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1674 episodes transcribedThe day after a debate in which he faltered many times, President Joe Biden hit the campaign trail to try and reassure supporters that he is still up...
The surgeon general's office has declared gun violence a national public health crisis. It's the first time the body has ever issued a public health a...
Going into the first presidential debate, polls show a close race. A good debate performance could mean a chance for a decisive lead. But the debate a...
Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, is designed to provide monthly checks for low income, disabled and elderly Americans. But outdated rules trap re...
For decades, people seeking abortions went to specialty clinics like Planned Parenthood. But since Roe v. Wade was overturned, more general practitio...
In early June, President Joe Biden severely restricted asylum requests from migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization....
The question of how to reconcile Michael Jackson's musical genius with his alleged misconduct is still fraught.Learn more about sponsor message choice...
Polls – and NPR's own reporting – tell a story of many Americans fatigued by the upcoming presidential race. They're not satisfied with the choice be...
This year's college application process was supposed to get easier. That's because last year, the U.S. Department of Education announced changes to t...
We are just weeks away from one of the biggest political events of the election campaign season: the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Form...
Vivek Murthy, U.S. surgeon general, has called attention to what he has called the 'youth mental health crisis' that is currently happening in the U.S...
As part of his ongoing look at groundbreaking films from 1999, host Scott Detrow speaks with Kimberly Peirce, the writer-director of Boys Don't Cry. T...
As the U.K. gears up for a July election, polls show the liberal Labour Party ahead of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives by a hefty margin.Le...
After the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel that killed more than 1,100 people, President Joe Biden expressed America's backing for its Middle Easte...
America is facing two very different futures on the world stage after November. If former President Trump wins, he's promised to fundamentally re-eval...
Michael Bommer likely only has a few weeks left to live. A couple years ago, he was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer.Then, an opportunity arose to...
On Saturday, Israeli special forces rescued four hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, killing at least 270 Palestinians and injuring hundreds in the proces...
Billions of dollars in federal COVID funding is set to expire for K-12 schools.Educators across the country say the extra money helped students catch...
With the presidential election approaching, some voters are wondering how we again ended up with Donald Trump and Joe Biden as the presumptive nominee...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war in Gaza can't end until Israel has destroyed Hamas.NPR's reporting from Israel and Gaza sugges...
