美国国家公共电台 NPR Western Fire Crews Get An Assist From Australia And New Zealand

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, these big wildfires keep raging in Oregon and here in California. In southern Oregon, where temperatures are forecast to break 100 every day through Thursday, the Taylor Creek Fire is the largest of several blazes. And

美国国家公共电台 NPR Germany Bulldozes Old Villages For Coal Despite Lower Emissions Goals

NOEL KING, HOST: Germany has this reputation as a pioneer of clean energy. Angela Merkel was called the climate chancellor when she decided to ditch nuclear power. But the reality in Germany is a lot dirtier. The country is the biggest miner of brown

美国国家公共电台 NPR The New Housing Crisis: Shut Out Of The Market

NOEL KING, HOST: Ten years after the housing market collapsed, a different crisis has emerged. Back then, a decade ago, lots of people were losing their homes. Today people who want to buy or in a lot of cases even just rent are being priced out of t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Diet Hit A Snag? Your Gut Bacteria May Be Partly To Blame

DAVID GREENE, HOST: So if you've ever been on a diet but you didn't lose the weight you would hope to lose, your gut bacteria might be part of the problem. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on how the microbes in our guts may either help or hinder weight

美国国家公共电台 NPR How One Boy's Fight With Epilepsy Led To The First Marijuana-Derived Pharmaceutical

NOEL KING, HOST: The first medication derived from marijuana could be in pharmacies as early as this fall. The FDA recently approved it to treat two rare types of epilepsy. KQED's Lesley McClurg has the story of one family's quest to get this drug. L

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Endorses Kobach For Kansas Governor Over Republican Incumbent

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Kansas voters are going to choose their nominees for governor tomorrow. And on the Republican ballot is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Now, he became nationally known for imposing a strict voter registration law that was l

美国国家公共电台 NPR An Asylum-Seeker Wrote A Book By Phone Texts From Manus Island Detention

NOEL KING, HOST: Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani fled Iran fearing for his safety. He wrote for a pro-Kurdish magazine that was raided by the Iranian military. So he went to Indonesia, and from there, he got on a boat to Australia. He wan

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Cuomo Threatening NRA's Existence? He Says: 'I'd Like To Believe It's True'

DON GONYEA, HOST: The National Rifle Association says it's facing financial trouble and that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is to blame. In a lawsuit, the NRA claims Governor Cuomo discouraged insurance companies and other financial institutions from

美国国家公共电台 NPR GOP Donor Questions His Support For Koch Network After Trump Criticism

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There is a growing rift in the Republican Party between money and power. This past week, President Donald Trump attacked the billionaire Republican donors Charles and David Koch, calling them a total joke - that even rhymes

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Trump About To Be Able To Say 'You're Fired' To A Lot More People?

NOEL KING, HOST: Could the president hire and fire civil servants at will? That question is at the heart of a concept that's likely to come up often at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings this fall. NPR's legal affairs corre

美国国家公共电台 NPR Barack And Joe Solve A Murder Mystery

DON GONYEA, HOST: If you missed the news on Monday, President Barack Obama and his former vice president, Joe Biden, were spotted out at a Washington, D.C., cafe rekindling their Oval Office quote-unquote bromance, catching up over sandwiches and fen

美国国家公共电台 NPR Guinness Opens Its First U.S. Brewery In 64 Years

DON GONYEA, HOST: Guinness is famous for making stout beer, and this week, the Irish company opened a new brewery in Maryland. It's the first time Guinness has had a brewery in the U.S. in more than 60 years. So does Guinness want to sell lots more s

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Orchid And The Wasp,' An Unapologetic Heroine Who's No Gentle Flower

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There is a type of orchid that resembles a female wasp. And in rare occasions, this trick of nature will attract a male wasp to pollinate the flower. This is portrayed on the cover of Caoilinn Hughes' new book Orchid And Th

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Sexual Underground Surfaces In 'Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood'

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: After World War II, a Hollywood gas station became the center of that city's hidden sex life. Scotty Bowers was an attendant there. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD) SCOTTY BOWERS: One day, Car

美国国家公共电台 NPR California Wildfires Reignite Old Trauma For Survivors Of Last Year's Blazes

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: As wildfires rage across California, President Donald Trump has declared a major disaster in the state, opening up federal funds to help with the recovery. Several blazes are less than an hour away from one community affect

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Pot Breathalyzer Is Here. Maybe

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Police across the country are growing concerned about stoned drivers behind the wheel. Thirty states and Washington, D.C., have legalized medical marijuana. Nine of those, plus the District, have legalized recreational pot. One Cal

美国国家公共电台 NPR An Unlikely Friendship: An Immigration Attorney And A Border Patrol Agent

An Unlikely Friendship: An Immigration Attorney And A Border Patrol Agent AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In America today, communities are sorting themselves into like-minded bubbles - red teams and blue teams where you're less likely to run into people who di

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Every Full Moon We Can Howl At Is A Victory,' Says Emil Ferris

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is huge in size and scope. Writer and artist Emil Ferris fills the pages with inky, scratchy drawings done in ballpoint pen. There are loose sketches, recreations of famous paintings

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fight Against Low, Low Pay In Minor League Baseball Continues Despite New Obstacles

AILSA CHANG, HOST: You may have heard in recent years that minor league baseball players don't exactly share in the riches of the game. Most minor leaguers make an estimated $7,500 per year. Major League players average more than four million. A law

美国国家公共电台 NPR Can A Reagan-Era Policy Offer An Alternative To Tariffs?

AILSA CHANG, HOST: It was 1981. A new Republican president with a background in the entertainment business was trying to jumpstart the U.S. economy out of a brutal recession. The president pushed tax cuts. Then his administration had to come up with