News (U.S.) DOJ Increases Power Of Agency Running Immigration Court SystemNPR - Richard GonzalesThe Trump administration is making changes to the agency that operates the nation's immigration court system, a move immediately denounced by the immigration judges union as a power grab. The agency is
Tariffs President Trump Announces Higher Tariffs On Goods From ChinaNPR - Scott HorsleyPresident Trump has ordered higher tariffs on Chinese imports, in another escalation of the trade war between the world's two biggest economies. Chinese imports will be getting more expensive this fall.
Play buttonCulture Top Publishers Sue Audible, Alleging Encroachment On Text TerritoryNPR - Colin DwyerSeven major publishing houses say that Audible, the audiobook company owned by Amazon, is violating copyright law with a planned speech-to-text feature that's set to launch next month. In a lawsuit filed
Dayton Friend Of Dayton Shooter Will Remain In Jail After Judge Denies Motion For ReleaseNPR - Brakkton BookerA federal judge Friday ruled the longtime friend of the Dayton, Ohio, gunman who killed nine people and injured dozens of others this month, must remain behind bars ahead of his trial. Ethan Kollie is
World News What Satellite Imagery Can Tell Us About The Fires Burning In The AmazonNPRNPR's Audie Cornish talks with Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about what satellite imagery can tell us about the cause and extent of the fires in Brazil. Much of what's known about fires
Walmart What's Next For El Paso Walmart Where 22 People Were Killed In ShootingNPR - Jonathan LevinsonThe site of this month's mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas did more than just kill 22 people, it also hit a public gathering space that united cultures in the cross-border community. The El
World News Brazilians Take To The Streets To Protest Deforestation Of The AmazonNPR - Philip ReevesBrazilians have taken to the streets in protest over destruction being done to the Amazon through wildfires and tree cutting. They say the new right-wing president is fueling the destruction. So what be
South Texas Inside A Family Detention Center In Texas That Will Soon Re-OpenNPR - John BurnettNPR takes a look inside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. It is one of the nation's largest immigrant detention centers and it's reserved for families. The Trump administration
World News G7 Leaders Set To Discuss Fires In the Amazon, Fears Of A U.S. RecessionNPR - Frank LangfittThe leaders of seven leading economies, including the U.S., meet this weekend at Biarritz, France. President Trump will meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the first time. The G-7 summit this
World News Anti-Government Protesters In Hong Kong Join Hands, Form Human Chains Across The CityNPR - Anthony KuhnThousands of protesters in Hong Kong formed human chains across the city, in a bid to drum up international support for anti-government protests that have continued for nearly three months. Anti-government
David Koch Looking Back At David Koch's Impact On American PoliticsNPRNPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, and author of Dark Money, about David Koch, who died at age 79. He was known as philanthropist, and funded Libertarian causes. Billionaire David
Play buttonMusic Tanya Tucker Is Back And Taking No PrisonersNPR - Ari ShapiroTanya Tucker has always been a hellraiser. The 60-year-old country singer who shot to fame with Delta Dawn in 1972 at 13 has made a career out of charismatic sass, an outlaw image and a signature vocal
Deforestation Why Norway And Germany Have Frozen Money Going To The Amazon FundNPRNPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nature correspondent Jeff Tollefson about the Amazon Fund and the web of diplomacy aiming to prevent deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. As the Amazon rain forest continues
Albums Raphael Saadiq Balances Personal Introspection With Social Commentary On 'Jimmy Lee'NPR - Oliver WangRaphael Saadiq's new album, Jimmy Lee, is his first in eight years. It was inspired by his brother's struggles with addiction and, ultimately, his death. R&B star Raphael Saadiq has just released his new
Politics Week In Politics: Trump's Comments On Trade, The Fed Chairman And 'Disloyalty'NPRNPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post, and Hugo Gurdon of the Washington Examiner about President Trump's controversial comments on trade, the fed chairman and Jews. All right.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Julia Louis-Dreyfus: 'I Don't Think I've Made It ... And I Like That'NPR - Audie CornishJulia Louis-Dreyfus remembers drawing her first laugh. The joke was performed for the benefit of her mother. "I stuck some raisins up my nose when I was 3," she says. "Classic. Classic! ... And then we
U.S. Companies Trump Lashes Out, 'Orders' All U.S. Companies To Move Out Of ChinaNPR - Jim ZarroliPresident Trump promised to respond Friday after China said it will slap tariffs on $75 billion automobiles and other U.S. goods. He also "ordered" U.S. companies to stop doing business with China. The
World News Feds Charge 80 People Over Massive Online Fraud ConspiracyNPR - Merrit KennedyA Japanese woman met a person online in March 2016 who said he was a U.S. Army captain based in Syria. They quickly became close, exchanging messages over email. She thought she was in a romantic relationship
Gender Court Says Idaho Must Provide Gender Confirmation Surgery To Transgender InmateNPR - Amanda Peacher , James DawsonThe 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the state of Idaho must provide gender confirmation surgery to inmate Adree Edmo. The panel of judges agreed with U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill's in
Cannabis California Says Its Cannabis Revenue Has Fallen Short Of Estimates, Despite GainsNPR - Bill ChappellCalifornia's cannabis excise tax generated only $74.2 million in the second quarter of 2019, the state says, announcing numbers that are short of projections that were set months ago. It's the latest that
News Keystone Pipeline's Alternate Route Gets The Go-Ahead From Nebraska CourtNPR - Colin DwyerThe company behind the controversial Keystone XL pipeline has won a major victory in Nebraska, where environmental activists, two Native American tribes and some local landowners had sought to derail construction.
News Customs Agents Make 'Unusual' Seizure Of Nearly 53,000 Chinese Gun PartsNPR - Sasha IngberU.S. Customs and Border Protection said it recently made an unusual seizure at a port in California. Agents in Long Beach intercepted three shipments containing nearly 53,000 sights, stocks and other parts
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treated Again For CancerNPR - Nina TotenbergJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court disclosed Friday. The radiation therapy,
Megan Thee Stallion Beyond 'Old Town Road': 3 Catchy Songs Tap Into 2019's Summer SpiritNPR - Ken TuckerAlessia Cara's "Rooting for You," Megan Thee Stallion's "Hot Girl Summer," and Bon Iver's "U (Man Like)" offer three different takes on — and moods for — the summer. This is FRESH AIR. Summer's almost
Peter Fonda 'Fresh Air' Remembers 'Easy Rider' Peter FondaNPR - Terry GrossThe Oscar-nominated actor and screenwriter, who died Aug. 16, spoke to Terry Gross in 1998 about Ulee's Gold, Easy Rider and his acting philosophy of "doing less — and making more of it." This is FRESH
Detention Center Lengthy Detention Of Migrant Children May Create Lasting Trauma, Say ResearchersNPR - Rhitu ChatterjeeThis week, the Trump administration announced a new regulation that would allow it to detain migrant families who have crossed the U.S. border illegally for an indefinite period of time. The new rule to
Play buttonMusic Accordion Master Celso Piña Dead At 66NPR - Felix ContrerasThe prolific and celebrated Mexican accordion player Celso Piña died Wednesday of a heart attack in his hometown of Monterrey, Mexico. He was 66 years old. His record label, La Tuna Records, announced
Amazon Rainforest PHOTOS: The Amazon Rainforest, Ablaze In BrazilNPR - Suzette LohmeyerInternational concern is growing over the rapidly spreading fires that are destroying large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. The fires were most likely started by farmers clearing land, but have spiraled
Jair Bolsonaro Brazilian President Bolsonaro To Send Army To Combat Amazon Rainforest FiresNPR - Philip ReevesBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has responded to growing international condemnation over the fires sweeping through vast swaths of the Amazon rainforest by announcing that the army may be sent in to
Indigenous Peoples 440 Years Old And Filled With Footprints, These Aren't Your Everyday MapsNPR - Wade GoodwynAt the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, 19 maps, nearly 440 years old, are on display — and they look spectacular. "Works on paper are delicate so we're only allowed to put them on display for months
