DAVID GREENE, HOST: Many Americans have seen their communities devastated by floods this year. Some regions have seen record amounts of rain since the early spring. The Mississippi River and tributaries spent months above flood stage, while all of th...
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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Italian region of Tuscany has long been a left-wing stronghold. But as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, it has experienced political upheaval as the hard-right, anti-immigrant party known as the League has ousted left-leaning po...
Across Europe, Museums Rethink What To Do With Their African Art Collections MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Early on in the movie Black Panther, there's a confrontation in a fictional British museum. A visitor is arguing with a curator over African artifac...
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It's The Go-To Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction. Why Won't More Pharmacies Stock It? RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: With America in the throes of a drug addiction epidemic, there's been a big push to make a crucial treatment drug easier to get. It's called bupre...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now in these dog days of August, a reminder to check what is in your sunscreen. Earlier this year, the FDA raised safety concerns about some chemicals in certain sunscreens. NPR's Patti Neighmond reports. PATTI NEIGHMOND, BYL...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's the first day of classes for El Paso's largest school district. Many students are obviously still struggling to make sense of the mass shooting that claimed 22 lives there just over a week ago. Here's Mallory Falk from membe...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This summer, we want to delve into the relationship between authors and illustrators. How do they work together or separately to perfectly translate text into pictures? Author Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrator Brian Pink...
PJ Morton Taps Into His Purest Form With 'PAUL' LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's been a good year for artist PJ Morton. He headlined the Super Bowl with his bandmates in Maroon 5, won his first Grammy and is on tour now for his new and most personal a...
Ta Obreht's Latest Is Steeped In The Supernatural Also, There Are Camels LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When writer Tea Obreht's first book, The Tiger's Wife, came out in 2011, it was both critically adored and a book club favorite. Obreht's new novel, I...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: One-hundred-and-five children died at an unlicensed treatment center for malnourished kids in Uganda. It happened between 2010 and 2015. Now the American missionary who founded and ran the center is being sued over those deaths....
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Federal immigration officials arrested nearly 700 workers at chicken processing plants in Mississippi. But you can still buy a rotisserie bird at your local supermarket tonight for less than $10. Administration officials say this...
SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: There's a summer camp for kids with disabilities that does things a little bit differently. Instead of accommodating the campers' physical challenges, therapists make activities a bit tougher. They're trying to strengthen the ch...
SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: After The Wedding is a movie full of transformative secrets. It's a remake of a 2006 film. And when we first meet the main character, Isabel played by Michelle Williams, she's living a modest humble life running an orphanage in...
