The Court Challenge Begins: Is Trump Taking Unconstitutional Emoluments? KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: A group challenging Donald Trump's dual roles as president and businessman will have its day in court tomorrow. A federal judge in Manhattan hears prelimina

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Kirkus Changes Review After 'American Heart' Draws Outrage As 'White Savior Narrative'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Navigating the world of young adult literature is becoming a fraught adventure. The latest skirmish started when critics of the yet to be published novel American Heart took to Twitter to denounce the book for cultural insensitivit

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I'm Old As Dirt But I Can Still Sing': Sweet Pea Atkinson On 'Get What You Deserve'

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Now step into the way-back machine onto the dance floors of the 1980s. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WALK THE DINOSAUR) SWEET PEA ATKINSON: (Singing) The sun was spitting fire. The sky was blue as ice. I felt a little tired, so I watched M

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Sunday Morning Alt.Latino Serenade: Four Tracks For Your Weekend

Sunday Morning Alt.Latino Serenade: Four Tracks For Your Weekend (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DIANA GAMEROS: (Singing in Spanish). MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: We are listening to - well, I wish I could tell you what we're listening to. I don't know who it is becaus

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Chef José Andrés Has Served Nearly 1.5 Million Meals To Hungry Puerto Ricans

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Another story now. The Coliseo is the biggest concert hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Now, since Hurricane Maria devastated the island a month ago, the hall has become the center of a massive effort to feed tens of thousands o

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Body Cam Study Shows No Effect On Police Use Of Force Or Citizen Complaints

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A wearable camera is increasingly a routine part of police officers' uniforms. That's despite a shortage of solid research on how the technology affects policing. Now a large study in the nation's capital has turned up some unexpec

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Philip Pullman Returns To The Dark Materials Universe In A New Prequel — Er, 'Equel'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The world Philip Pullman created is back, in his hands and now ours. His Dark Materials trilogy, which began more than 20 years ago with a book called The Golden Compass is set in a world ruled by a theocratic overlords called The

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Only The Brave,' The True Story Of Fated Wildland Firefighters

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The fires in Northern California have reminded many Americans of the courage, the heroism of the men and women who fight fires in forests and wilderness. A film called Only The Brave is based on the true story of the 19 Granite Mou

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I'm Just Trying To Make Myself Laugh': 'New Yorker' Artist Shares His Cover Stories

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Barry Blitt drew his first cover for The New Yorker back in 1992, and ever since, he's been skewering politicians of all stripes. Barack and Michelle Obama fist bumping - that was Blitt. Donald Trump prancing in a tiara and a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR What The Pileup Of U.S. Disasters Means For The World

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Fires in California, hurricanes and flooding in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico - a devastating season of natural disasters for the U.S. And it comes just as a series of other catastrophes have threatened millions of people around t

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 30-Foot Border Wall Prototypes Erected In San Diego Borderlands

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Prototypes of President Trump's proposed border wall are going up near San Diego. Each prototype is a little different. You can see the photos. One is a 30-foot-high slab of concrete and steel, another is a 30-foot-high slab of s

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Gabrielle Union Gets Real In 'We're Going To Need More Wine'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Actress Gabrielle Union started off playing teenagers on TV in the 1990s. Now she stars in the BET show Being Mary Jane, playing the role of a powerful cable news anchor who is equally fierce in her personal life. (SOUNDBITE OF T

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美国国家公共电台 NPR New Book Argues A Theory In Policing Is To Blame For Eric Garner's Death

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Let me take you back to a day in July 2014 when a man named Eric Garner was stopped by two cops on the street in Staten Island. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ERIC GARNER: I'm minding my business, officer. I'm minding my b

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Day A Texas School Held A Funeral For The Spanish Language

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And it's Friday, which is when we hear from StoryCorps. Maggie Marquez and Jessi Silva grew up in the town of Marfa, Texas in the 1950s. And we have their story. In the 50s, Marfa's schools were segregated. L

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Vacationland,' John Hodgman Tells The Funny Story Of His Life

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Remember John Hodgman, Daily Show expert on just about everything, co-star of the Apple Mac commercial campaign in which he played the clunky PC, cataloger of nonsensical histories in the three-book series called The Areas Of My

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Putin Critic Says He's Afraid the Kremlin Would 'Wipe Me Out One Way Or Another'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A top critic of Vladimir Putin has been accused of murder. Financier William Browder lives in London. American-born but now a British citizen, Browder was once the largest private foreign investor in Russia. He made a lot of mone

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Two Years After A Violent Altercation At A S.C. High School, Has Anything Changed?

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You might remember the viral video in 2015 from a high school in Columbia, S.C. A white school resource officer confronts a student who is black. He flips her desk on the ground and drags her out of her chair. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVE

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Japan's Prime Minister Isn't Popular, But His Coalition Won A Supermajority

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's party now has a two-thirds super majority in the parliament. That's after voters cast ballots in a snap election over the weekend. Abe sought a mandate for issues ranging from the economy to t

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The FDA Will Decide Whether 26 Ingredients Count As Fiber

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Food and Drug Administration is set to decide soon on a matter that could help you rethink fiber. Yeah, we're talking about fiber. We're told to eat a whole lot more of it. It's good for us, right? But what exactly counts as

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In Memory Training Smackdown, One Method Dominates

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Turns out there are some workouts that can improve your memory. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on two approaches to brain training. JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Brain training programs often target something called working memory. KARA BLAC

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