Michel Martin
Stories
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How prior insurance authorization affects physicians and the care they give patients
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with American Medical Association President Bruce Scott about how physicians and patients are burdened by insurance companies' systems of prior authorization.
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Morning news brief
Federal government faces shutdown after stop-gap funding bill fails in the House, fighting rages in eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, Syria forming a new government after fall of Assad regime.
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WWII's only Women's Army Corps unit of color featured in 'The Six Triple Eight'
Michel Martin speaks with filmmaker Tyler Perry and actor Kerry Washington about their film based on World War II's only Women's Army Corps unit of color.
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Amazon workers strike ahead of the holiday shopping rush
Amazon drivers and warehouse workers at multiple locations across the U.S. have been joining picket lines, pressing the retail giant to recognize their unions during the holiday shopping rush.
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Morning news brief
U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear TikTok arguments against app ban, NPR visits a Syrian refugee camp cut off from outside for nearly a decade, dozens of men found guilty in France rape trial.
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Sen. Warren urges Trump to hold Musk accountable for conflicts of interest
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wants incoming presidential advisor Elon Musk to sign an ethics pledge. She speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about what she says are Musk's conflicts of interest.
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What we can learn from Ukraine's assassination of a senior Russian general in Moscow
NPR's Michel Martin talks to retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served on the National Security Council, about the bomb attack on a Moscow street, outside a residential building.
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Why it is rare for a girl to commit a mass shooting, as happened this week
Data show that women and girls are rarely the assailants in mass shootings. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with forensic psychologist Jillian Peterson about the facts and reasons behind that data.
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Russian general in charge of chemical and biological warfare is killed in Moscow
The apparent assassination of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov came a day after Ukraine's security service charged him with using banned chemical weapons.
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Trump gives his first news conference since he won last month's election
President-elect Donald Trump gave a wide-ranging news conference on Monday. Here are the takeaways.
