Новости за 25.09.2018

Steve Inskeep talks to Greg Brower, ex-head of the FBI's Office of Congressional Affairs, about Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's future, and his oversight of the Mueller investigation.

Prosecutors asked a judge on Monday to sentence Bill Cosby to prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. His defense attorney said the 81-year-old entertainer is too old for prison.

The U.S. Department of Education has developed a new smartphone app that it hopes will make the notoriously difficult Free Application For Federal Student Aid a little easier.

More people are living in places that are prone to wildfires. That means during fire season, they live with the very real possibility of having to evacuate on very short notice.

Real space travel will necessitate interplanetary gas stations on the moon, or on asteroids. A Colorado university has launched the first degree program in "space mining."

Author Elliot Ackerman is a veteran, and his latest novel is about an injured soldier just regaining consciousness. But it's really about something else: "This book really isn't about war," he says.

Many major airports are on low-lying coastal land where flooding is getting worse. They're building walls, berms and other barriers to try to keep planes and people moving.

The music publicist spoke to NPR ahead of the release of his new book: Pop Stars, Pageants, and Presidents: How an Email Trumped My Life.

The jazz singer, who used to be into radical feminist punk, now composes and sings beautiful jazz ballads.

The number of women candidates has smashed multiple records this year. So experts are asking if 2018 will fundamentally change what it takes to get women to run.

Raymond Holton, 74, was found alive and well in his apartment at a senior living center when building inspectors showed up to assess damage from Wednesday's fire.

The ruling blocks planned hunting of grizzlies. Judge Dana Christensen said the federal government didn't use the best available science when it took them off the threatened-species list last year.

Hasbro and Merriam-Webster have freshened the 70-year-old reference book by adding 300 new words to The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.

Cody Wilson was arrested in a hotel in Taiwan on Friday and flown to Texas. He posted bail of $150,000.

On Aug. 11, 2006, 16-year-old Amber Wyatt was raped. She reported it, but there was no prosecution. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Wyatt and Washington Post reporter Elizabeth Bruenig about Amber's story.

More than 30,000 union steelworkers have voted overwhelming to authorize a strike, while negotiations continue with ArcelorMittal and U.S. Steel.

A spokeswoman said that visitors wearing tampons will be offered pads.

Environmental groups are closely watching coal ash storage ponds in North and South Carolina as rivers swollen by rain from Hurricane Florence continue to rise.

A Cincinnati 2-year old is still thinking about the Christmas parade he starred in this weekend. Thousands of people turned out to support the little boy who loves sparkling lights.

Entertainer Bill Cosby's sentencing hearing got underway Monday in suburban Philadelphia. The 81-year-old comedian faces the possibility of prison time for three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

Anthropologist Barbara J. King says Hurricane Florence should lead us to look beyond the agriculture industry's loss of "inventory" and view animals as thinking, feeling — and suffering — beings.

Voter turnout was nearly 90 percent. The challenger beat the incumbent president, who is accused of jailing opponents. The Indian Ocean nation is at the center of a rivalry between India and China.

The White House and GOP allies are standing behind Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the face of a second allegation of sexual misconduct. Kavanaugh denies the new claim.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to Hailey Fuchs and Britton O'Daly of the Yale Daily News about the reaction on campus to the nomination of Yale alum Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.

World leaders are gathering in New York for the UN General Assembly. The wars in Syria and Yemen, the refugee issue and multilateralism will likely dominate the discussions.