STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And now this - Americans have something to say about proposed rules for investigating campus sexual assault. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos offered the change. She wants to overturn rules from the Obama administration in a way t...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In Chicago, the actor Jussie Smollett was assaulted in the early hours of this morning. Chicago police have confirmed that they are treating the attack as a possible hate crime. Smollett is gay and multiracial. He stars in the hit...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to look back now to February 2016. Chris Christie, then the governor of New Jersey, had just dropped out of the race for president. It was time to make a decision. Who should he endorse? Well, that February 26, Christ...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to look back now to February 2016. Chris Christie, then the governor of New Jersey, had just dropped out of the race for president. It was time to make a decision. Who should he endorse? Well, that February 26, Christ...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: You know it's cold in Chicago when TV video shows the railroad tracks on fire. Steel rails contract in exceptional cold. So to warm them up, transit workers stretch rope soaked in kerosene along the tracks, and they burn it. The...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The partial government shutdown is over, so hundreds of thousands of federal workers are heading back to work today. But all throughout the shutdown, one government agency was actually in the midst of a massive recruiting effort....
For One Ohio Town, Trump's Trade Policies Bring Uncertainty And Hope STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This story takes us to the shores of Lake Erie - to Ashtabula, Ohio, a port city with access to Canada and beyond through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence S...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The librarian Nancy Pearl is with us next. She joins us regularly to give us book recommendations, and she has sent me a stack of books here that is going to take us on a series of journeys to different parts of the world. Hi the...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We had a talk yesterday with Howard Schultz. The billionaire former CEO of Starbucks says he is considering an independent run for president. In our talk, the man who popularized upscale coffee answered critics who warned he coul...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Suppose you have a stressful day. You get home. You walk in the door and hear this. (SOUNDBITE OF DOG BARKING, BABY SCREECHING) INSKEEP: As you listen to that... (SOUNDBITE OF DOG BARKING, BABY BABBLING) INSKEEP: ...Do you start...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: For more than a century, those little, brightly colored, chalky candy hearts have helped people share their messages of love. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're talking about Sweethearts. This is a candy made by Necco, the New England co...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When was the last time a kid in your life said something that just got you in your gut? I bet it wasn't that long ago - a well-placed I love you in the middle of a stressful day, an unsolicited hug when you needed one most. We ar...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Fifty years ago today, a damaged oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., caused what was then the largest oil spill in the history of the United States. The public reaction helped to shape the modern environmental moveme...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Fifty years ago today, a damaged oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., caused what was then the largest oil spill in the history of the United States. The public reaction helped to shape the modern environmental moveme...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: You might not think sake is brewed in America. But there is a brewery in Holbrook, Ariz., where a master brewer from Japan set up his business. From member station KNAU, here's Aaron Granillo. AARON GRANILLO, BYLINE: Holbro...