DAVID GREENE, HOST: Sinclair Broadcast Group is based in Maryland. This is a conservative company that owns more local TV stations than any other company in the country. And Sinclair is about to get bigger with a $3.9 billion deal with Tribune Media.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Kushner Family Business Pitch In China Prompts Questions About Investor Visas

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Anybody in business can tell you that connections matter. And if you want a connection to the president of the United States, what better way than through his family? Jared Kushner is the president's son-in-law and close adviser.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR GOP Health Bill Leaves Many 'Pre-Existing Condition' Protections Up To States

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Right now under the Affordable Care Act, people with pre-existing conditions have a lot of protections. But the House bill passed last week leaves a lot of those provisions up to state politics. Bram Sable-Smith of member station

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Budget Would Eliminate A Key Funder Of Research On Coastal Pollution

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: For millions of Americans, what they flush down the toilet goes into a septic tank. Septic tanks are convenient, but sometimes they pollute our waterways. Scientists are trying to track down that pollution with help from a federa

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Affordable Housing Program Costs More, Shelters Fewer

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: There's a lot of money to be made in affordable housing. Banks and developers are making millions of dollars by building housing for the poor under a federal incentive program. And at the same time, each year, fewer poor people a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR What's Next? Sixth Season Of 'Veep' Probes Post-Presidential Life

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Julia Louis-Dreyfus has won six Emmys for lead actress in a comedy. That is more than any other female actor. Five of those Emmys were for her work on the HBO show she stars in, Veep. She plays a woman named Selina Meyer, a woman

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How Draft Horses Are Helping Upgrade Cell Towers In Wisconsin

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Companies that provide cell phone service race one another to offer the most reliable signals in order to retain customers. Sometimes to do that, they turn to a surprising option to get the job done. (SOUNDBITE OF HORSE NEIGHING)

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美国国家公共电台 NPR President Trump Gets A Head Start On Shaping The Federal Courts

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: President Trump is moving quickly to put his nominees in the federal courts. Today the president nominated five people to serve on federal appeals courts and five more to serve on lower courts. There's an unusually large number o

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Travel Ban Returned To Court, With President's Words At The Center

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of President Trump's top priorities will get a test in court today. A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., will hear arguments about the legality of the president's revised travel ban. The White House says restricting visi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Fresh Food By Prescription: This Health Care Firm Is Trimming Costs — And Waistlines

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And when we go to the doctor, often we leave with a prescription for medicine. But with the skyrocketing costs of treating lifestyle diseases, like Type 2 diabetes, some health care providers are rethinking how they use that presc

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Have The 'Miserable' Airlines Finally Reached A Tipping Point?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now a legal dispute over the death penalty in Florida that's turned into a political standoff. The Florida Supreme Court must decide whether Governor Rick Scott has the authority to remove cases from a state attorney who refuses

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Cases Pulled For Refusing The Death Penalty, Attorney Sues To Get Them Back

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美国国家公共电台 NPR World-Renowned Rock Climber On Constantly Pushing The Limits

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: In Yosemite National Park in California, a famous mountain called El Capitan beckons climbers around the world, a sheer granite rock face called the Dawn Wall seemed impossible to ascend without equipment. In 2015, Tommy Caldwell

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Condoleezza Rice: Institutions Aren't Perfect, But They're The Bedrock Of Democracy

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It is a disorienting time for many Americans. And we've been trying to make sense of it all in a series called The History of Our Time. We have interviewed writers, thinkers and people in politics, like White House aide Michael A

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Paula Poundstone's 'Totally Unscientific' Search For The Secret Of Happiness

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: You may know Paula Poundstone from the smash public radio hit - other than this program - Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! But she's also an accomplished author, now of two books, all the more an accomplishment because each book

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美国有线新闻 CNN Just How Organic Is Your Milk? Well, It Depends On The Dairy It Came From

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Organic milk is widely available these days, but what does that label really mean? A new Washington Post investigation found that there are considerable differences between the organic milk you can buy in a grocery store and the ki

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美国有线新闻 CNN Feist Has A Message For Her 71-Year-Old Self

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The musician Feist has a new album out. It's her first in six years. It sounds nothing like the polished, alternative pop that first got her widespread notice in 2007, along with a best new artist nomination at the Grammys.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR When Elmo And Big Bird Talk To Refugees

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Elmo and Big Bird have lots of experience educating children about all kinds of things from the alphabet to autism. Well, now, Sesame Workshop wants to help millions of refugee children from Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countri

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美国国家公共电台 NPR When It Comes To Family Musicals, Kids' Opinions Matter More Than Critics'

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Creating a hit musical which appeals to family audiences is kind of Broadway's holy grail. Think of Lion King or Wicked which have run for decades. Critics don't always give these shows good reviews, but some of them are critic-p

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Lazarus Patient And The Limits Of A Lifesaving Stroke Procedure

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: About 800,000 people have strokes every year in the U.S. Most are caused when a clot blocks a blood vessel to the brain. We've known about strokes for a long time. But it wasn't until recently that doctors could do anything about

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