美国国家公共电台 NPR Grocery Prices Have Been Falling. Did You Notice?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: You may have noticed over the past year or so that food prices at supermarkets have been lower than they used to be. That's been great for shoppers, not so great if you are a grocer or a farmer. NPR's Alina Selyukh reports on the

美国国家公共电台 NPR Houston Methadone Clinics Reopen After Harvey's Flooding

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We are closely tracking a record-breaking Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm ever recorded. And we're still learning about the impact from Harvey in Texas and Louisiana. The health care system has certainly bee

美国国家公共电台 NPR Microsoft President To Trump: To Deport A DREAMer, You'll Have To Go Through Us

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we're listening this morning to reaction to President Trump's decision to phase out DACA. That is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, allowing people brought to the U.S. illegally as children to stay and work h

美国国家公共电台 NPR For Some Latino Voters, DACA Is Just The Latest Blow From Trump

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In conservative-leaning Nevada, Latino voters showed their power last year by helping deliver the state to Hillary Clinton. If President Trump sticks with his decision to end DACA on top of pardoning Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio an

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Army, The Inventor And The Surprising Uses Of A Batman Machine

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR's Joe Palca thinks a lot about thinking - specifically how people come up with the big ideas that change our lives. And as you'll hear in this next story, sometimes the inventor himself doesn't even recognize all the possible

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: More than eight months into the Trump administration, many federal agencies are still missing key personnel. As those positions slowly get filled, one lower-level pick at the Department of Agriculture is stirring up controversy. Am

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Texas, Concerns About Damage To Flooded Toxic Waste Sites

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Officials in Texas are still trying to confirm whether floodwater has spread contamination from decades-old toxic waste sites. Thirteen so-called Superfund sites were flooded last week. NPR's Rebecca Hersher visited six of them and

美国国家公共电台 NPR Labor Movement Faces Challenges Amid Growing Public Support For Unions

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Unions in this country face big challenges. There's a tougher environment for organizing and a White House that has been anything but labor-friendly so far. That's despite promises to bring back manufacturing jobs. NPR's Don Gonyea

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fall Movie Preview: 'Tried And True' To 'Really Out There'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: You may have heard that Hollywood's been having a sad summer. Even though Wonder Woman smashed records, so many other films fizzled that the box office totals are down nearly a billion dollars compared to last summer. In our fall m

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'A Legacy Of Spies,' John Le Carré Goes Back Out In 'The Cold'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Smiley is back. George Smiley, that is, the spy at the center of some of John le Carre his most popular books. For the first time in 25 years, le Carre has written a novel featuring Smiley. It's called A Legacy Of Spies, and it's

美国国家公共电台 NPR Acclaimed Poet John Ashbery Dies At 90

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the most acclaimed poets of the 20th century has died. John Ashbery won every major prize, including a Pulitzer and a National Book Award, along with a so-called MacArthur genius grant for more than 20 volumes of poetry. He

美国国家公共电台 NPR Casting Directors On Broadway Seek To Unionize

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the ingredients a successful Broadway show needs is a talented cast. That starts with talented casting directors, the people who can see a Tony-winning star in the making, say, when a performer walks into an audition as a co

美国国家公共电台 NPR Accused Of Accepting Lavish Trips And Gifts, Sen. Menendez Goes On Trial

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The federal corruption trial of New Jersey's senior senator starts tomorrow. Democrat Bob Menendez faces a dozen charges for his alleged role in a bribery scheme, a scheme involving one of his close friends. The senator denie

美国国家公共电台 NPR Leaving The Past Behind — Or Trying To — In Rushdie's Latest

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The author Salman Rushdie has set his books all over the world. His most famous novels, Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses, take place in India and the U.K., both countries where Rushdie has lived. His new book is mostly se

美国国家公共电台 NPR Coastal Vietnamese Community Leans On Faith, And Each Other, To Rebuild After Harvey

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now let's go to Texas for a few minutes. It might seem like it was a lifetime ago, but it was just two weeks ago that Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. Our reporters have been trying to get to as many places as they can to report o

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is All That Wildfire Smoke Damaging My Lungs?

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Right now in Your Health, we'll examine a different natural phenomenon that's engulfing the northwest of the country. That would be forest fires. It's an unusually bad wildfire season, and for weeks people have been breathing

美国国家公共电台 NPR So Your Kitchen Sponge Is A Bacteria Hotbed. Here's What To Do

DAVID GREENE, HOST: For the first time, scientists have figured out just how many tiny critters are living inside your kitchen sponge. Now, don't fear. NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff says there is something you can do about this. MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF, BYLI

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Not A Textbook Case': Barcelona Attackers' Hometown Wonders How It Bred Terrorists

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: We'll have more on Hurricane Irma in a few minutes. But first, an update on last month's terrorist attacks in and around Barcelona. Spanish police say the suspects don't fit the usual ISIS profile. And this might have been a d

美国国家公共电台 NPR France's Brittany Sees New Wave Of Brits Post-Brexit

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: The view now from another tourist destination has been transformed. The French region of Brittany, the prospect of Britain exiting the European Union has sent a wave of British citizens there in search of, not just a holiday,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Emperor X: 'We Are Much More Than The Sum Of The Diseases And Disabilities We Carry'

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Chad Matheny dropped his pursuit of a master's degree in physics for a career as a musician. Under the name Emperor X, he's released eight albums, a bunch of cassettes. He had one of his songs used in a major motion picture. T