美国国家公共电台 NPR Trespass, Jail, Repeat: How One Man Has Spent 575 Days in Jail

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: In Nashua, N.H., Michael Treadwell lives on the streets. He has schizophrenia. And as New Hampshire Public Radio's Emily Corwin reports, when people like him don't get the help they need, local taxpayers can end up with a heft

美国国家公共电台 NPR Movie Review: Richard Gere Plays A Scheming New York Fixer In 'Norman'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Connections are important, especially in business. Think of the adage it's not so much what you know, it's who you know. A new movie centers on a guy who takes that notion to extremes. It's called Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tr

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Powwow Sweat' Promotes Fitness Through Traditional Dance

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A tribe in northern Idaho is incorporating its culture into its fitness programs. It's an effort to tackle high rates of heart disease and obesity. The program is called Powwow Sweat. Northwest News Network's Emily Schwing report

美国国家公共电台 NPR We Asked People What They Know About Taxes. See If You Know The Answers

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Tomorrow is the deadline for filing your taxes. And this year, NPR wanted to find out how much people actually know about the tax system. We partnered with the Ipsos polling company and asked a set of questions about things like

美国国家公共电台 NPR A 73-Year-Old Is Latest Victim Of Deadly Attacks On Mexican Journalists

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: In the last six weeks, four reporters have been murdered in Mexico. The latest victim was Maximino Rodriguez. He was gunned down in his car on Friday afternoon in La Paz, near the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. As

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Epitome Of New York Cool': Letterman Biographer On Late Night Icon

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: David Letterman hosted late night TV for more than three decades with his own brand of quirky funny, like stupid human tricks, throwing a watermelon off a roof and those daily top 10 lists, such as the top 10 things that sound co

美国国家公共电台 NPR In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Generations ago, the Osage Indian Nation was forced to move. Not for the first time, white settlers pushed them off their land in the 1800s. The writer David Grann sees in that move the start of an astonishing and tragic story. D

美国国家公共电台 NPR Voters Back Home Don't Mind If Mark Meadows Bucks Authority

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And let's return home to this divided country. Mark Meadows has a reputation as sort of a right-wing rebel. He is chair of the Freedom Caucus in Congress. He and three dozen or so House conservatives helped kill the Republican hea

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tax Filings Seen Dipping Amid Trump Crackdown On Illegal Immigration

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Millions of taxpayers are rushing to complete their federal and state filings before the tax deadline tomorrow. And among them are several million people in this country illegally. But as NPR's Richard Gonzales reports, tax prepar

美国国家公共电台 NPR From Moonscape To Lush: Photographs Capture California Drought's Story

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A photographer is capturing California's recovery from drought. JUSTIN SULLIVAN: My editors had an idea of, like, what about doing before and afters? INSKEEP: Justin Sullivan works for Getty Images, and his before photos were fro

美国国家公共电台 NPR At Intel, A Retirement Perk That Can Kick Off A New Career As A Paid Fellow

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Not everybody who reaches the so-called retirement age is ready to retire, but they may be ready for a change. And Intel would like some of its employees to have some help. Since 2012, the tech giant has paid some of its retirees

美国国家公共电台 NPR Le Pen Finds Support In Pro-Europe French City

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now to France, where the polls show a tight race in the upcoming presidential election. Among the subjects dividing the population is membership in the European Union. The EU is still very popular in France, but righ

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'A People's History Of Chicago' Reflects A Spectrum Of Experiences

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Let's turn to the city of Chicago. It's been a momentous year in Chicago in part because of the continued spike in violent crime. A poet is trying to change the reasons people talk about his hometown. Kevin Coval has been called Chi

美国国家公共电台 NPR '(Be)longing' Explores Gun Violence, 10 Years After Virginia Tech Shooting

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Today marks the 10th anniversary of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. On April 16, 2007, a student at Virginia Tech shot 49 people, killing 32 and finally himself. The town is still dealing with the tragedy,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Audio Installation Haunts Underground Arts Space In Washington, D.C.

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: About eight feet beneath Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle, there is a network of dark winding concrete passageways. It's the remains of what used to be a trolley system - train tracks, platforms, tunnels - mostly abandone

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Book Of Joan' Recasts A Historic Heroine — In Space

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: What does it mean to be human? In Lidia Yuknavitch's new novel, what's left of the human race is orbiting above the earth. Sexless and ageless prisoners in a technological hell. Their lives preserved through growing limb

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Iraqi Forces Encircle Mosul, ISIS Unleashes New Level Of Brutality On Civilians

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: People who have recently fled the Iraqi city of Mosul are sharing stories that reveal just how dangerous life has gotten there. Some 300,000 people are trapped in areas of the city held by ISIS and now under siege by Iraqi securi

美国国家公共电台 NPR 30 Years Later, 'The Simpsons' Are A Part Of The American Family

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Thirty years ago today, TV watchers met one of America's most enduring families, The Simpsons. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, THE TRACEY ULLMAN SHOW) JULIE KAVNER: (As Marge Simpson) Hold on, all of you. There's no need to slurp your sou

美国国家公共电台 NPR Christian Teen Magazine 'Brio' Returns With A 'Biblical Worldview'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An evangelical Christian group is trying again to offer an alternative girls magazine. The group Focus on the Family once published Brio. It positioned itself as a more wholesome alternative to magazines like Seventeen and Teen V

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Call To Action: 'This Fight' Will Take Everybody

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has been at the forefront of progressive politics over the last year. She sparred with Donald Trump on Twitter. She was reprimanded by Republicans on the Senate floor earlier this year. Our