美国国家公共电台 NPR Special Immigrant Visa Holders Still Face Questioning Upon Reaching U.S.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The courts have put President Trump's travel ban on hold. But the law still gives federal immigration officers broad discretion to turn away foreigners. Immigrants with special visas from Iraq and Afghanistan are also having trou

美国国家公共电台 NPR Breast-Fed Kids May Be Less Hyper, But Not Necessarily Smarter, Study Finds

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: I got to talk with the writer Emma Donoghue the other day. You might remember she got famous for her blockbuster novel Room, the one about a happy little boy growing up in horrifying conditions - born into captivity, mom abducted

美国国家公共电台 NPR Emma Donoghue Helps Kids Deal With Dementia (And Still Has Fun) In 'The Lotterys'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: I got to talk with the writer Emma Donoghue the other day. You might remember she got famous for her blockbuster novel Room, the one about a happy little boy growing up in horrifying conditions - born into captivity, mom abducted

美国国家公共电台 NPR Author Finds A Counter-Narrative Of Equality In Adam And Eve Story

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Bruce Feiler has gained an enormous following for his bestselling books and popular television programs and Ted talks for his ability to help people encounter the biblical story in fresh ways. For his latest book, he's asking rea

美国国家公共电台 NPR Living With Zika In Puerto Rico Means Watching, Waiting And Fearing Judgment

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Puerto Rico is grappling with a severe Zika outbreak. We still don't know how many people have been infected since the mosquito-borne virus appeared on the U.S. territory more than a year ago. Nearly 40,000 cases of Zika have been

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Their Search For Asylum, Central Americans Find The U.S. Is Closing Its Doors

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Every year, thousands of immigrants come to the U.S.-Mexico border and request asylum. That means they're seeking safety from persecution in their home countries. It is common for asylum-seekers to stay somewhere in the United St

美国国家公共电台 NPR First Episode Of 'All Things Considered' Is Headed To Library Of Congress

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now let's consider something else here. Or maybe let's consider a few more things. Or actually, how about all the things? - which is what NPR's afternoon news show has tried to do for more than four and a half decades. (SOUNDBITE

美国国家公共电台 NPR Anti-Apartheid Activist Ahmed Kathrada Dies At 87

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We are mourning the loss of a human rights champion. Ahmed Kathrada died today in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was 87 years old. Kathrada was a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement, and he spent decades in jail with Nelson Man

美国国家公共电台 NPR Kerry James Marshall: A Black Presence In The Art World Is 'Not Negotiable'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The artist Kerry James Marshall has a remarkable history. He was born in Birmingham, Ala., and was a little boy when Martin Luther King Jr. was in jail there. Later, his family moved to Los Angeles not long before the Watts riots.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rural Trump Voters Embrace The Sacrifices That Come With Support

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The proposed budget that the White House has sent to Congress calls for cuts across a number of agencies, and it would also eliminate some programs that benefit many of President Trump's supporters in rural communities across Amer

美国国家公共电台 NPR SpaceX Reuses A Rocket To Launch A Satellite

DAVID GREENE, HOST: So in case you were considering traveling to space, the private company SpaceX wants to make space flight a lot cheaper. And to do that, it plans to reuse its rockets over and over again. As NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, the first

美国国家公共电台 NPR In A Bullet-Riddled Mansion, A Beirut Architect Envisions A Museum Of Memory

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon is relatively peaceful, though a civil war raged there in the '70s and '80s. Often Lebanese people don't like to talk about what happened. NPR's Alice Fordham meets a woman trying to sta

美国国家公共电台 NPR A New Kind Of March Madness Hits Schools

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The NCAA March Madness tournament features some tough matchups - badgers versus gators, rams versus bulldogs, wolverines against cardinals. But what if those animals actually did face off, like in nature? Who would win? Kat Lonsd

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hulu's 'Harlots' Follows Prostitutes In 18th Century London

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A new British costume drama debuts on Hulu tonight, but if this genre is not your cup of tea, don't tune out just yet. This is not Masterpiece Theater. The series, called Harlots, follows a female brothel owner and her daughters in