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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Fast-food restaurants use all sorts of promotions to get customers through their doors. Two-for-one deals, toy giveaways, and now, venison. Yes, Arby's is the first major fast-food chain to serve a deer-meat sandwich nation

美国国家公共电台 NPR Kevin Hart's New Online Comedy Service Joins Crowded Streaming Market

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The actor Kevin Hart is launching an all-digital streaming comedy service. The Laugh Out Loud Network is the latest entry in a crowded market. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports. ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE: Kevin Hart is super active on

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'They Love Freedom': Ai Weiwei On His Lego Portraits Of Fellow Activists

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A few years ago, the artist Ai Weiwei made Lego portraits of activists and political prisoners from around the world. They were on display at Alcatraz. At the time, Ai Weiwei was under house arrest in China and he couldn't travel t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Veterans Helped By Obamacare Worry About Republican Repeal Efforts

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: As Republican senators take some extra days to consider a health care bill, they may consider this. The measure, which has been delayed because of a lack of votes, takes money out of Medicaid, often described as the health progra

美国国家公共电台 NPR Once Reserved For Spies, Espionage Act Now Used Against Suspected Leakers

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now we're going to hear about some new research that takes on this question. Should scanning your genome be as routine as checking your blood pressure? Here's NPR health correspondent Rob Stein. ROB STEIN, BYLINE: It's gotten way e

美国国家公共电台 NPR Routine DNA Sequencing May Be Helpful And Not As Scary As Feared

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now we're going to hear about some new research that takes on this question. Should scanning your genome be as routine as checking your blood pressure? Here's NPR health correspondent Rob Stein. ROB STEIN, BYLINE: It's gotten way e

美国国家公共电台 NPR Should The Opioid Crisis Be Declared A National Emergency?

AILSA CHANG, HOST: This week, a presidential commission chaired by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recommended that the president declare opioids a national emergency. Medical professionals and others who treat drug addiction are praising that ide

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Remarks Eclipse Sessions' Talk Before Black Law Enforcement Group

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: National law enforcement officials have had an awkward few days. You see, they're part of President Trump's administration. And last week in a speech, the president asked police to be a little rougher with criminal suspects. The

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trying To Understand 'What Made Maddy Run'

AILSA CHANG, HOST: A new book by sportswriter Kate Fagan delves into the life of a young woman whose suicide shocked the University of Pennsylvania. Madison Holleran ran track at Penn. She was popular and beautiful and raised in a big, supportive fam

美国国家公共电台 NPR Racism Is Literally Bad For Your Health

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's turn now to a related topic. Most people can acknowledge that discrimination has an insidious effect on the lives of minorities from being passed over for jobs to being shut out of desirable housing. Most people are painful

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Zika Became So Dangerous For Babies

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Scientists say they have solved a mystery about the Zika virus. They think they've figured out why the virus became a global threat all of a sudden and started causing severe birth defects. As NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports, the

美国国家公共电台 NPR Searching For A Fairer Way To Distribute Donor Livers

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The nation's organ transplant network is proposing a change in how livers are made available. The idea is to make the system more equitable, but some are worried that this change would make things less fair for some people, and we

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Russian Propaganda Spreads On Social Media

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Silicon Valley goes to Washington this week. Officials from Facebook, Google and Twitter appear before Congress to talk about their social platforms and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. NPR will be br

美国国家公共电台 NPR Gene Therapy Shows Promise For A Growing List Of Diseases

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now we have a story about the power of science to heal. For decades scientists have been dreaming about curing diseases with gene therapy. Those dreams have not become reality, but there's growing excitement now. NPR health corre

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Disaster Artist,' James Franco And Seth Rogen Honor A Hilariously Bad Cult Hit

DAVID GREENE, HOST: In 2003, an obscure, independent film called The Room opened in movie theaters here in LA. It was intended to be a serious melodrama about friendship, love, betrayal. Instead, it was shockingly bad - a baffling storyline, uncomfor

美国国家公共电台 NPR Bookseller's Foray Into Hollywood Is A Dickens Of A Tale

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Among the many movies opening for the holidays is one with a new take on an old story. The Man Who Invented Christmas starring Dan Stevens and Christopher Plummer is about Charles Dickens and the creation of A Christmas Carol. It

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sexual Harassment Cases Often Rejected By Courts

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Many powerful men in Washington, including here at NPR, are facing sexual harassment allegations in the court of public opinion. But in actual court, such cases filed by workers against their employers are often dismissed. The way

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Generation Of Transgender Americans Wants To Change Laws, Not Just Minds

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: LGBT Americans say discrimination is a problem, but there is disagreement over the cause. This comes from a poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Respondents

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sacré Beurre: France Faces A Butter Shortage

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The country known for creamy sauces and croissants is suffering a butter shortage that has not been seen in recent times. The French per capita consume more butter than any other country, some 18 pounds per person every year, so

美国国家公共电台 NPR Buffalo Area Warily Eyes The Renegotiation Of NAFTA

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Canada may have more to lose, but there are American businesses that are also worried about losing NAFTA. Across the country and the border, Jim Zarroli visited Buffalo, N.Y., where NAFTA has created jobs in areas that were