All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. During each broadcast, stories and reports come to listeners from NPR reporters and correspondents based throughout the United States and the world. The hosts interview newsmakers and contribute their own reporting.
In the 40 years since it debuted on 90 public radio stations in 1971, hosts, producers, editors and reporters and even the audience have changed. Yet one thing remains the same: each show consists of the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful commentaries, insightful features on the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment, all brought alive through sound.
Every weekday the two-hour show is hosted by Ari Shapiro, Mary Louise Kelly, Ailsa Chang and Juana Summers. Weekends feature a one-hour show hosted by Scott Detrow.
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Maine's Democratic Gov. Janet Mills says her state's not backing down against possible cuts in school and other funding threatened by the Trump administration over the state's policy on transgender athletes in sports.
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NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD -- without the trip.
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Christian leaders gathered outside the U.S. Capitol building this week to call for more solidarity with LGBTQ people. We look at the conversations Black churches are having.
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Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney entered politics as trade relations with the U.S. hit a low point. The former central banker's economic chops may propel him to victory in the next election.
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The Trump administration's dramatic staffing cuts at federal lands agencies like the Forest Service are causing anxiety in tinder dry New Mexico, where the wildfire threat is already severe this Spring. -
Twin brothers, both played by Michael B. Jordan, return to their Mississippi hometown in 1932 to start a juke joint in Ryan Coogler's otherworldly tale of race and music, Sinners.
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Cracking cascarones –or decorated confetti eggs—is a playful tradition during Easter in the Mexican American culture from the Southwest, as a gesture of goodwill and a way to bring good luck. This year, despite soaring egg prices, the tradition lives on.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., about his campaign to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The Maryland man was illegally deported to a prison in El Salvador.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Donald Ingber of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, about the impact of the stop-work orders that went out this week for federally-funded research.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with President Macron in Paris to discuss a peace settlement for Ukraine. France hosted top diplomats from the U.S., Germany, the U.K. and Ukraine.
