Host Kelly McEvers takes a story from the news and goes deep. Whether that means digging into the Trump administration's past, the stories behind police shootings caught on video, or visiting a town ravaged by the opioid epidemic, Embedded takes you where the news is happening.
Olivia Grant hugs her grandmother, Mary Grace Sileo, through a plastic drop cloth in Wantagh, New York. As states and cities relax rules around the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans are having to make fraught decisions around their health and safety. Al Bello/Getty Images hide caption
A sign outside the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one of the country's largest known Coronavirus clusters. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rescue workers look at the destruction caused by a 2016 flash flood along Main Street in Ellicott City, Md. Astrid Riecken/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
High school students in Portland, Maine protest after a white man allegedly shouted racial slurs and attacked four black classmates. Portland Press Herald/Portland Press Herald via Getty hide caption
Family members place their hands on a memorial to the three victims of an April 2014 shooting in Overland Park, Kan. The shooter was a white supremacist, who targeted people at a Jewish community center and retirement home. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption
More than 300 miners in Harlan County, Kentucky unexpectedly found themselves unemployed when the company Blackjewel declared bankruptcy and shut down their mining operations. When a few of the miners learned the company was shipping out a final load of coal by rail they decided to blockade the tracks to prevent the shipment from leaving the mine until they were paid their overdue wages. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
