AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The country is finally getting a break from severe weather today. Hundreds of tornadoes touched down earlier this week in states from Texas to New Jersey. And record flooding is expected to continue along the Arkansas River throu...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Bild is a tabloid, a German daily newspaper best known for blaring headlines, fleshy photos and breathless coverage of gossip and scandals. But this week, the newspaper ran a kippah on its front page, a Jewish skullcap, which signi...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest attracted over 6,000 entries this year. Quinn Christopherson from Alaska was announced as the winner a couple of weeks ago, but there was tough competition from passionate and talented musicians. We're...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Mother's come to Hartford, Conn. after living through a hellscape of war in Vietnam. She goes to work at a nail salon, smokes Marlboro Reds and mor...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Up and down the U.S. border, thousands in Mexico are waiting for their turn to request asylum from U.S. officials. In the Mexican city of Juarez alone, authorities say there are nearly 5,000 migrants. Long wait times and fears abou...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Today is the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season. Many communities in Florida's Panhandle still struggle to recover from Hurricane Michael. Michael was a Category 5 hurricane with 160-mile-per-hour winds. It shredded thousan...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: How does someone become an adult after being robbed of a childhood? A new Netflix miniseries examines this question. It's based on the case of a group of black and Latino teenagers known as the Central Park Five. In April 1989, a...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There is a new section of border wall under construction in Sunland Park, N.M. Now, this isn't President Trump's wall. This is the first crowdfunded border barrier built with private donations on private land. The team behind the...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Last night, tornadoes again touched down across the central U.S. In Prestonsburg, Ky., a roof torn from a building killed a person driving through downtown. We've been hearing stories like this all month - tornadoes leaving a trail...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Governor Jay Inslee of Washington state says combating climate change is the defining challenge of our time - so much so that he is framing his entire presidential campaign around it. I spoke with the governor as part of our Open...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Two million, that is the number of babies who were at risk because the pharmaceutical company Merck stopped providing a lifesaving vaccine to several West African countries. At the same time, Merck was going to start selling the...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When a two-time Olympic champion runner, Caster Semenya, was asked if she would agree to take drugs to lower her testosterone, she gave a definite answer - quote, hell no. This week, she filed an appeal to press that point. She's...
