Culture A Perfect Summer Book, 'Late Migrations' Reminds Us Of Life's Beauty And FragilityNPR - Maureen CorriganEssayist Margaret Renkl writes about what she calls "backyard nature," which, to those of us who live in crowded cities, might call to mind creatures to trap or squash, like rats, squirrels, mice and bugs.
Music Teitur On Mountain StageWest Virginia Public BroadcastingNPR - Dave LavenderFaroe Islands native singer/songwriter Teitur Lassen said recently, "If you're a chef, you don't want to work with only carrots." In his diverse, nearly 20-year career, Teitur's fertile imagination has
World News Face Recognition Lets Palestinians Cross Israeli Checkposts Fast, But Raises ConcernsNPR - Daniel EstrinIt takes a few seconds: Palestinians place electronic ID cards on a sensor, stare at the aperture of a small black camera, then walk past panels fanning open to let them through. Israel is upgrading its
Play buttonTaylor Swift Look What They Made Her Do: Taylor Swift To Re-Record Her CatalogNPR - Anastasia TsioulcasEnding a summer of speculation, singer Taylor Swift confirmed Thursday that she's planning to re-record her existing catalog in order to regain artistic and financial control of her material after her
Korean Peninsula South Korea To Scrap Military Intelligence-Sharing Agreement With JapanNPR - Sasha Ingber , Anthony KuhnSouth Korea plans to terminate a military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, prompting concerns about security cooperation between Seoul, Tokyo and Washington as North Korea's nuclear and missile
Culture 'The Trojan War Museum' Is A Gorgeous Gallery Of DreamsNPR - Marcela Davison AvilésWhen I was seven, the blurred world I took for granted was corrected with my first pair of glasses. Wearing them for the first time was a revelation — everything suddenly snapped into place, clear and
Budget Deficit CBO Predicts Budget Deficit Will Reach Nearly $1 Trillion This YearNPR NPR's David Greene talks to Phillip Swagel, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, who says the nation's fiscal outlook is challenging and is on an unsustainable course.
NPR Do You Know Anyone Who Has Ever Been To Bielefeld?NPR Officials in the German city are offering a million Euros if you can prove the town does not exist. There's this long-running online conspiracy theory that the city is an illusion.
NPR Cambridge Engineers Set Out To Break Piano Playing RecordNPR The Daily Mail reports they wanted to break the record for most people playing the piano at the same time. They had school kids design long mechanical fingers to allow 88 people to play at once.
Jeffrey Epstein Why 'Vanity Fair' Story Left Out Abuse Allegations Against EpsteinNPR - David Folkenflik The media recently has feasted on news about the case involving the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Yet the press only paid only intermittent attention until an investigative series late last year.
Extreme Sports 'Into The Planet' Captures Cave Diving's Mortal Risks — And All lts GloryNPR - Gabino IglesiasJill Heinerth's Into the Planet starts with the world-renowned cave diver almost dying while being one of the first humans to search for caves inside the B-15 iceberg, the largest moving object on earth.
Greenland FACT CHECK: Did Harry Truman Really Try To Buy Greenland Back In The Day?NPR - Philip EwingPresident Trump defended the idea of buying Greenland — derided by critics within the United States and rejected by Denmark, which controls it — in part by saying the idea first came from President Harry
Music A Confrontation With Music: Ivo Pogorelich's First Album In 21 YearsNPR - Tom HuizengaControversy has seemed to follow pianist Ivo Pogorelich at every move, even from the beginning. In 1980, when the 22-year-old whiz kid from Yugoslavia failed to reach the final round of the International
World News Australia Joins U.S.-Led Maritime Force Protecting Persian Gulf ShippingNPR - Scott NeumanAustralia has agreed to join a U.S.-led naval contingent protecting commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman amid alleged attacks by Iran against vessels operating in the strategic waterways.
Sperm Scientists Attempt Controversial Experiment To Edit DNA In Human Sperm Using CRISPRNPR - Rob SteinFirst it was human embryos. Now scientists are trying to develop another way to modify human DNA that can be passed on to future generations, NPR has learned. Reproductive biologists at Weill Cornell in
Hurricane Maria Mental Health Toll Of Hurricane Maria Still Palpable In Puerto RicoNPR - Marisa Peñaloza , Greg AllenOn a muggy morning in Rio Piedras, a San Juan suburb, about three dozen volunteers dressed in parrot green polo shirts are gathered in a brightly lit conference room of El Retiro, a retirement community.
Red Flag Law In Vermont, A Case Of One Man Whose Gun Was Seized Under Red Flag LawNPR - Melissa BlockThis summer's mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, accelerated calls for more red flag or extreme risk laws in the states as well as helped jumpstart bills in Congress. The laws allow courts
Politics Trump's 'Disloyalty' Claim About Jewish Democrats Shows He Doesn't Get How They VoteNPR - Domenico Montanaro , Tamara KeithPresident Trump doubled down Wednesday on remarks that American Jews who vote for Democrats are disloyal to Israel. "In my opinion, you vote for a Democrat, you're being very disloyal to Jewish people,
Iran Iran: When They Were OptimistsNPR NPR's Steve Inskeep is in Tehran revisiting familiar faces. They're people he interviewed years ago, when Iran had a nuclear agreement with the U.S. What's happened since the U.S. left the deal?
Greenland Danish Parliament Member Reacts To Trump Wanting To Buy GreenlandNPR NPR's Noel King talks to Michael Aastrup Jensen, a member of Denmark's Parliament, about President Trump cancelling a trip to his country, and Trump's wish to buy Greenland.
Politics Trump Policy Would Allow Indefinite Detention Of Migrant Families, ChildrenNPR NPR's David Greene talks to Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, about the new U.S. policy to detain migrant families indefinitely.
Politics What's Changed Since Kathleen Hawk Sawyer Last Headed Prison Bureau?NPR - Ryan Lucas It's been 16 years since Kathleen Hawk Sawyer was in charge of the federal Bureau of Prisons. On big change is that the prison population has jumped from 65,000 in 1992 to 177,000 in 2019.
Billie Holiday Turning The Tables: Drawing Inspiration From Billie HolidayNPR For this week's installment of the NPR Music series Turning the Tables, we hear how the music of Billie Holiday inspired a group of poets, including Caroline Randall Williams.
Iranian Lack Of Understanding Between U.S. And Iranian Leaders Has ConsequencesNPR NPR's Steve Inskeep sits down with conservative writer and newspaper editor Amir Mohebbian in Tehran to understand what Iran's ruling establishment thinks of escalating tensions with the U.S.
Alex Morgan In Soccer's Equal Pay Suit, A May 2020 Trial Is 'Good Overall,' Says Alex MorganNPR - David GreeneThe U.S. women's soccer team is still savoring its victory after capturing the World Cup championship this summer. But off the field, the players continue to battle a gender discrimination case against
DNA News Brief: Federal Deficit, New Immigration Policy, DNA ExperimentNPR - Noel King , David Greene The Congressional Budget Office revises its federal deficit estimate. New policy would allow the government to indefinitely detain children with their families. And, the results of a DNA experiment.
Addiction Addiction Clinics Market Unproven Infusion Treatments To Desperate PatientsNPR - Jake HarperJason was hallucinating. He was withdrawing from drugs at an addiction treatment center near Indianapolis, and he had hardly slept for several days. "He was reaching for things, and he was talking to Gates
Taylor Swift After Latest Album Release, Taylor Swift Will Rerecord All Her Old SongsNPR Taylor Swift's newest album is released on Friday. Next, Swift plans to rerecord all her old songs after she failed to secure her original master recordings when her Big Machine Records was acquired.
Democratic Party Activists Push Democrats On Climate Change, A New Priority For Party's BaseNPR - Jeff BradyDemocratic National Committee officials will vote today on whether to hold a presidential primary debate focused only on climate change. Amid a rise in extreme weather events and increasingly dire scientific
NPR Weekend Games Will Decide Little League World ChampionsNPR The world's top 11 and 12-year-old baseball players are battling it out in South Williamsport, Pa., in the Little League World Series. The winners will be decided this weekend.
