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Movie Interviews

Actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michaela Watkins talk new movie 'You Hurt My Feelings'

May 28, 2023

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michaela Watkins about their new film "You Hurt My Feelings", which questions how much honesty we need to support the ones we love.

Music Interviews

Flooded with online hate, the musician corook decided to keep swimming

May 28, 2023

Made famous on TikTok, "if i were a fish" is a silly, fun ode to self-acceptance and self-confidence from the musician corook.

TPR | National

This mobile bathroom is designed to meet the specialized needs of the disabled public

May 28, 2023

It's hard to find good public restrooms at festivals and other large events. It's even harder if you're someone with a profound disability. A woman in San Antonio has come up with a solution.

Health

New HIV cases are slowing, but there are clear racial and geographic disparities

May 28, 2023

New research shows that the U.S. is making progress in preventing new HIV infections but the gains are happening unevenly across racial and ethnic groups.

Economy

The U.S.'s perfect credit rating is on notice for the second time in its history

May 28, 2023

After Fitch warned the U.S. its AAA rating could be in jeopardy, there is fear of a repeat of what happened in 2011, when Standard & Poors downgraded the U.S. to AA+.

Politics

Surveyed U.S. voters express concern for the 'mental fitness' of older politicians

May 28, 2023

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, about voters concerned with the mental fitness of aging politicians in the U.S.

Economy

Here are the evolving details of the debt limit agreement

May 28, 2023

A deal between White House and House Republican negotiators to raise the nation's borrowing limit still must pass Congress.

Author Interviews

'Killing It' onstage turns literal for these comics in Mike Bockoven's new novel

May 28, 2023

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to author Mike Bockoven about his new book Killing It, a darkly funny story about four standup comedians who face literal death in a comedy club.

National

New plaques give names to those buried at New York State prisons

May 28, 2023

In New York, gravestones of people who died in prison only identified them by number. Now that's changing after a pastor and another formerly incarcerated man argued the dead deserved to be named.

National

Uvalde massacre prompted a Texas law requiring more training for police

May 28, 2023

American police see Uvalde as a lesson in what not to do. Trainers say police need to make sure they have the skills and emotional commitment to risk their lives to stop a killer.