MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Tomorrow morning, millions across the globe are expected to tune in for the royal wedding. There will be the pageantry that the British do oh-so well. As NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, there's another story behind this royal w

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Venezuela To Hold Presidential Election But Main Opposition Is Boycotting It

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Venezuelans are being asked to vote in a presidential election tomorrow. The result may seem a foregone conclusion. The autocratic Nicolas Maduro is expected to remain in power despite the economic catastrophe that engulfs his nati

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美国国家公共电台 NPR House Farm Bill Fails As Conservatives Revolt Over Immigration

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: House Republican leaders suffered an embarrassing loss today with the failure of the $867 billion farm bill. The policy behind the bill was widely supported by Republicans, and it had the backing of President Trump. But conservativ

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'He Was My Everything': A Farmer's Wife Reflects On Her Husband's Suicide

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It is Friday, which is when we hear StoryCorps. It's also springtime, which is planting season for farmers. And the stress can take its toll. Farmers have one of the highest suicide rates of any job in the Un

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美国国家公共电台 NPR California Winemakers Nervous About U.S.-China Trade Talks

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Negotiators from the United States and China have been trying to avert an all out trade war, And among those closely watching this - winemakers here in California. In the past decade, U.S. wine exports to China rose 450 percent. B

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Small Business Owner Fears U.S.-China Trade War Will Destroy Her Company

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This next story underlines an awkward reality of the trade battle between the United States and China. When Americans import Chinese goods, what's really happening is this - an American business is using Chinese goods and making

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Vast And The Violent Rural Northwest, In 'Come West And See'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The title of Maxim Loskutoff's debut story collection is an invitation or maybe a command, Come West And See. The West he writes about his wild, aggressive and stands in stark opposition to the society that exists in places like Wa

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Companies Face A Tough Choice After Trump Pulls Out Of Iran Nuclear Deal

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. So President Trump's decision to take the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal put the U.S. at odds with some close allies in Europe and Asia, and it gives companies like Samsung and Renault a difficult choice. Th

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Frozen Food Fan? As Sales Rise, Studies Show Frozen Produce Is As Healthy As Fresh

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Frozen food is having a moment. After years in a slump, sales of frozen and prepared foods are on the rise. They are often cheaper than fresh and can be more convenient. As NPR's Allison Aubrey reports, another upside of froz

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Not Just Ballots: Tennessee Hack Shows Election Websites Are Vulnerable, Too

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: House Speaker Paul Ryan has called every member of the House of Representatives to an important meeting next week on election security. Top intelligence and law enforcement officials will brief Congress on the risks and threats t

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Warming Waters Push Fish To Cooler Climes, Out Of Some Fishermen's Reach

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The oceans are getting warmer, and fish are noticing. Many that live along U.S. coastlines are moving to cooler water as a result. As NPR's Christopher Joyce reports, a new study finds that trend is likely to continue. And there

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Cobra Kai' Looks At What Happened After 'The Karate Kid' Beat The School Bully

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: With these four little words... (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE KARATE KID) PAT MORITA: (As Miyagi) Wax on, wax off. CORNISH: ...We're off and running with the characters from the classic 1984 movie The Karate Kid. This time, it's for a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Breaking With Trump's GOP, Koch Brothers Praise Democrats On Immigration

Breaking With Trump's GOP, Koch Brothers Praise Democrats On Immigration DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Koch brothers are billionaire libertarians who have spent massive amounts of money to support Republican candidates and causes over the years, pushing a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Las Vegas Welcomes The Spread Of Sports Gambling

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: For years, Nevada has had a near monopoly on legal sports betting in the U.S. So you might think that Las Vegas might not be so keen on the Supreme Court's decision to allow all states to legalize sports gambling. But as NPR's Le

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Henrietta Lacks' Lasting Impact Detailed In New Portrait

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: When Henrietta Lacks was dying of cancer in 1951, her cells were harvested without her knowledge. They became crucial to scientific research, and her story eventually became a best-selling book. Lacks has become one of the mo

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Tom Wolfe, Best-Selling Author And Genre-Breaking Journalist, Dies At 88

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Tom Wolfe created a new type of journalism over the course of his half-century career. Wolfe coined phrases that became part of the American lexicon in such nonfiction bestsellers as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, his accou

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Despite Legalization, Marijuana Black Market Hides In Plain Sight

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Legalized marijuana, it turns out, does not necessarily mean the end of marijuana crime. That's what authorities are discovering in Washington state, one of the first to legalize recreational pot. Five years into that e

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Tom Wolfe, Author Of 'Bonfire Of The Vanities,' Dies At 88

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tom Wolfe created unforgettable stories about test pilots and hippies, bikers and the lost denizens of Wall Street. He wrote best sellers like The Right Stuff and Bonfire Of The Vanities. We have learned this morning that Tom Wol

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How The Business Of Buying Canceled TV Show Works

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Reports of the death of the TV show Brooklyn Nine-Nine have been greatly exaggerated. Fox canceled the police sitcom last week. A day later, NBC picked it up. Lots of other shows have followed a similar path - The Mindy Project, ca

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Nike Sees Executive Departures In Harassment Reckoning

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Nike is going through an executive shakeup over sexism and harassment in the workplace, and now the shoe and athletic gear company is trying to rebuild. From Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland, Erica Morrison has the story. E

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