On The Scene At Pittsburgh Shooting
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We're following a developing story this morning out of Pittsburgh - a shooting in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood there. There are reportedly...
View ArticleMeet Jin Park, The First DACA Recipient Awarded A Rhodes Scholarship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlWgdLzTPbc This year's list of Rhodes Scholars is remarkable for many reasons. Almost two-thirds of the recipients are women and nearly half are first-generation...
View ArticleRevisiting George H.W. Bush's Legacy
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We're remembering George Herbert Walker Bush today. He died last night at the age of 94. Many of the people thinking about him today are...
View ArticleSaturday Sports: Hard Chargers And Ravenous Raptors
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News - I'm Scott Simon - where BJ Leiderman writes our theme music. Here it comes. Time for sports. (SOUNDBITE...
View ArticleAt A Special Show, 3 Deaf Musicians Want You To Hear Them Roar
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Three remarkable musical artists will share a stage in Detroit tomorrow night. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I'M DEAF") SEAN FORBES: (Rapping) My name...
View ArticleWhy NRA Infiltrator Maria Butina Decided To Help Government Investigations
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And this week, Maria Butina admitted that she wasn't just a student and Russian gun rights activist. She pled guilty to one count of conspiring...
View ArticleInterior Secretary Ryan Zinke To Step Down
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, is stepping down, adding to the list of top officials of the Trump administration to leave. The...
View ArticleTalkin' Birds: The Great Backyard Bird Count
As birds flitted on and off colorful feeders in a flicker of flapping feathers, and chattered in chirps — punctuated by the occasional trill — a band of birdwatchers offered a cacophony of their own....
View ArticleInstead Of Wrestling A Girl, High Schooler Chooses To Forfeit State Wrestling...
When high school senior and wrestler Brendan Johnston realized he had to face Jaslynn Gallegos, a high school senior, and Angel Rios, a high school junior, in last month's Colorado state wrestling...
View ArticleOpinion: How America's Pastime Became So Slow
And amidst all this urgent news, the 2019 Major League Baseball season also began this week. Organized baseball worries that the game once considered America's pastime has become slooowww, old, and...
View ArticleOpinion: Can Stonehenge Offer A Lesson For Brexit?
It has not been uplifting for Americans to look across the ocean the past few years and see Great Britain's Brexit imbroglio. Almost three years ago, a slim majority, 51.9 percent, voted in a...
View ArticleOpinion: A Showcase Of 'Uncaged Art' By Children Once Detained
An art show opens in El Paso today. It's what they call a "multi-sensory exhibit" that includes works like a chapel, cut from cardboard, surrounded by trees and hedges spun from yarn, with Popsicle...
View ArticleOpinion: Amid Devastation, Paris Firefighters' Bravery Is An Inspiration
More than 400 firefighters answered the call when fire broke out in the Notre Dame Cathedral this Holy Week. As Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Plus, spokesperson for the Paris firefighters, told the Agence...
View ArticleOpinion: Remembering A Soprano With The 'Warmth And Strength Of The Sun'
There has never been a better name for a person than Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick. She died this week, at the age of 35. Charity was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension when she was a...
View ArticleMargaret Trudeau Takes Center Stage — This Time, On Purpose
Margaret Trudeau married Pierre Trudeau, the 15th prime minister of Canada, when she was 22. He was 51. That marriage came apart — publicly, spectacularly — as she made public rounds with rockers,...
View ArticleOpinion: An Outrageous Crime Has Become A Commonplace Event
I was sitting next to a college chancellor at an event Tuesday night when our cell phones began to beep with the first bulletins about the shootings at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte....
View ArticleBefore This Vietnam War Veteran Dies, He Would Like To Become An American...
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Werner Trei is 71 and in hospice care in Longmont, Colo. He was awarded three Bronze Stars and a Vietnamese gallantry cross for helping save...
View ArticleOpinion: 1 Million Species Are At Risk Of Disappearing. Humans Should Act Now
The Seychelles magpie-robin is about 9 inches long, with inky blue-black feathers, and white patches along its wings. There may be only 200 or so of these beguiling birds in the world, all in forests...
View ArticleIn 'The British Are Coming,' Rick Atkinson Turns His Gaze To The American...
On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired on the Lexington, Mass. town green. No one knows for sure who fired the shot, but when British soldiers heard it, they panicked. The red...
View ArticleThe Therapy Dogs Of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's at least one page of this year's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School yearbook that brings smiles. It's photos of the faces of the 14...
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