美国国家公共电台 NPR Former USA Taekwondo Coach Banned From The Sport For Sexual Misconduct

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today, the U.S. Center for SafeSport banned a former Olympic taekwondo coach from the sport. The organization found Jean Lopez guilty of sexual misconduct against athletes. In some cases, those athletes were minors. Reporter Alex

美国国家公共电台 NPR Surgeon General Urges More Americans To Carry Opioid Antidote

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The opioid crisis continues to ravage many communities in the U.S., so much so that the U.S. surgeon general says Americans should be as prepared to handle an opioids overdose as they would be to administer CPR. Today, the surgeo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Disparities Persist In School Discipline, Says Government Watchdog

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Black students and students with disabilities are disproportionately disciplined in America's public schools. That is the conclusion of a sweeping new review by an important government watchdog. And NPR's Cory Turner has more

美国国家公共电台 NPR Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica May Have Obtained Data On As Many As 87M Users

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right. To another story now, a story involving the number 87 million. Facebook says that's the number of people whose information may have been improperly shared with the political data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Th

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Stephon Clark Shooting, Questions Remain About Police Use Of Force

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Video of the death of Stephon Clark in Sacramento has rekindled anger over police shootings of unarmed people. Some are asking whether the protests and media attention of the last few years really made any difference in how p

美国国家公共电台 NPR Utah's 'Free-Range' Parenting Law Protects Parents So Kids Can Roam

KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: In 2015, two children, ages 10 and 6, were walking home alone from a park in Silver Spring, Md. They were picked up by police and held by child protective services. Their parents were charged with neglect. But they were supporter

美国国家公共电台 NPR When MLK Was Killed, He Was In Memphis Fighting For Economic Justice

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to return now to our series on pivotal events from 1968 and a violent confrontation that happened on this day. It set events in motion that led to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn. Collecti

美国国家公共电台 NPR Thanks To A Tweet, Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' Is On The Charts

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning, I'm David Greene. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, DREAMS) FLEETWOOD MAC: (Singing) Thunder only happens when it's raining. GREENE: Thunder only happens when it's raining, or apparently, when Twitter goes crazy over a meme. This

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'You Would Always Have My Back': Brothers With Autism Navigate Life Together

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Today on StoryCorps, we are going to hear from two brothers. Russell Wadsworth is 28. Remmick is 27. They both have autism. As kids, they had trouble with social interactions, and they relied on eac

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Two Sisters' Follows Norwegian Teenagers Who Left Home To Join ISIS FIghters In Syria

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: When ISIS started expanding its hold on Iraq and Syria a few years ago, tens of thousands of foreign fighters went to join the caliphate - and not only fighters. In Norway, two teenage girls decided to leave their family for Syri

美国国家公共电台 NPR Frankie Cosmos Examines Fear, Fame And Womanhood

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, BEING ALIVE) FRANKIE COSMOS: (Singing) Seven, eight, nine - rest. Being alive - I see you in everything... SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Don't be fooled by the upbeat energy in the music of Frankie Cosmos. Those drums and guitars are paired

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'World Make Way': New Poems Paint Classic Pictures

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Pictures can be poems and vice versa, feelings captured in a phrase, a stroke or an image. Leonardo da Vinci said, painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Lee Bennett H

美国国家公共电台 NPR Glenda Jackson Stands Tall, On And Off Stage

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A generation after it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women makes its Broadway debut. Three women of different generations - one in her 90s, one in her 50s, one in her 20s - are brought together around a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Jon Peede, Trump's Nominee To Lead NEH, Makes His Case On Why Agency Should Exist

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump has chosen a leader for an agency that he tried to eliminate. The White House proposed cutting funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NEH. Instead, Congress increased NEH funding in the spending

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Hey Mom,' Louie Anderson Has A Laugh With His Leading Lady

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Comedian Louie Anderson would like to introduce you to his mom. LOUIE ANDERSON: My mom, Ora Zella Anderson - I like to always say her name. GREENE: That's beautiful. ANDERSON: Yeah, it's a great name - isn't it? She was very lovel

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Atlanta Seeks To Restore Services, Ransomware Attacks Are On The Rise

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The city of Atlanta is under siege. Many of its online systems were crippled by hackers who were trying to extort tens of thousands of dollars from the city. Cybersecurity experts are warning that the threat to public services may

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Serial' Subject Adnan Syed Deserves A New Trial, Appeals Court Rules

NOEL KING, HOST: OK. If you listen to the hit podcast Serial, you know the name Adnan Syed. The podcast was about his murder conviction in 2000. But an appeals court in Maryland has backed a decision that vacated his conviction, and Syed might be get

美国国家公共电台 NPR K-Pop Stars Red Velvet Set To Perform In Pyongyang This Weekend

DAVID GREENE, HOST: K-pop is popular in much of the world, and it is about to extend its reach into North Korea. One of the genre's hottest acts is performing there this weekend. As NPR's Elise Hu reports, the music may be lighthearted, but the purpo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Chinese Dissident Finds Struggles, Independence In America After Immigrating

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Flushing, the neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., is home to the largest population of Chinese immigrants in any city outside Asia. One of those immigrants is Zhuang Liehong. He arrived in 2014 from a small village in southwestern China

美国国家公共电台 NPR 3 Photographers Who Captured The Undersides Of Life

NOEL KING, HOST: Photographs taken over the course of 50 years are on view in Los Angeles. Three different photographers captured stunning and shocking and provocative images. And then a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art found connections amo