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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Violent crime is down in America's big cities. It may not seem so if you watch any CSI, NCIS, Laws Orders (ph) or Chicago P.D. crime dramas. But homicide, assaults and rapes are down a lot in big cities since the 1970s. Even Chicag

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Unless there's a last-minute agreement, the federal government is about to partially shut down. Funding for most agencies expires at midnight tonight Eastern Time. So what exactly does that mean? NPR's Brian Naylor is here to tel

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Two websites known for creative writing close at the end of the month. One is The Awl - that's A-W-L like the hand tool. A sister site is The Hairpin. Both are much admired. So what went wrong? NPR's Glen Weldon reports. GLEN WEL

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Munich,' Neville Chamberlain Gets The Best Of Hitler

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This story takes us back to 1938, the days before World War II. We say now it was before the war. But, of course, people were not sure the war was coming then. In September 1938, German leader Adolf Hitler demanded to take over p