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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's Friday, so it's time for StoryCorps. Today, we will meet two sisters from Somalia. Fatuma Abdullahi and Maryan Osman were little girls when their parents died in Somalia's civil war. They're teenagers now living in Utah. Ann

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here's a fact that tells you something about a country. It's the leading cause of death. The leading cause is different in different nations. In the United States, for example, it's long been heart disease. But as heart disease t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Legal Marijuana Advocates Are Uneasy With Sessions' Stance

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Advocates for medical marijuana are in Washington, D.C., this week for an annual conference. But supporters of marijuana legalization are uneasy these days. That's because the new U.S. attorney general has been making tough comme

美国国家公共电台 NPR Activists Plan 'Tax Day' Marches Calling For Release Of Trump's Taxes

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. So we are getting closer and closer to Tax Day. Sorry to break that to you. And Democrats on Capitol Hill are seeming more and more determined to get President Trump to release his tax returns. NPR's Peter Overby report

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Unsung Equestrian Heroes Of World War I And The Plot To Poison Them

DAVID GREENE, HOST: A hundred years ago today, the United States entered World War I. Congress voted to declare war on Germany. By the time it ended, there had been a staggering death toll - more than 17 million people worldwide. The soldiers who did

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Scandals Crest, Fox News Once More Under Siege

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And the Fox News Channel is once more under siege. Last summer, the ouster of chairman Roger Ailes during a huge scandal was intended to calm the place down. Yet, multiple scandals have erupted at Fox. As NPR's David Folkenflik re

美国国家公共电台 NPR With This Publisher, Native American Superheroes Fly High

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's talk comics now. They've gotten new life in recent years as new creators have added fresh characters and perspectives. But some Native Americans say they still find it hard to see themselves reflected in these characters. A

NPR poetry Month: Vince Staples Reads His Favorite Twitter Poems

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now it's time for more Twitter poetry. Here's one from Dave Paulsen in Minnesota. DAVE PAULSEN: String cheese. You think you're so smart, shedding your skin like a cylindrical reptile. Take heed, though, little dairy product. You

美国国家公共电台 NPR Spotlight On Migrant Crimes Drums Up Support For Trump's Immigration Dragnet

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump regularly spotlights violent crimes committed by immigrants in the country illegally. His administration has pledged to deport more of these so-called bad hombres. That outrage is increasingly bubbling up in commun

美国国家公共电台 NPR With Obamacare Here to Stay, Some States Revive Medicaid Expansion

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The Republicans' failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act opened up an opportunity for advocates wanting to expand Medicaid. They see one last chance to get billions of federal dollars for their states and cover hundred

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Femininity Is Not Weakness,' Jessica Chastain Says Of 'Zookeeper's Wife'

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the new film, The Zookeeper's Wife, Jessica Chastain plays Antonina Zabinska. It's World War II. And along with her husband, Antonina runs the Warsaw Zoo. She has a way with animals, but she's leery of humans. (SOUNDB

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'American War' Explores The Universality Of Revenge

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Writer Omar El Akkad spent much of his career as a journalist covering the many revolutions and wars in the Middle East for Canada's Globe and Mail. His debut novel, though, is set in a United States that is riven by con

美国国家公共电台 NPR From Wristwatches To Radio, How World War I Ushered In The Modern World

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The United States entered World War I a hundred years ago this week on April 6, 1917. The war is remembered mostly for its brutality. But as NPR's Greg Myre explains, it was also a moment when emerging technologies conve

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pastor Raises Money To Buy Out Liquor Stores Near Reservation

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The town of Whiteclay, Neb., has a population of 14 people. But its four liquor stores sell 4 million cans of beer each year, mostly to residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation, which is officially dry and right across th

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Germany, A Syrian Refugee Is Reunited With His Family

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We have an update now on a story that we've been telling chapter by chapter for two years. It began in Izmir, Turkey, a city on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, where I met a teacher from Syria in his early 30s. Monzer Omar sat w

美国国家公共电台 NPR NPR Poetry Month Kicks Off With Your Twitter Submissions

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's April 1, but this is no joke. It's time for our annual Twitter poetry call out. In honor of National Poetry Month, we are inviting you to tweet us your poems with the hashtag #NPRpoetry. And here's a haiku to kick it off (re

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Madame President' Author On 'Street Cred,' Economic Power Of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As the story has been told over the years when Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was born, a street prophet told her family this child will be great. This child is going to lead. But he didn't really say it that way. What he really said was

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In the Marais district of Paris, in a kitchen that clatters with copper cutlery and cooks, Chef Solange Gregoire and her husband, Chef Gael, hover lovingly above a cast-iron pot that bubbles and simmers with an aromatic steam. SOLA

美国国家公共电台 NPR Before Cars Come In, Bikes Accompany Bison In Yellowstone

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: If you want to go for a spectacular bike ride this weekend, you might consider heading to Yellowstone National Park. Every spring, 50 miles of the main thoroughfares are open to bicycles only. And Montana Public Radio's

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Our Short History,' A Dying Single Mom Pens A Letter To Her Son

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Karen Neulander's a political consultant who is brilliant, determined and tough, but then she's diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. That's a crisis that this capable professional who usually smoothes the path for others can't f