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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: A financially strapped couple is taking steps to make a big change. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, DOWNSIZING) UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS #1: (As character) Please state your full legal names. MARTIN: Actually, it's a very small change. (SOUNDBIT

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Uses Twitter To Criticize FBI, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Lulu Garcia-Navarro is off for the holidays. I'm Lauren Frayer. President Trump is celebrating Christmas in Florida, but Washington is still clearly very much on his mind. He took a few mome

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Puerto Rico, A Generator's Buzz Powers One Singer's Musical Imagination

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: After Harvey and Irma, the hurricane season wasn't over. Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a massive Category 4 storm. Months later, the power supply is still spotty, and thousands of homes still rely on generators. Da

美国国家公共电台 NPR How A 5-Year-Old Made Sure The Grinch Didn't Steal Christmas This Year

LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: Five-year-old TyLon Pittman of Byram, Miss., had a hot tip on a heist last week, so he called 911. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: This is the Byram Police Department. We had a 911 hang up from this number.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Analysis Shows Women Lost Jobs In Retail Last Year, Though Men Gained

LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: By now, you'd better have your holiday shopping done. Maybe you did more of it online this year. Easy for you but bad for your local mall - brick-and-mortar stores are losing jobs. And it turns out some workers are hit harder tha

美国国家公共电台 NPR Senior FBI Official McCabe To Face Closed-Door Grilling From House Lawmakers

Senior FBI Official McCabe To Face Closed-Door Grilling From House Lawmakers DAVID GREENE, HOST: The FBI's No. 2 official, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, will be testifying today before the House Intelligence Committee. McCabe's appearance behind clo

美国国家公共电台 NPR 3 Books That Capture America In Poetry

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Our poetry reviewer, Tess Taylor, is sharing some books that she says capture different voices from American life right now. One's by a poet from West Virginia, another an immigrant and a third an African-American woman. Hi, Tess.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Never Go To Vegas, And Other Unspoken Rules Of Being An A-Lister

SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST: This is HIDDEN BRAIN. I'm Shankar Vedantam. Being a celebrity can be boiled down to a simple formula. Follow these rules, and you can be an A-lister, too. (SOUNDBITE OF DING) VEDANTAM: Rule No. 1 - go to the right parties. (SO

美国国家公共电台 NPR David Sedaris, Ira Glass And 25 Years Of 'Santaland Diaries'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: I can't believe how much time flies. Amazing, but it has been 25 years since MORNING EDITION listeners first met a very un-merry Christmas elf named Crumpet. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) DAVID SEDARIS: (Reading) I wear green

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Painting Stored Away And The Artist Who Wants It To See The Light Of Day

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: A painting that's been called a contemporary masterpiece has spent the better part of the past three decades in storage. It's only now making the rounds of museums across the country. It's called The Fulbright Triptych. It's nearly

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Look At The Evolution Of Sexual Harassment Training Videos

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美国国家公共电台 NPR No Kitten Around: Museum Exhibit Celebrates 'Divine Felines'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. I'm going to fess up. I am not a cat person. But NPR's Susan Stamberg is, which is why she leapt at the opportunity to check out a new exhibition at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery of Asian art. The exhibition is cal

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Slow-Moving Disaster Of Immodesty: Cameron's 'Titanic,' 20 Years Later

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Twenty years ago today, the film Titanic opened in theaters. Titanic the ship sank in 1912. Titanic the movie was a huge success. NPR's pop culture critic Linda Holmes takes us back to 1997. LINDA HOLMES, BYLINE: Titanic eventually

美国国家公共电台 NPR More Civilians Than ISIS Fighters Are Believed Killed In Mosul Battle

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: There's been an important unanswered question about the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul even five months after it ended. How many civilians were killed as U.S. and Iraqi forces launched their intensive air and ground assault agai

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Single Vote Has Flipped Control Of Virginia's House Of Delegates

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Around election time you often hear that every vote counts, but it's rare that turns out to be literally true. However, Republicans have lost control of Virginia's statehouse after a recount in a race where the winning Democrat go

美国国家公共电台 NPR 3 Trump Judicial Nominees Withdraw, Raising Some Questions About Vetting

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: This week, a man picked by President Trump for a judgeship withdrew his name amid controversy. It's the third time in ten days that's happened. That said, Trump's record on filling judicial vacancies has far outdistanced his predece

美国国家公共电台 NPR Illinois Holocaust Museum Preserves Survivors' Stories — As Holograms

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For decades, Holocaust survivors have told their stories to students and museum visitors in person and in videos. The Holocaust ended more than 70 years ago, and so every year, fewer survivors are alive to tell their stories. The I

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Don't Know Where It's From': Former UFO Program Head On Navy Jet Footage

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now let's meet a man who has spent years trying to learn about UFOs. Luis Elizondo ran a Pentagon office that investigated sightings by the United States military. It had millions of dollars in funding up until 2012. Though the f

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Racism May Cause Black Mothers To Suffer The Death Of Their Infants

DAVID GREENE, HOST: African-American women are more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than women of any other race or ethnicity. Doctors and researchers have been trying to understand what makes black infants so vulnerable, and now they

美国国家公共电台 NPR Feel In Danger On A Date? These Apps Could Help You Stay Safe

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, much of modern dating takes place online, often using smartphone apps. While the Internet may make getting a date easier, it is still sometimes not so simple to leave a date you don't want to be on. NPR's Allison Aubrey