When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.
TechCrunch•Connie Loizos8h ago
With days left to go in the 2026 fiscal year, lawmakers push the health department to spend the money congress allocated to prevent teen pregnancy. An NPR exclusive.
NPR•Selena Simmons-Duffin19h ago
NPR's A Martínez asks Theodore Boutrous, who represents three media outlets banned from the White House, about their return to the premises on Thursday.
NPR•A Martínez19h agoCountry: Nepal Source: UN Women Just weeks earlier, Ranjit, 30, was running a catering business with her husband, a business they had built for nearly a decade. Twelve days before the flood, she had taken a loan of NPR 1.2 million – equivalent to almost USD 8,000 – to purchase new equipment and expand the business. Then the flood came. It swept through the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river corridors, killing thousands of people, destroying homes and infrastructure across Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and other affected districts, and taking with it everything that people had worked for. According to the United Nations , at least 43,000 women and girls need humanitarian assistance across the 17 most affected municipalities. In all disasters, women and girls face the greatest impacts, including increased risk of violence and exploitation. Women also take on much greater unpaid care responsibilities than men, are forced to travel even further to secure water, and fall quicker and more deeply into poverty. “The flood took everything I had, all my newly purchased utensils, my lifelong savings and hard work, my catering business, my dreams. The business that took almost a decade to build went away in the blink of an eye.” – Reshma Ranjit Shortly after the floods, Ranjit got straight back into the kitchen and is now the head chef of a UN Women-supported community kitchen, working alongside other women from local women’s groups affected by the floods. Together, they prepare meals for displaced families. For families displaced from their homes, preparing a daily meal can be a major undertaking. The kitchen offers cooked meals to people who cannot access food or cooking facilities, while creating temporary paid work for women facing the immediate financial hit of a disaster. UN Women, in partnership with Rural Oriented Youth Movement Nepal (ROYM), National Indigenous Women Forum (NIWF), and four local women’s groups, has established four community kitchens in Nuwakot and Rasuwa districts. Another partner organization, Feminist Dalit Organization (FEDO) will soon be setting up additional kitchens. UN Women’s community kitchens are designed to operate for one to three months post-disaster. In a community where 100 people need access to food, a community kitchen operating for the span of one month can serve up to 9,000 meals. Together, the kitchens set up after the flood have reached 1,145 people, serving four meals per day. More than 15,000 meals have been served in just two weeks. Working with women’s rights organizations and local women’s groups also means drawing on local knowledge and community relationships to organize food preparation and reach affected families. Earning while helping others When Sannani BK heard that the flood was coming, she sent her children away in a vehicle as quickly as she could, hoping that even if something happened to her, they would be safe. Sannani BK’s brother died in the floods and she now cares for her brother’s children as well as her own. After the flood, “I had nowhere to go and no one to talk to”, says BK. “The community kitchen has given me a place where I can share my grief, work alongside my sisters from the community, and support others who are going through the same experience. In times like these, having a warm, cooked meal means so much.” – Sannani BK “The income I earn from working in the kitchen”, explains BK, “is also helping me meet the immediate needs of my children and my brother’s children, whom I am caring for now.” For women like Ranjit and BK, the temporary income does not resolve the losses caused by the disaster, but it helps them meet immediate expenses while longer-term recovery support is being put in place. It has been one month since the floods swept through, and the women are still standing, supporting one another as they recover. “We have lost everything, but we have not lost hope”, says Ranjit. In an emergency, sometimes recovery begins with something as simple as a meal, and with women helping ensure that their communities have one.
ReliefWeb•UN Women20h ago
What can we expect from the Trump-Xi summit? NPR's A Martinez asks Daniel Kritenbrink, an assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs in the Biden administration.
NPR•A Martínez24 Sept
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported.
NPR•Hansi Lo Wang24 Sept
Now that Paramount has an antitrust suit, the way is clear for a merger. But many say the deal will be the unmaking of Hollywood. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with screenwriter and showrunner Mike Schur.
NPR•Scott Detrow23 SeptAn NPR poll shows that Democrats have an edge over Republicans going into the midterms, partially due to Trump. And, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking into "mobile detention centers."
NPR•Brittney Melton23 Sept
NPR's Leila Fadel asks political commentator Jonah Goldberg what Republicans should do about their party's poor poll numbers.
NPR•Leila Fadel23 Sept
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott about President Trump's speech to the United Nations and America's place in the world.
NPR•Mary Louise Kelly22 Sept
As the U.S. conflict with Iran drags, the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have opened a new front, taking new territory and displacing more than 100,000 people.
NPR•Aya Batrawy22 Sept
Twelve states' attorneys general settled their lawsuit with Paramount over its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. NPR's A Martinez speaks with California AG Rob Bonta, who headed up the suit.
NPR•A Martínez22 Sept
A new study finds that consumer-grade fitness wearables are generally inaccurate when calculating calories burned. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with the study's lead author Jason Kostrna.
NPR•Leila Fadel22 Sept
NPR speaks with people in Yemen and in aid groups who say the fighting is displacing families to areas without enough aid to support them.
NPR•Aya Batrawy20 Sept
Students: It's time to turn on the mic and hit 'record.' Send us your podcasts and we'll pick the best ones. It's $5,000 for our grand prize and $500 for our finalists.
NPR•Steve Drummond20 Sept
Over the years NPR's Michele Kelemen has seen high stakes diplomacy play out at the UN General Assembly.
NPR•Michele Kelemen19 Sept
On Friday, the president threatened to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could have just been another one of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns out it's very real. All three publications were turned away from the White House this morning, NPR reports, marking an escalation in the […]
The Verge•TC. Sottek19 Sept
(RNS and NPR) — According to an AP-NORC poll, four in 10 American Jewish adults say they've disagreed with a family member over Israel, and three in 10 said they stopped talking to someone over it.
Religion News Service•Deena Prichep18 Sept
The International Rescue Committee warned that its goals of ending poverty, hunger, disease are failing. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the IRC's president about how to reverse course.
NPR•Mary Louise Kelly18 Sept
A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.
NPR•Miles Parks18 Sept
