RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a lot of talk right now about so-called fake news, which, to be clear, is when fabricated stories are packaged as legitimate journalism. It's a problem other democracies are dealing with as well - in Germany, for example,

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Engineers Say Tax Increase Needed To Save Failing U.S. Infrastructure

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President Trump often talks about the poor condition of the nation's roads, bridges, tunnels and airports. Well, today, the nation's civil engineers joined him in telling us just how bad it is. The American Society of Civil Engin

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Scientists Closer To Creating A Fully Synthetic Yeast Genome

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Scientists have taken a big step towards making synthetic life. In other words, they figured out how to create a living thing with DNA that was written in a lab. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has the details. ROB STEIN, BYLI

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In Arizona, Program To Recruit Police To Help ICE Agents Gets Mixed Reviews

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An Arizona county is taking a long second look at its cooperation with the federal government. Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, was overseen for years by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He promoted himself as the country's toughest s

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美国国家公共电台 NPR U.S. Fast-Tracks Missile Defense System To South Korea, Drawing China's Ire

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: North Korea's missile tests and the United States' response have stirred debate among North Korea's neighbors. The latest missile shots into the sea were seen as a provocation. And a day later, the United States said it had start

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Treat Gun Violence Like A Public Health Crisis, One Program Says

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: As shootings and homicides continue to devastate some Chicago neighborhoods, advocates are advising people to treat it as a public health crisis. Other cities like New York have embraced this model and say it's helped reduce gun vi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Author Unravels Her Spy Dad's Life, One Secret Mission At A Time

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Keggie Carew's father, Tom Carew, was known as Lawrence of Burma and The Mad Irishman. In her new book Dadland, we find out why. It's a memoir that combines espionage and war stories with reflections on parent-child relationships.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR To Boost Trump Wiretap Claims, White House Leans On Unlikely Source

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Congress is seeking evidence to support President Trump's claims that the Obama administration tapped his phones during his campaign. Trump has offered no such proof. His aides have pointed to news articles, including an apparent s

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Dieting Passe? Study Finds Fewer Overweight People Try To Lose Weight

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now let's ask a question raised by new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Here's the question - are diets becoming passe? NPR's Allison Aubrey reports that as the number of Americans who are overweigh

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美国国家公共电台 NPR What Happens When U.S. Immigration Rules Tighten? Let's Look To Alabama

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump is clamping down on illegal immigration. And the state of Alabama might offer some clues about what exactly this will mean. In 2011, it passed what was called the toughest immigration law in the country. There were

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Female Workers Asked To Join In 'A Day Without A Woman' Protests

x DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today is International Women's Day. And some women in the United States are marking it by joining a protest called A Day Without A Woman. It is a strike aimed to highlight the economic power of women as well as ongoing problems

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美国国家公共电台 NPR South Korean Judges Uphold President Park Geun-hye's Impeachment

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And those are sounds from the city of Seoul this morning, celebration in the streets following a historic ruling in South Korea that has ousted that nation's president from office. The highest court in the country upheld a vote by

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Anthology TV Series Undergo Renaissance With 'American Crime,' 'Feud'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The third season of American Crime premieres this Sunday on ABC. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, AMERICAN CRIME) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) When they were running crack in the city, they didn't have any Narcan. They let the Mexica

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Hollywood's Favorite Giant Ape Returns In 'Kong: Skull Island'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been two weeks since the Oscars, time enough for the film industry to reset from prestige mode to blockbuster. This week, Hollywood's favorite giant ape returns to the screen in Kong: Skull Island, a film that left critic Bo

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 20 Years Ago, 'Buffy' Welcomed Us All To The Hellmouth (aka High School)

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Rachel, I'm taking us back to high school for a minute. Our big problems are not detention, not homework. Instead, they are demons, the undead and vampires that need to be slayed. (SOUNDBITE OF NERF HERDER'S BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAY

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Malcolm Gladwell: Do More Choices Make Us Happier?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today decisions, ideas about how we make them and why we tend to agonize over them because at some point, we all have to make a decision about something. It can be as trivi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Experts Say White House's Conway Response Raises Major Ethical Questions

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a clearer picture this morning of how President Trump's White House views government ethics rules. In the view of a White House lawyer, ethics rules do not apply to the president's staff. By now, we've heard exceptions to

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美国国家公共电台 NPR No One Was Prepared To Care For So Many Wounded In Mosul

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The fight to force ISIS from the Iraqi city of Mosul has resulted in more casualties than expected, both for combatants and civilians. That has led the Iraqi government and international aid groups to step up emergency care.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Hearing For Deputy Attorney General Nominee Focuses On Sessions, Russia

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A congressional hearing to fill top posts at the Justice Department today turned into a proxy war over the Trump administration's ties to Russia. Democrats pressed the nominee for deputy attorney general to appoint an independent

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How Did We Get To 11 Million Unauthorized Immigrants?

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A big policy question facing the country is what to do with the 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally - today the story of how that population grew so large. It's a long story. It's mostly about Mexico, and

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