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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Have you ever seen one of those amazing wildlife photos of an owl swooping in - wings stretched out, coming, like, straight at the camera right at you? Well, how in the world did a photographer get that shot? Turns out, they used

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: People in Ferguson, Mo., will vote to choose a mayor tomorrow. It's the town's first mayoral election since 2014. And that was the year a white police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old black man, Michael Brown. Then there we

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The state of Arkansas has a death penalty problem. The state is rushing to execute death row inmates at an unprecedented pace this month before its supply of lethal drugs expires. The expiration date is important because it's gett

美国国家公共电台 NPR Adam Galinsky: What Drives Us To Speak Up?

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Howard Norman's 'My Darling Detective' Pays Homage To Film Noir

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Howard Norman's new novel is set in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the core of the plot of My Darling Detective is a photograph and an auction. HOWARD NORMAN: (Reading) The auction was held at 5 p.m. in the street-level drawing room of

美国国家公共电台 NPR 25 Years Ago, 'Barney' The Dinosaur First Appeared On TV Screens

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Comedian Don Rickles, Merciless 'Merchant Of Venom,' Dies At 90

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's Friday, so it's time for StoryCorps. Today, we will meet two sisters from Somalia. Fatuma Abdullahi and Maryan Osman were little girls when their parents died in Somalia's civil war. They're teenagers now living in Utah. Ann

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Legal Marijuana Advocates Are Uneasy With Sessions' Stance

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Advocates for medical marijuana are in Washington, D.C., this week for an annual conference. But supporters of marijuana legalization are uneasy these days. That's because the new U.S. attorney general has been making tough comme

美国国家公共电台 NPR Activists Plan 'Tax Day' Marches Calling For Release Of Trump's Taxes

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: A hundred years ago today, the United States entered World War I. Congress voted to declare war on Germany. By the time it ended, there had been a staggering death toll - more than 17 million people worldwide. The soldiers who did

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Scandals Crest, Fox News Once More Under Siege

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And the Fox News Channel is once more under siege. Last summer, the ouster of chairman Roger Ailes during a huge scandal was intended to calm the place down. Yet, multiple scandals have erupted at Fox. As NPR's David Folkenflik re

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's talk comics now. They've gotten new life in recent years as new creators have added fresh characters and perspectives. But some Native Americans say they still find it hard to see themselves reflected in these characters. A

NPR poetry Month: Vince Staples Reads His Favorite Twitter Poems

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now it's time for more Twitter poetry. Here's one from Dave Paulsen in Minnesota. DAVE PAULSEN: String cheese. You think you're so smart, shedding your skin like a cylindrical reptile. Take heed, though, little dairy product. You

美国国家公共电台 NPR Spotlight On Migrant Crimes Drums Up Support For Trump's Immigration Dragnet

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump regularly spotlights violent crimes committed by immigrants in the country illegally. His administration has pledged to deport more of these so-called bad hombres. That outrage is increasingly bubbling up in commun

美国国家公共电台 NPR With Obamacare Here to Stay, Some States Revive Medicaid Expansion

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The Republicans' failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act opened up an opportunity for advocates wanting to expand Medicaid. They see one last chance to get billions of federal dollars for their states and cover hundred

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LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the new film, The Zookeeper's Wife, Jessica Chastain plays Antonina Zabinska. It's World War II. And along with her husband, Antonina runs the Warsaw Zoo. She has a way with animals, but she's leery of humans. (SOUNDB

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'American War' Explores The Universality Of Revenge

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Writer Omar El Akkad spent much of his career as a journalist covering the many revolutions and wars in the Middle East for Canada's Globe and Mail. His debut novel, though, is set in a United States that is riven by con

美国国家公共电台 NPR From Wristwatches To Radio, How World War I Ushered In The Modern World

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The United States entered World War I a hundred years ago this week on April 6, 1917. The war is remembered mostly for its brutality. But as NPR's Greg Myre explains, it was also a moment when emerging technologies conve