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Latest Episodes
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NPR's Noel King talks to Christine Brennan, sports columnist with USA Today, about U.S. gymnast Simone Biles leaving the team gymnastics final due to a medical issue.
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Sarah McCammon talks to Dr. Ada Stewart, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, about why her group is backing vaccine mandates for health care workers.
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An increasing number of cities, states, counties and hospitals are making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory. But not all health care workers are on board.
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North and South Korea have reopened a hotline that was closed for nearly 14 months. "We hope that inter-Korean communications are never again suspended," a South Korean official said. -
Hidilyn Diaz set a record Monday, winning the Philippines' first gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The country had been trying to reach the podium's top spot for nearly 100 years.
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The rapper is living in a stadium in Atlanta while completing his 10th studio album, according to The Associated Press. Donda was supposed to be released last Friday — now it's due Aug. 6.
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Tunisia's president has taken the country's fragile democracy to the brink by shutting parliament down — the latest chapter in the struggle between secular and Islamist factions there.
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Facebook's campus on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay is at risk from rising sea levels. So is a nearby low-income community. That's raising questions about who should be paying for climate change.
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The U.S. women's gymnastics team hasn't lost an Olympic or world championship since 2011. But that may change at the Tokyo Olympics. During qualifying, the squad did not look as sharp as usual.
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Keyboardist Morris Hayes, a longtime collaborator and friend of Prince, speaks with NPR's Noel King about his experience co-producing Prince's latest posthumous album Welcome 2 America.
