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DAVID GREENE, HOST: And let's return home to this divided country. Mark Meadows has a reputation as sort of a right-wing rebel. He is chair of the Freedom Caucus in Congress. He and three dozen or so House conservatives helped kill the Republican hea

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tax Filings Seen Dipping Amid Trump Crackdown On Illegal Immigration

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Millions of taxpayers are rushing to complete their federal and state filings before the tax deadline tomorrow. And among them are several million people in this country illegally. But as NPR's Richard Gonzales reports, tax prepar

美国国家公共电台 NPR From Moonscape To Lush: Photographs Capture California Drought's Story

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A photographer is capturing California's recovery from drought. JUSTIN SULLIVAN: My editors had an idea of, like, what about doing before and afters? INSKEEP: Justin Sullivan works for Getty Images, and his before photos were fro

美国国家公共电台 NPR At Intel, A Retirement Perk That Can Kick Off A New Career As A Paid Fellow

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Not everybody who reaches the so-called retirement age is ready to retire, but they may be ready for a change. And Intel would like some of its employees to have some help. Since 2012, the tech giant has paid some of its retirees

美国国家公共电台 NPR Le Pen Finds Support In Pro-Europe French City

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now to France, where the polls show a tight race in the upcoming presidential election. Among the subjects dividing the population is membership in the European Union. The EU is still very popular in France, but righ

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'A People's History Of Chicago' Reflects A Spectrum Of Experiences

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Let's turn to the city of Chicago. It's been a momentous year in Chicago in part because of the continued spike in violent crime. A poet is trying to change the reasons people talk about his hometown. Kevin Coval has been called Chi

美国国家公共电台 NPR '(Be)longing' Explores Gun Violence, 10 Years After Virginia Tech Shooting

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Today marks the 10th anniversary of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. On April 16, 2007, a student at Virginia Tech shot 49 people, killing 32 and finally himself. The town is still dealing with the tragedy,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Audio Installation Haunts Underground Arts Space In Washington, D.C.

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: About eight feet beneath Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle, there is a network of dark winding concrete passageways. It's the remains of what used to be a trolley system - train tracks, platforms, tunnels - mostly abandone

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Book Of Joan' Recasts A Historic Heroine — In Space

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: What does it mean to be human? In Lidia Yuknavitch's new novel, what's left of the human race is orbiting above the earth. Sexless and ageless prisoners in a technological hell. Their lives preserved through growing limb

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Iraqi Forces Encircle Mosul, ISIS Unleashes New Level Of Brutality On Civilians

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: People who have recently fled the Iraqi city of Mosul are sharing stories that reveal just how dangerous life has gotten there. Some 300,000 people are trapped in areas of the city held by ISIS and now under siege by Iraqi securi

美国国家公共电台 NPR 30 Years Later, 'The Simpsons' Are A Part Of The American Family

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Thirty years ago today, TV watchers met one of America's most enduring families, The Simpsons. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, THE TRACEY ULLMAN SHOW) JULIE KAVNER: (As Marge Simpson) Hold on, all of you. There's no need to slurp your sou

美国国家公共电台 NPR Christian Teen Magazine 'Brio' Returns With A 'Biblical Worldview'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An evangelical Christian group is trying again to offer an alternative girls magazine. The group Focus on the Family once published Brio. It positioned itself as a more wholesome alternative to magazines like Seventeen and Teen V

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Call To Action: 'This Fight' Will Take Everybody

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has been at the forefront of progressive politics over the last year. She sparred with Donald Trump on Twitter. She was reprimanded by Republicans on the Senate floor earlier this year. Our

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Locking Up Our Own' Details The Mass Incarceration Of Black Men

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: James Forman Jr. may change the way you think about the mass incarceration of African-Americans on drug charges. Foreman is a law professor at Yale who used to be a public defender in Washington, D.C. He's also the son of a famou

美国国家公共电台 NPR Once Routine, ICE Check-Ins Now Fill Immigrants In U.S. Illegally With Anxiety

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Many immigrants living in the United States illegally are not in hiding. Hundreds of thousands check in with federal authorities on a regular basis. Past administrations considered them a low priority for deportation. Now that onc

美国国家公共电台 NPR Its Survival In Doubt, Sears Struggles To Transform Once Again

DAVID GREENE, HOST: One of the biggest names in retail a century ago was Sears, Roebuck Company. Sears was the amazon.com of its time, a booming innovator that spread merchandise and dreams across the country by mail order and department stores. Now,

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Portugal, Drug Use Is Treated As A Medical Issue, Not A Crime

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now we have a real-world experiment in how to attack drug addiction. Many parts of the United States are fighting the spread of opioids or heroin. Portugal fought its own drug problems differently. That country decriminalized dru

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Trump Inquiries Flood Ethics Office, Director Looks To House For Action

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The chief of the Office of Government Ethics says his small staff has been inundated with questions and complaints about the Trump administration, but there's only so much his office can do. It coaches officials on how to obey et

美国国家公共电台 NPR Justice Gorsuch Finds His 'Easier' Solution Has Few Takers On 1st Day

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Neil Gorsuch took his seat on the nation's highest court today. He quickly proved himself to be an active, persistent questioner. NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reports. NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: Gorsuch emerged fro

美国国家公共电台 NPR In The Rockies, Climate Change Spells Trouble For Cutthroat Trout

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now we have a story of an unplanned experiment that is underway in the northern Rocky Mountains. Spring is arriving earlier there. And it's generally warmer and drier than before. And that is messing with some of the fish that liv