Jim Kenney Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross Abruptly ResignsNPR - Richard GonzalesPhiladelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced the abrupt resignation of his city's police commissioner Richard Ross Tuesday amid reports of sexual harassment and racial and gender discrimination within the department.
Arkansas Former Arkansas VA Doctor Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter In 3 DeathsNPR - Richard GonzalesA former pathologist at an Arkansas veterans hospital was charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of three patients whose records he allegedly falsified to conceal his misdiagnoses.
Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney Releases A Last Album, Ending An Era For the Indie Rock TrioNPR - Will HermesSleater-Kinney's longtime drummer is leaving the band — but not before they release one last album together. It marks the end of an era for the indie rock power trio. For more than 20 years, drummer Janet
Carbon How The Flying Shame Movement Got Off The GroundNPRNPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Umair Irfan, who covers climate change and the environment for Vox, about the flying shame movement and what can be done about carbon emissions from air travel. All right.
World News Ex-MLB Players Luis Castillo, Octavio Dotel Linked To Alleged Dominican Drug LordNPR - Colin DwyerTwo former Major League Baseball stars, pitcher Octavio Dotel and infielder Luis Castillo, have been implicated in a massive drug trafficking bust in the Dominican Republic. The country's attorney general,
Hemp When Texas Legalized Hemp It Forced Some Counties To Change How They Prosecute PotNPR - Christopher ConnellySome counties in states that have legalized hemp, but not marijuana, are having to stop prosecuting low-level crimes because labs to test the difference between the substances are hard to come by. When
Islamic State (ISIS) A Look At The ISIS Presence In AfghanistanNPRNPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kelly Magsamen, vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress, about ISIS in Afghanistan, and beyond. In Afghanistan
Sherlock Holmes Syrian Government On The Verge Of Taking Back Important Town From Rebels In Civil WarNPR - Ruth SherlockAn important rebel city falls in Syria as the government's relentless attack on the last rebel province turns one of the last corner's in the civil war. After months of airstrikes and a high civilian toll,
Politics Trump Administration Faces Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Health Care Failures By ICENPRNPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Lisa Graybill of the Southern Poverty Law Center about its new class action alleging deficient health care in ICE detention facilities. The Trump administration faces a new
Oceans Why Sea Level Rise Varies Across The WorldNPR - Rebecca HersherThe sea level is rising more in some coastal places than in others. But why is that? It has to do with wind, currents, glaciers and even the last Ice Age. The Earth is getting hotter. Ice is melting. oceans
Andrew Yang Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang On His Universal Basic Income PlanNPR - Tamara KeithDemocratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a plan to save the U.S. economy — a Universal Basic Income, which he says will take the country by storm. Andrew Yang is the Democratic presidential candidate
Sanctions How The Trump Administration's Sanctions Are Affecting IraniansNPR - Steve InskeepReporting from Tehran, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks about how the Trump administration's decision to reimpose sanctions is affecting Iranians and whom they blame for their economic woes. And let's hear now
Migration 'A Good Provider' Argues Migration Can Be SalvationNPR - Ari ShapiroIn 1987, reporter Jason DeParle went to sleep on the floor of a shanty in Manila for the first time. He had come to the Philippines to find out more about poverty in the developing world, and when he there,
Mike Pompeo Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo Tries To Rally U.N. Security Council To Counter IranNPR - Michele KelemenSecretary of State Mike Pompeo takes his case against Iran to the United Nations Security Council, addressing a special meeting on threats in the Middle East. Since pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal,
Chinese Government Twitter And Facebook Shut Down Fake Propaganda Accounts Run By Chinese GovernmentNPRNPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Adam Segal, at the Council on Foreign Relations, about Facebook and Twitter shutting down hundreds of fake accounts run by the Chinese government. We have heard a lot
Red Flag Law Study Shows Red Flag Laws Might Help Prevent ViolenceNPRA new study on red flag laws, which help remove guns from people deemed a safety risk, shows the laws might help prevent violence. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Garen Wintemute, the study's author.
Eric Garner Eric Garner's Daughter Reacts To NYPD's Firing Of Officer Involved In 2014 DeathNPRNPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Eric Garner's daughter, Emerald Garner, about the firing of the New York City police officer involved in her father's death. What does justice look like five years Eric
Giuseppe Conte Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte Resigns, Ending His Populist CoalitionNPR - Sylvia PoggioliItaly's premier announced his resignation and blamed his far-right coalition partner for undermining the government. Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte resigned today. That followed a scathing rebuke
Radiation Internationally-Maintained Radiation Monitors Go Offline Following Russian ExplosionNPR - Geoff BrumfielFollowing a mysterious explosion at a Russian missile testing site last week, several radiation monitors maintained by an international organization have gone offline. An update now on a story from Russia,
NYPD What The Firing Of NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo Means For Police NationwideNPRNPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Patrick Yoes, president of the National Fraternal Order of Police, about national implications of the firing of NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo. That is one view on Pantaleo's
Giuseppe Conte Italy's Premier Resigns In Fight Within His Coalition GovernmentNPR - Merrit KennedyItalian Premier Giuseppe Conte has announced that his resignation amid political chaos and jockeying for power within his own coalition. In a scathing speech to the Senate, Conte railed against his right-wing
Glucose Want To Know What's In Your Sweat? There's A Patch For ThatNPRIf you wanted to measure your heart rate or step count during exercise, you would use a fitness tracker. But what if you wanted a device to tell you when when you need to drink more water or should reach
Plastic U.S. Recycling Industry Is Struggling to Figure Out A Future Without ChinaNPR - Christopher JoyceThe U.S. used to send a lot of its plastic waste to China to get recycled. But last year, China put the kibosh on imports of the world's waste. The policy, called National Sword, freaked out people in
Play buttonCondominiums 2 Condos Were Illegally Converted Into 18 Micro Apartments In NYCNPR - Bill ChappellTwo Manhattan landlords took an unusual — and illegal — route to double their rentable space: cutting their two condos in half horizontally so they could rent out 18 tiny apartments in their Lower East
News Salvadoran Woman Who Lost Her Pregnancy Is Acquitted Of Homicide In RetrialNPR - Merrit KennedyA young woman from El Salvador who was convicted of aggravated homicide after she lost her pregnancy has been acquitted in a retrial. El Salvador has one of the strictest abortion laws in the world — not
Culture How A Few 'Renegade' Thinkers Helped Usher In A New Era Of AnthropologyNPR - Dave DaviesIn his new book, Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King tells the story of Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and the other 20th century anthropologists who challenged outdated notions of race, class and gender. is
Notre Dame Cathedral Notre Dame Repair Crews Are Back To Work, But Paris' Lead Concerns RemainNPR - Jake CigaineroWork at the site of France's damaged Notre Dame Cathedral resumed on Monday, after a three-week pause over concerns about lead that spewed from the fire in April. As the blaze ripped through the 850-year-old
Play buttonHong Kong A Guide To What's Happening In Hong KongNPR - Colin DwyerFor months, Hong Kong's streets have seethed with discontent. Scenes from the semiautonomous region show protesters, sometimes numbering in the hundreds of thousands, many wearing surgical masks and carrying
Concerts VIDEOS: The Latest Tiny DesksNPRTy Dolla $ign Pays Tribute To Mac Miller At The Tiny Desk , their first album together since 2005. Now, they've performed three songs \u2014 two new, one old \u2014 for Calexico's Tiny Desk debut.","title":"Calexico
Julian Castro Julián Castro Is 10th Democrat To Qualify For September Presidential DebateNPR - Jessica TaylorFormer Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro is now the tenth Democrat to qualify for next month's Democratic primary debate. Castro, a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, who later became
