Latest News from NPR

on:

NCPR is supported by:

 
Hourly Newscast
4 min., 45 sec.

Programs

Latest program rundown

Coming up:

Latest Features:
Obama Tweaks U.S. Vision For Fight Against Terrorism
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama discussed America's counter-terrorism strategy — including the use of drones and the prison at Guantanamo Bay — during an address at the National Defense University on Thursday. He rejected the idea that the country can fight an open-ended "global war on terror."
Windows Media | MP3 | NPR Player | Add to NPR Player
 
Political Attacks Ramp Up In U.S. Senate Race In Mass.
May 24, 2013 | NPR · In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.
Windows Media | MP3 | NPR Player | Add to NPR Player
 
Documentary Introduces The Man Behind WikiLeaks
May 24, 2013 | NPR · David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2006, Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks and encouraged anyone in the world to pass on information that might expose government secrets.
Windows Media | MP3 | NPR Player | Add to NPR Player
 

Latest program rundown

Coming up:

Latest Features:
AP
Job Searching While Black: What's Behind The Unemployment Gap?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Income and wealth inequality is just about as American as baseball and apple pie. And although the economy has improved in the last few years, the unemployment rate for black Americans is about double that for whites.
Windows Media | MP3 | NPR Player | Add to NPR Player
 
Week In News: Obama's Foreign Policy Pitch
May 25, 2013 | NPR · This past week, President Obama laid out the foreign policy objectives for the remainder of his time in office, a speech that included his wish to end not just the war in Afghanistan but the "war on terror." Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic.
Windows Media | MP3 | NPR Player | Add to NPR Player
 
Is the Espionage Act Outdated?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution about the Espionage Act. This Word War I-era legislation has been used more frequently in recent times to prosecute government employees who leak information to the press, but the limits set by the act are poorly defined for our modern age.
Windows Media | MP3 | NPR Player | Add to NPR Player
 

Latest Saturday rundown




WE Saturday Feature

Joffrey Ballet
Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite'
May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
Windows Media | MP3 | NPR Player | Add to NPR Player
 

Latest Sunday rundown

WE Sunday Feature

Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.
Windows Media | MP3 | NPR Player | Add to NPR Player
 

Latest program rundown

Coming up:

Impostors and imposture

The Amazing, Untrue Story Of A Sept. 11 Survivor
Mar 26, 2012 — Tania Head was one of the most visible survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks. She'd been in the south tower of the World Trade Center, lost her fiance in the north tower, and devoted her life to getting recognition for survivors. Just one problem: Her entire story was fake.
Launch in player | Comments |
Fakin' It: Three Books On Masquerading Identities
Dec 13, 2011 — Impostors can be scheming, even villainous, but their stories tempt us with an attractive possibility — the chance to wear a mask. Writer David Anthony suggests three tales about nefarious characters that let us indulge in our fascination with the art of manipulating outward appearances.
Launch in player | Comments |
Atmospheric Disturbances
Jul 15, 2011 — NPR coverage of Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more.
Comments |
30-Year Con: From German Kid To Rockefeller Scion
Jul 5, 2011 — For three decades, Christian Gerhartsreiter claimed to be someone else. After fleeing his German hometown, he developed a series of false identities, moving up the social ladder as he moved across the U.S. Ultimately, he married a lawyer who believed he was a Rockefeller. Journalist Mark Seal talks about the mystery man at the center of his new book, The Man in the Rockefeller Suit.
Launch in player | Comments |
Summer's Biggest, Juiciest Nonfiction Adventures
Jul 6, 2011 — Any one of these five sizzling new nonfiction books could be the next Hollywood blockbuster. Our advice? Read them all before the Hollywood execs do.
Comments |
Three Critics Pick The Best Books For Summer
Jun 25, 2011 — NPR's Lynn Neary taps three book critics — Laura Miller, Ron Charles and Rigoberto Gonzalez — to get their picks for the best summer reading.
Launch in player | Comments |
Excerpt: 'Brat Farrar'
Aug 20, 2009 — Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar features a young man masquerading as the heir to a fortune.
Comments |
Mysteries You Might Have Missed Along the Way
Aug 20, 2009 — Getting ready for one last trip to the beach? Have a long plane ride coming up? Or are you just ready to become engrossed in a good book? Try these mysteries you may have missed.
Launch in player | Comments |
Independent Booksellers Pick Summer's Best Reads
Jun 11, 2009 — Your reading this summer may involve brushing the sand off page five — or firing up your Kindle. However you do it, we have some reading suggestions for you, straight from independent booksellers around the country.
Launch in player | Comments |
Love And A 'Disturbed' Mind
Jul 9, 2008 — Rivka Galchen's debut novel opens on a psychologically dark and stormy night: "Last December a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife." Reviewer Barrie Hardymon says the emotionally devastating novel "hits like a thunderbolt."
Comments |
more Impostors and imposture from NPR