LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: To Pakistan now, and the tensions with India. NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre looks at how Pakistan's alleged support for militant groups is causing major problems for the country today. GREG MYRE, BYLINE: Pak...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Drugmaker Eli Lilly has announced it will be offering a cheaper version of Humalog, its insulin drug. Humalog is one of the most widely sold insulin drugs in the United States. Between 2009 and 2017, the wholesale price of...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, let's go to Australia to check in with a singer who's making a name for herself far beyond that country's borders - Stella Donnelly. She's getting noticed for a tell-it-like-it-is style that tackles some of the...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The Moon Within is a coming-of-age story centering around 11-year-old Celi Rivera. Written in verse, the story follows Celi as she learns how to navigate puberty and everything that comes with it. Aida Salazar wrote The Moo...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Listen up, y'all. Maybe even those Yankees should start saying y'all. There's a new book, Speaking Of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function And Change Of Language where a chapter by linguistics professor Catherine Davies includ...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The U.S. government spends billions of dollars each year helping households recover after disasters such as the tornadoes this past Sunday in Alabama. Who gets that federal aid is always a big question after natural disasters...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: BrittLee Bowman was always the portrait of health as a cyclist, kale smoothies and workout photos on her Instagram feed. That changed last year. She was diagnosed with breast cancer. Bradley Campbell has a portrait of how one athle...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's hard to forecast the influence a work of art may have. Fifty years ago, Mario Puzo wrote a book in his basement after his first two novels had won splendid reviews but sold poorly. In 1969, he wrote The Godfather. One of the m...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: New photographs suggest North Korea is preparing to launch a missile or space rocket. This comes just more than a week after President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walked away from their nuclear summit with no agreemen...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's Friday, which is when we hear from StoryCorps. In the spring of 1981, in Louisiana, Liz Barnez was 16, Lori Daigle was 17. When they met, there was an instant spark. At StoryCorps, Liz and Lori sat down...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It may be time to update what we know about bacteria. Needless to say, an infection by the wrong kind of bacteria can make you ill. We also learn about good bacteria, which play a healthy role in our digestive systems. Now think...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A federal judge has given Paul Manafort at least a chance not to spend the rest of his life in prison. Manafort is President Trump's former campaign chairman convicted of financial crimes. Prosecutors highlighted the $15,000 ostr...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Scientists say they've located a mysterious type of killer whale living in the oceans near Antarctica. They say it could be the largest animal unidentified by biologists until now. NPR's Christopher Joyce has the story. CHRISTOPH...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker says he wants to unite a divided nation. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) CORY BOOKER: I love rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't get us to the mo...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Writer David Means is a defender and enthusiast of the short story. He says you can't just stretch one out to make a novel. His new collection of stories, his fifth, is called Instructions For A Funeral. It includes a wide range...
