NPR received traditionally about 1% of our budget directly from the federal government, but we have just 1% but we have a network of around 250 member stations which received as much as 70% in rural parts of the country and so we're waiting to see what some of the fallout will be for those stations. We have projections. We're concerned about this and we're looking at how we can butress some of their work by cutting fees to them and thinking about how to make, you know, a dollar stretch a little bit further ...

Sesame Street scrambling to do damage control today after Elmo's ex got hacked this weekend. The account of America's favorite furry red monster shocking its half a million plus followers with a string of posts. Not only making anti-semitic and racist comments, but also a derogatory reference to President Trump in connection to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.According to the Associated Press, NBC News did not independently review the posts before they were deleted. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind E ...