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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Probe Into Generic Drug Price Fixing Set To Widen

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Federal and state investigators say some generic drugmakers have been fixing prices. Nineteen companies have been named so far in a scheme where investigators say consumers were overcharged for a long list of medications. Charles

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Justice Department Sues California Over Impeding Immigration Enforcement

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 5 Laws Of Political Gravity In Midterms. Do They Still Apply In The Age Of Trump?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're in Dallas, Texas, today to mark the first primary in the country ahead of the fall midterm elections. Democrats are feeling confident. And if you want to know how seriously Republicans are taking that threat, Governor Greg

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The 'Wrinkle In Time' Movie Began As A Fifth-Grader's Dream

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: I have this distant memory of one of the places where I read A Wrinkle In Time. It was an elementary school desk toward the left side of the classroom, I think near the window. Of course, the action in the novel happened in no pa

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Red Sparrow' Author And Ex-CIA Agent Says New Movie Gets Spy Life Right

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the new movie Red Sparrow, a CIA officer walks alone in Gorky Park in Moscow. There's a handoff, a brush pass in the darkness with a Russian agent. Then all goes wrong - police lights, gunshots. The CIA officer has to run

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Invisibilia: When Death Rocks Your World, Maybe You Jump Out Of A Plane

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Good news for all of us who are fans of NPR's Invisibilia - the show about human behavior returns today with a new season of stories about the invisible forces that shape our lives. Today, co-host Hanna Rosin explores what skydiv

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Mattel Introduces 17 'Shero' Barbies To Celebrate International Women's Day

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: OK, I'm going to throw out a few names and let you guess why we're talking about them. Here we go. Frida Kahlo. Chloe Kim. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. Filmmaker Patty Jenkins. OK, if you're thinking what an impressi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Red Cross Endorsed Top Official Despite Sexual Misconduct Claims, ProPublica Reports

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have news this morning about the American Red Cross. The charity organization acknowledges it forced out a senior executive amid allegations of sexual harassment and worse in 2012. The dismissed executive was then hired by Sav

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Don't Think A Robot Could Do This': Warehouse Workers Aren't Worried For Their Jobs

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This week, we have been exploring the realities of modern work. A new NPR/Marist poll found a lot of confidence in the future among American workers. A vast majority said they actually don't feel that threatened by the economic fo

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Democrats Didn't Cave On Deal To Reopen Government, Sen. Jones Says

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Alabama Senator Doug Jones is in our studios. He's the Democrats who just won a special election in a deep red state. He had hardly arrived here in Washington when disputes over spending and immigration led to a brief government

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Remembering North Korea's Audacious Capture of the USS Pueblo

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: This is a story about a standoff between the United States and North Korea. We are not talking about the current tensions over nuclear weapons. This standoff occurred 50 years ago today when North Korean forces attacked the s

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