All Things Considered
Monday - Friday from 4:00pm - 6:00pm
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. During each broadcast, stories and reports come to listeners from NPR reporters and correspondents based throughout the United States and the world. The hosts interview newsmakers and contribute their own reporting. Rounding out the mix are the disparate voices of a variety of commentators.
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Congress returns to town with the same problems they left before Memorial Day: immigration funding, opposition to a new Justice Department fund, and questions about Iran war oversight.
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As aid groups warn that the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa is worsening, Nicholas Enrich, the former acting assistant administrator for global health at US AID, warns the US work to stop this outbreak is less robust than it was.
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At an Asian defense summit, the U.S. called on other countries to increase military spending. China didn't even send its defense minister.
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On this week's Cineplexity, we explore what movies about immigrants teach us about life in America. What movies get the story right? What ones get them wrong? And what stories are still left untold?
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A deadly strike during the first days of the Iran war hit far away in the Indian Ocean, jolting a quiet seaside town and showing how far the conflict's reach now extends.
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NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with the Canadian-Iranian singer, Navan, about the fusion of French, Persian and English on his new album, Kisses on the Moon.
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How the magic of martial arts is changing life for some girls and women in a Beirut refugee camp.
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An entomologist researched the worms used in mescal to better understand the relationship between the creatures and specific agave plants - and the danger if harvesting increases.
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President Trump has not yet decided whether he'll extend a ceasefire with Iran, and Israel continues to attack targets in Lebanon, in spite of a ceasefire there.
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A controversial law allows Israel to hold Palestinians in prison without charge or trial. Israel says it's a necessary for security, but rights groups say it leaves detainees in a legal limbo.