美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Bachelorette' Concludes Landmark Season As Rachel Lindsay Gives Final Rose

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: ABC's romance-reality series The Bachelorette finished a landmark season last night as star Rachel Lindsay finally sifted through 31 suitors to get her marriage proposal. But NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the show's three-hour li

美国国家公共电台 NPR Cash Aid Could Solve Poverty — But There's A Catch

AILSA CHANG, HOST: It's an emerging idea in the fight against global poverty. Instead of offering poor people traditional aid, such as seeds or job training, why not just give cash? NPR's Nurith Aizenman traveled to Zambia where they've just finished

美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet Voice Of Baceprot, The All-Girl Metal Band Making Waves In Indonesia

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now some words you don't often hear together - all-girl, teenage, Indonesian metal band. NPR's Ashley Westerman has this profile. ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE: The band's called Voice of Baceprot. Baceprot means noisy in the girl

美国国家公共电台 NPR Long Shot: Moonlighting Golf Blogger Quits His Day Job

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Chris Solomon recently burst onto the golf scene, but not by scoring birdies on the links. He's a blogger. He loves the PGA, and golf-clap coverage was just not doing it for him. CHRIS SOLOMON: There definitely is certain just kind

美国国家公共电台 NPR Nashville Mayor Mourns Son's Overdose Death, Urges Families To Talk About Addiction

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Nashville, Tenn., the opioid epidemic has become a personal tragedy for the mayor. Her 22-year-old son died last month in an apparent overdose. Mayor Megan Barry spoke about it publicly for the first time yesterday. Barry is c

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Little Boy Who Escaped From Boko Haram

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Picture huge eyes, a beautiful smile and a sadness no child his age should have to endure. This is the story of a young boy who survived Boko Haram captivity in Northeast Nigeria and military detention afterwards. He shared his ex

美国国家公共电台 NPR Barbara Cook, Tony Award-Winning Actress And Singer, Dies At 89

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Barbara Cook could sing just about anything. And she sang it on Broadway, in cabarets and in concert halls around the world. She was one of the most acclaimed interpreters of theater tunes in American popular songs. Barbara Cook

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hang 20: Abbie Girl Takes Top Pooch In World Dog Surfing Championship

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Sometimes on a Monday, you just need to spend some internet time watching the World Dog Surfing Championships or at least hear about it. Laura Klivans of member station KQED takes us to Pacifica, Calif., which hosted the event. L

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Cubist Revolution: Minecraft For All

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Minecraft is the kind of videogame that can seem repetitive and mindless. The player builds three-dimensional virtual worlds with blocks - grass blocks, sandstone blocks, dark prismarine. But Minecraft gets high praise for its ed

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Administration Revises Conservation Plan For Western Sage Grouse

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Trump administration announced yesterday it is reworking an Obama-era plan to protect the sage grouse. Environmental groups immediately condemned this move, saying it could endanger this chicken-sized bird that's found in 11 w

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Smartphones Are Making Kids Unhappy

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today's teenagers are physically safer than they've ever been - less likely to be in a car accident because more of them are putting off getting their driver's license, less likely to binge drink because in part they're not hangi

美国国家公共电台 NPR How To Fix Poverty: Why Not Just Give People Money?

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's an unprecedented experiment happening in a village in Kenya. Most people there had been scraping by on less than $2 a day. But last fall, an American charity announced they're going to give every adult an extra $22 a mont

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Wonder Woman' Continues Hot Streak In Mediocre Summer For Hollywood

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been a mediocre summer so far for Hollywood box office numbers - down about 11 percent from last summer. But one movie has had remarkable staying power. (SOUNDBITE OF RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS' WONDER WOMAN'S WRATH) CORNISH: W

美国国家公共电台 NPR Funk Band Behind 'Amen Break' Drum Riff Receives Long Overdue Notoriety

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: What do Salt-N-Pepa, Amy Winehouse, Oasis and the theme song to the animated TV show Futurama have in common - these six seconds. (SOUNDBITE OF THE WINSTONS' AMEN, BROTHER) SHAPIRO: This is called the Amen break. It's used in at le

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Racist Bill'? Chinese Immigrants Protest Effort To Collect More Asian-American Data

STACEY VANEK SMITH, HOST: Asian-Americans are an incredibly diverse group. Now some states are passing laws to help capture that diversity and requiring state agencies to collect more detailed data about Asian-Americans. But those policies are facing

美国国家公共电台 NPR Go See It, Eclipse Chasers Urge. 'Your First Time Is Always Special'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: On August 21, millions of people in 14 states across the country will be able to see a total solar eclipse. That's when the moon slips in front of the sun and blocks its light, creating an eerie, daytime twilight. This will be a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Chicago To Sue Feds Over Funding Threats To Sanctuary Cities

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Washington is pretty quiet these days with Congress out of session. The action today is in Chicago, where the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department. DOJ recently announced they would withhol

美国国家公共电台 NPR Flattening The 'Mummy Tummy' With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Today in Your Health, we're going to tackle an issue that affects about half of all mothers. The technical term is diastasis recti, but many of us know it by another name - mommy pooch - you know, that soft belly that bulges out a

美国国家公共电台 NPR U.N. Approves New North Korea Sanctions Over Missile Tests

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: North Korea is one of the most challenging foreign policy situations facing the Trump administration right now. The international community has just stepped in. The United Nations Security Council is levying a fresh round o

美国国家公共电台 NPR How The Dream Of America's 'Nuclear Renaissance' Fizzled

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Nuclear energy used to be seen as the wave of the future and the way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But last week, a utility in South Carolina decided to stop working on a major nuclear project there. It's a sign of th