美国国家公共电台 NPR President Trump Gets A Head Start On Shaping The Federal Courts

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: President Trump is moving quickly to put his nominees in the federal courts. Today the president nominated five people to serve on federal appeals courts and five more to serve on lower courts. There's an unusually large number o

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Travel Ban Returned To Court, With President's Words At The Center

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of President Trump's top priorities will get a test in court today. A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., will hear arguments about the legality of the president's revised travel ban. The White House says restricting visi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fresh Food By Prescription: This Health Care Firm Is Trimming Costs — And Waistlines

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And when we go to the doctor, often we leave with a prescription for medicine. But with the skyrocketing costs of treating lifestyle diseases, like Type 2 diabetes, some health care providers are rethinking how they use that presc

美国国家公共电台 NPR Have The 'Miserable' Airlines Finally Reached A Tipping Point?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now a legal dispute over the death penalty in Florida that's turned into a political standoff. The Florida Supreme Court must decide whether Governor Rick Scott has the authority to remove cases from a state attorney who refuses

美国国家公共电台 NPR Cases Pulled For Refusing The Death Penalty, Attorney Sues To Get Them Back

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now a legal dispute over the death penalty in Florida that's turned into a political standoff. The Florida Supreme Court must decide whether Governor Rick Scott has the authority to remove cases from a state attorney who refuses

美国国家公共电台 NPR World-Renowned Rock Climber On Constantly Pushing The Limits

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: In Yosemite National Park in California, a famous mountain called El Capitan beckons climbers around the world, a sheer granite rock face called the Dawn Wall seemed impossible to ascend without equipment. In 2015, Tommy Caldwell

美国国家公共电台 NPR Condoleezza Rice: Institutions Aren't Perfect, But They're The Bedrock Of Democracy

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It is a disorienting time for many Americans. And we've been trying to make sense of it all in a series called The History of Our Time. We have interviewed writers, thinkers and people in politics, like White House aide Michael A

美国国家公共电台 NPR Paula Poundstone's 'Totally Unscientific' Search For The Secret Of Happiness

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: You may know Paula Poundstone from the smash public radio hit - other than this program - Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! But she's also an accomplished author, now of two books, all the more an accomplishment because each book

美国有线新闻 CNN Just How Organic Is Your Milk? Well, It Depends On The Dairy It Came From

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Organic milk is widely available these days, but what does that label really mean? A new Washington Post investigation found that there are considerable differences between the organic milk you can buy in a grocery store and the ki

美国有线新闻 CNN Feist Has A Message For Her 71-Year-Old Self

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The musician Feist has a new album out. It's her first in six years. It sounds nothing like the polished, alternative pop that first got her widespread notice in 2007, along with a best new artist nomination at the Grammys.

美国国家公共电台 NPR When Elmo And Big Bird Talk To Refugees

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Elmo and Big Bird have lots of experience educating children about all kinds of things from the alphabet to autism. Well, now, Sesame Workshop wants to help millions of refugee children from Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countri

美国国家公共电台 NPR When It Comes To Family Musicals, Kids' Opinions Matter More Than Critics'

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Creating a hit musical which appeals to family audiences is kind of Broadway's holy grail. Think of Lion King or Wicked which have run for decades. Critics don't always give these shows good reviews, but some of them are critic-p

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Lazarus Patient And The Limits Of A Lifesaving Stroke Procedure

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: About 800,000 people have strokes every year in the U.S. Most are caused when a clot blocks a blood vessel to the brain. We've known about strokes for a long time. But it wasn't until recently that doctors could do anything about

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Praise The Lard': A Barbecue Legend Shows Us How To Master Smoked Chicken Wings

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Mike and Amy Mills are a father-daughter team from southern Illinois. Mike was trained as a dental technician. MIKE MILLS: I made false teeth - crowns, bridges, partials, this type thing. It's what I did, you know, as a trade. Late

美国国家公共电台 NPR Her Violin Stolen, A Prodigy's World Became 'Unstrung'

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: For professional musicians, the instrument on which they play is more than just a tool of the trade. It can also be a muse, a partner and a voice. A new book titled Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung shares one artist's stor

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trial Nears For Minnesota Police Officer Who Shot Philando Castile

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Jury selection is starting today in St. Paul, Minn., for the trial of a policeman charged with killing an African-American motorist. Philando Castile was the man shown on live video as he was dying in a car. Here is Matt Sepic fro

美国国家公共电台 NPR Adult ADHD Can't Be Diagnosed With A Simple Screening Test, Doctors Warn

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The World Health Organization has endorsed a six-question screening test for ADHD in adults. Now, this is catching a lot of people's attention because, with symptoms like distractedness and disorganization, it can be pretty tempti

美国国家公共电台 NPR Uprooted By Conflict, Stuck In Limbo, Yearning For A Place To Call Home

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we have heard the stories of refugees making long, often treacherous journeys across oceans and continents to escape war at home. But here's a reality - most people displaced by conflict never even leave their own countries. I

美国国家公共电台 NPR Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Gwendolyn Brooks would have turned 100 next month. She was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize. And on the centennial of her birth, a new biography of the late poet is out this week. Here's Karen Grigsby Bates of o

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fifth 'House Of Cards' Season Speaks To Trump Era

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to television. People often talk about life imitating art. But over the past few months, how many times have you talked about the news out of Washington and somebody said, this is so House Of Cards? Well, the fifth and latest