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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Justice Department has given its blessing to a deal that would transform America's wireless industry. Sprint and T-Mobile are now a step closer to merging. It would create the nation's third-largest wireless phone carrier, behi...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: To another story now. This has been one of the wettest years on record so far. Some towns in the West, though, are just a few unlucky incidents away from a widescale water shortage. Earlier this year, faucets in a small weste...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The U.S. economy is slowing. The Commerce Department says the annual rate of growth went from about 3% last year into about 2% in recent months. Most analysts do not predict calamity, but many do see a trend of slower growth. And t...
ELISE HU, HOST: This is LIFE KIT from NPR. We start in Hawaii just before sunrise on a Hawaiian volcano, Haleakala. It's a volcano 2 million years old. To get there, you have to drive for hours in the dark. JENNY ODELL: Because the sun hasn't come up...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: At the heart of Laura Lippman's new novel are two murders - one a girl, one a young woman; one white, one black - both in 1960s Baltimore. In an author's note - very end of the book, Page 339 - Lippman writes, quote, The book...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Yesterday former special counsel Robert Mueller told Congress that Russia's interference in American elections is not over. In fact, he said it's going on right now and will continue in 2020. Well, today the Senate Intelligence Com...
NOEL KING, HOST: Picture two communities. They share a grocery store and maybe a Main Street - people living just blocks or a couple miles apart. But for their kids who go to different schools, they are a world apart. On one side of the line, you hav...
Allergan Recalls Textured Breast Implants Linked To Rare Type Of Cancer RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A type of textured breast implant linked to a rare type of cancer has been recalled around the world. And the FDA has asked the company to pull the implants...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In the new novel The Lager Queen Of Minnesota, it is never quite clear who is the queen of beer. There is nothing royal about any of the characters. Take working-class grandmother Edith Magnusson. We meet her on the first page. J R...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is not going anywhere despite concerns about her health. In an interview with NPR News, she also offers some political opinions. Ginsburg says she does not favor proposals by som...
NOEL KING, HOST: When a disaster hits U.S. farmers, like the floods this spring in the Midwest, taxpayers end up paying part of the bill because of government-subsidized insurance. The U.S. Department of Agriculture now says as a result of climate ch...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Solar technology is steadily getting better and cheaper, and lots of people are already seeing the benefits through lower electricity bills but not everyone. In black and Hispanic neighborhoods, there is far less solar than in whit...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The author Daniel Nieh has tried on more careers than a model tries on outfits. In fact, Nieh has been an international model. He has also worked as a Chinese interpreter. And both of those jobs inform his debut novel Beijing Payba...
(SOUNDBITE OF THE BIG TOP ORCHESTRA'S TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE [MARCH AND TWO-STEP]) SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Hey there. It's the NPR POLITICS PODCAST. I'm Scott Detrow. All summer, we're taking you to New Hampshire and Iowa for interviews with many o...
