Search results for

Jacki Lyden talks with Fiona Hill, a fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, about Chechnya. Hill talks about the Chechen rebels, who were behind the hostage-taking at a Moscow theater last week. She says it's clear they are members of a radical faction acting without support from the greater Chechen population. (4:30)

Joshua Levs reports on the anxious search by parents and teens for the best way to teach new drivers. Schools are starting to drop driver education training from their responsibilities. Near Atlanta, one new business has teens beginning to learn to drive without getting behind the steering wheel of an actual car, or on a real road. (8:30)

Despite some unexpected gear problems, the soulful R&B artist and his band locked-in and played a phenomenal set behind the Tiny Desk.

Squeezing Mvula's sound behind Bob Boilen's desk is no tiny task, as she acknowledges partway through this three-song set in the NPR Music offices. The U.K. singer faces the challenge by showcasing her most intimate material.

As the Russian government slowly releases information about the special forces raid to liberate hundreds of hostages from a Moscow theater, we have learned that the initial reporting on the raid did not even remotely tell the whole story. NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that this practice of secrecy in dealing with catastrophe harkens back to the days of the Soviet Union. (3:00)

Host of NPR's The Tavis Smiley Show, Tavis Smiley. His new book, Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America (Doubleday), is a collection of personal narratives by ordinary African Americans. Smiley also provides commentary twice a week on ABC Radio's The Tom Joyner Morning Show. And he's a contributor for CNN and a contributing correspondent on ABC's Primetime.

The Alabama Shakes singer and guitarist brought an eight-piece backing band to the Tiny Desk for a set of deeply personal and affecting songs.

The president says that he's done raising campaign money for the year. But, says commentator Byron York, it seems that President Bush is quitting while he's ahead. He's broken Bill Clinton's record for campaign funds raised, but there isn't the same criticism focused on Bush that Clinton got. Byron York is White House correspondent for the National Review. (3:00)

On Dec. 1, the court will hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The Mississippi case tests whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional.

President Biden is set to speak at the assembly on Tuesday.

Many migrants are not having their asylum claims heard and are expelled back to Mexico, which has refused them as well.

Comedian and actor A.J. Johnson has died at age 55. Johnson starred as Ezal, a homeless man with drug addiction, in Ice Cube's Friday.