Catch up on events of the day with this drive-time mix of news, reviews, and offbeat features.
Each show consists of the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful commentaries, insightful features on the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment, all brought alive through sound.
All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. Every weekday the two-hour show is hosted by Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Ari Shapiro and Juana Summers. In 1977, ATC expanded to seven days a week with a one-hour show on Saturdays and Sundays, which is hosted by Michel Martin. Troy Oppie is the local All Things Considered host here at Boise State Public Radio.
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In Ohio, officials are working to prevent any major explosion from the wreckage of a Friday night train derailment that occurred in a small town near the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line.
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Federal prosecutors have charged a neo-Nazi leader and a Maryland woman with conspiring to attack power stations near Baltimore.
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The U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the deaths of four Americans on cruises to Antarctica, highlighting the perils of these increasingly popular cruises.
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We step back to look at the big picture of President Biden's upcoming State of the Union address.
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A devastating earthquake has struck southern Turkey and Northern Syria. It's a seismically active part of the world known for big quakes.
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Astronomers who win time to use space telescopes typically get a period of time when they alone can see the resulting data. But telescope managers are considering making all data public immediately.
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At least 2,800 people have died in a massive earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria, with thousands of buildings destroyed — and rescue workers rushing to help being hindered by poor weather.
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Three years after COVID-19 arrived in the U.S., some who have lost loved ones want them and the pandemic to be memorialized.
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Communities in California are slowly recovering from flooding earlier this year and hoping for lasting protections as severe weather may become more common.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with environmental scientist Dyhia Belhabib about overfishing in Senegal.