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Food prices will continue to rise significantly in the coming decade. That's according to a report released today by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization. Those agencies say that, beyond the need for more humanitarian aid, it's time to rethink biofue... | MADELEINE BRAND, host: From NPR News, this is Day to Day.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: Higher food prices are here to stay, and they may go even higher. That's what a new report from the United Nations says. Marketplace's Amy Scott is here now. And Amy, what kinds of increases does the report say that we can expect?</s>AM... |
States around the country are replacing aging voting equipment. New technology that's under consideration in Georgia has sparked a debate around security and accessibility. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Millions of Americans will likely cast their ballots in 2020 using new technology. States have been working to update voting equipment since the 2016 election revealed security gaps, but as officials shop around, they are thinking about more than just security. From member station WABE in Atlan... |
India claims its fighter jets crossed into Pakistani-controlled territory and hit militant training camps there. Pakistan says India struck an open field. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Tensions between two neighbors, India and Pakistan, boiled over today into violence. India says its military jets dropped bombs inside Pakistan. The target - a training camp run by a militant group that claims it was behind the recent killing of Indian troops in the disputed region of Kashmir. ... |
As President Trump heads to another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to former State Department envoy Robert King about North Korea's human rights record. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: During the first year of the Trump administration, the president unequivocally condemned North Korea's human rights record.</s>PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: An estimated 100,000 North Koreans suffer in gulags, toiling in forced labor and enduring torture, starvation, rape and murder on a constant basis.</s... |
If Barack Obama wins the presidency, we may see the first Web-friendly Oval Office, according to a piece in the Atlantic Monthly. Marc Ambinder discusses his thesis. | MADELEINE BRAND, host: This is Day to Day. I'm Madeline Brand.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: And I'm Alex Chadwick. The Atlantic, the magazine and the dot-com carry several pieces analyzing the Obama campaign and its prospects, including a couple that focus on the senator's use of the internet. The magazine says the campaign... |
Mark Jordan Legan reviews two films out this week: the long-awaited Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull starring Harrison Ford and the political satire War, Inc. starring John Cusack. | ALEX CHADWICK, host: This is Day to Day from NPR News. I'm Alex Chadwick.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: And I'm Madeleine Brand. The blockbuster movie this weekend is clearly "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." To see what the critics think of the latest in the Indie opus, and another smaller movie, here ... |
Summertime is here and residents of some beach towns are feeling nervous about their economies. Rehoboth Beach, Del., is one spot where there's anxiety about how the economic downturn is going to affect summer tourism. | ALEX CHADWICK, host: This is Day to Day, I'm Alex Chadwick. Coming up, the next primary is in Puerto Rico. We're going to hear from a political analyst there who says it's not clear that Senator Hillary Clinton is going to do well. But first, the average price of gas is approaching four dollars a gallon on this Memoria... |
Uncounted delegates from Michigan and Florida are again in question as Democrats on the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee meet to decide their fate this weekend. The meeting could tip the contest either way. | ALEX CHADWICK, host: From the studios of NPR West, this is Day to Day. Madeleine Brand is away, I'm Alex Chadwick.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: Ceremonies today at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery where President Bush laid a wreath for Memorial Day. Coming up on the program a Green Beret officer remem... |
Torture Team, a book by lawyer and author Philippe Sands, pulls together the results of interviews with the people in the United States government who decided to use harsh tactics in detainee interrogations. | ALEX CHADWICK, host: There was some book party a couple of weeks ago in London. The British equivalent of our chief justice, he's Lord Bingham was host. A rare thing for a senior law lord. But so is this book, "Torture Team," by British international lawyer, Philippe Sands. It's a provocative look at the rules of inter... |
Emotions can be hard to gauge in the beginning of any romantic relationship. But for people with autism, who often struggle to interpret social cues, romance can be particularly challenging to navigate. And for some, the prospect of loving and being loved seems out of reach. Jack Robison, 19-year-old with Asperger's sy... | JOHN DONVAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm John Donvan, in Washington. Neal Conan is off. It is taking a huge risk to let the New York Times reveal in its pages the minute and most personal details of your love life. And the reason the Times even cares to write about the relationship you're in, it's not because... |
Consumers and farmers will soon be on their own when it comes to finding out which pesticides are being sprayed on what. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to stop publishing its survey tracking pesticide use. | MADELEINE BRAND, host: From NPR News, this is Day to Day. The federal government will no longer tell us what pesticides are used on our fruits and vegetables. It's because of budget cuts. Farmers and environmentalists are not happy about that. Marketplace's Janet Babin is here, and Janet, what kind of information was i... |
When faced with a major medical decision, it can be difficult for patients to determine when it's appropriate to seek a second opinion. Asking another doctor can help catch misdiagnoses or prevent unnecessary treatments, but they can also be a waste of time and resources. Dawna Harwell, cancer survivor Laura Landro, as... | JOHN DONVAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm John Donvan in Washington. Your doctor tells you that what you have is serious, very serious. And while some of us may simply take in that news and then follow our doctor's advice on what to do, put ourselves into that doctor's hands, many of us choose a different cour... |
As gas prices soar, many owners of large SUVs are trading in their vehicles for smaller gas-sipping cars. They're finding that their big sport utilities aren't worth much as trade-ins. | ALEX CHADWICK, host: This is Day to Day. I'm Alex Chadwick.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: I'm Madeleine Brand.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: We just talked about the high price of oil. More than 130 dollars a barrel so, some owners of SUVs, well, they are having second thoughts. They are trying to get rid of them.</s>ALEX CHAD... |
NPR's Neal Conan reads from listener comments on previous show segments, including responses to a conversation about independent voters, and a video depicting U.S. Marines desecrating the bodies of Taliban fighters. | NEAL CONAN, HOST: It's Tuesday, the day we read from your emails and Web comments. And first, an update on Operation Migration, the program that teaches young whooping cranes the migration route south for the winter. The birds are led by an ultralight plane they're raised to believe is their mother. We talked with Joe ... |
Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican presidential race Thursday, saying he saw no way forward. The same day, the Iowa Republican party announced that Mitt Romney is no longer the winner of the caucuses there. Don Gonyea, national political correspondent, NPR | JOHN DONVAN, HOST: It's two days before the GOP primary in South Carolina, and already the numbers in the race have shifted again. Texas Governor Rick Perry dropped out this morning. While in Iowa, the Republican Party announced that Mitt Romney cannot claim after all that he won the caucuses there; Rick Santorum leads... |
Crime novelist Elmore Leonard (left) with Justified star Timothy Olyphant. Elmore Leonard has had the kind of writing career many aspiring writers dream of. Over the course of six decades, he's written scores of successful crime novels, short stories and scripts for screens big and small. Justified, the acclaimed TV s... | JOHN DONVAN, HOST: Elmore Leonard has had the kind of writing career that writers dream of when they first start out. He writes crime, and he has turned a lifetime of novels, short stories and movie scripts that sold and got read and seen and that built a following - six decades worth of that, time enough for him to fi... |
Host Mac McGarry (top left) poses with student contestants on the set of It's Academic in 1988. For 51 seasons, the Washington, D.C.-based TV quiz show It's Academic has pitted three teams of high school students against each other in a sports game atmosphere — complete with chants and cheerleaders. The show first air... | Arguably the world today is a safer place than it used to be for one category of American: the academically-motivated teenager. Thanks to brainy superstars like Mark Zuckerberg and, before him, Bill Gates, it's probably cooler now than it's ever been to be smart, to know stuff. Before them, you were taking something of... |
GOP candidates have attacked Mitt Romney as a "vulture capitalist" who destroyed jobs. The charges center on his 15 years at the private equity firm Bain Capital. But what are private equity firms, and what do they do? Marilyn Geewax, senior business editor, NPR Steven Davis, professor, University of Chicago Booth Scho... | JOHN DONVAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm John Donvan in Washington. Neal Conan is away. Not all capitalists are Republicans, but all Republicans are capitalists, as a rule, anyway, straightforward enough. But then came the current race for the White House, Republican versus Republican, and now we're hearing t... |
Gustavo Arellano of AskaMexican.net, blogger Carmen Van Kerckhove and Angela Shelton and Frances Callier of the the comedy duo Frangela, weigh in on the question. | MADELEINE BRAND, host: And for some more political analysis, we're joined now by columnist Gestavo Arellano of askamexican.net, diversity consultant and blogger Carman Van Kerchove, and our comedy duo known as Frangela, Angela Shelton and Francis Callier. Welcome all of you.</s>Mr. GUSTAVO ARELLANO (Columnist, AskaMexi... |
U.S. plans for sanctions on Iran are escalating what some analysts call a covert war between the two countries. Patrick Clawson, director of the Washington Institute's Iran Security Initiative, and Columbia University's Gary Sick discuss how the Obama administration should deal with Iran. | NEAL CONAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta described an Iranian nuclear weapon as a red line - unacceptable to the United States; presumably, cause for war. But many analysts believe that a clandestine war is already under way as Isr... |
Why is there something rather than nothing? That's the question cosmologist Lawrence Krauss tackles in his new book, A Universe from Nothing. In it, he surveys the discoveries that have led to scientists' current understanding of the universe, and explores what the future of the universe may be. | IRA FLATOW, HOST: Speaking of dark matter and space-time, one of the major questions about our universe is how did it all come into being, and my next guest tackles that question in his new book, "A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing." Lawrence Krauss is also a foundation professor and di... |
At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, scientists talked about mapping dark matter, measuring the 'graininess' of spacetime, and discovering the smallest exoplanets ever, using the Kepler space telescope. Ron Cowen, who reported on the meeting for Nature, discusses those findings. | IRA FLATOW, HOST: Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY. I am Ira Flatow. A few weeks ago, we talked about the discovery of new exoplanets, those planets outside of our solar system. There were the first Earth-sized exoplanets, and we had another exoplanet smack dab in the middle of the Goldilocks Zone, you know, where liquid wate... |
The devastating birth defect microcephaly may be just a warning sign for the range of problems babies will suffer. Rob Stein tells Linda Wertheimer about what else scientists are learning about Zika. | LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Rachel Martin's away. I'm Linda Wertheimer. The Food and Drug Administration now says all U.S. blood donation centers must screen for the Zika virus. News about the first cases of local transmission in Florida have raised fears among women who are pregnant ... |
Writer Carl Zimmer became an "unintentional curator" of science-themed tattoos after noticing a double helix on a friend's arm. Sensing a trend, he asked his blog readers to send photos of their science tattoos. Some of those images are gathered in his new book Science Ink. | IRA FLATOW, HOST: Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Thinking about a tattoo? Well, forget butterflies, unicorns or mom. Tattoos have gone geek. No more of those blurry anchors and pinup girls. We've got molecules, double-helix strands, mathematical equations all showing up on biceps and other places.</s>IRA FL... |
Stanford professor Manu Prakash explains how bubbles can be used as bits to make a computer. By directing the bubbles through etched pathways, they act like electrons traveling through circuits. In this system, however, the computer is powered by gravity and the bubble bits can carry things inside of them as they compu... | IRA FLATOW, HOST: Flora Lichtman is here with a Video Pick of the Week. And it's something about an everyday object?</s>FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: An everyday item. The Video Pick of the Week this week is about - oh, that was really bad.</s>FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: I tried to do a sound effect. Oh, live radio. Sorry. That ... |
The nation celebrates the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. As millions honor his legacy with a national day of service, we take a moment to reflect on his legacy with the original "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. | NEAL CONAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan. Events are planned in cities across the country on this holiday to mark the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. This morning, riders boarded the Freedom Train into San Francisco to commemorate this historic march in 1965 from Selma, Alabama to ... |
The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizen's United ruling loosened campaign finance restrictions, enabling corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections. As a result, super PACs — political action committees — can solicit large corporate contributions and produce a plethora of attack ad campaigns. Ted Koppel, sp... | NEAL CONAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. In the past, changes in campaign finance laws yielded slightly different presidential elections every four years, but 2012 is the first since the Supreme Court decision transformed the playing field.</s>NEAL CONAN, HOST: Political donations ar... |
Rachel Martin speaks to Secretary Gregg Marcantel about reforming the New Mexico state penitentiary system. He appears on season 2 on A&E's "Behind Bars." | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Season 2 of the A&E series "Behind Bars" began last week. This time, we get a look at the challenges corrections officers face policing a prison that has the dubious distinction of being the site of the bloodiest prison riot in American history.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It's most dangerous spot. Real -... |
In a new book, surgeon Paul Ruggieri reveals the "good, the bad, and the complicated" about being a surgeon, and operating on patients. From cutting into a man who just killed his wife, to the headaches of running a small business, Ruggieri candidly discusses his career. | IRA FLATOW, HOST: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Up next, "Confessions of a Surgeon." Have you ever sat in your doctor's office, you know, doctor's going down that long list of aches and pains, and have you ever thought to yourself: I wonder if he's really listening to me. Well, at least one doctor has confess... |
The new year marks the creation of a science section at The Huffington Post. The Internet newspaper's editor-in-chief, Arianna Huffington discusses the story selection and vetting process. And why the launch coincides with what she calls the explosion of medieval thinking. | Next up: A bit of good news for those of you lamenting the loss of your newspaper science section. The Huffington Post has a new section dedicated to science, also find a lot of technology there. Editors of the news site describe it as one-stop shopping for the latest in scientific news and opinion, with an aim to ente... |
So far, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been speaking to largely white crowds when he asks African-Americans to vote for him. This weekend, Trump met with black voters in Detroit. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump campaigned at a black church in Detroit yesterday, trying to step up his outreach to black voters. So far, his approval has been in the low single digits with that voting demographic, and previous overtures to the community have been called tone deaf. NP... |
Today is the Queen's birthday — Queen B, that is. Beyonce's birthday has become a moment of celebration for people across the country, and last night, many people danced the night away. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Here on WEEKEND EDITION Sunday, we always like to celebrate. So we're particularly glad you're with us this holiday weekend.</s>BEYONCE: (Singing) May the last one burn into flames.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Nope - not talking about Labor Day.</s>BEYONCE: (Singing) Freedom, freedom, I can't move. Fre... |
Physicians in India have discovered a strain of tuberculosis they call 'TDR' for 'Totally Drug-Resistant'—meaning there is no antibiotic available to fight it. Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug, discusses the possible origins of the strain, and what options—if any—doctors have to treat it. | IRA FLATOW, HOST: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. We talk many times about the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, germs that resist most antibiotics, except for a precious few. A case in point is tuberculosis. But now comes word of a strain of TB that is totally drug-resistant, TDR TB as doctors are calling it. T... |
The state now sees wildfires that are on average bigger than ever and that burn through more of the year. Cal Fire's Southern Region information officer Michael Mohler speaks to Rachel Martin. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A major fire in Southern California has destroyed more than a hundred homes and dozens of other buildings in San Bernardino County since it started on Tuesday. The so-called Blue Cut fire has now spread across 37,000 acres in the area. It's the latest in a string of fires that have plagued Californ... |
Nearly 27 percent of the people in the country are 65 or older. NPR's Ina Jaffe visited Japan and tells Rachel Martin what she learned about why the population is aging. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Japan has the oldest population in the world. Nearly 27 percent of the people there are 65 or older. NPR's Ina Jaffe covers aging, so, of course, she wanted to go there and check it out. She did, and she's now back sharing her reporting. This week on NPR, you'll hear her stories on how Japan is cha... |
NPR's Mara Liasson looks back on a week of political upheaval: new leadership in Donald Trump's campaign, and changes to the Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Foundation. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last night at a rally in Fredericksburg, Va., Donald Trump spoke to a crowd described as overwhelmingly white, and he made an appeal for inclusivity.</s>DONALD TRUMP: The GOP is the party of Abraham Lincoln.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Cheering).</s>DONALD TRUMP: And I want our party to be the home of ... |
Zeinab al-Ashry founded the popular Facebook group, "Confessions of a Married Woman." University of California Riverside professor Sherine Hafez talks to Rachel Martin about an online trend in Egypt. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Social media played a big role in the Arab Spring. Protesters used those sites to share ideas, organize and then mobilize. Five years later, social media continues to provide a safe space for conversations that otherwise might not happen openly. There's one called Confessions of a Married Woman. It... |
Last Sunday in Iraq a young teenage boy was captured before he could detonate an explosive belt on behalf of ISIS. Linda Wertheimer talks to terrorism expert John Horgan about the group's recruitment. | LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: ISIS is increasingly employing children to carry out acts of terrorism. Last Sunday in Iraq, a young teenage boy was captured before he could detonate an explosive belt. And authorities are still investigating whether another young teen was responsible for last weekend's wedding bombing in Turke... |
When the risk and mistrust outweigh the financial gain, who becomes a police officer? William Noel in Annapolis, Md., tells Rachel Martin about joining the force. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Becoming a police officer is not easy. It's a stressful job, heightened by recent tension between law enforcement and the public. So who would do it? This past month, three new officers were sworn in at Annapolis Police Department in Maryland. We're going to meet one of them.</s>WILLIAM NOEL: My na... |
For our series Hanging On, Linda Wertheimer speaks with Paul Katz. He's one of the organizers of the graduate student union just approved by the National Labor Relations board. | LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Time now for our series Hanging On, where we take a look at the economic pressures of American life. This week, being a graduate student. On Tuesday, in a case brought by Columbia University grad students, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that teaching assistants at private colleges have... |
Many doubted whether the city, suffering unprecedented political and economic upheaval, could host such a large event. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro tells Rachel Martin how it all played out. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And indeed, the closing ceremony of the Olympics is tonight. You can say one thing about these games - they have not lacked for drama. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro has been covering the Olympics from outside the arenas. She joins us now to talk about how things went for the host city, Rio de Janeiro. ... |
It's hard to really know what life is like for prisoners in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. NPR's Arun Rath got a rare tour of the prison, and tells Rachel Martin what he saw. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's hard to really know what life is like for prisoners in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For years the Pentagon has allowed journalists to come down to watch the military tribunals, but it's rare to get a tour of the prison itself. NPR's Arun Rath is there now, and he has sp... |
More than ever before, U.S. elections are a business opportunity. Social media companies are capitalizing on attention spent on the candidates. | AILSA CHANG, HOST: You may already feel bombarded with election news this morning, but if you've logged into Facebook, Twitter or Snapchat, you're likely to be inundated with even more. That's because for social media platforms, it's just good business. NPR's Scott Detrow has more on how tech companies are embracing th... |
Bennett College in North Carolina, a historically black college, lost its appeal to retain its accreditation, but then won a temporary reprieve after filing suit. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you tuned in last weekend, you may remember our conversation with Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, the president of Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C. The school, one of two remaining historically black women's colleges in the country, has been struggling financially but just pulled off an eye-popping f... |
Suzanne DiMaggio of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has been speaking with North Korean officials. She tells NPR's Michel Martin what to expect from Thursday's summit in Hanoi. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Hours after Michael Cohen is to testify on Capitol Hill, President Trump will be holding his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi. This morning, the president looked forward to the meeting, tweeting, "great relationship with Chairman Kim," unquote. Now, Kim is already on his ... |
The French city of Lille has cancelled its annual flea market — an event that usually attracts millions of visitors and which dates from medieval times — because of security concerns. | AILSA CHANG, HOST: In France, many summer events have been scaled back and even cancelled over security fears. One of the biggest events to be suspended this week was Europe's largest antique fair and flea market, held in the northern town of Lille. What's known as the Braderie of Lille will not take place this year, a... |
Colombia closed its bridges into Venezuela a day after attempts to get relief supplies across the border ended in violence. Vice President Mike Pence meets with Venezuela's opposition leader Monday. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now back to the Colombia-Venezuela border, where there were bloody clashes yesterday between forces loyal to the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, and opponents trying to get aid into the country. For some Venezuelans who've spent years peacefully opposing Maduro, the violent confrontation at t... |
Olympic runner Brenda Martinez had an unlikely path to the 2016 games. She grew up running in basketball shoes and nearly missed qualifying. She tells NPR's Ailsa Chang how she persevered. | AILSA CHANG, HOST: Next week, Brenda Martinez takes her place at the starting line in Rio, but she nearly didn't make it to the Olympics. The runner suffered a devastating loss last month in the 800-meter final at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials when her foot tangled with another runner and she tripped and fell... |
Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut tells NPR's Michel Martin what Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee want to hear when former Trump attorney Michael Cohen testifies on Thursday. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to spend a good part of the program today looking ahead to some important events coming up this week, and we'll start with that long-awaited testimony on Capitol Hill by President Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Tuesday, Cohen is scheduled to appear before the Senate In... |
A lot has happened since President Trump met with Russia's President Putin in Helsinki on Monday. | AILSA CHANG, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News I'm Ailsa Chang sitting in for Rachel Martin. By almost any measure, Donald Trump's last few days have been pretty terrible - a war of words with the military community, a back and forth with his own party over endorsements, a rush of prominent Republican defecti... |
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Washington Post religion reporter Julie Zauzmer about two major religious conferences held this weekend. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Two major faith groups gathered this weekend to discuss what could be sweeping reform. At the Vatican, Catholic leaders wrapped up a four-day summit on clerical sex abuse. And in St. Louis, leaders of the United Methodist Church, one of the country's largest Protestant denominations, held a confere... |
Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently announced her plan for affordable, universal childcare. Columnist Katha Pollit tells NPR's Michel Martin why universal childcare should top the Democratic agenda. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: At a rally yesterday, presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren laid out her plan for universal child care, a plan aimed at increasing access for families across income levels.</s>ELIZABETH WARREN: So under this proposal, millions of families could send their kids for free, and the cost would be capped... |
The International Olympic Committee is adding five sports to the Tokyo 2020 games. Olympic historian David Wallechinsky tells us which sports used to be in the Games and which he'd want to bring back. | AILSA CHANG, HOST: Track and field is, of course, a staple of the summer Olympics. It's been around since the very beginning, but new sports campaign to get added or re-added all the time. And earlier this week, the International Olympic Committee approved five new sports for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, including ... |
Despite the obvious dangers, there is a small tourist industry in Afghanistan. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to London travel operator Marc Leaderman, who had led trips to the war-torn country. | AILSA CHANG, HOST: A minibus carrying foreign tourists in Afghanistan was attacked a few days ago, and the Taliban claimed responsibility. Several were injured, but no one was killed. The news that there are even tourists in Afghanistan took us a little bit by surprise. We wondered who goes to Afghanistan as a tourist.... |
For many black women, knowing when and how to express anger can be a tricky political decision that some women avoid altogether. Author Brittney Cooper discusses using anger as a force for good. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Michelle Obama, Oprah, Serena Williams all have something in common. At some point during their public lives, they were labeled as angry. It's a label that many black women have struggled with in their professional and personal lives. All this month, NPR is exploring the power of anger. Today, we h... |
The Russian Paralympic team faces a ban from the Rio games next month, due to allegations of widespread doping. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to journalist Rebecca Ruiz about the charges. | AILSA CHANG, HOST: The International Paralympic Committee has announced that all athletes on the Russian Paralympic team will be banned from the 2016 games. Rebecca R. Ruiz is a reporter with The New York Times. She's in Rio covering the Olympics, and she joins us now. Hey, Rebecca.</s>AILSA CHANG, HOST: REBECCA R. RUI... |
The Roca brothers are taking on a huge logistical challenge this summer: They're recreating their cuisine in five cities, including London, San Francisco, Phoenix, Hong Kong and Santiago, Chile. | RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This summer, one of the world's top-rated restaurants is taking its kitchen on the road. It's a major logistical challenge, as you might imagine. The crew is cooking gourmet pop-up meals in five cities over five weeks. They begin their tour today in Phoenix, where they'll stay for several days, bef... |
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with New York Times political reporter Nick Confessore about the effect of money in the presidential campaigns. | AILSA CHANG, HOST: This week, the Trump campaign announced it raised more than $80 million in July, and they say the bulk of the money came from small donations. Hillary Clinton brought in about $90 million. The fundraising gap between the two campaigns is closer than it has been all year. To talk more about this, we'r... |
In the new Netflix movie, Paddleton, two best friends have to learn to say goodbye. Unlike depictions of male friendship in other buddy films, these men do it with grace and love. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We've seen this movie before - two men hang out over a long weekend, hijinks ensue, and when the dust settles, they realize they'll always have each other's backs. It's a classic bromance. But what about when those friendships are put to a real test? NPR's Eliza Dennis tells us about a new Netflix ... |
Violence broke out at the border between Venezuela and Colombia. Venezuelan troops fired tear gas and stopped crowds trying to bring humanitarian aid across the border. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to begin the program in Venezuela, where violence has broken out at the border with Colombia. Venezuelan troops fired tear gas and stopped crowds trying to bring humanitarian aid across the border. The clash left at least one truck in flames. The aid effort was organized by opponents of... |
President Trump met with the vice premier of China on Friday, capping another round of high-stakes trade negotiations. The countries face a self-imposed deadline next week to strike a deal. | AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Trade negotiators from the U.S. and China are in the midst of another round of high-stakes negotiations in Washington this week. The world's two biggest economies are trying to reach a deal and avoid escalating the tit-for-tat tariff battle that's already costing businesses and consumers billions o... |
The White House announced it will retain about 400 U.S. troops in Syria, partially reversing President Trump's previous decision to pull out all 2,000 troops stationed there. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Back in December, President Trump declared that the Islamic State had been defeated and it was time for all U.S. troops to come home from Syria. But after widespread criticism and the resignation of his defense secretary, the president now says a small U.S. force will remain here. He is speaking this... |
Coast Guard officer Christopher Hasson appeared in court Thursday on drug and firearms charges. The Justice Department says he planned to kill people "on a scale rarely seen in this country." | AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A federal judge in Maryland has ordered a Coast Guard lieutenant held without bail on gun and drug charges. Prosecutors say Christopher Hasson is a white supremacist who kept a small arsenal in his basement apartment, had drawn up a list of Democratic leaders and cable news anchors that he planned ... |
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Bennett Clifford, a researcher at George Washington University's Program on Extremism about what happened to Americans who had joined ISIS and wanted to come back home. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now let's look at the challenge that comes from a different group of extremists - Westerners who have gone to fight with ISIS and want to come back home now that the caliphate has collapsed. One woman from Alabama wants to return from Syria. The State Department says she's not a citizen so won't be l... |
There's no host, they've abandoned plans for a Best Popular Film category, and they're no longer handing out four awards during commercial breaks. Is anything going right at the Oscars this year? | AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The path to this weekend's Oscar ceremony has included a lot of backtracking. First there was going to be a new category - Best Popular Film. Then there wasn't. There was a host, Kevin Hart, whose long-ago homophobic tweets generated a controversy, so he stepped down. Specific awards and performanc... |
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Jay Timmons, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, about his organization's proposal for immigration reform and his recent trip to the border. | AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The partisan stalemate on immigration has led to the longest government shutdown in history and a national emergency declaration over a border wall. Neither President Trump nor Democrats seem willing to budge from their positions, but let's speak now with someone who thinks they can broker a compro... |
An effort to believe victims of hate crimes rose as a counter to a long history of disbelief. Actor Jussie Smollett appears to have taken advantage of the "impulse to believe" for personal benefit. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: All week, we've been covering the changing story of Jussie Smollett. He's the "Empire" actor who was arrested and charged with filing a false police report. Smollett is black and gay, and Chicago police say he faked a hate-crime attack against him. We're going to take a step back now and look at one ... |
R&B star R. Kelly turned himself in Friday night and appeared at a bond hearing Saturday after being charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: This afternoon, R&B star R. Kelly was ordered held on $1 million bond after being indicted on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse yesterday in Chicago. At a press conference afterwards, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx added new details to the charges unveiled yesterday.</s>KIM FOXX:... |
Should there be a way forward for people accused of sexual misconduct and what would that look like? That's the question NPR's Michel Martin poses to Julianne Malveaux and Melanie Campbell. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We want to continue this conversation about what's next in the #MeToo movement as we step into the Barbershop. Now, that's where we invite interesting people to talk about what's in the news and what's on their minds. We want to continue the conversation that we and many others have been having abo... |
The Department of Veterans Affairs released rules for a law that changes how the VA pays for outside, private care. Critics say the move is a stealth effort to privatize the VA. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Last year Congress passed a bipartisan bill to change the way the Department of Veterans Affairs pays for outside private care. The specifics of those changes were made public today. It's hard to say if the new plan has support. Veterans' organizations and congressional leaders say they've been froze... |
Dr. Paul Spiegel of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health tells NPR's Michel Martin how humanitarian aid has been used — or withheld — for political purposes in past conflicts. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: So we want to talk more about that humanitarian aid that has become a focal point of tension at the Venezuelan border, as you just heard. We're going to turn now to Dr. Paul Spiegel. He is a physician. He is the director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Pub... |
As the battle against ISIS in Syria winds down a woman claiming to be an American woman who went to support ISIS pleads to come back to the U.S. She's one of many languishing in detention camps now. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: As ISIS loses the last of its territory in Syria, some of the Westerners who went there to support the group are now trying to return home. Those Westerners include a woman who says she grew up in Alabama. Hoda Muthana once supported ISIS, but she told ABC News this.</s>HODA MUTHANA: I hope the... |
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with James Blitz, Whitehall editor of the Financial Times, about the latest in Brexit and the formation of a new political party in the U.K. called "the Independent Group." | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Brexit has already had far-reaching consequences for Britain. And here's another one. It looks like the U.K.'s decision to leave the European Union might be leading to the creation of a new political party. A handful of lawmakers from each of the two major parties have peeled off to create what they ... |
The Vatican started a four-day summit on Thursday that focuses on clergy sex abuse. Pope Francis called for the event following revelations of abuse and cover-ups around the globe. | AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: At the opening of a landmark Vatican summit, Pope Francis warned church leaders that the faithful are demanding concrete action against the clerical sex abuse that has devastated the Catholic Church's credibility. But as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, abuse survivors are skeptical that this will be... |
An estimated 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria. Most of those deaths occurred weeks or months after the hurricane made landfall — often because of problems with health care. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's been nearly 18 months since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. The blackout after the storm caused a lot of the island's health system to collapse. For months, the Puerto Rican government insisted that fewer than a hundred people died from the disaster. Now the official estimate is nearly 3... |
Hiccup and Toothless will return to theaters this weekend when the conclusion of the animated How To Train Your Dragon trilogy takes viewers to a hidden world. | AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Hiccup and Toothless - if you know that those are the names of a young Viking and his dragon, you're probably looking forward to the conclusion of their animated trilogy. Critic Bob Mondello says "How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" is everything its predecessors were and more.</s>BOB MONDE... |
President Trump says it's up to his newly confirmed attorney general, William Barr, to decide whether to make public the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Here in Washington this afternoon, President Trump took questions from reporters as he met with the chancellor of Austria at the White House. One of the big questions was about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and when it might wrap up. NPR national political reporter Mara Liasson joins... |
Bernie Sanders announced a second run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. This time, the Vermont independent enters the race as a leading candidate facing a crowded progressive field. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Senator Bernie Sanders is running for president once again. A few things have changed since his last run in 2016. Back then, the Vermont Independent was an underdog, and he was the candidate for the Democratic Party's left-wing base. Today, he's one of the most well-known candidates in a crowded, div... |
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Stanley Brand, former general counsel for the House of Representatives, about what would happen if the House were to sue over President Trump's national emergency. | AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: When President Trump announced that he was declaring a national emergency at the border with Mexico, he made clear he was expecting a fight in the courts.</s>PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We will possibly get a bad ruling, and then we'll get another bad ruling. And then, we'll end up in the Supreme Court... |
Ross Gay spent a year writing daily essays about things that delight him. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gay about some of the essays included in his new book, The Book of Delights. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: On the day he turned 42, the writer Ross Gay set himself a challenge. Every day for a year, he would write an essay about something delightful. He wrote about nicknames, fireflies, reckless air quotes. And about a hundred of those essays are now collected in his new book appropriately enough titled "... |
The German-born designer helped define the looks of Chanel and Fendi behind the scenes, even as he cut a titanic figure center-stage in the fashion industry. Chanel confirmed Lagerfeld's death. | AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85. He was Chanel's creative director for decades, and he was a symbol of fashion itself with his signature fingerless gloves and other bold gestures. Lagerfeld balanced the luxury brand's tradition with the excitement of the future. NPR's Andr... |
The family of a Covington High School student at the center of a standoff is suing The Washington Post. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with media law professor Derigan Silver about First Amendment law. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A lawyer for the Covington High School student at the center of a standoff in front of the Lincoln Memorial is suing The Washington Post. The lawsuit accuses the newspaper of bullying the student, Nicholas Sandmann, with, quote, "a modern form of McCarthyism."</s>ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A controversial vi... |
The Handmaid's Tale the Hulu TV series based on Margaret Atwood's novel, came to Washington, D.C., to shoot a scene on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Extras gathered to portray the handmaids. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: If you were here visiting Washington, D.C., last week, you might have caught a startling sight - groups of young women dressed in floor-length red capes and oversized white bonnets strolling along the paths leading to the Lincoln Memorial. The women were extras in Hulu TV's adaptation of Margar... |
A wannabe rapper named Backpack Kid is suing game maker of Fortnite for stealing a dance he claims he created called The Floss. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And now to the story of an Instagram and YouTube celebrity who sparked a dance craze. He's learning firsthand how tough it can be to turn Internet fame into money. Stacey Vanek Smith and Shane McKeon from our Planet Money Indicator team say his dilemma can be described in a single sentence.</s>... |
Catholic leaders from around the world are convening in Rome Thursday to discuss the continuing clergy sexual abuse crisis. Abuse survivors say they're not hopeful meaningful change will come from it. | AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Pope Francis has summoned bishops from around the world to the Vatican this week to talk about clergy sex abuse. They'll consider priests who abused children, bishops who cover up for them and how the Catholic Church should address these problems. This is the first summit of its kind. But as NPR's ... |
NPR's Michel Martin spoke with correspondent Anthony Loyd of The Times about Shamima Begum, an ISIS bride who left home as a teenager and now wants to return. | MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to start the program with a focus on the battle against ISIS. President Trump is expected to declare victory soon with the capture of the last pocket of territory held by the group in Syria. We're going to hear more about that in a minute. But first, we want to focus on the question of ... |
Workers in Sweden have the right to take six-months unpaid leave if they want to start their own business. It's one of the reasons why Sweden is a leading country for startups. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: If you dream about opening your own business, you might want to consider a move to Sweden. Their employers must grant a leave of absence up to six months to an employee who wants to start a company. If that company fails, the employee goes back to their old job. The safety net is one reason Swe... |
There are many things driving tens of thousands of Venezuelans to the streets. But a small part of this is what the economic and political crisis is doing to a basic food item — arepas. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Meanwhile in Venezuela itself, tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets to demand an end to Maduro's presidency. One of the things driving Venezuelans to protest is what the economic crisis is doing to their beloved arepas. NPR's Eyder Peralta reports.</s>EYDER PERALTA, BYLIN... |
Tensions between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan have skyrocketed after a suicide car bombing in disputed Kashmir. Tensions are also high inside India, as some mourners call for revenge. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The latest on Kashmir, that's the disputed region in the Himalayas split between Indian and Pakistani control. This past week saw a suicide car bomb that killed some 40 Indian troops, a car bomb for which a Pakistan-based militant group has claimed responsibility. Now, this is the deadliest suc... |
The conversation continues with economics reporter Keith Reed about the writers' strike, an early holiday shopping season, and U.S. payroll growth. | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: This is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: If you're just joining us, we've been talking economics with reporter Keith Reed.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: Keith, let us pick up with payroll reports. So a recent report shows that employers created 166,000 jobs last month. That's the ... |
USA Gymnastics has hired a new CEO: the embattled organization's fourth leader in the past two years. The organization is trying to get beyond a widening sexual abuse scandal. | ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Today, USA Gymnastics named its fourth CEO in less than two years. The new leader of USA Gymnastics is Li Li Leung. She will be leaving a job as an executive with the NBA to take the role. She's also a former collegiate gymnast. Reporter Alexandra Starr joins us to talk about her appointment. Hi ther... |
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin about Andrew McCabe's comments that President Trump chooses to believe U.S. adversaries over his intelligence agencies. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump has gone on record to say he takes Russian President Vladimir Putin at his word. I was there in Helsinki when Trump was pressed about Putin's claims not to have intervened in the 2016 election.</s>PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his d... |
President Trump will make the U.S. case for new leadership in Venezuela in a speech in Miami on Monday. The situation in Venezuela is an issue of growing political importance in Florida. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump was in Miami today to talk about Venezuela and growing international pressure to oust that country's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro. Trump got a warm welcome from the crowd, which included several hundred members of South Florida's Venezuelan expat community.</s>MARY LOUISE... |
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with economist Kenneth Rogoff about what would happen if the U.S. were to get rid of a lot of its paper currency, particularly larger bills, as he advocates. | MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: More and more of us are finding more and more ways to buy, sell and store our money, but about 70 percent of Americans still use paper money on a weekly basis. Harvard economist Ken Rogoff does not want to get rid of cash, but he does see problems with it. So we called him to ask why and ask wh... |
A dispute over royalties and new media has resulted in television and film writers going on strike. But how will it affect what we see on the screen? Farai Chideya talks with Larry Wilmore, an Emmy award-winning writer who also sits on the negotiating committee for the Writers Guild of America. | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: From NPR News, this is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: TV and film writers are on strike. These are the folks who write the punch lines for your late-night host and even write in the pratfalls for your sitcoms. It's the guild's first strike in 20 years. The conflict centers... |
On Monday, Oprah Winfrey responded to allegations of child abuse at her school for South African girls. Farai Chideya talks about the press conference and what's to follow with Allison Samuels, a News & Notes contributor and national correspondent for Newsweek magazine. | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: There's an old saying that goes leaders are born not made. But scores of prominent people including Colin Powell argue that leadership is learned, so apparently does media mogul Oprah Winfrey.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: She founded a girls' leadership academy near Johannesburg, South Africa. But last ... |
For analysis of news and events from Africa, Farai Chideya talks with Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. They discuss the growing number of women in politics and leadership positions in Africa. | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: I'm Farai Chideya, and this is NEWS & NOTES.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: It's time now for our Africa update. Today, sisters are doing it for themselves. We're talking about the women leaders of Africa. Yesterday, President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to seven people including Liberi... |
Former Washington Post reporter Patrice Gaines volunteers for a river clean-up near her home in Lake Wylie, S.C., and gets some unexpected gifts in return. | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: For this week's Snapshot, it's a dispatch from the banks of the Catawba River; that's in Lake Wylie, South Carolina, the turf of former Washington Post reporter Patrice Gaines. She once volunteered to collect trash from the river. and she found some unexpected gifts.</s>Mr. PATRICE GAINES (Former R... |
Merrill Lynch has given CEO Stanley O'Neal the boot. Is it bad news for African Americans climbing the corporate ladder? Farai Chideya talks with Alfred Edmond, Jr., senior vice president and editor-in-chief of Black Enterprise. | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: From NPR News, this is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: The head of one of America's biggest financial management company stepped down last weekend. E. Stanley O'Neal served as the CEO for Merrill Lynch for six years before retiring. O'Neal was one of only a few black CEOs e... |
News & Notes Web producer Geoffrey Bennett talks with Farai Chideya about the stories building buzz on our blog, including listener reaction to a recent bloggers' roundtable segment about a statue of rapper Tupac Shakur. | FARAI CHIDEYA, host: This is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: From Tupac to Genarlow to Wall Street, our blog News & Views lets you have your say on the headlines and about our show. NEWS & NOTES Web producer Geoffrey Bennett is here to tell us all about it.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: Hey, Geoffrey... |
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