The Latest Business After 100 years, a Northwest symbol of Japanese culture returns to Tacoma In 1928, Uwajimaya founders Fujimatsu and Sadako Moriguchi opened their first Japanese grocery store in Tacoma. Now, the company their granddaughter runs is returning to the city where Uwajimaya got its start. Plans are in the works to open a new Tacoma store in 2027. Stephen Howie Politics Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act (again). What is it? As protests grow over violent ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis, the president said he could invoke a centuries-old law that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military in U.S. cities. Alana Wise Business There's an internet blackout in Iran. How are videos and images getting out? Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown. John Ruwitch Business How chain restaurants lean into nostalgia Chain restaurants are familiar, comfortable and everywhere. The food is not out-of-this-world, so why do these restaurants stoke such big emotions in us? Law & Courts Inside the cocaine trade As the U.S. government bombs boats it says are trafficking cocaine and claims that Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is a cartel leader, we investigate how the trade really works. Environment California could set strict rules about flammable vegetation after LA fires State officials are considering banning almost all vegetation within five feet of homes in areas at risk of wildfires across the state. World Iran's protests appear increasingly smothered after a deadly crackdown The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown. The Associated Press Arts & Life Julian Barnes says he's enjoying himself, but that 'Departure(s)' is his last book Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years. Terry Gross Politics 24 hours of chaos as mental health grants are slashed then restored For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled. Brian Mann Health This country taxes menstrual pads as luxury goods. She's suing to end the tax Bushra Mahnoor remembers the shame she felt when she had her period as a teen and did not have the supplies she needed. Today she leads a campaign to lower prices for pads in Pakistan. Gabrielle Emanuel Prev 157 of 1644 Next Sponsored
Business After 100 years, a Northwest symbol of Japanese culture returns to Tacoma In 1928, Uwajimaya founders Fujimatsu and Sadako Moriguchi opened their first Japanese grocery store in Tacoma. Now, the company their granddaughter runs is returning to the city where Uwajimaya got its start. Plans are in the works to open a new Tacoma store in 2027. Stephen Howie
Politics Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act (again). What is it? As protests grow over violent ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis, the president said he could invoke a centuries-old law that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military in U.S. cities. Alana Wise
Business There's an internet blackout in Iran. How are videos and images getting out? Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown. John Ruwitch
Business How chain restaurants lean into nostalgia Chain restaurants are familiar, comfortable and everywhere. The food is not out-of-this-world, so why do these restaurants stoke such big emotions in us?
Law & Courts Inside the cocaine trade As the U.S. government bombs boats it says are trafficking cocaine and claims that Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is a cartel leader, we investigate how the trade really works.
Environment California could set strict rules about flammable vegetation after LA fires State officials are considering banning almost all vegetation within five feet of homes in areas at risk of wildfires across the state.
World Iran's protests appear increasingly smothered after a deadly crackdown The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown. The Associated Press
Arts & Life Julian Barnes says he's enjoying himself, but that 'Departure(s)' is his last book Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years. Terry Gross
Politics 24 hours of chaos as mental health grants are slashed then restored For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled. Brian Mann
Health This country taxes menstrual pads as luxury goods. She's suing to end the tax Bushra Mahnoor remembers the shame she felt when she had her period as a teen and did not have the supplies she needed. Today she leads a campaign to lower prices for pads in Pakistan. Gabrielle Emanuel