SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In western Colombia, a big event of the summer - five days of music, food and fashion - is the Petronio Alvarez Festival. More than 300,000 people in the city of Cali all celebrate the culture of the country's Pacific region. Maria...
Veterinarians Are Killing Themselves. An Online Group Is There To Listen And Help SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We're going to bring you another report about the rising rate of suicide in the United States. Caution; parts of this story may be disturbing. Dr. Ca...
NOEL KING, HOST: Today on StoryCorps, we have a love story that sucks. Tom Gasko is a vacuum cleaner repairman who also collects vacuums. He has hundreds of them. He displays them in a vacuum cleaner museum in a strip mall in Rolla, Mo. He came to St...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Facebook is under fire again. Attorneys general from several states have launched a formal investigation into the social media giant over anti-competitive practices. The New York attorney general's office confirmed this morning t...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has a memory of his youth. SACHA BARON COHEN: I was brought up in London, and in the bookcase in our living room was a book called Our Man In Damascus. INSKEEP: It was the true story of an...
NOEL KING, HOST: Now a story that affects tens of thousands of student loan borrowers. Congress expanded an effort to forgive the student loans of public servants. A new government watchdog report says 99% of those people have been denied. NPR's Cory...
NOEL KING, HOST: A new investigation shows that low-income neighborhoods are hotter than wealthier ones in dozens of big cities across the country. This investigation is from NPR and the University of Maryland's Howard Center for Investigative Journa...
NOEL KING, HOST: It's been two years since allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein started the #MeToo movement. Around that time, writer and activist Moira Donegan created a Google spreadsheet with the names of men who worked in media who were...
ELISSA NADWORNY, HOST: This is NPR's LIFE KIT, and I'm Elissa Nadworny, an education reporter. For a lot of students, college is kind of like this big unknown. The beginning can be especially scary. ANIAH WASHINGTON: I remember being absolutely terri...
'Details Are Irrelevant': Biden Says Verbal Slip-Ups Don't Undermine His Judgment (SOUNDBITE OF THE BIGTOP ORCHESTRA'S TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE (MARCH AND TWO-STEP)) ASMA KHALID, HOST: Hey there. It's the NPR POLITICS PODCAST. I'm Asma Khalid. Al...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK, America, just to let you know, you have five months - five months - until presidential primary voting begins. That means election officials are focused now on keeping elections safe from cyberattacks. In Pennsylvania, every c...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: As kids go back to school, health officials are reminding parents how important vaccines are. There've been more than 1,200 cases of measles in the U.S. this year. But a lot of those cases actually involve adults who traveled to...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: James Mattis is reviewing a storied U.S. military career. It ended in late 2018 when Mattis resigned as secretary of defense. Before that, he spent four decades in the U.S. Marines. He took part in historic moments of the United...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're seeing signs of hope for a peace deal in Afghanistan. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is currently reviewing a draft agreement reached by the U.S. and the Taliban. He has promised a response in coming days. Meanwhile, though,...
Violence Follows Pro-Independence Protests In Indonesia's Papua Region STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Indonesia is cracking down on a movement in the far eastern part of that country. More than 1,000 soldiers and police have deployed to the Papuan region to qu...
