美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Chinese Scientists Are More Worried Than Ever About Bird Flu

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to China, where a strain of bird flu has killed a record number of people this year. Scientists on the frontlines of this deadly strain are more worried than ever about its potential to spur a global pandemic. NPR's Rob Schmi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Lawmaker's Childhood Experience Drives New Mexico's 'Lunch Shaming' Ban

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to talk now about something called lunch shaming. That's when kids are publicly identified as being from families that can't afford to pay for school lunch, maybe they're identified with a wristband or a hand stamp. B

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Task Force Softens Opposition To Routine Prostate Cancer Screening

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's big news today about one of the most common forms of cancer. An influential federal task force now says patients and doctors should discuss screenings for prostate cancer. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has more. ROB

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Send A Firetruck To Do An Ambulance's Job?

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's say you think you're having a stroke, and you call 911 for an ambulance. In many cities, there's a good chance that a fire truck will arrive instead with a full fire crew including a paramedic. But as Monica Eng of member s

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Win Changed The Game For Publishers On The Left And The Right

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For years, conservative publishers have thrived. Their readers have flocked to buy books aimed at taking down the party in power. Now that Republicans control Washington, these publishers are rethinking their strategy, and their

美国国家公共电台 NPR Comedian Charlie Murphy Of 'Chappelle's Show' Dies At 57

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Next, we remember comedian and actor Charlie Murphy. He died yesterday. Murphy grew up in Brooklyn, and after a short jail sentence as a young man, he joined the Navy, where he served for six years. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Later, Murp

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Flip-Flops On Economics Move Policies Toward The Status Quo

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's been a big week for President Trump to reverse long-held views. He has darkened his view of Russia and said NATO is no longer obsolete. And then there are his changes on economic policy, which we're going to talk about next.

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Trump Continues Mar-A-Lago Trips, Watchdogs Want To Know Who's Joining Him

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For the seventh time since taking office, President Trump will spend this weekend at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Government watchdog groups want a federal court to force the Trump administration to release a list of visitors to

美国国家公共电台 NPR Long-Persecuted Rohingya Find Refuge, But Not Acceptance, In Bangladesh

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's return to the story of the Rohingya. They're a Muslim minority group in Buddhist majority Myanmar. And they have been persecuted by that country's government for decades, so much so that many flee for something better somewh

美国国家公共电台 NPR Online Video Producers Caught In Struggle Between Advertisers And YouTube

DAVID GREENE, HOST: People who produce content on YouTube are bringing in less money. They say their ad rates have gone down by as much as 75 percent the last couple weeks. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports, the producers are caught in a struggle between

美国国家公共电台 NPR Set 40 Years In The Past, 'Guerrilla' Speaks Strongly To Today

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A few years ago, the American screenwriter John Ridley was working in Britain. He learned a bit of history. It was new to him. It felt familiar. It was the story of a time in the 1970s when Britain struggled with that American so

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fitzgerald Didn't Satisfy This Author, So She Wrote Her Own 'Gatsby'-Inspired Novel

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of the most beloved American novels. It's set in the roaring 20s about the messiness of chasing the American dream. For the author Stephanie Powell Watts, something about the novel neve

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Film Celebrates Emily Dickinson's Poetry And 'Quiet Passion'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The American poet Emily Dickinson is the subject of a new film called A Quiet Passion. The writer and director is Terence Davies. He's best known for his depictions of working-class life in his native Britain. The American actress

美国国家公共电台 NPR George W. Bush Calls Foreign Aid A Moral And Security Imperative

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's budget proposal is all about hard power, increasing U.S. military might while slashing aid to other countries, the thinking being there are enough problems to deal with at home. But these historic cuts in foreign

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar Describe Military Tactic Of Systematic Rape

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the last six months, more than 70,000 Rohingya fled across the border into Bangladesh. A warning here - some listeners might find the content of this story disturbing. Reporter Michael Sullivan has been with the Rohingya in so

美国国家公共电台 NPR Alleged Plot, Coming Trial In Montenegro Reads Like a Thriller

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump has reversed his position on NATO. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete. GREENE: He cited efforts by the Alliance to Combat Terrorism as the reas

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump, In A 180-Degree Switch, Says NATO 'No Longer Obsolete'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump has been meeting at the White House today with the secretary general of NATO. On the campaign trail, Trump questioned the modern-day relevance of the military alliance between Western powers. It was, after all, fo

美国国家公共电台 NPR On The Navajo Nation, Special Ed Students Await Water That Doesn't Stink

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: More than a third of the Navajo Nation lacks running water. And in some of the places with running water, people don't want to drink it. They say it smells, tastes funny and looks bad. Laurel Morales of member station KJZZ has more

美国国家公共电台 NPR File This Under Nostalgia: New Book Pays Tribute To The Library Card Catalog

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: David, you and I are old enough to remember card catalogs at the library, right? DAVID GREENE, HOST: Three words - Dewey Decimal System. MARTIN: Did you go to the library in college? GREENE: Of course I went to the library... MAR

美国国家公共电台 NPR Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Receives James Baldwin Letters

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Literary icon and social critic James Baldwin has inspired generations of writers since his death in 1987. But who inspired him? The answer to that question may be found in a new archive of the author's writings acquired by the S