NOEL KING, HOST: In the surge of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, there are thousands of families traveling with children. They're hoping to give the kids a better life in America. But what many of those aunts and sisters and grandmothers...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: In India, garbage is becoming a big problem. The country is getting richer, consuming more and creating more waste. Landfills on the edges of cities are growing into huge mountains of trash. NPR's Lauren Frayer visited one of th...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The band Luxury started out as college kids in the 1990s who just wanted to rock. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, FLAMING YOUTH FLAMES ON) LUXURY: (Singing) Please don't be so mysterious. There isn't time. MONTAGNE: Hailing from a small tow...
Greg Kinnear's 'Phil' Is Depressed, And Then Obsessed AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: All right. I want to begin this story with a note. The following conversation about Greg Kinnear's new movie Phil touches on the issue of suicide. It may not be appropriate fo...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now to Venezuela where due to a catastrophic economic meltdown, it's getting harder for children to get an education. Public school teachers are resigning in droves. Classes are being canceled, and many students skip school o...
NOEL KING, HOST: A few years ago, a Swedish Iranian musician named Nadia Tehran put a microphone in front of her father and asked him to talk about his life. There was one story she really wanted to hear - the story of how he, a young Iranian man, en...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's Friday, which is when we hear from StoryCorps. Aden Batar had just graduated law school when war broke out in Somalia in 1990. He and his young family were forced to flee to escape violence. They came to the United States an...
'He's A Flawed Character And They Do Not Care': The Rise Of U.K.'s Boris Johnson NOEL KING, HOST: Boris Johnson is the favorite to become the United Kingdom's next prime minister. If Johnson wins a leadership contest later this month, he will inherit...
NOEL KING, HOST: Life is getting harder and harder in the Gaza Strip. Public services are crumbling. The economy is in collapse. Most of Gaza is blockaded by Israel and Egypt. But over the last year, Egypt has been giving more Gazans the choice to le...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Alzheimer's disease starts to change the brain long before any symptoms appear. So scientists are developing tests to actually detect these changes, and the tests are making diagnoses more accurate and drug treatments more effect...
'Stranger Things' Star David Harbour Will Take Messy Over Perfect Any Day NOEL KING, HOST: It's an explosive Fourth of July in the little town of Hawkins, Ind., but I'm not talking about fireworks. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, STRANGER THINGS) UNIDENTIFIED...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Drill, baby, drill - that was former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's rallying cry years ago, and it became a standard line for a lot of Republicans anxious to get oil out of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now the Trump a...
NOEL KING, HOST: Detention facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border have been under scrutiny for the conditions in which migrants are being held. And then yesterday, the inspector general of the Homeland Security Department released a striking report....
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A long fight over the census has apparently come to an end. The Trump administration has decided to print forms for the 2020 census without a question asking whether respondents are citizens. This comes after more than a year...
NOEL KING, HOST: It's been nearly two years since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, and rebuilding on the island is going slowly. Congress has allocated around $20 billion to rebuild houses and infrastructure, but very little of that money has...
