美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet The Couple Behind A New Year's Eve 'Possum Drop' In Georgia

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) NOEL KING, HOST: It is Friday, and that means it's time for StoryCorps. So Times Square is one option for New Year's Eve - if you like crowds. There's also some action in Tallapoosa, Ga., home of the New Year's Eve possum drop. I

美国国家公共电台 NPR An Orphanage In Honduras Puts Love At The Top Of Its Priority List

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's go now to the Honduran city of Tela, where it is a big day for Naomi Rodriguez (ph). The 15-year-old is competing in a pageant at school. She's chosen two outfits for the contest. But first, she's helping to make breakfast.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Senate Votes To End U.S. Support For War In Yemen, Rebuking Trump And Saudi Arabia

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Senate is expected today to pass a resolution demanding the U.S. end its support for Saudi Arabia's ongoing war in Yemen. The bipartisan effort is being viewed as a rebuke to Saudi Arabia and the Trump administration even tho

美国国家公共电台 NPR ACA Sign-Ups Have Lagged For 2019. But What Does That Mean?

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Tomorrow is the deadline to sign up for health insurance on the federal government's HealthCare.gov marketplace. So far, people are choosing health plans at a slower pace than in previous years. NPR's Alison Kodjak reports that it

美国国家公共电台 NPR This 'Broken Ornament' Led To Christmas Magic

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Some of the best stories begin at home. That's where Tony DiTerlizzi got the idea for his latest book. The Caldicott-winning author and illustrator perhaps best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles took a big leap into the unknown

美国国家公共电台 NPR Apple Requested 'Zero' Personal Data In Deals With Facebook, CEO Tim Cook Says

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep in San Francisco. Just south of here yesterday, the CEO of Apple took the stage. (SOUNDBITE OF APPLE WORLDWIDE DEVELOPER CONFERENCE) TIM COOK: Good morning. (APPLAUSE) COOK: Good morning. INSKEEP: Tim Cook h

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Super-Hot Pepper That Sent A Man To The ER

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now the case of the hot pepper and the horrible headache. NPR's Richard Harris took a closer look at this medical curiosity. RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: A young doctor named Kulothungan Gunasekaran has a knack for finding odd eve

美国国家公共电台 NPR President Trump Pardons 'Scooter' Libby, Former Cheney Chief Of Staff

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump today took the extraordinary step of overruling his Republican predecessor George W. Bush and granting a pardon to Lewis Scooter Libby. He served as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was convicte

美国国家公共电台 NPR What Americans Told Us About Online Shopping Says A Lot About Amazon

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A new survey indicates just how much Amazon, the giant online retailer, has reshaped America, this nation of shoppers. Here's NPR's Alina Selyukh. ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE: OK. Here's a big number - 92 percent. The new NPR/Marist po

美国国家公共电台 NPR This Art Show Doesn't Have Banksy's Blessings — His Fans Don't Seem To Mind

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Miami's annual high-profile art market Art Basel kicks off today. And one of the hottest tickets this year is for a show running in conjunction with the fair. It features 80 works by the artist Banksy. The artist, however, is not h

美国国家公共电台 NPR Evangelical Writer Kisses An Old Idea Goodbye

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The author of a famed relationship book is rethinking his own advice. Joshua Harris wrote the book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye. More than 20 years ago, it became a bestselling text of the evangelical purity movement. That movement p

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Monumental Push Behind Getting That Package Delivered By Christmas

The Monumental Push Behind Getting That Package Delivered By Christmas DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is crunch time for getting packages delivered in time for Christmas. And companies like FedEx and UPS and the Postal Service and even Amazon are really feel

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Complete, Verifiable, Irreversible' A Tough Goal For North Korea Summit

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: CVID is an acronym you're about to hear a lot. The Trump administration has been using it in the run-up to next week's summit with North Korea. And those four letters have meant different things to different people, as NPR's David

美国国家公共电台 NPR Deep Seagrass Bed Could Stall Climate Change, If Climate Change Doesn't Kill It First

Deep Seagrass Bed Could Stall Climate Change, If Climate Change Doesn't Kill It First MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Staying on the subject of climate change for a few more minutes, there was another bright spot this past week amid all the dire warnings we hav

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Dark Side Of The Railroad': A Locomotive Engineer's Fraught Legacy With The Rails

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's time now for StoryCorps. Today, a story about the railroad. It comes to us from Barnie Botone in Bismarck, N.D. In 1875, his ancestor, along with dozens of other Native American leaders, was taken by tra

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pediatricians Voice Concerns About Care Following Two 'Needless' Migrant Deaths

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen traveled to the southwest border today. She went to see conditions for herself after two migrant children died this month while in the custody of Customs and Border Protect

美国国家公共电台 NPR China's Lunar Lander To Explore Moon's Far Side

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a new probe in orbit around the moon. And sometime earlier in this new year, it's expected to land on the Moon's far side, the side we never see from Earth. It is a Chinese probe. And as NPR's Joe Palca explains, although

美国国家公共电台 NPR Detroit's Big Comeback: Out Of Bankruptcy, A Rebirth

DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. The city of Detroit has reached a major milestone. Five years ago, it went bankrupt - was saddled with more than $18 billion in debt. Well, now Detroit is not only out of bankruptcy but is issuing bonds backed by its own credi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Is coconut oil a healthy food? - certainly is promoted as one. Survey a broad group of Americans and 72 percent say, yes, coconut oil is healthy. Talk with some nutritionists, and they say, no, it's not. NPR's April Fulton report

美国国家公共电台 NPR When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive

NOEL KING, HOST: All right, the holiday season is winding down. This time of year often feels like it's all about the cute and the cuddly. Take a listen to this clip from Disney's Lady And The Tramp in which the wife, Darling, gets a big-eyed puppy o