AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Deaths by suicide in the United States have been rising, and that includes among young people. A new study shows that the rate of suicide among teenage girls has been rising faster than boys. NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee reports. RHITU...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tomorrow marks one year since a gunman shot and killed 10 students and teachers at Santa Fe High School, southeast of Houston, Texas. Thirteen more were injured. For the past year, reporter Laura Isensee with Houston Public Media...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In 1914, Russia was on the brink of war, and Albert Einstein was on the brink of proving his theory of relativity. These two threads intertwine in a new novel called A Bend In The Stars. The story centers on Vanya and Miri. They ar...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump is calling for a fundamental overhaul of how the United States handles immigration. The president unveiled the proposal at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden yesterday. His plan favors immigrants who are you...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The architect I.M. Pei designed some of the most significant buildings of the last 60 years - the pyramid entrance to the Louvre museum in Paris, the Rock Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, to n...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - the CFPB - says the Trump administration's education department is getting in the way of efforts to police the student loan industry. This comes amid lawsuits that allege...
NOEL KING, HOST: Reporter Julia Simon is in our studios in New York. Hi, Julia. JULIA SIMON: Hey, Noel. KING: So you are bringing us a story today that took you halfway across the world, but it actually started very close to home with your mom in Cal...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: One of the biggest hits in TV history signs off tomorrow after a 12-season run. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, THE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING) BARENAKED LADIES: (Singing) Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state. Then nearly 14 billion years...
AMANDA PEACHER, BYLINE: One late afternoon in September 2015, a transgender inmate named Adree Edmo left a note in her prison cell in Idaho. The note read, I do not want to die, but I am a woman, and women do not have these. Then she attempted to cas...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Trump administration is preparing to add tariffs or taxes on virtually everything the U.S. buys from China, but the president offered reassurance that in some cases waivers will be granted so Chinese goods can be imported tax...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A new system for allocating donated livers to sick patients went into effect this morning. The intent is to make organ transplants more fair nationwide, but transplant centers in the South and Midwest are fighting it. Blake Farme...
NOEL KING, HOST: Earlier this year, NPR invited students across the country to create a podcast about anything they wanted and to enter it in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Teachers helped them. We got 6,000 entries. This morning, we have one of ou...
In 'Once More We Saw Stars,' Grief And Love Together AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Four years ago, the unthinkable happened to Jayson Greene. His 2-year-old daughter Greta was visiting her grandmother. The two were sitting on a bench on New York's Upper West...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The journalist Harriet Shawcross is fascinated by silence - why we speak and why we don't. She's traveled the world seeking answers to those questions. And our co-host Ailsa Chang spoke with her about her new book, Unspeakable. AIL...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Tim Conway, a comic actor whose career ranged from The Carol Burnett Show to SpongeBob SquarePants, died today due to complications from a long illness. He was 85. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says Conway built a career playing bum...
