Move To Pull Consumer Protection Rule Heightens Debate Over Payday Lending DAVID GREENE, HOST: Some people rely on borrowing money from themselves. You get a payday loan. It's cash you promise to pay back when your next paycheck arrives. The Trump ad...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Painter Robert Rauschenberg once measured the distance from his house to his studio in Captiva, Fla., and then he made an artwork that is as long as his measurements. He called it The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece, 1981 to 1998. It...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the biggest award in the field. It's often called the Nobel Prize of architecture. This year's winner was announced this morning. As NPR's Andrew Limbong reports, it's someone who knows what...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: U.S. trade talks with China face a fundamental problem. The two countries are negotiating to end a trade war. It was triggered by President Trump's demand for better terms. Now, it's easy for the Chinese to, say, promise to buy m...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Paid family leave once seemed politically unthinkable, but that seems to be changing now. Democrats are pushing for federally mandated time off for taking care of family members. And many Republicans are also embracing this, inclu...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We still don't know when we're going to get the results of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. And critics of the president are feeling a growing sense of anticipation the longer this goes. NPR's Tim Mak has been talki...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking an unexpected political beating. Yesterday, a second member of his cabinet abruptly resigned. The first to quit was Trudeau's former attorney general. She is now accusing him of me...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Food and Drug Administration is being forced to intensify scrutiny of medical implants. Now, when you hear the word implants, it's easy to think of cosmetic surgery, but the word here includes a growing number of potentially...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally, today we want to talk about fashion. The runway shows in New York and Europe are about finished for the season. But if your invitations got lost, you still got to take in plenty of fashion during awards season, which wra...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The HBO documentary Leaving Neverland hasn't aired yet, but it is already making headlines. It's a four hour film scheduled to air tonight and Monday. And it details claims by two men who say they were sexually abused as children...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Virginia legislature adjourned last week after a tumultuous session in which photos from the governor's medical school yearbook page showing a man in blackface were published by a conservative website. And that not only rocke...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Tech companies decide to kill products and ideas for products all the time. Maybe it doesn't work; there's no market - whatever. But what about when the tech is too dangerous? That's what Caterina Fake wants Silicon Valley...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Anti-Semitism has been on the rise in France. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley joined a group of women of different faiths and ethnic backgrounds who have decided to tackle the problem together. She accompanied them on a trip to a n...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Let's go back to the turn of the century - a time of reality TV, worries over Y2K and Dido. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, THANK YOU) DIDO: (Singing) And I want to thank you. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WHITE FLAG) DIDO: (Singing) There will...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In 1940, more than half of U.S. homes burned coal for heat. It was a big business and such a large part of the culture that a coal company even sponsored a popular radio drama. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED...
