美国国家公共电台 NPR A Thriving Rural Town's Winning Formula Faces New Threats Under Trump Administration

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Now to Garden City, Kan., which doesn't fit the stereotype of a small, Midwestern city. It is isolated and rural. But it's also economically thriving and culturally diverse. Decades ago, Garden City embraced the meatpack

美国国家公共电台 NPR GOP Leaders Urge Return To 'High-Risk Insurance Pools' That Critics Call Costly

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And House Republicans, as we noted, have met to discuss potential replacements for the Affordable Care Act. One suggestion to lower some people's premiums is to create what are called high-risk health insurance pools. But as Minnes

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Frequent Visits Disrupt Palm Beach Life And Businesses

Trump's Frequent Visits Disrupt Palm Beach Life And Businesses KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: President Trump is scheduled to fly to Mar-a-Lago again tomorrow. It is the third weekend in a row. Trump has always been a frequent visitor to his club in Palm Beach

美国国家公共电台 NPR Behind 'La La Land,' A Long Relationship Between A Director And A Composer

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The movie La La Land has already won seven Golden Globe Awards. It's nominated for 14 Oscars, including best original score and two best original songs. The music and the film's story are inseparable. It is a musical after all. But

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Shining City' Is Packed With Timely Thrills

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: At a time when much of the country says that it hates Washington, D.C., politics, power brokers, spin doctors and compromise, not to mention the press, the executive director of the American Press Institute has written a novel that

美国国家公共电台 NPR Judd Apatow On His Characters: 'If Everyone Is Mature, There Is No Comedy'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Judd Apatow started writing stories from his own life into his comedy on the late-90s TV show Freaks and Geeks. It was about a kid named Bill Haverchuck. When Judd Apatow was young, he says he would make himself hamburgers or gri

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Hermann Rorschach's 'Inkblots' Took On A Life Of Their Own

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Most of us probably haven't been subjects of a Rorschach test, a psychological test in which you're asked about ten standard images, called inkblots. But all of us have probably heard something described metaphorically as a Rorsc

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why This High School Band Is Only Buying Music From Composers Of Color

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Students at one high school outside of St. Paul, Minn., are getting ready for their next big band concert. They're busy studying the music, of course, but also the composers. And this year, those composers don't look like they have

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Massachusetts, Coastal Residents Consider How To Adapt To Climate Change

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Living by the ocean might sound nice. In the time of climate change, it can be risky. As sea levels rise, people who live near the coast have tough choices - try to fortify their homes, move to higher ground or just leave. Sam Ev

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump To Step Back Into Familiar Territory With Rally In Florida

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: President Trump is on the campaign trail again tonight, less than a month into his presidency. He has a rally in Melbourne, Fla., organized by his campaign. NPR's Tamara Keith reports. TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: It's been a tumultuous s

美国国家公共电台 NPR When Their Food Ran Out, These Reindeer Kept Digging

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Reindeer populations are being threatened by climate change. A warming world makes their main winter food source disappear. But as KUCB's Zoe Sobel reports, reindeer on one Alaskan island are surprising researchers. ZOE SOBEL, BYLI

美国国家公共电台 NPR Exhibition Celebrates Merce Cunningham And His Choreography Of Chance

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For decades, Merce Cunningham the dancer and choreographer delighted his many fans and perplexed and mystified some others. Merce Cunningham died in 2009 at the age of 90. Now a new exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapoli

美国国家公共电台 NPR In West Bank, Israeli And Palestinian Archaeologists Both Lay Claim To Heritage

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Somewhere near its heart, the Middle East conflict is a fight over history. Each side has a story to tell about who was first on the land, and each competing view of history becomes part of the argument over who should rule it no

美国国家公共电台 NPR Life Inches Back To Normal In East Mosul, But Worries Remain

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Tigris River divides Mosul, Iraq. ISIS has held the western side of that city for more than two years. And Iraqi forces backed by U.S. airpower retook the eastern side of the city a couple of months ago. They're now preparing t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Migrants Choose Arrest In Canada Over Staying In The U.S.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And we have news this morning on illegal border crossings. No, no, no, no - not border crossings from Mexico to the United States, these are illegal border crossings of people fleeing the United States. Canada reports a sharp inc

美国国家公共电台 NPR Couple Moves On From Silence About Time In Japanese Internment Camps

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's Friday, which means it's time for StoryCorps. This weekend marks the 70th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt's executive order that sent Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War I

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Ditching NAFTA Could Hurt America's Farmers More Than Mexico's

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The trade of food between the U.S. and Mexico has exploded over the past 15 years. Mexican fruit and vegetables come here while things like American corn and milk powder go the other way. President Trump has talked about restrict

美国国家公共电台 NPR Republican Health Care Proposal Would Cover Fewer Low-Income Families

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: More than a month ago, the president said he nearly had a plan to replace Obamacare. He told The Washington Post it was down to the, quote, final strokes on insurance for everybody. One month later, in yesterday's press conferenc

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Declaw Law? Veterinarians Divided Over N.J. Cat Claw Bill

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In New Jersey, lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it a crime to declaw cats. If it passes, New Jersey would be the first state in the country to ban the practice. The bill has sharply divided veterinarians. Critics

美国国家公共电台 NPR Nature's Ready For Her Close-Up: 'Planet Earth II' Returns In Ultra High-Def

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The BBC series Planet Earth was one of the first blockbuster high-definition TV shows a decade ago. Tomorrow, Planet Earth II debuts on BBC America. And this time, it is said to be in ultrahigh def. Reporter Will Huntsberry found