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美国国家公共电台 NPR Local Medics Train Chicago Residents To Help Shooting Victims

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Women Are Speaking Up About Harassment And Abuse, But Why Now?

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In Season Two, 'Stranger Things' Offers More Scares And The Same Quirky Quartet Of Nerds

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Ghosts of the Tsunami' Shows How 2011 Event Transformed Japan

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美国国家公共电台 NPR With Federal Funds Cut, Others Must Lead Health Insurance Sign-Up Efforts

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Deuce' Looks At New York's Grimy 1970's Sex Trade

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 5 Years After Sandy, New York Rebuilds With The Next Flood In Mind

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Some Black Americans Turn To Informal Economy In The Face Of Discrimination

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Counting The Heavy Cost Of Care In The Age Of Opioids

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The declaration of an opioid emergency by President Trump has put the focus on the need for treatment. And now some communities are asking who will pay. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on the rising costs of treating the epidemic. A

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Conflict Continues In Spain Between Catalan Government And Madrid

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美国国家公共电台 NPR At U.S.-Canada Border Reservation, Mohawks Say They Face Discrimination

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Mohawks have hunted, fished and lived by the St. Lawrence River for hundreds of years. After the War of 1812, the United States and Great Britain drew a line on a map, creating today's northern border between New York state and C

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Most Of The New JFK Files Have Been Seen Before In Some Form

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Thank You For Your Service,' The Fight Begins After Iraq

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 2,800 JFK Assassination Files Have Been Released, Others Withheld

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'People, Places & Things' Is A Clear-Eyed Look At Addiction

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: In New York, a play about addiction and recovery has just opened to rave reviews. It's, of course, an issue very much in the news. In fact, the day after the play opened, President Trump declared the opioid crisis in the United S

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Taliban Can't Win,' Says Commander Of U.S. Forces In Afghanistan

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The United States is trying again to force the Taliban to negotiate in Afghanistan through 16 years of war - 16 years as of this month - that has been the hardest part. President Trump's new strategy for the war called for sendin

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Hollywood's Biopic Fever: Five Fact-Based Films Released This Week

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