美国国家公共电台 NPR Concern Grows In Pakistan Over Cases Of Disappearance

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's go now to Pakistan, where hundreds of activists, bloggers, militants and political dissidents have disappeared over the past few years. Some of them never return, and activists say this is getting worse. In Karachi, Pakistan

美国国家公共电台 NPR Consumers Hunting For Health Insurance Find High Prices — And Some Great Deals

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Tomorrow is the deadline in most states for people to buy health insurance on the Affordable Care Act exchanges - a law still in place despite Republican efforts to dismantle it. So as open enrollment ends, we have reporters in t

美国国家公共电台 NPR This Mouse Swallows Part Of A Fox: Disney Buys Most Of Murdoch Empire

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Walt Disney Company is buying most of 21st Century Fox. Disney takes over a big part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, although Murdoch retains control of the Fox TV network and Fox News. NPR media correspondent David Folkenf

美国国家公共电台 NPR Terry Crews On His Sexual Assault Lawsuit: This Is About Accountability

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last week, Time magazine announced the silence breakers as their person of the year, referring to those who helped create a greater awareness around sexual assault and harassment. Terry Crews is one of those silence breakers. He

美国国家公共电台 NPR Stories Of Syria's Uprising, And Its Backyard Funerals, In 'Gardens Speak'

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: For the next few minutes, we're going to hear about people who are expressing political opposition through art and protest. In Miami Beach this weekend, an art exhibition encourages visitors to lie in freshly dug graves to experi

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Visit To Houston's Himalaya: Pakistani And Indian Food With Deep Texas Roots

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Just off a Houston freeway, in a strip mall with an Indian tailor and a South Asian grocery store, is a small restaurant with an outsized reputation. It's called Himalaya, and its chef and owner is a Houston institution. KA

美国国家公共电台 NPR Biologists With Drones And Peanut Butter Pellets Are On A Mission To Help Ferrets

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In central Montana, drones are dropping peanut butter pellets on prairie dog colonies. As Yellowstone Public Radio's Nate Hegyi explains, it's part of an effort by biologists to save North America's most endangered mammal.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Worries Grow In Hong Kong As China Pushes Its Official Version Of History In Schools

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: History is written by the winners. So when power is shared, there's often a tug of war over the past. That's what's happening in Hong Kong, which has enjoyed a degree of political autonomy since Great Britain returned control of

美国国家公共电台 NPR This Year's Christmas Tree Shortage Has Roots In The Recession

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now I need to warn you that this next story is a slight bummer if you celebrate Christmas and you happen to celebrate with a freshly-cut evergreen. It turns out that you might be getting a Charlie Brown tree this year - you know,

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Fight For Rights Will Continue' In Zimbabwe, #ThisFlag Movement Pastor Vows

'Fight For Rights Will Continue' In Zimbabwe, #ThisFlag Movement Pastor Vows MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Zimbabwe, where, for years, the mantra from opponents of the country's longtime leader was Mugabe must go. Now that Robert Mugabe has gone, what'

美国国家公共电台 NPR SpongeBob's Bikini Bottom On Broadway — And In Danger

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Here's an idea for a musical. The end is near. It was just a day for the inhabitants of Bikini Bottom to figure out how to save themselves from a powerful volcano that's about to explode. Who can we count on to come through? Well,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tax Bill Favors Adding Robots Over Workers, Critics Say

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The tax bill that's now being crafted in Congress is huge. It's more than 400 pages. And we're going to look at two parts of it. First, Republicans call the bill the Tax Cut and Jobs Act. Critics say maybe it should be called the

美国国家公共电台 NPR In A New Novel, The 'Lost Prayers' Of A Gay Teen Bullied To Death

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Social media platforms can connect people across the globe - and terrorize people next door. Ricky Graves is a young man just coming to terms with his sexual orientation in a small New Hampshire town. He's tormented by a jerk named

美国国家公共电台 NPR Opening The Hottest Fake Restaurant In Town

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Shed at Dulwich was the hottest new restaurant in London for about six months. It had entrees named after moods, like lust and contemplation, pick-your-own chickens, wine served in kitschy coffee mugs. And boy, was it exclusive

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hurricane Harvey Flooded Houston's Theater District, But It Won't Stop The Shows

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Hurricane Harvey was hard on Houston's art and culture community. Four days of torrential rain nearly drowned the city's opera, ballet and theater companies - along with their revered mural. As NPR's John Burnett reports, they're d

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'I, Tonya,' Allison Janney Is An Olympic Mom Who Doesn't Play By The Rules

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Steven Rogers and Allison Janney, welcome to the program. STEVEN ROGERS: Thank you for having us. ALLISON JANNEY: Thank you, Ari. SHAPIRO: So Steven, can you recreate the conversation where, Steven, you first told Allison, I've wri

美国国家公共电台 NPR Biopic About Figure Skater Tonya Harding Reviewed

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: If you were live in 1994, you probably remember hearing a lot about Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding. There was a media frenzy when Harding's ex-husband was implicated in an attack on her main competitor, Nancy Kerrigan. The m

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Father's Cruel Mission To Create 'The Only Girl In The World'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Maude Julien's childhood was so horrible it's difficult to read about in her new memoir. Her father wanted to turn his daughter into some kind of superhuman, so he treated her in a subhuman way. He forced his daughter to stay in a

美国国家公共电台 NPR At Design Miami, The Future Isn't So Bright

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Art lovers are in Miami Beach this week because it's Art Basel, the world-class art fair. Just a short walk away, there's also Design Miami, which begins today. As NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports, Design Miami has become the pla

美国国家公共电台 NPR 25 Years Later, He Speaks To The Man Who Killed His Son

25 Years Later, He Speaks To The Man Who Killed His Son DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is Friday, which means it is time for StoryCorps. And we should say, this is an intimate conversation about murder. It could strike your ears in different ways, so I just