Comedians Legendary Comic Sammy Shore, Co-Founder Of The Comedy Store, Dies At 92NPR - Samantha RaphelsonComedian Sammy Shore, who co-founded one of the most influential clubs in comedy, died Saturday at 92, his son announced in a series of tweets. Shore died at his Las Vegas home surrounded by family, according
Culture 'There's Something About Sweetie' — Something Irrepressibly JoyousNPR - Alethea KontisMy friend Chris happened upon me reading There's Something About Sweetie in a coffee shop and introduced her presence by laughing. "For a second, I thought that was you on the cover," she said. I flipped
Politics Biden Eschews Anger, Hoping 'Unity' Can Lift Him To The PresidencyNPR - Domenico MontanaroIt's not a message for everyone — even though that's exactly what it's intended to be. Many Democrats are angry. They're angry with President Trump's election and what it represents. And they're angry
NPR TV Show EndsNPR Tonight's Game of Thrones series finale has fans wondering how storylines will end, and how they'll cope with the end of the show.
Twitter #YouKnowMe: Twitter Users Share Abortion ExperiencesNPR - Denise Guerra Twitter users revealed their abortion experiences under the tag #YouKnowMe after actress and late-night host Busy Philipps shared hers.
Vietnam War How Vietnamese Americans Took Over The Nails Business: A DocumentaryNPR - Lulu Garcia-NavarroIf you've had a manicure lately, chances are you probably had it done at a nail salon run by people of Vietnamese heritage. The salons are everywhere — in nearly every city, state and strip mall across
NPR Sunday PoliticsNPR - Mara Liasson Democratic congressional leaders are urging a cautious approach to impeaching President Trump while a historic number of Democratic presidential candidates are stepping up to unseat him.
NPR Severe Weather Hits Central U.S.NPR - Shannon Van Sant The central U.S. has been hammered this weekend by severe weather including tornadoes, hail and heavy rain. Many affected areas were already coping with recent flooding.
Abortion States Prepare 'Trigger Bills' To Outlaw Abortion If 'Roe' OverturnedNPR - Jackie Fortier Some states are passing laws to get ready for a possible future in which abortion is no longer protected on the federal level.
Brown v. Board of Education Trump Judicial Nominees And 'Brown V. Board Of Education'NPR NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks former federal prosecutor Paul Butler about how more than 20 Trump judicial nominees have declined to affirm a Supreme Court decision desegregating public schools.
Science Billion-Dollar Gamble: How A 'Singular Hero' Helped Start A New Field In PhysicsNPR - Nell GreenfieldboyceImagine spending 40 years and more than a billion dollars on a gamble. That's what one U.S. government science agency did. It's now paying off big time, with new discoveries about black holes and exotic
Play buttonMaking Movies Making Movies And Rubén Blades Trace Stories Of Immigrant Injustice With 'Ameri'kana'NPR - Lulu Garcia-Navarro , Ned WhartonYou might say Making Movies is a band of brothers. The Kansas City-based group is made up of two Panamanian-Americans — guitarist Enrique Chi and his brother, bassist Diego Chi — and two Mexican-Americans;
Identity Grappling With Identity In 'Fieldnotes On Ordinary Love'NPR NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with poet and video game designer Keith S. Wilson about his new collection of poetry, Fieldnotes On Ordinary Love, which explores space, race and physics.
NPR Previewing The European Parliament ElectionsNPR - Teri Schultz It's been five years since the last election, and since then there has been a surge in populist right-wing parties that are looking to change the European Union from within.
Mexico Deported After Living In The U.S. For 26 Years, He Navigates A New Life In MexicoNPR - Lulu Garcia-Navarro , Peter BreslowWhen 29-year-old Gilberto Olivas-Bejarano first returned to his birth home, the Mexican city of León, he didn't speak the native language. He arrived in León alone, and today, nearly two years since his
NPR Academics Gather To Study Phish, ManNPR - Deena Prichep A first-ever academic conference on the meaning and impact of the jam band Phish is happening this weekend in Oregon.
Iranian Elham Pourtaher, Iranian In The U.S., On Daily Life In Iran Amid Rising TensionsNPR NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian studying in the U.S., about daily life in Iran and rising tensions between the two countries.
NPR Sunday Puzzle: Play The Long (Vowel) GameNPR - Will ShortzOn-air challenge: Think of a made-up two-word phrase. Each word has two syllables. The first syllable has a long-E vowel sound. Change that to a long-A sound and phonetically you'll get the second word
Fleabag (TV Series) 'Fleabag' Returns For Season 2NPR - Glen Weldon The second season of the acclaimed Amazon series Fleabag brings back creator/writer/star Phoebe Waller-Bridge in her role as an angry, funny, mixed-up young woman living in London.
NPR Student Journalist Lands A National ScoopNPR NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks 17-year-old Gabe Fleisher about breaking the news of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's presidential run.
Measles Outbreaks Measles Outbreak In The PhilippinesNPR - Jason Beaubien The Philippines is now dealing with one of the worst measles outbreaks in the world. Since January, the country has had more than 33,000 cases. More than 450 people have died.
World News In France, The #MeToo Movement Has Yet To Live Up To Women's HopesNPR - Eleanor BeardsleyAs a budding young soprano in the 1990s, Anne-Sophie Schmidt was selected to sing the lead role in an opera conducted by the renowned Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit and the National Orchestra of France.
World News A Photographer's Search For The Vanishing Stars Of Bengali Folk TheaterNPR - Amr AlfikyPhotographer Soumya Sankar Bose remembers how Jatra, a style of folk theater, was popular during his childhood in West Bengal. But 10 years after moving out, Bose returned home to find that Jatra was longer
Culture Buckle Up For This 'Million Mile Road Trip'NPR - Jason SheehanThere's an alien under the bed and another on the lawn. Zoe Snapp has a pearl in her pocket that's really a transdimensional gateway, opened solely by playing a particular riff on her trumpet. A few blocks
Politics Companies That Rely On Census Data Worry Citizenship Question Will HurtNPR - Hansi Lo WangSome critics of the citizenship question the Trump administration wants to add to the 2020 census are coming from a group that tends to stay away from politically heated issues — business leaders. From
Pete Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg Dismisses President Trump's Acceptance Of His MarriageNPR - Tamara KeithPete Buttigieg isn't giving President Trump much credit for saying the South Bend, Ind., mayor's marriage to a man is "absolutely fine" and "good." "That's nice," Buttigieg said dismissively in an interview
Play buttonEurovision 2019 Duncan Laurence From The Netherlands Wins Eurovision 2019NPR - Anastasia TsioulcasSinger Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands has emerged victorious at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. The finals were held Saturday night in Tel Aviv, Israel. The 25-year-old Laurence won the international
Culture From The Gridiron To Multigrid Algorithms In 'Mind And Matter'NPR - Michel MartinHere's a puzzle: Do the qualities that allow a man to block 300lb bodies every day have anything to do with the qualities that allow the same person to solve three-body problems late into the night? Stumped?
Lee Zeldin Escalating U.S.-Iran Tensions: Trump's Foreign PolicyNPRNPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lee Zeldin, a Republican congressman from New York, about what the week's events tells us about the president's approach to foreign policy. It's been an eventful week in
