SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When Heidi Schreck was a teenager, she went to American Legion halls across the Pacific Northwest and participated in constitutional debates to win tuition money for college. Now in her 40s, Heidi Schreck has created a new theater...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's long been known that air pollution can influence the risk of asthma in children. Now there's emerging evidence diet can, too. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on a new study from Johns Hopkins University that finds certain types o...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Some of the most thrilling and iconic music in opera - maiden warriors delivering battle heroes to their fortress in the sky in Richard Wagner's Ride Of The Valkyries. (SOUNDBITE OF WAGNER'S RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES) SIMON: Of course...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news now - the U.S. government is reviving an old tactic against employers who hire workers in the United States illegally. It takes advantage of a basic fact. When you're hired, your employer asks for a Social Securit...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Creature from the Black Lagoon has re-emerged. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Science couldn't explain it, but there it was, alive in the deep, deep waters of the Ama...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: All right. The IMAX film we're going to talk about next opens with a panorama of a snowy mountain range in British Columbia. Emerging over the icy peaks is a dog, dangling like a stuntman from a helicopter in a red harness and ski...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A relative of a plane crash victim has had to relive the disaster. The man lost a brother in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX airplane in Indonesia. Then, in recent weeks, another 737 crashed in Ethiopia, seizing the attention of th...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Facebook says that it wants to make it harder for advertisers to use Facebook as a tool for discrimination. But whatever it's trying was apparently too little for the Department of Housing and Urban Development because HUD says i...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Scott Gottlieb has been commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration for less than two years. When he announced he was stepping down next month, it came as a surprise to many people. He's popular with Democrats and Republican...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: For many Major League Baseball teams, tomorrow is opening day, and we're going to hear play ball echo throughout the majors. Baseball officials hope the game embraces a companion cry as well - hurry up. As NPR's Tom Goldman repor...
Senate Blocks Green New Deal, But Climate Change Emerges As Key 2020 Issue RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Senate is going to take a vote today or tomorrow on the Green New Deal. That's a big-picture plan put out by Democrats to help combat climate change....
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: For the next few minutes, we're going to talk about toys - not just for kids. We're going to explore whether what we play with as kids and how we play with those toys actually shapes who we become as adults. NPR's new parenting p...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. It's time for our bill of the month. This is where we take a close look at medical bills that you send to us. And this month, we've got one that I bet a lot of people will relate to, especially those of you who play spo...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Efforts to stop Russia from interfering in U.S. elections come from two of the most secretive parts of the U.S. government the National Security Agency and Cyber Command. They worked side by side at the same sprawling campus in F...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Energy Department wants to undo an Obama-era rule designed to make lightbulbs more efficient. We're not talking about those pear-shaped bulbs. They've already changed over. This new proposal involves just about every other ki...