AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: America has had its first black baseball player, its first black astronaut, its first black president. But after the first, the world is still full of onlys. Sometimes the onliness is existential, like being the only black studen

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Most Americans Feel They've Lost Control Of Their Online Data

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: As Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg testified for Congress today, we sat wondering, how much do Americans care about their online privacy? What's OK for companies to collect about you, and what's not? So we went out here in Washing

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Does FBI Raid On Trump Lawyer Cohen Mean Attorney-Client Privilege Is 'Dead'?

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to get the latest on the legal turmoil surrounding the White House and the new questions since yesterday's FBI raids targeting President Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen. One question that's come up agai

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Scientists Push Plan To Change How Researchers Define Alzheimer's

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A large coalition of brain researchers has unveiled a plan to redefine Alzheimer's disease. The goal here is to study Alzheimer's by focusing on biological changes in the brain rather than symptoms like memory loss. NPR's Jon Ham

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美国国家公共电台 NPR It Was A Company With A Lot Of Promise. Then A Chinese Customer Stole Its Technology

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: We've been reporting a lot on the U.S. threat to impose tariffs on some $150 billion worth of goods imported from China. Beijing is promising to retaliate. One big source of tension is that the Trump administration says for t

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Varina,' A Confederate Contemplates Her Complicity

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The writer Charles Frazier used to think he'd said enough about the Civil War. He wrote an acclaimed Civil War novel that became an Oscar-winning movie. CHARLES FRAZIER: After Cold Mountain, I never thought I wanted to write abou

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Maker Of Bratz And Little Tikes Seeks To Save Toys R Us

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Toys R Us is liquidating and closing stores after declaring bankruptcy last year. This is bad news for toymakers who still sell a lot of their toys at brick-and-mortar stores. Now, one big toymaker is trying to save Toys R Us. Hi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Denim Companies Stretch To Compete With Leggings

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Why write about the business of denim if you can't throw in a few puns? Bloomberg's Kim Bhasin says the jean-making industry has been just as distressed as the ripped denim of the same name. The reason - elastic knit pants, yoga

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Yes, You Really Do Hear Each Crunch Of Popcorn While Watching 'A Quiet Place'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The new horror movie A Quiet Place is a hit at the box office and with critics. It's also notable for its lack of sound, which poses a problem for lovers of movie theater popcorn. NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin went to a showing to

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美国国家公共电台 NPR PrEP Campaign Aims To Block HIV Infection And Save Lives In D.C.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A big part of Washington, D.C.'s plan to get its HIV rate down is to get more people on PrEP. That's a drug which can prevent HIV infection. Now, PrEP has been around for years, but only a small portion of those at risk for H

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Louisiana Issues Quarantine To Control Invasive Marsh-Killing Bug

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Louisiana's shrinking coasts face a new threat. In addition to sinking land, sea level rise and erosion, a tiny bug from the other side of the ocean is killing off marshes. This week the state issued an emergency quarantine. Travi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Half-Century After Getting Divorced, This Couple Is Heading Back Down The Aisle

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Lillian Barnes and Harold Holland got married in 1955. They had five kids together, but after a dozen years, they divorced. Both Barnes and Holland remarried and spent decades apart. After both their spouses passed away in 2015, t

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美国国家公共电台 NPR When Robots Milk Cows, Farm Families Taste Freedom

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: On a growing number of dairy farms, people don't decide when the cows need to be milked. The cows do. That's because farmers have called in robots to do the milking - day or night. And for some families - the ones that run small d

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Bucket Brigade' Volunteers Still Digging California Homes Out After Mudslides

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In Southern California, many homeowners are still digging out of the mud more than two months after a deadly 30-square-mile debris flow slammed into their homes. But as Stephanie O'Neill reports from Montecito, each weekend, hundr

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Barry Levinson's 'Paterno' Examines A Coach's Passion, And His Complicity

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Conservative California Cities Revolt Against State's Anti-Trump Policies

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This week, the city of Escondido north of San Diego became the latest in Southern California to pass a resolution condemning California's sanctuary law. That law aims to protect some immigrants in the country illegally by limitin

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Meg Wolitzer's 'Female Persuasion' Honors The Women Who Helped Her On Her Way

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The very first page of Meg Wolitzer's new book describes a chance meeting between two women. One is very young, 18, a freshman on a college campus where the other, who's in her 60s, a famous feminist, has come to give a talk.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR What We Mean When We Talk About 'Suburban Women Voters'

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In any political season, you'll hear some reference to suburban women. In the past, they've been called soccer moms and security moms, among other things. And it's all code for a similar voting bloc. This year, with many key House

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美国国家公共电台 NPR As Border Crossings Tick Up, Migrants Bring Children, Take More Dangerous Routes

As Border Crossings Tick Up, Migrants Bring Children, Take More Dangerous Routes AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The number of immigrants illegally crossing the southern border plummeted when Donald Trump took office, but the number is again on the rise. In res

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Former National Guard Chief On What A 2006 Border Deployment Tells Us Today

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump has started filling in the details about his plan to send the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump says he would like to see 2,000 to 4,000 Guard troops sent to back up the U.S. Border Patrol. Now,

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