美国国家公共电台 NPR NPR Poll: After Parkland, Number of Americans Who Want Gun Restrictions Grows

DAVID GREENE, HOST: After a White House meeting on guns left Republicans scratching their heads, the Senate is not going to take up gun legislation next week as it had hoped. But when it does, a new NPR/Ipsos poll might provide a road map for what Am

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Says Administration Working On 'Very Very Strong' Policies To Combat Opioids

AILSA CHANG, HOST: A couple hundred people gathered in the White House's East Room today. They came to get an update on the Trump administration's response to the opioid crisis. President Trump declared the crisis a public health emergency back in Oc

美国国家公共电台 NPR Actress Ashley Judd's #MeToo Moment Was Driven By A 'Commitment' To Her Younger Self

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's Friday, which is when we hear from Story Corps. And today, we have a conversation about the biggest story out of Hollywood in many years - indeed, one of the bigger stories in America in recent years - t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tower Records Founder Russ Solomon Has Died At Age 92

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The founder of Tower Records has died. Russ Solomon was 92 years old. He started selling records in his father's drugstore and built a chain that was mecca for many in the days when you bought music by flipping through the albums

美国国家公共电台 NPR A U.S. Aircraft Carrier Anchors Off Vietnam For The First Time Since The War

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The USS Carl Vinson is in De Nang, Vietnam. And it is the first U.S. aircraft carrier visit since the end of the Vietnam War. And it comes at a time of increasing tension between the U.S. and China and between China and some of i

美国国家公共电台 NPR Like It Or Not, Personal Health Technology Is Getting Smarter

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are many other digital devices on the market that claim they can improve your health. Wearable technology can track your fitness, your blood pressure, your heart rate. But can all this tracking actually lead to cheaper and

美国国家公共电台 NPR Anna Deavere Smith Brings One-Woman Play 'Notes From The Field' To HBO

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you are a television fan, then you might know Anna Deavere Smith from her roles as the hippie grandmother on Black-ish, the hospital administrator in Nurse Jackie and the national security adviser on The West Wing. But she's a

美国国家公共电台 NPR This Chef Lost 50 Pounds And Reversed Prediabetes With A Digital Program

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Medical researchers are hoping that a smartphone can help to prevent Type 2 diabetes. A program that helps people is delivered by phone. And NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on how it works. ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: Sometimes a good m

美国国家公共电台 NPR South Korean Officials Meet Kim Jong Un To Pave The Way For U.S. Talks

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: South Korea, like the United States, has an intelligence chief. South Korea also has a head of a national security council. It is safe to say that for those two South Koreans, job No. 1 is to get inside the head of North Korean l

美国国家公共电台 NPR Egyptian Singers Jailed For 'Inciting Debauchery'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: These days, you can add to the list of unexpectedly risky professions being a popular singer in Egypt. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, HAVE YOU DRUNK FROM THE NILE) SHERINE ABDEL WAHAB: (Singing in foreign language). SIMON: Sherine Abdel Wahab

美国国家公共电台 NPR Musher Mutiny, Dog Doping: Scandals Mire The Super Bowl Of Sled Dog Races

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Iditarod sled dog race begins today. Mushers and their dogs will spend the next week or so trying to cross a thousand miles of the Alaska wilderness. But as Alaska Public Media's Zachariah Hughes reports, this year, the iconic

美国国家公共电台 NPR Months After ISIS, Much Of Iraq's Mosul Is Still Rubble

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's been eight months since the battle to force ISIS from the Iraqi city of Mosul. Many areas remain in rubble from U.S. airstrikes and fighting by both sides. Iraq did gather almost $30 billion in pledges for international aid to

美国国家公共电台 NPR Would Your Dog Remember You After 10 Years?

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A few weeks ago we spoke, with Debra Suierveld about her amazing dog, Abby. Abby went missing from her Apollo, Penn., home 10 years ago. A few weeks ago, she was found in an animal shelter. They checked her for a microchip, and Abb

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Crash Course In Vermont's Head-Turning, Homegrown Sport

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tomorrow, dozens of competitors will take to the slopes at Mount Snow in Vermont for the annual world championship of jack jumping. No judgment - we never heard of it either. So Vermont Public Radio's Nina Keck went to find out w

美国国家公共电台 NPR The 30-Year Quest To Tame The 'Wily' Cancer Gene

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This next story is about a line of cancer research that could potentially help a huge number of people, people like Michael Robertson. MICHAEL ROBERTSON: I'd been having unidentified symptoms for a few months, but it was during a

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Opioid Crisis Is Surging In Black, Urban Communities

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The opioid crisis began in rural America. And in the beginning most of those who were overdosing were white. Since, the crisis has spread to urban areas and it's now affecting African-American communities in cities across the cou

美国国家公共电台 NPR If It's Awkward, 'My Instinct Is To Make Fun Of It,' Says Armando Iannucci

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Armando Iannucci has created some of the most biting political satire on radio, TV and in the movies of the past 25 years. His latest is a political spoof about the demise of dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, TH

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Book Dives Into How 'The Bachelor' Wooed The Nation

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: And I'm Ari Shapiro, not to be confused with Arie Luyendyk spelled slightly differently. I'm talking about The Bachelor, the 16-year-old reality TV show in which women compete for a marriage proposal. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Yes,

美国国家公共电台 NPR As U.S. Steelmakers Cheer Tariffs, A Michigan Factory's Future Looks Bleak

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: American steelmakers are excited about President Trump's proposal to put 25 percent tariffs on imported steel. They say the tariffs will help level the playing field against competitors in China. But in one Michigan county that v

美国国家公共电台 NPR China Churns Out Half The World's Steel, And Other Steelmakers Feel Pinched

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's push for tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is driven in part by competition from China. The United States still produces most of its own steel, we should be clear. But the industry has faced pressure from ch