MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, I'm going to ask our next guests to introduce themselves. KEVIN JONAS: Hello. I'm Kevin Jonas. JOE JONAS: Hi. I'm Joe Jonas. NICK JONAS: Hey. I'm Nick Jonas. MARTIN: Yep, they're here - the Jonas Brothers. Afte...
No Mercy: After The Hospital Closes, How Do People Get Emergency Care? LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When small towns lose their hospitals, people with health emergencies often need a helicopter to get them to critical care. But air ambulances aren't re...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up. So begins a thread on Twitter this week by Joanna Schroeder that continues, quote, social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right white...
Netflix Curbs Tobacco Use Onscreen, But Not Pot. What's Up With That? SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Cigarette smoking seems almost campy in the Netflix show Stranger Things. It's set in the 1980s. But the main characters are young teenagers, so the series was h...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It may be strange for tourists to land in Hong Kong to find throngs of impassioned protesters. They might wonder, what do they expect me to do about the Chinese government? Tourists come from all over the world to see the elegantly...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We'll now hear from the StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, one of the thousands of conversations with veterans and their families that's recorded all across the country. Today, one seriously tough veteran Susan Ahn Cuddy, a Na...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: If you like bananas, we've got some bad news. A fungus that kills the ubiquitous fruit has appeared for the first time in Latin America, which is the source of most bananas sold in the U.S. This disease has caused huge problems in...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: A lot of agriculture in the Midwest depends on rivers to cheaply move grain and other farm products to market. But this year, high water has already stranded barges on the upper Mississippi River for nearly three months - the long...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Ordinary people may be one step closer to becoming superhuman. Exosuits are these wearable machines that can make a person faster and stronger. NPR's Merrit Kennedy reports on one new invention and where the technology might be hea...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is Friday, which means it's time for StoryCorps - and today, a story about being yourself even when the path to do that is uncharted. Elizabeth Coffey-Williams grew up transgender in Philadelphia in the late 1960s. Now 71, she...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Fifty years ago today, the tiny town of Bethel, N.Y., was transformed into a teeming city of more than 400,000. Today the site of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, as it was officially called, is on the National Register of Histo...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs more space to house undocumented immigrants. And increasingly, the agency is finding it in rural regions. A new analysis by NPR indicates a majority of detainees are held in rural are...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: China is truly a superpower - of pork. It is home to half of all the pigs in the world. But right now a disease called African swine fever is sweeping through Chinese hog farms. And it's having ripple effects for farmers all over...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The majority of children enrolled in the federal Medicaid program are not getting appropriate treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. That's the conclusion of a new report from a federal watchdog agency....
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Jeffrey Epstein has also been accused of other crimes. One of his former business partners says Epstein got away with financial crimes. Steven Hoffenberg spent 18 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme. And he says Epstein was...
