Prosecuted six times for the same crime: Curtis Flowers' conviction got thrown out three times because a Mississippi county prosecutor's rejection of black jurors kept getting rejected. Supreme Court justices across the political spectrum were skeptical to say the least of the most recent conviction, in which the prosecutor managed to convince one black juror.
Too many markets, not enough farmers. That's the finding of a recent study of the farmers markets failures occurring in many cities. The concept is popular, but if a market is too small to provide a good array of products, it can't draw enough customers.
For a few people, tiny noises trigger huge stress responses. Many doctors are still not familiar with the syndrome, known as misophonia, in which mouth noises or other normal sounds can trigger panicked reactions in some people. "It's as if you're going to die," one teen says.
Last week we told you about an Inuit parenting trick. This week the NPR reporter, Michaeleen Doucleff, walks through what happened when she tried the technique out on her own toddler.
New Zealand passed strict new gun laws after a deadly shooting at two mosques, but another move may have gotten more universal praise. "He will, when I speak, be nameless," the nation's prime minister said. "He may have sought notoriety, but we in New Zealand will give him nothing. Not even his name."
Boeing is struggling with the aftermath of two deadly passenger plane crashes, but the company has recovered from disasters before. The plane manufacturer has weathered repeated downturns in its industry, as well as a series of crashes that led to some calling its DC-10 the "death cruiser." Boeing fixed the plane, and it was for many years an industry staple.
A superbloom looks like doom for one California community. The rolling hills around the town of Lake Elsinore are awash in orange poppies after heavy winter rains. Now the area has been overwhelmed by mobs of snapshot-hunting tourists.
In the month since the Vatican broke its silence on the abuse of nuns by priests, many are speaking out about it. In India, a nun has reported a bishop to police, accusing him of raping her more than a dozen times. In Chile, the Vatican is investigating a small order of nuns after reports some sisters had been kicked out after reporting sexual abuse.
A whale found in the Philippines died after its ate too much plastic trash. The 88 pounds of waste left its stomach "as hard as a baseball," a marine biologist said. "That means that this animal has been suffering not for days or weeks but for months or even a year or more." |
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James Spann has limited information to work with, but his analysis of it can save or cost lives. Invisibilia talks with the chief meteorologist at an Alabama TV station to understand how we live with and work through uncertainty.
Antitrust laws played a defining role in most of the 20th century in the U.S., then things shifted the other way. That's had huge implications on how tech giants are regulated today. Planet Money takes a three-part look at the past and future of how the government has regulated the country's most powerful businesses.
Butte, Mont., was once one of the West's biggest cities; now it's got one of the country's biggest Superfund site. Both the city's boom and its toxic mess were the product of its huge copper deposits, which helped electrify the nation and arm its forces for both World Wars. The EPA has vowed to make cleaning up pollution from the mines a top priority. |
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South by Southwest is one of the premier music festivals of the year, and the NPR Music team wanted to put you in the middle of it. That means you get the chance to watch Wyclef Jean rework a Santana hit, Amanda Palmer show off her epic new meditation on humanity, the punk puppets of Fragile Rock belt out a #metoo anthem, and Austin native Gina Chavez find magic in a folk devotional.
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