Headlines on 2019-04-06

A millionaire couple is tearing through a New York City street to build a $100 million mansion with a 60-foot pool, The New York Times reported. Neighbors have been forced to wear earplugs and $400 noise-canceling headphones in their own apartments to deal with the constant noise that's persisted for the past year. One resident partially blames the renovations for her new $5,000 hearing aids. Another woman said she had to give tranquilizers to her miniature poodle to calm him down amid the...

Elon Musk is, if nothing else, an innovator. He finds new ways to recover rockets from space, new useless holes to drill into the earth, and new reasons to get fined by the SEC. Now, according to a report by Bloomberg, he's found new ways of threatening his subordinates. Mostly you could say he’s guilty of having too many good ideas. More

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Emily Siegel of NBC News about her team's investigation on ambassador nominations during the Trump administration.

Every 19 years, the Global Positioning System resets a measure of time built into its program. The latest rollover is Saturday and NPR's Scott Simon asks cybersecurity expert Frank Cilluffo about it.

Though Ikon, a multiresort ski pass, has been embraced by for its low prices, many locals gripe that they are making mountains too crowded.

Twenty-five years after the start of the genocide in which 800,000 people were killed, a Rwandan man in Boston was convicted for lying on his asylum application about his participation.

Investigators are getting a clearer idea why two new Boeing 737 Max jets have crashed, but there are still many questions as the fleet remains grounded worldwide.

President Trump has since backed off his threat, but as border officials scramble to deal with an unprecedented flow of migrants, there are disruptions at the border and increasingly long wait times.

The Navajo Nation has given up trying to purchase one of the West's largest coal-fired power plants. The facility is an economic engine, but it's also one of the region's largest carbon emitters.

Amazon plans to launch 3,236 satellites into orbit to expand internet access through its Project Kuiper. It's another step in what's becoming a new space race.  UBS analyst Carl Berrisford says the value of the "space economy" will nearly triple to $1 trillion in 20 years, and he sees high speed broadband satellites as the biggest single opportunity in that sector. Amazon, SpaceX and several other companies are preparing big bets on networks of broadband satellites. Only about half the world's...

NPR's Scott Simons remembers the late former Sen. Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings with journalist Kirk Victor, who collaborated with Hollings on his 2008 book, Making Government Work.

Nézet-Séguin conducts at New York's Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra. John Powers revisits the 1970 film Wanda. Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb talks about her experiences in therapy.