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18 Jul 2025

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Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this esse...

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:45:00 +0000

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Part 3: The network and its method took off in countries where women didn't have a legal option for ...

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:34:00 +0000

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Part 2: The network had developed a method that had the potential to get women widespread access to ...

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:00:25 +0000

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Part 1: In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at his hospital w...

Thu, 29 May 2025 07:00:39 +0000

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Decades ago, Brazilian women made a discovery that allowed them to have safe abortions without a doc...

Fri, 21 Feb

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Episode 3: After a year of waiting, the bet is finally over. Reporter Zach Mack takes stock of his f...

Fri, 21 Feb

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Episode 2: After reporter Zach Mack accepts a bet with his father over 10 politically apocalyptic pr...

Fri, 21 Feb

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Episode 1: Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his fathe...

Fri, 14 Feb

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Zach Mack and his dad are living in separate realities, and it's tearing their family apart. Like so...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:24:23 +0000

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As NPR correspondent Emily Feng reported in our three-part series "The Black Gate," hundreds of thou...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

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As NPR correspondent Emily Feng reported on the Kucar family, she encountered a mysterious figure wo...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

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Abdullatif Kucar returns to China, determined to find his children, who have been sent to state-run ...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:00:30 +0000

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In the Xinjiang region of western China, the government has rounded up and detained hundreds of thou...

Mon, 02 Dec

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This is the story of a people being erased, one family at a time. For almost a decade, the Chinese g...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +0000

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There's a promise that all Marines make to defend the Constitution. After Sgt. Joshua Abate particip...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:50 +0000

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"Have you ever tried to overthrow the U.S. government?" Marine Sgt. Joshua Abate was in the middle o...

Mon, 21 Oct

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Sergeant Joshua Abate says that he's not a rioter or an insurrectionist. Those closest to the active...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0000

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Episode 6: Christine and Max are some of the most recent female athletes in this century-long histor...

Mon, 29 Jul

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Episode 5: A battle over science and ethics unfolds. World Athletics releases and then tweaks multip...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

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Episode 4: In 2009, South African sprinter Caster Semenya won gold at the World Championships. But i...

Mon, 22 Jul

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Episode 3: We meet Kenyan sprinter Maximila Imali, who—like Christine Mboma—has been sidelined b...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

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Episode 2: We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It tu...

Mon, 15 Jul

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Episode 1: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That's the question...

Fri, 12 Jul

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Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women's sports, there has been a struggle over who quali...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:00 +0000

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The end of the 113th General Assembly of Tennessee is fast approaching. Melissa Alexander, Mary Joyc...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:43:24 +0000

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Melissa Alexander came to the Tennessee statehouse to convince members of the Republican party – h...

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:42:36 +0000

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It's been four months since the Covenant moms – lifelong conservatives Melissa Alexander, Mary Joy...

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:19:17 +0000

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In 2023, a mass shooter attacked The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenne...

Mon, 17 Jun

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Supermajority is a new 4-part series from NPR's Embedded, in partnership with Nashville Public Radio...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:18:00 +0000

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The second in a two-part special series featuring conversations between Embedded host Kelly McEvers ...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:00:54 +0000

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The first in a two-part special series featuring conversations between Embedded host Kelly McEvers a...

Fri, 22 Dec

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In this Taking Cover update, a U.S. senator wants answers from the Marines about what went wrong - a...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:30:48 +0000

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Since activist Karima Baloch's mysterious death in 2020, her family has been searching for answers. ...

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:59:53 +0000

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As her native Balochistan mourns activist Karima Baloch's death, we dive deeper into what Karima was...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:16:35 +0000

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We talk to the people closest to Karima Baloch, including some who are opening up for the very first...

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 19:01:36 +0000

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Critics of the Pakistani government, like Karima Baloch and Sajid Hussain, find themselves in this k...

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:27:09 +0000

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Before Karima's death, another prominent Baloch dissident was found dead in Sweden. The two deaths b...

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:03:34 +0000

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Karima Baloch was forced to flee to Canada because of her work fighting for human rights in her home...

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

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In the final episode of the series, we meet Christine, an 18 year old from New Mexico, shortly after...

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 15:50:00 +0000

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In part 2, we meet Parker, a senior in high school in Columbus, Ohio. Parker is a top field hockey a...

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:37:26 +0000

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In our first episode, we meet Zen, a Mexican-American, New Orleans native, coming into their transne...

Mon, 30 Oct

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All The Only Ones is a new 3-part series from NPR's Embedded. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson unearths th...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000

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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called "dad" wasn't her biological ...

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000

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A few years ago, a young man who called himself Stephen became a fixture in Manhattan's Riverside Pa...

Wed, 30 Aug

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In this bonus episode of Love Commandos, Gregory Warner interviews musician John Ellis, who composed...

Fri, 18 Aug

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In Episode 5 of Love Commandos, couples seeking to shut down the Love Commandos' shelter band togeth...

Wed, 09 Aug

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On Episode 4 of Love Commandos, couples in the shelter feel pressured to stay indefinitely. We try t...

Wed, 02 Aug

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On Episode 3 of Love Commandos, stories of life inside the Love Commandos shelter begin to diverge a...

Wed, 26 Jul

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Threatened by their families, an inter-caste couple in India hits a breaking point. Their last optio...

Wed, 26 Jul

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When falling in love can mean risking your life, the Love Commandos in India will protect you. But a...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:00:09 +0000

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How deep can you dig for the truth before it gets dangerous? In March 2022, reporter Lauren Chooljia...

Wed, 28 Jun

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As Eric Spofford tells it, he spent his teen years in the throes of addiction and crime. When he got...

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:00:50 +0000

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So many of us have been touched by America's addiction crisis. And we look to treatment for solution...

Mon, 12 Jun

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It's competition season, and the girls say they're over what happened at the Tops supermarket last y...

Fri, 26 May

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How do you make sense of something terrible that's happened—and move forward? From the cheer gym t...

Thu, 11 May 2023 21:53:23 +0000

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Ayanna Williams Gaines is the coach and founder of Buffalo All-Star Extreme, a Black competitive che...

Mon, 08 May

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What happens after a racist mass shooting in your neighborhood? On May 14, 2022, the world changed f...

Thu, 04 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

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Tom and Graham meet Shihab's brother in Baghdad — but he's wary. They also visit Fallujah, to find...

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000

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The team turns to Pat Tillman's family for help. Duncan Hunter the elder, and the younger, respond t...

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000

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Tom and Graham work their way up the chain of command, looking for someone — anyone — who can ex...

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:04:00 +0000

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As Tom and Graham work to track down the men in the courtyard, one of the wounded Marines has long r...

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000

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Hoping to get their hands on the official investigation, the NPR team flies to Tucson. But problems ...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:58:00 +0000

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The wounded are evacuated. The battle subsides. Now the men of Echo 2/1 begin to wonder: What happen...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:09:20 +0000

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NPR's Pentagon Correspondent, Tom Bowman, receives a shocking tip from a trusted source: A deadly ex...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:05:00 +0000

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In our final episode of the season, we start researching the names on the secret list of 2,746 Cuban...

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:45:27 +0000

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Hosted by NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and Graham Smith of the Investigations unit, Takin...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:54:00 +0000

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Since we began reporting this story, we've been after a list. A secret list. On it are the names of ...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:50:00 +0000

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In Episode 6, we sneak into the graveyard of the Atlanta federal penitentiary with a radical peace a...

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

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On May 18, 1980, a man named Genaro Soroa-Gonzalez arrived in Key West from the port of Mariel. With...

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

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When President Carter promised to welcome the men and women arriving on the Mariel boatlift with "an...

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

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During our reporting, we heard one story over and over again: that Fidel Castro had emptied his pris...

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0000

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Note: Due to a technical error, some listeners did not hear the correct audio for Episode 2. We are ...

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 14:00:58 +0000

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It all started with a photograph. A photograph from 1991 of a prison takeover in rural Alabama. A ph...

Mon, 23 Jan

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In 1991, a group of men took over a federal prison in rural Alabama. But these men weren't prisoners...

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:27:09 +0000

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The 2022 World Cup has ended. With his left foot, Messi wrote a more spectacular finale than we coul...

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 20:14:08 +0000

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Argentina has made it to the quarter finals of the 2022 World Cup, but the road has been a winding o...

Fri, 02 Dec

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After a falling-out with the Argentine national team and a shaky reconciliation, Messi eventually fi...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:01:15 +0000

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With the disappointment of the 2010 World Cup behind them, Argentines are hopeful that Lionel Messi ...

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 05:01:25 +0000

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Lionel Messi finally gets a chance to put on Argentina's national jersey, but something is off. His ...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:53:42 +0000

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From his earliest goals on the soccer fields of his hometown in Argentina to his arrival in Spain's ...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:23:00 +0000

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NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a podcast series about soccer and the immigrant experie...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:31:23 +0000

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The series concludes: we check back in with John Mueller after his resignation as head of the Yonker...

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:00:17 +0000

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In Yonkers, as in the rest of the country, a substantial number of police calls involve situations w...

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 07:00:57 +0000

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Every four years, the Yonkers Police Department starts the process of hiring new officers. This time...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:00:40 +0000

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For a long time, the police department in Yonkers, New York had a reputation as overly aggressive, e...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:00:28 +0000

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Episode 1 takes listeners to Yonkers, New York, a city with a long and ugly history of bad policing....

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:00:25 +0000

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In a new multi-part series, Embedded listeners will get to know the Yonkers Police Department, locat...

Fri, 15 Oct

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Part 5: There's one important part of the newspaper's story we couldn't bring you until now: what it...

Fri, 09 Jul

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One of the first police shootings to be captured on cell phone, millions saw Bay Area Rapid Transit ...

Fri, 02 Jul

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Fellow officers long suspected a veteran detective in Antioch, Calif., was leaking operational polic...

Fri, 25 Jun

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An officer is repeatedly disciplined for not turning in his police reports on time. A mom goes to th...

Fri, 18 Jun

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A 16-year-old Black kid walks into a gas station in Stockton, Calif. to buy gummy worms for his litt...

Fri, 11 Jun

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After his son is shot and killed by a Richmond, Calif. police officer, a father looking for answers ...

Fri, 04 Jun

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A police officer in Los Angeles told women he'd let their cars pass inspection if they had sex with ...

Fri, 28 May

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In the small Northern California town of Rio Vista, a woman named Katheryn Jenks calls 911 for help....

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:15:09 +0000

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Part 4: In our final episode, the Capital Gazette is swept up in the troubles of the newspaper indus...

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:00:52 +0000

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Part 3: The Capital Gazette takes on a new beat: itself. As the shooter's case works its way towards...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:00:28 +0000

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Part 2: How do you try to return to normal after a mass shooting? The Capital Gazette moves into a t...

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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Part 1: Five colleagues are shot dead. Everyone is traumatized. On that day, June 28, 2018, what can...

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:00:23 +0000

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In a new four-part series, Embedded listeners will get to know the surviving staff of The Capital Ga...