美国国家公共电台 NPR As Hurricane Irma Nears, Gasoline Is In Short Supply For Floridians

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There's a gasoline shortage in Florida, and it's getting worse. As Hurricane Irma heads towards the state, a lot of people are on highways, trying to get away from the storm's path. Even those that are staying put are filling their

美国国家公共电台 NPR 6 Priorities Congress Has To Deal With In 12 Days

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Congress is back in Washington, and it's going to be a hectic September. Lawmakers were already facing urgent deadlines to avert a government shutdown and to raise the nation's debt limit. But then Hurricane Harvey hit, and today

美国国家公共电台 NPR Get Off The Couch Baby Boomers, Or You May Not Be Able To Later

DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. Being a couch potato is not good for your health. No surprise there. But let's explore exactly what goes wrong if you sit around too much. It can increase your risk of heart disease and stroke. And new research finds that for

美国国家公共电台 NPR Actress Chloe Bennet Wants To Change The Narrative For Asian-Americans In Hollywood

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now we're going to spend a few minutes having a conversation about race and Hollywood. We've been having these conversations more and more these days. And one reason for that is that audiences, as well as performers, are star

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Orange, Texas, Neighbors And Strangers Unite To Help Flood Victims

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Now to Houston and the devastation that city is facing due to Hurricane Harvey. Volunteers have come from all over to help - neighbors and strangers working together. NPR's Debbie Elliott takes us now to meet some of the pe

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Lebanon, Syrian Refugees Met With Harassment And Hostility

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're heading overseas now to Lebanon. It is home to more refugees per capita than any other country in the world. Most of them are Syrians. NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports on how public opinion in Lebanon is now turning against thos

美国国家公共电台 NPR Poems For Houston

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Houston is beginning the long road to recovery after an historic flooding. And residents are just beginning to come to terms with the damage. Among those residents are the first responders, the reporters, the doctors but al

美国国家公共电台 NPR Thousands Of Harvey Flood Victims Will Likely Need Long-Term Temporary Housing

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the most difficult parts of disaster recovery can be finding housing. Tens of thousands of Texans left homes that were destroyed or too damaged to return to any time soon. NPR's Pam Fessler reports that government officials

美国国家公共电台 NPR Houston Police Chief Speaks About Situation In City Following Hurricane Harvey

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In Houston, Police Chief Art Acevedo has been helping to lead the city's response to Harvey. Now as the city begins to move from the search and rescue into the recovery phase, we wanted to check back in with him. Chief Acevedo is o

美国国家公共电台 NPR In A Houston Emergency Room, It Was A Week Like No Other

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: St. Joseph Medical Center is the only hospital in the heart of Houston's downtown. It is just down the street from the convention center where thousands of evacuees have been staying since Hurricane Harvey hit. From member station

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Barcelona Attacks, Catalans Look Ahead To Independence Vote

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Many Europeans have become accustomed to seeing candlelight vigils and piles of flowers in city squares - memorials to terror victims. They're in Paris, Berlin, London and now Barcelona, where ISIS plowed a van into pedestrians las

美国国家公共电台 NPR Nathan Englander Says His New Book Is 'A Turducken Of A Novel'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Dinner At The Center Of The Earth is a novel that winds together the stories of a prisoner, his guard, mothers, sons, spies, statesmen, traitors and lovers. Sometimes - maybe even more than sometimes - they're the same person. Dinn

美国国家公共电台 NPR Celia Perez's New Novel 'The First Rule Of Punk' Comes With Advice For Adolescents

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Maria Luisa is 12 years old. Her parents are divorced, and her mom just got a job at a new city. Things are not looking good. So Malu - that's the shortened version of her name, the version she prefers - puts on her headphones. (

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'World Of Tomorrow,' A Novelist Found Echoes Of 1939, Today

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: If you're looking to settle in for a long, meaty read as the days get shorter, the new novel The World Of Tomorrow is the sprawling story of three Irish brothers and their adventures in an America on the cusp of World War I

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fresh Threats From Pyongyang As Joint Military Exercise Begins

DAVID GREENE, HOST: North Korea is issuing some fresh threats. This is as the United States and South Korea begin a 10-day joint military exercise on the Korean Peninsula. This is an annual drill - all of it, both the war games and the knee-jerk vitr

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Visit To Arizona Is A Headache For Trump GOP Critic, Sen. Jeff Flake

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And President Trump's next speech will be at a rally for his supporters tonight in Phoenix, Ariz. Now, why Arizona? And why right now? Well, one reason may be Jeff Flake. He is Arizona's junior U.S. senator, a Republican, but a vo

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Solar Trade Dispute, Will Proposed Tariffs Cost Industry Jobs?

AILSA CHANG, HOST: A trade dispute has different parts of the solar industry in the U.S. at odds with one another. Two U.S. manufacturers say they cannot compete with cheap solar panels from China. So they're asking regulators to impose a tariff. Tha

美国国家公共电台 NPR Can Anyone, Even Walmart, Stem The Heat-Trapping Flood Of Nitrogen On Farms?

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A lot of companies have promised to do their part to reduce their releases of greenhouse gases that are trapping heat and giving the planet a fever. Among them are big food companies, including the biggest American grocer, Walmar

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pamela Adlon Started Working At Age 9, But 'Better Things' Happened At 50

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The actress Pamela Adlon doesn't show up in the tabloids. Paparazzi don't hound her. But she has worked in TV consistently for decades. She starred in the sexually explicit comedy Californication. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, CALIFORNICA

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Godzilla' Descends On Mexico City As Filmmakers Shoot Scenes In The Metropolis

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: People in Mexico City only got to see a partial solar eclipse today. But the huge metropolis is bracing for a different phenomenon. Godzilla has descended on the city, threatening to destroy it over the next two days or at least