- Ariel Gomez — 4 starEDIT: In light of a Snopes factchecki
ng article kindly referred to by Drew Lieb Domino, I'm correcting my protest/ grieva...nce/ complaint. There is no clear indication of the Koch brothers having any influence on NPR or its reportage; the post that's floating around leading folks to believe such is the case is incorrect. See More - Ellen Mcdaniel-weissler — 1 starIn the midst of all the tragedy and critical occurrence
s in the world this may sound trivial, but I have given NPR's new... "Morning Edition" format a chance for quite a while now -- and I HATE it! Is it just our affiliate, or are these changes NPR-wide? No more five minutes of news on the half hour, about half as many actual stories and about twice as much time spent on naming donors to NPR -- and a lot of time wasted in long musical interludes which could be spent disseminat ing news! What's the deal here? I used to wake up to Morning Edition every morning and look forward to it -- now it just frustrates me! Is NPR so hard up for money that they find this re-formatt ing necessary? If so, I'm sorry to hear it, because as a format it sucks, and they are coming dangerousl y close to losing a listener! And if the other charges against NPR about which I'm hearing are also true, I have even more reason to find another news source! Come on, NPR -- you're becoming a mockery of yourself! You used to be the best quality news source available. Now you're deteriorat ing ethically and as a provider of quality news programmin g. Get back on track, please! I've listened to you faithfully since 1985, but you're really blowing it now! See More
She started working with AIDS patients in the early '80s, when many were abandoned by their families -- and even by medical professionals. Her efforts began when she overheard a man in a hospital asking for his mother.
"I marched myself out to the nurses' station and I said, 'Can we call his mother?' " she remembers. "And they go, 'Honey, his mama's not coming. He's been here six weeks. Nobody's coming.'
"And so I went back in and he looked up at me and he said, 'Oh Mama, I ...knew you'd come.'
"I stayed with him for 13 hours while he took his last breath. I called his mother and I told her that he had died and she said, 'I'm not burying him.' So I had him cremated and I brought him home."
"I will be much happier doing this here where many kids see it every day than doing a wall in an area [that's] going to have a tourist guide," says one of the artists.
Last month, workers were getting longer hours and higher pay just as their commuting expenses were declining. Happy holidays!
After decades of research, Yale University is decommissioning a massive underground particle accelerator. Take a look at what it looks like inside:
Sony shrugged off North Korea's promise of "merciless counter-measures" until last week, when hackers hit the studio where it hurts.
D.C. doesn't have a "brewery" category of business license, so many breweries are listed and regulated as "delicatessens." That smells skunky to some D.C. beer aficionados.
"We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story," writes the magazine's managing editor.
For practically our whole history of cooking and eating, plants provide our spices and most of our flavors. Now, labs are taking a stab at it.
OkCupid's chief technology officer says users have been asking for more options for years.
SPECTRE, as James Bond fans will know, stands for Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
A few years ago, NPR's Linda Holmes summed up the types of commenters you encounter on best-of lists. Can you think of any archetypes we should add for 2014?
Shakespeare's starlings, Native American gourd-carving and a society of strangely enthusiastic landlords: it's all part of the puzzle of a half-million missing birds.
Plenty of people see no benefit to hosting the world's biggest athletic event in their city. Boston critics may need to resort to a ballot measure to stop a push for the 2024 games.
An uptick in unaffordability and foreclosures landed Ada County, Idaho on a list of U.S. counties being closely watched for an emerging home price bubble.
The search for the massive star explosions called supernovae is about to get a big boost. Astronomers at Caltech are building a new camera that will let them survey the entire night sky in three nights.
The prosecutor did not ask for the release of full transcripts or exhibits -- instead he sought, and received, a limited release of information.
Have you been working part-time for at least 6 months — but really want a full-time job and can’t find one? NPR’s John Ydstie wants to talk to you! Contact us Thursday at nprcrowdsource@npr.org with a phone number where we can reach you. Use the subject line “Part-time.”
The Department of Justice has found that the Cleveland Police Department has "engaged in a pattern and practice of using excessive force," including shooting guns in a "careless and dangerous manner."
Have you bought a smartphone using cash from SmartPay – a lease-to-own option from the company Better Finance (aka BillFloat)? If you have, NPR tech reporter Aarti Shahani would like to hear about your experience.
Please shoot us a message at nprcrowdsource@npr.org with your full name, location, contact information and a bit of background: when did you take out a SmartPay lease? How much money did you borrow? Did you have to give your bank account number? Were the terms of the contract clear? Did you pay back what you expected?
Thanks to social media, an Oregon couple has a snapshot of their engagement from a secluded trail in the Columbia River Gorge.
This display includes a banner with the words "Happy holidays from the Satanic Temple.”
Yukiko Koyama, 35, is one of about 3,000 women in the Japanese government's Women's Forestry Program. It trains and certifies women to work in the logging industry and pays timber companies half the cost of employing women for up to three years.
Wilbur Sargunaraj eats and drinks his way through his father's home village in southern India. Bonus: He shares some recipes! http://n.pr/11WrM5C
A health care worker wheels a stack of freshly washed boots to an Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia, Liberia. ELWA3 is the largest Ebola hospital ever built, with 250 beds. It was full as recently as October. Now it is nearly empty. http://n.pr/12o1zfW
A gallery of some of the artists’ work from performances at popular stages in Philadelphia
We've been covering Eric Garner's story after a grand jury in Staten Island declined to indict the police officer involved his death. There is one clip of audio, however, that really sticks with us. It comes from NPR member station WNYC, and captures Garner's stepfather as he tries to calm a protester who pleads, "What's the future for me? ... For my son, for my child?"
Manfred Karg says he doesn't know how his eldest son, Alfons, became mixed up with radical Islamists.
Whatever happened, the German pensioner's 19-year-old son from Hamburg is now dead, one of at least 60 Germans killed fighting alongside ISIS militants, nine of them in suicide attacks, according to German authorities.
"I believe the president must come to Congress to begin a war and that Congress has a duty to act," Sen. Rand Paul said introducing his measure. "Right now, this war [against ISIS] is illegal until Congress acts pursuant to the Constitution and authorizes it."
R&B singer-songwriter Elle Varner flew out of the gate in 2011 with a feel-good, boom-bap-heavy tune about a man who had managed to snag her attention away from a particularly nice pair of shoes. But three years already feels like an eternity, and on her newer material Varner sounds far from satisfied by either a sweet talker or some new kicks.
Over a 10-year period, HIV has picked up mutations that make it slightly less virulent in parts of southern Africa, researchers report. That means it could take a little longer for some people to develop AIDS if they don't get HIV treatment.
But virologist Philip Goulder, who led the study, is quick to point out that HIV is still deadly and dangerous.
The big political donor who becomes an ambassador to a relatively small country is something of a Washington punch line and also a tradition. Presidents have done this for decades. But critics say the Obama administration has taken it too far.
"It raises the possibility that the development of human cognition — human culture — was a very long process. It was not a sudden development." — Alison Brooks, paleoanthropologist, George Washington University
Seventy percent of women in a recent survey said smartphones were interfering in their romantic relationship.
Thanksgiving kicks off holiday party season, and at office holiday parties around the country, this means co-workers will make merry and mischief.