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  • Disgraced Movie Mogul Harvey Weinstein Faces Criminal Charges
    Weinstein surrendered to police Friday in New York City. Rachel Martin talks to Jodi Kantor of The New York Times, who won a Pulitzer Prize for co-reporting the paper's original story in 2017.
  • Single Mothers Balance Care And Coursework; New High School Rankings
    New research on measuring teacher prep programs and Starbucks' partnership with Arizona State University, all part of this week's education news roundup.
  • Democrats Want To Push Banks To Do More For Social Change
    Top Democrats are vowing to intensify their scrutiny of Big Banks as they look to push the sector to do more for average Americans and underserved communities.
  • Mexican Airlines' Safety Rating Dropped — Which Means Fewer Flights To The U.S.
    Regulators say Mexico is not complying with international air safety standards, and have limited Mexican airlines' access to the U.S., just as passenger traffic is picking up from the pandemic.
  • U.S. Media Groups Seek To Get Afghan Journalists Out Of Afghanistan
    Top executives of leading U.S. newspapers are turning to the Biden administration for help in getting Afghan journalists out of that country. Reporters say they believe the threat is dire.
  • Iraqi reform activists risk their lives to protest
    Two activist friends talk about their efforts to protest for reform in Iraq — despite intimidation and attacks from powerful parties that will likely come out on top in Sunday's elections.
  • While killer whales are known to attack blue whales, John Totterdell and his colleagues are the first to ever document a successful takedown. And they've done it more than once, publishing their findings in the journal Marine Mammal Science.
    Orcas take down a blue whale, proving they're the apex predators of the ocean
    "Within seconds we realized, oh my God, a pack of killer whales is attacking a blue whale," researcher John Totterdell from the Cetacean Research Centre in Australia, told NPR.
  • Senate Debates Pulling U.S. Troops from Iraq
    Divisions among Democrats take center stage as the Senate debates two Iraq amendments to the defense bill. One, from Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), calls for a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by a certain date. A competing amendment, also from the Democrats, is an open-ended call for the withdrawal of troops. Republicans stand largely united against the amendments.
  • A 'Green Roof' Movement to Counter Pollution
    Rain runoff from roofs of buildings across the United States adds to the pollution of lakes and streams and can overburden sewage systems and storm drains. But more of those roofs are turning "green." There's a push under way to grow plants on the tops of buildings to capture rainwater and air pollutants.
  • Lawmakers Band Together to Challenge EPA
    There's an unusual bi-partisan effort to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release information about certain Superfund cleanup sites, pieces of land that have been deemed too toxic for development. The EPA says sharing some information about the sites could discourage companies from cleaning up their environmental messes.
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