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1656 episodes transcribedWhen Simone Biles dropped out of her Olympic competitions this week, the whole world took notice. At 24 years old Biles is the most decorated gymnast...
Four police officers offered harrowing testimony of their experiences protecting the U.S. Capitol on January 6th during the first hearing for a new De...
Rising seas are threatening coastal communities around the world, which will need billions of dollars to protect themselves. It's clear the water is c...
Food service workers in America have newfound bargaining power, and they're using it — quitting jobs for better ones at record rates. NPR's Alina Sely...
One officer in Los Angeles used car inspections to hit on women. Three hundred miles away in the San Francisco Bay Area, another woman says an officer...
Starting over can be scary. But not for Rodrigo Amarante. After an established musical career in Brazil, he made the jump to the U.S., where his relat...
It's still unclear who is responsible for planning and funding the assassination of Haiti's president Jovenel Moïse earlier this month. But violence a...
The delta variant now makes up an estimated 83% of coronavirus cases in the U.S., a sharp increase over recent weeks. Cases are rising more rapidly in...
Tens of millions of American families are beginning to receive direct cash payments as part of the expanded child tax credit, which was part of the CO...
Medical education must always keep up with the times. But the pandemic forcing medical students to learn virtually revealed new fault lines and opport...
From police officer misconduct to deadly shootings, internal affairs investigations are how law enforcement agencies investigate their own and promise...
Jodie Turner-Smith in Anne Boleyn. Mindy Kaling in Scooby Doo. Dev Patel in The Green Knight, and last year's David Copperfield.It seems like Hollywoo...
The protests that erupted in Cuba over the weekend are the biggest the country has seen in decades. Cubans are suffering through a summer of shortages...
In a speech this week, President Biden said Democrats must 'vigorously challenge' what he described as the '21st Century Jim Crow assault' on voting r...
The U.S. military will be fully out of the country by August 31. The Taliban already control more than half of it. A U.S. intelligence assessment repo...
The Biden administration is emphasizing vaccine outreach by 'trusted messengers' — community volunteers, faith leaders, and primary care providers — w...
'Cancelling' is a term that originated in young and progressive circles, where it was used to mean 'boycott,' University of Pennsylvania linguist Nico...
All over the east coast and Midwest, forests are getting hotter and drier. Many are also overgrown and overdue for wildfire. And increasingly, America...
NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports on the story of Alan Hostetter, a former police chief and yoga instructor from California who's now facing conspiracy char...
Critical race theory is a legal framework developed decades ago at Harvard Law School. It posits that racism is not just the product of individual bia...
