NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesOrville Orville Peck Is Making A Very Different Kind Of Country MusicNPR - Stephen Kallao , Kimberly JunodOrville Peck makes a very different kind of country music. It's a kind that's just as authentic as the storytellers he admired growing up, though some have questioned that because of the way he presents
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesPlay buttonMark Ronson After Years Of Hit-Making For Others, Mark Ronson Puts His Feelings FirstNPR - Audie Cornish , Noah Caldwell , Gemma WattersDig into the liner notes of the biggest pop records of the last 15 years and Mark Ronson's name will come up up a lot. As a producer, his work on Amy Winehouse's Back to Black and Adele's 19 put him on
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesCulture Uncovering The Story Of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's 1st Black Sports StarNPR - Dave Davies At the height of America's Jim Crow era, Taylor broke barriers by becoming the country's fastest and most famous cyclist. Michael Kranish tells his story in the new book, The World's Fastest Man.
NPRadded this to MusicWillie Nelson Willie Nelson's Voice And Spirit Remain Strong On 'Ride Me Back Home'NPR - Ken Tucker The 86-year-old country star reflects on the passage of time on his new album. Ride Me Back Home is a lively, restless collection that contains solid new material and a keen sense of self-scholarship.
NPRadded this to BooksCulture New Noir By James Ellroy And Denise Mina Is Daredevil Storytelling At Its FinestNPR - Maureen Corrigan From Nazis and narcos to mistresses and mysterious ship wrecks, Ellroy's This Storm and Mina's Conviction offer plot twists and zig-zags that take readers on a wild ride.
NPRadded this to U.S. NewsComedians On A Tiny Island, Comedian Delivers A Graduation Speech For OneNPR - Haley FagerWhen Gwen Lynch graduated 8th grade from Cuttyhunk Elementary on Monday, she was the only one. Cuttyhunk is a tiny island — the last of a chain of about 10 small islands southeast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesPatrick M. Shanahan Shanahan Drops Out Of Running For Defense SecretaryNPR - Brian NaylorActing Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has removed himself from consideration to permanently lead the Defense Department. President Trump tweeted Tuesday that Shanahan "has decided not to go forward
NPRadded this to U.S. NewsSundar Pichai Google Will Devote $1 Billion To Try To Tame Housing Costs In SF Bay AreaNPR - Bill ChappellGoogle is committing $1 billion to try to provide more affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, where big tech firms have been blamed for putting home prices out of reach for anyone without a
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesFacebook Facebook Unveils Libra Cryptocurrency, Sets Launch For 2020NPR - Bill ChappellFacebook is branching into cryptocurrency, unveiling a new blockchain-based currency called Libra that could challenge bitcoin. Libra will be controlled by a nonprofit group in which Facebook will share
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesCulture 'The Accident Of Color' Looks At The Failure Of ReconstructionNPR - Kamil AhsanWhy did Reconstruction fail? It's a heady question for American historians — not least because despite seminal scholarship on the subject, from W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction in America and Eric
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesPolitics U.S. Schools Underreport How Often Students Are Restrained Or Secluded, Watchdog SaysNPR - Jenny AbamuWhen students are believed to be a danger to themselves or others, they're sometimes restrained in school or isolated in a separate room. These practices, known as restraint and seclusion, are supposed
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesMusic The World Cafe PlaylistNPR - Talia Schlanger , Stephen KallaoWhen it comes to the airwaves, World Cafe is NPR's most popular music radio show. More than 200 public radio stations, from all corners of the country, carry the two-hour program. NPR.org visitors might
NPRadded this to MusicMusic Viking's Choice: Japanese Free Jazz, Psychedelic Hardcore, Doomy DroneNPR - Lars GotrichFor more than a decade, the Viking's Choice column has been a safe space (or a festering wound, depending on whom you ask) for metal, punk, drone and all sorts of "weird" and/or "loud" music on NPR. You've
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesCryptocurrency Facebook Announces Plans To Launch Cryptocurrency Called LibraNPR - Steve Inskeep , Aarti Shahani Facebook says that by next year people on apps like Whatsapp and Messenger will be able to basically text payments. This news comes as regulators are asking if the tech giant is already too powerful.
NPRadded this to PoliticsNews Trump Threatens To Deport 'Millions,' As He Kicks Off Campaign For ReelectionNPR - Franco OrdoñezOn the day of his self-declared presidential campaign kickoff, President Trump is threatening to deport "millions" of immigrants in the United States illegally beginning "next week." The administration
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesProbation 'Wake-Up Call' About A Broken System: New Study Shows Failings Of Probation, ParoleNPR - Carrie JohnsonNearly half the people admitted to state prisons in the U.S. are there because of violations of probation or parole, according to a new nationwide study that highlights the personal and economic costs
NPRadded this to SportsMichel Platini Michel Platini, Europe's Former Soccer Boss, Arrested As Part Of Qatar InquiryNPR - Bill ChappellFrench anti-corruption police have arrested former UEFA President Michel Platini in a case related to "Qatargate" — the ongoing investigations into how Qatar was awarded the 2022 World Cup. Platini is
NPRadded this to Morning EditionUranium What Happens To The Nuclear Deal If Iran Keeps Stockpiling Uranium?NPR Iran says it will exceed the limit on its stockpile of uranium agreed to under the 2015 nuclear deal. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ambassador Wendy Sherman who helped craft that deal four years ago.
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesNPR Caveat Emptor: Something To Keep In Mind When Shopping OnlineNPR A Florida man bought real estate online, paying what seemed like a bargain: about $9,000 for what was advertised as a villa. It was a strip of land between two actual villas
NPRadded this to Most Emailed StoriesMarie Curie Cake Decorators Confuse Mariah Carey With Marie CurieNPR Author Harriet Lye says her cousin in England told her colleagues that she wanted a Mariah Carey birthday cake. Instead, she got a cake featuring physicist and chemist Marie Curie.
NPRadded this to BooksCulture 'Fleishman Is In Trouble' Flips Expectations Upside DownNPR - Lily MeyerEverybody I know loves reading Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Even though I understand the gender-political problems inherent in referring to female writers by first names, I struggle to resist expressing my informally,
NPRadded this to World NewsIran U.S. Resident Imprisoned In Iran On Spying Charges Returns To AmericaNPR - Ashley WestermanA U.S. permanent resident who was recently released from prison in Iran is finally making his way back to America, where his three sons live. Nizar Zakka, 52, who is a citizen of Lebanon, was arrested
NPRadded this to Most Emailed Stories Miami Officer Acquitted Of Attempted Manslaughter In Shooting Of CaregiverNPR - Scott NeumanA North Miami police officer has been found guilty of culpable negligence but was acquitted by a jury on two more serious felonies in connection with a 2016 shooting that wounded the caretaker of an autistic
NPRadded this to PoliticsPolitics Apple's Scary Buying Power And The Woman Who Named ItNPR - Greg RosalskyEditor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. Last month, the Supreme Court opened the door for Apple to lose a lot of money. It decided in Apple vs Pepper — the
NPRadded this to HealthInsurance Texas Is Latest State To Attack Surprise Medical BillsNPR - Ashley LopezTexas is now among more than a dozen states that have cracked down on the practice of surprise medical billing. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed legislation Friday shielding patients from a
NPRadded this to PoliticsMelania Trump Trump Set To Officially Launch Reelection Bid, But Hasn't He Been Running All Along?NPR - Jessica TaylorPresident Trump will officially kick off his 2020 reelection campaign with a rally in Florida on Tuesday night. But in reality, he has been running for a second term ever since he took office. The former
NPRadded this to PoliticsCarbon Going 'Zero Carbon' Is All The Rage. But Will It Slow Climate Change?NPR - Nathan RottWarmer oceans could lose one-sixth of their fish and other marine life by the end of the century. The world's leading scientists have made it clear that to prevent the worst effects of climate change,
NPRadded this to MusicPlay buttonMusic Poll Results: Your Favorite New Artists Of 2019 (So Far)NPR - Bob Boilen , Robin HiltonYour picks for the best new artists of 2019 (so far) include a lot of bands and musicians we've been following for a while – Maggie Rogers, Stella Donnelly, Nilüfer Yanya and Jade Bird have all been releasing
NPRadded this to MusicMusic Idles: Tiny Desk ConcertNPR - Bob BoilenMy first time seeing Idles ended with guitarist Mark "Bobo" Bowen frenetically dancing on a bar, his guitar still keeping time, until the swinging neck suddenly shattered some low-hanging, glass lighting
NPRadded this to Morning EditionIowa Iowa Teens Can Do Yard Work For School CreditNPR A high school in Dubuque, Iowa, gives students physical education credit when they go out into the community and do yard work for community members who are older or disabled.
