美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Dieting Passe? Study Finds Fewer Overweight People Try To Lose Weight

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now let's ask a question raised by new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Here's the question - are diets becoming passe? NPR's Allison Aubrey reports that as the number of Americans who are overweigh

美国国家公共电台 NPR What Happens When U.S. Immigration Rules Tighten? Let's Look To Alabama

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump is clamping down on illegal immigration. And the state of Alabama might offer some clues about what exactly this will mean. In 2011, it passed what was called the toughest immigration law in the country. There were

美国国家公共电台 NPR Female Workers Asked To Join In 'A Day Without A Woman' Protests

x DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today is International Women's Day. And some women in the United States are marking it by joining a protest called A Day Without A Woman. It is a strike aimed to highlight the economic power of women as well as ongoing problems

美国国家公共电台 NPR South Korean Judges Uphold President Park Geun-hye's Impeachment

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And those are sounds from the city of Seoul this morning, celebration in the streets following a historic ruling in South Korea that has ousted that nation's president from office. The highest court in the country upheld a vote by

美国国家公共电台 NPR Anthology TV Series Undergo Renaissance With 'American Crime,' 'Feud'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The third season of American Crime premieres this Sunday on ABC. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, AMERICAN CRIME) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) When they were running crack in the city, they didn't have any Narcan. They let the Mexica

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hollywood's Favorite Giant Ape Returns In 'Kong: Skull Island'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been two weeks since the Oscars, time enough for the film industry to reset from prestige mode to blockbuster. This week, Hollywood's favorite giant ape returns to the screen in Kong: Skull Island, a film that left critic Bo

美国国家公共电台 NPR 20 Years Ago, 'Buffy' Welcomed Us All To The Hellmouth (aka High School)

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Rachel, I'm taking us back to high school for a minute. Our big problems are not detention, not homework. Instead, they are demons, the undead and vampires that need to be slayed. (SOUNDBITE OF NERF HERDER'S BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAY

美国国家公共电台 NPR Malcolm Gladwell: Do More Choices Make Us Happier?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today decisions, ideas about how we make them and why we tend to agonize over them because at some point, we all have to make a decision about something. It can be as trivi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Experts Say White House's Conway Response Raises Major Ethical Questions

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a clearer picture this morning of how President Trump's White House views government ethics rules. In the view of a White House lawyer, ethics rules do not apply to the president's staff. By now, we've heard exceptions to

美国国家公共电台 NPR No One Was Prepared To Care For So Many Wounded In Mosul

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The fight to force ISIS from the Iraqi city of Mosul has resulted in more casualties than expected, both for combatants and civilians. That has led the Iraqi government and international aid groups to step up emergency care.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hearing For Deputy Attorney General Nominee Focuses On Sessions, Russia

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A congressional hearing to fill top posts at the Justice Department today turned into a proxy war over the Trump administration's ties to Russia. Democrats pressed the nominee for deputy attorney general to appoint an independent

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Did We Get To 11 Million Unauthorized Immigrants?

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A big policy question facing the country is what to do with the 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally - today the story of how that population grew so large. It's a long story. It's mostly about Mexico, and

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Do Americans Feel About The Courts? Let Hollywood Be The Judge

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There has been drama in Washington lately over the judiciary. Take the political fight over the vacant Supreme Court seat or the president calling some in black robes so-called judges. All this has got movie critic Bob Mondello thi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Farmers Fight Environmental Regulations

DAVID GREENE, HOST: In the fight over how we treat our environment, farms can be a battleground. NPR's Dan Charles reports here on how regulations meant to protect land and water are being challenged by farmers. DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: Environmentalist

美国国家公共电台 NPR Energy Savings Can Be Fun, But No Need To Turn Off All The Lights

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's say you were asked to monitor how much electricity you used. You would be thinking, like I really have time for that. Then again, I know some of you count your steps each day. You also track how many hours you sleep. Ingrid

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Has Many Jobs Unfilled; Is He 'Deconstructing The Administrative State'?

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President Trump has yet to fill hundreds of senior-level positions throughout the government. He's questioned the need for, as he put it, all those jobs, but simply leaving post vacant may not be the best way to accomplish what h

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'On Tyranny' Explores New Threats Facing American Political System

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Timothy Snyder has written some sprawling, compelling books about war, genocide and the descent into dictatorship in mid-20th century Europe. So the Yale historian's latest book called On Tyranny is a departure. It is a slim, alm

美国国家公共电台 NPR S. Korea: North Test-Fires Handful Of 'Unknown Projectiles' Into Japan Waters

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: For a country not currently fighting a full-blown war, North Korea fires an awful lot of missiles. Last night, North Korea's military fired a series of missiles into the sea near Japan. NPR's Elise Hu reports. ELISE HU, BYLINE: J

美国国家公共电台 NPR These Days, Business Travel By Trump's Sons Is Costly And Complicated

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The president's two adult sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., have been traveling the world since their dad's election. They work for the Trump Organization. They run it now, in fact. Their business travel comes at a cost to U.S. ta

美国国家公共电台 NPR Forbidding Forecast For Lyme Disease In The Northeast

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have an early warning in Your Health this morning. Ecologists are expecting a really bad season for Lyme disease. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Their warning applies to parts of the Northeast this spring and summer. NPR's Michaeleen Do