美国国家公共电台 NPR Guy Ritchie's 'King Arthur: Legends Of The Sword' Flops At The Box Office

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The mythology of King Arthur has all the ingredients for a hit blockbuster movie - magic, romance, shirtless guys with muscles swinging swords. Guy Ritchie's newest take on the story is King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, and it's no

美国国家公共电台 NPR N.J. Activist Says GOP Congressman's Complaint Forced Her To Quit Her Job

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Lawmakers never really stop campaigning even when they're in office. Politics and public perception dictate a lot of what they do and how they think. Our next story is an example of that. The congressman at the center of it is Re

美国国家公共电台 NPR Stressed-Out High Schoolers Advised To Try A Nap Pod

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Preventing yawning in teenagers - and one way to do it is to take a nap at school. And there's some public high schools in New Mexico actually providing napping pods for students. Here's NPR's Patti Neighmond. PATTI NEIGHMOND, BYL

美国国家公共电台 NPR Yawning May Promote Social Bonding Even Between Dogs And Humans

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: So obviously, teens aren't the only ones yawning. It's something everyone does - humans but also bears, bats, guinea pigs, giraffes. Yawning is common animal behavior. Here's reporter Michelle Trudeau. And no matter how interesti

美国国家公共电台 NPR No More Neverland: A Senator's Guide To Raising American Adults

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse shares something in common with President Trump. Both are serving in elected office for the very first time, but the similarities pretty much end there. Before his election in 2014, Sasse was a federal h

美国国家公共电台 NPR Don't Screen For Thyroid Cancer, Task Force Says

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Screening healthy people to look for thyroid cancer does more harm than good. That's the word from doctors on a federal health advisory committee. NPR's Richard Harris has the story. RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: More and more people a

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Hampshire State Lawmaker Accused Of Online Misogyny Faces Expulsion

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the live-free-or-die state of New Hampshire, the state Legislature is wrestling with how much free speech may be too much for its members. This is all because of revelations that one lawmaker is the founder of The Red Pill for

美国国家公共电台 NPR Michael Parks, TV And Movie Character Actor, Dies At 77

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The character actor Michael Parks has died at 77. He appeared in TV shows and in movies for decades and was known for his roles in Twin Peaks and also Kill Bill. NPR arts correspondent Mandalit del Barco reports on just how far h

美国国家公共电台 NPR Don't Be Fooled: 'Generation Wealth' Is More About Wanting Than Having

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Plastic, surgery, private jets, toddlers in designer clothes, magnums of champagne served by costumed fairies who fly through the air - looking through the 500-page book Generation Wealth, you see all of that. It's a new collecti

美国国家公共电台 NPR DeVos Commencement Speech Draws Protests

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today, the secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is giving the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University. It's a small, private, Christian historically black college in Daytona Beach. This invitation has sparked an outcry,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fact-Checking Republicans' Defense Of The GOP Health Bill

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Many House Republicans are back in their districts this week after voting for a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. A few are holding town hall meetings. And in some cases, those town halls are loud. (SOUNDBITE

美国国家公共电台 NPR ABC Announces Plan To Revive 'American Idol'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It seems like it was only yesterday that my friends here on the show said goodbye to American Idol. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Fifteen years of bad tryouts. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, AMERICAN IDOL) UNIDEN

美国国家公共电台 NPR At Town Hall Meeting, Republican Lawmakers Get An Earful Over Health Care

DAVID GREENE, HOST: So a moderate House Republican from upstate New York is the latest lawmaker to be heckled at a town hall meeting. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik was one of a handful of last-minute yes votes on the House bill to repeal and replace m

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sinclair Broadcast Group Has Deal To Buy Tribune Media's TV Stations

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Sinclair Broadcast Group is based in Maryland. This is a conservative company that owns more local TV stations than any other company in the country. And Sinclair is about to get bigger with a $3.9 billion deal with Tribune Media.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Kushner Family Business Pitch In China Prompts Questions About Investor Visas

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Anybody in business can tell you that connections matter. And if you want a connection to the president of the United States, what better way than through his family? Jared Kushner is the president's son-in-law and close adviser.

美国国家公共电台 NPR GOP Health Bill Leaves Many 'Pre-Existing Condition' Protections Up To States

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Right now under the Affordable Care Act, people with pre-existing conditions have a lot of protections. But the House bill passed last week leaves a lot of those provisions up to state politics. Bram Sable-Smith of member station

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Budget Would Eliminate A Key Funder Of Research On Coastal Pollution

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: For millions of Americans, what they flush down the toilet goes into a septic tank. Septic tanks are convenient, but sometimes they pollute our waterways. Scientists are trying to track down that pollution with help from a federa

美国国家公共电台 NPR Affordable Housing Program Costs More, Shelters Fewer

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: There's a lot of money to be made in affordable housing. Banks and developers are making millions of dollars by building housing for the poor under a federal incentive program. And at the same time, each year, fewer poor people a

美国国家公共电台 NPR What's Next? Sixth Season Of 'Veep' Probes Post-Presidential Life

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Julia Louis-Dreyfus has won six Emmys for lead actress in a comedy. That is more than any other female actor. Five of those Emmys were for her work on the HBO show she stars in, Veep. She plays a woman named Selina Meyer, a woman

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Draft Horses Are Helping Upgrade Cell Towers In Wisconsin

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Companies that provide cell phone service race one another to offer the most reliable signals in order to retain customers. Sometimes to do that, they turn to a surprising option to get the job done. (SOUNDBITE OF HORSE NEIGHING)