All Things Considered
Weekdays, 4-6:30pm and Weekends, 5-6pm
NPR's afternoon radio newsmagazine presenting two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.
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Lawmakers are working to approve a stopgap spending bill before a midnight deadline to fund the government.
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NPR's David Gura talks to Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen about the passage of a short-term spending bill in the House of Representatives.
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Scott Detrow speaks with Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon about the enduring popularity of the fighting game franchise.
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Three weeks after a storm and floods devastated the Libyan city of Derna residents and aid groups still struggle to address the needs for survivors and the loss of thousands of lives.
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For decades, New York City has piled its trash in heaps of bags on city sidewalks. Now, the city is rolling out trash bins and requiring businesses to start using them.
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The number of Americans who identify with being mixed-race is on the rise. Embodied, a podcast from North Carolina Public Radio, looks at the complications of that identity.
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Black holes may contain the masses of more than a billion suns, but they also hold a few lessons that we humans can apply to everyday life.
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Protests continue in the Armenian capital Yerevan after the collapse of the breakaway government of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Federal workers across the country are bracing to lose pay indefinitely. Many have weathered shutdowns before and some face losing income at particularly inconvenient times in their lives.
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The annual butterfly migration is underway. For decades scientists have relied on volunteers to tag butterflies to provide details about their journey.