DAVID GREENE, HOST: Many Americans who get overwhelmed by student loan debt are told bankruptcy is not an option for them because you can't get student debt reduced or wiped out through bankruptcy. Well, now more judges and legal scholars are saying...
Shelby Pierson: Threats To 2020 Election May Now Be 'Broader NOEL KING, HOST: Will the 2020 elections be secure from interference either foreign or domestic? Yesterday, I asked Shelby Pierson. She is the first ever intelligence community election thr...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And today, we go on a hunt in an ancient forest in Southeast Asia. It's where deadly viruses hide out, waiting for their chance to leap into a person and then spread around the world. Think Ebola, Zika, bird flu. There are more d...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: People in this country are thinking differently about death. Fewer Americans are dying in a hospital with the support and care of doctors and nurses. More now choose to spend their final days at home, often getting hospice care....
NOEL KING, HOST: After the U.S. killed Iran's top general in a drone strike, government officials and security experts have been warning that Iran could retaliate with cyberattacks. Iran is already suspected in some previous hacks - a Las Vegas casin...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Counting in the 2020 U.S. Census starts today. And it begins in the most remote communities of Alaska, like this small fishing village, population 590 as of 2010, where we find NPR's Hansi Lo Wang. HANSI LO WANG, BYLINE: The vill...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Fertility treatment is a multibillion dollar industry, and it is growing. People spend thousands of dollars on procedures. And there's no guarantee of success. One Indianapolis woman found out just how tricky this is to navigate....
NOEL KING, HOST: The four senators running for president will be otherwise occupied for the next few weeks. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BERNIE SANDERS: Now, all of you are aware that my schedule has kind of changed a bit. KING: That's Bernie Sa...
NOEL KING, HOST: When NPR host Scott Simon was in his late teens, he had a job in an assisted-living facility in Chicago. He worked with people with developmental disabilities. He used that experience and those memories for his latest book. It's a my...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to stay on the topic of impeachment. The saga has revealed a new character this week, Robert Hyde. He is a little-known landscaper and congressional candidate in a small Connecticut town. He somehow turned up among a...