美国国家公共电台 NPR An Indian State Bans Plastic Bags, Straws And More. Will It Work?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: India's largest city has banned plastic bags and packaging. In India, people actually produce only a tenth of the plastic waste that Americans do. The problem is where it ends up, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Mumbai. (SOUN

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Administration Freezes Payments Required By The Affordable Care Act

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Over the weekend, the Trump administration announced that it is freezing billions of dollars in payments to insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act. The so-called risk adjustment payments are designed to help stabilize i

美国国家公共电台 NPR Lawmaker In 'Canvassing While Black' Incident: 'You Can't Legislate Humanity'

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We've been hearing these stories for a while now of black people being challenged and even arrested for doing ordinary things like waiting for a friend at Starbucks. But, over the past couple of weeks, there have been even more e

美国国家公共电台 NPR Patients With Chronic Pain Feel Caught In An Opioid Prescribing Debate

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: One more health story. To fight the opioid crisis, states are limiting the number of opioid pills that doctors can prescribe. But that's led to fears of another kind of health crisis with legitimate patients caught in the middle

美国国家公共电台 NPR Minnesota Teen Brings Home Top Prize In International Quran Competition

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) AHMED BURHAN MOHAMED: (Speaking Arabic). LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: That's Ahmed Burhan Mohamed's award-winning recitation of the Quran, the holy book of Islam. He wowed judges with a nearly perfect oration of the sc

美国国家公共电台 NPR Deepening Drought In Western U.S. Costs Ranchers Money And Heartache

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A drought is deepening over much of the West, and it's costing ranchers a lot of money and causing a lot of heartache. They're already hauling water to thirsty cattle in remote parts of Oregon. The Northwest News Network's

美国国家公共电台 NPR Desperate To Avoid Deportation, She Hasn't Left Sanctuary For 8 Months

Desperate To Avoid Deportation, She Hasn't Left Sanctuary For 8 Months MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We want to go back to the immigration issue for a few more minutes in the U.S. This is about a tiny chapter of the story playing out in a quiet place far from

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Highly Focused Sound Waves Steadied A Farmer's Trembling Hand

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now we turn to a story of a man whose hands got so shaky, he couldn't eat with a spoon and he struggled to write legibly. ALAN DAMBACH: My signature was so bad, and my writing was just atrocious. MARTIN: NPR's Jon Hamilton report

美国国家公共电台 NPR Citizenship Question Controversy Complicating Census 2020 Work, Bureau Director Says

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The head of the U.S. Census Bureau is preparing to face a major challenge. His agency is required by law to count every person living in the U.S. in 2020. But the bureau is running into many hurdles, including a legal fight over a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Embattled FBI Agent Peter Strzok Clashes With GOP In Raucous Hearing

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Conservatives who accuse the FBI of bias have pointed fingers at one special agent in particular - Peter Strzok. Well, today Strzok defended himself before Congress. He admitted that he did send highly political text messages

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fast-Food Chains Back Away From Limits On Whom They Hire

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Seven big fast-food chains have backed down under pressure. They've agreed to stop blocking workers from taking jobs at other restaurants in the same chain. Washington state's attorney general was threatening to sue over this. And

美国国家公共电台 NPR China Is Better Able To Withstand A Trade War Than In The Past

NOEL KING, HOST: Beijing says it will retaliate if President Trump goes ahead with plans to impose tariffs on more Chinese products. The U.S. and China are locked in what could become a full-on trade war. And China's economy is better positioned than

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Officials Struggle To Meet Deadlines Even As More Migrant Families Reunited

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Trump Administration announced this morning that it has completed the first phase of reuniting immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes two days after it missed a court-imposed deadline to reunite roug

美国国家公共电台 NPR Get Pumped: 100+ Fabulous Pairs Of Shoes Are On View In New York

NOEL KING, HOST: Centuries' worth of shoes are getting oohs and aahs at the New-York Historical Society. The shoes are from the personal collection of shoe designer Stuart Weitzman. The exhibit is called Walk This Way, and NPR special correspondent S

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Charlotte Is One Of Ben Carson's Models For HUD's Work Requirements

NOEL KING, HOST: The secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, has proposed a change. The idea is to allow housing authorities across the country to require that low-income people work in order to live in affordable housing. Now, Carson

美国国家公共电台 NPR Caught In The Extended Stay Motel Trap

NOEL KING, HOST: This summer, millions of vacationers are expected to visit Branson, Mo., to see acts like Tony Orlando and the Oak Ridge Boys. Summer is a boom time for Branson, but for many of the people who keep the good times rolling there, life

美国国家公共电台 NPR Government Misses Migrant Family Reunification Deadline

NOEL KING, HOST: Yesterday, the Trump administration missed a court-ordered deadline to reunify about a hundred small children who were separated from their immigrant parents at the border over the past two months. Federal officials scrambled to rejo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Regulators Investigate Fast-Food Chains' Limits On Whom They Hire

Regulators Investigate Fast-Food Chains' Limits On Whom They Hire ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A common workplace practice affecting millions of franchise restaurant workers is coming under fire. It involves what are essentially non-compete agreements that pre

美国国家公共电台 NPR Medical Clinics That Treat Refugees Help Determine The Case For Asylum

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's getting harder for people to seek asylum in the U.S. Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced stricter rules on people fleeing domestic abuse and gang violence. Now some applicants are hoping to increase their ch

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Kids' Books Put A Human Face On The Refugee Crisis

NOEL KING, HOST: Literature often reflects the times in which we live. And there's a recent trend in literature for young people that deals with one of the world's biggest crises - the global wave of refugees. Now, books that tell the story of the re