美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Eloise At The Museum' Tells The Story Behind The Beloved Mischief-Maker

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society tells the story behind the Eloise children's books. For one, author Kay Thompson was not a fan of children. Thompson died in 1998. The illustrator of the books, Hilary Knight, i

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Refuge' Captures Divide Between Father And Daughter Through Lens Of Immigration

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In the new novel Refuge, Dina Nayeri tells a story very much like her own. Nayeri left Iran with her mother when she was 8 years old. Her father stayed behind. The same is true of this book's protagonist, a character named Niloo. N

美国国家公共电台 NPR Microsoft Courts Rural America, And Politicians, With High-Speed Internet

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Microsoft is announcing a new effort to connect more people to the Internet - not people far away in the so-called emerging markets, where other American tech giants have built Internet balloons and drones. Instead, Microsoft is

美国国家公共电台 NPR Man Who Says He Connected Trump Jr. To Russian Lawyer Put Trump Sr. In A Music Video

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Donald Trump Jr. says he agreed to that meeting last June at the request of an acquaintance from the Miss Universe pageant. The Washington Post says that person was Rob Goldstone. He's a British-born music promoter. Goldstone say

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Game Of Thrones' Finds Fans Among Disability Rights Activists, Too

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: You don't see many people with disabilities on television unless you're watching a certain popular HBO show that starts its seventh season on Sunday. (SOUNDBITE OF RAMIN DJAWADI'S GAME OF THRONES THEME) SHAPIRO: Game Of Thrones is

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Director's Struggle With Anorexia In 'To The Bone'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Marti Noxon made her name as a TV writer, director and producer, working on shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Glee, also, Mad Men. Now she's making her debut as a film director with To The Bone. It is a movie about her own stru

美国国家公共电台 NPR Her Own Medical Future At Stake, A Child Storms Capitol Hill

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Republican effort to replace the Affordable Care Act failed in part because of the changes they wanted to make to Medicaid. The proposal would have cut federal spending on the program by a third. Opposition came from all side

美国国家公共电台 NPR Riding With ICE: 'We're Trying To Do The Right Thing'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Trump administration has been clear - immigrants in the country illegally, quote, should be afraid. Those were the words of Thomas Homan, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And that stance has put his agency on t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Once Seen As Too Left-Wing, Will Jeremy Corbyn Be U.K.'s Next Prime Minister?

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A couple of years ago, analysts thought that Britain's Labour Party had sealed its doom. The party chose as its leader Jeremy Corbyn - a fringe politician considered much too far left to ever become prime minister. DAVID GREENE,

美国国家公共电台 NPR When A Somali-American Woman Was Attacked, Support Came From An Unlikely Source

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: It's Friday and time for StoryCorps - and today, a story about a woman who was attacked in public and who found support from an unlikely source. In 2015, Asma Jama was out to dinner with her family at an Apple

美国国家公共电台 NPR Betsy DeVos Speech Greeted By Protesters She Calls 'Defenders Of The Status Quo'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is going to be speaking to the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC in Denver today. And her appearance drew hundreds of protesters who marched yes

美国国家公共电台 NPR Plastic Is Everywhere And Recycling Isn't The End Of It

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Few inventions in modern history have been as successful as plastic. It's in vehicles, building materials, most of our electronic devices. We wrap stuff in it. Maybe we even wear it. Now a research team has tallied up how much pla

美国国家公共电台 NPR O.J. Simpson Parole Hearing Could Lead To His Release From Prison

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news - O.J. Simpson finds out today if he will be released soon from a Nevada prison. He's been in there almost nine years. Nine was the minimum. He received a sentence of 9 to 33 years for armed robbery and other char

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Dunkirk' Director Christopher Nolan: 'We Really Try To Put You On That Beach'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: In England, there's something known as the Dunkirk spirit. It's really shorthand for coming together in times of adversity. It refers to the heroic efforts of British sailors, soldiers and the civilians who rescued them in small b

美国国家公共电台 NPR Collaborator Says Sendak Would Be 'Jumping For Joy' Over New Publication

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: With a little help from blind luck, the late Maurice Sendak, who died in 2012, will have a new book out next year. Sendak wrote and illustrated Where The Wild Things Are, In The Night Kitchen. He illustrated the Little Bear serie

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hip-Hop Radio DJs Stretch And Bobbito Return To The Airwaves With NPR Podcast

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And we're going to speak next with two new additions to the NPR family. Pioneering New York City hip-hop radio DJ Stretch Armstrong - hey there, Stretch. ADRIAN BARTOS, BYLINE: Are we doing this right now? CORNISH: We're doing it

美国国家公共电台 NPR Amid Skepticism And Scrutiny, Election Integrity Commission Holds First Meeting

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's commission to look into voter fraud and other election problems will hold its first public meeting today. Already, this panel has come under fire. Let's remember, it was formed by President Trump to look into his

美国国家公共电台 NPR With Entry Into Interest Curation, Google Goes Head-To-Head With Facebook

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Facebook has a news feed. And soon when you go to Google to search whatever it is you search, you're going to get a kind of news feed there, too - although it's just going to be called a feed. NPR's Aarti Shahani reports. AARTI S

美国国家公共电台 NPR The YouTube Star Who's Teaching Kids How To Bake

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: You'd like to think that a kid learning to cook would do it by spending hours in the kitchen with a loving parent. But failing that, there is YouTube. For our series on children's media, NPR's Neda Ulaby introduces us to a celebr

美国国家公共电台 NPR London Literally Stank In The Summer Of 1858 — Just Ask Dickens And Darwin

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Just in time for these hot days of summer, British historian Rosemary Ashton has written the history of one very hot summer in London many years ago, in 1858. That year, the talk of the town was all about marital mores and public