store elf. He wrote about it in a collection of stories called the Santaland Diari...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Over the past 50 years, one of the most widely recognized holiday TV programs has been the WPIX Yule Log. In case you're unfamiliar, it has no actors and no plot. It is a seven-minute looped video of a crackling fire. Now the Yule...
NOEL KING, HOST: Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women is 150 years old. It should feel ancient, but somehow it doesn't. Somehow, it holds up. There have been many adaptations, and now there's a new movie version out on Christmas Day directed by Gret...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park can shoot water up more than 300 feet. It is the tallest active geyser in the entire world. And this year, it has erupted more times than ever before. This streak of activity has thril...
NOEL KING, HOST: At the beginning of this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was facing a lot of questions. Could she lead the Democrats? How would she handle President Trump? In 2019, there have been intraparty fights, a government shutdown, skirmishe...
Scathing Report Puts Secret FISA Court Into The Spotlight. Will Congress Act? LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Even by the secretive standards of U.S. national security, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is cloaked in mystery. It oversees governm...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Lance Corporals Blake and Schofield are two British soldiers given an uncommon mission in the midst of World War I - deliver a message that could save lives. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, 1917) COLIN FIRTH: (As General Erinmore) Your orders...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There are scores of holiday stories on streaming services this season, and a lot of them seem rolled out of the same candy cane factory - snow, smiles and the true meaning of love. As an aficionado of the form, I've tried to sketch...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Winter solstice today, the longest night of the year. And across the country, some churches offer Blue Christmas services, setting aside the tinsel and acknowledging the darkness. Deena Prichep reports from Portland, Ore. DEENA PRI...
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, LET IT SNOW) KACEY MUSGRAVES AND JAMES CORDEN: (Singing) Oh, the weather outside is frightful... SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You ever heard of TV Christmas specials - Bing, Andy, Nat, Judy, Liza, fuzzy Christmas sweaters? Well, they're bac...
SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died, and everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Today, December 21 is the shortest day of the year...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Yovanovitch, Vindman, Sondland - a few of the people who've become household names as the impeachment drama has played out. With the House vote now behind us, we wanted to catch up with another central character from the very beg...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: So it looks like there is finally a trade deal to replace NAFTA, which candidate Donald Trump had pledged to scrap. A new U.S., Mexico and Canada trade deal - USMCA - overwhelmingly passed the House yesterday. And a top national...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump gets another $1.4 billion toward building his wall from the spending bill that passed the Senate yesterday. He wants to build 450 miles of wall by Election Day. But in south Texas, that looks less and less likely....
