New Hosts To Join NPR's 'All Things Considered'
Correspondents Ari Shapiro and Kelly McEvers will join veteran hosts Robert Siegel and Audie Cornish on weekdays. Michel Martin is slated to become the new weekend host.
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As Plus-Size Fashion Gains Popularity, Retailers Play Catch-Up
Celebrities like Rebel Wilson and Melissa McCarthy are helping bring plus-size clothing into the mainstream. But most retailers lag behind, making it difficult for women to find clothes in stores.
A Conservative Firebrand From The Start, Ted Cruz Always Had A Plan
Long before Cruz was the Texas senator commandeering the Senate floor, he was a teenager reciting conservative, free-market ideology.
'No One Should Have The Right To Prolong My Death'
Jennifer Glass was a newlywed when she was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. "I'm doing everything I can to extend my life," she says, while advocating for a right-to-die law in California.
Lacking Votes, California Assembly Shelves Aid In Dying Bill
Proponents of a bill that would let doctors give dying people lethal prescriptions ran into opposition from Latino Democrats. Backers say they're not through trying for approval.
Despite National Progress, Colorectal Cancer Hot Spots Remain
Since 1970, the national colorectal cancer death rate has been cut in half. But progress has lagged in the Lower Mississippi Delta, Appalachia and counties in eastern Virginia and North Carolina.
Women Are Saving Money Thanks To Expanded Birth Control Coverage
The average user of birth control pills saved $255 in the first year after an Affordable Care Act requirement that insurers cover contraceptives without copays went into effect, a study finds.
S.C. House Votes To Remove Confederate Flag From Capitol Grounds
The decision follows more than 13 hours of debate. Lawmakers in the House approved the Senate bill by a two-thirds margin, and the measure now goes to Republican Gov. Nikki Hailey's desk.
Does It Matter That 95 Percent Of Elected Prosecutors Are White?
"The group of people who are really the managers of the criminal justice system in America are concentrated among one demographic group: white men," said an author of the report.
Fact Check: 36 Percent Or Not? Inside Jeb Bush's Tax Math
Did Bush really pay 36 percent over all those years of tax returns or not? Here's how the campaign got to that number.