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DAVID GREENE, HOST: So here's a question - what do you do when a medical device fails? And when it fails, who pays for it - the manufacturer, the hospital? Or are you stuck with the bill? Well, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal from our partner Kaiser Health N

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ICE Detained The Wrong Peter Brown MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Every year, dozens of U.S. citizens are detained because they're thought to be immigrants in the country illegally. In the Florida Keys, one such U.S. citizen filed a lawsuit after being det

美国国家公共电台 NPR Several Thousand Migrant Children In U.S. Custody Could Be Released Before Christmas

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Trump administration has come under fire for holding a record 15,000 migrant children in shelters across the country and for long delays in releasing those children to relatives. Today NPR has learned that the Department of Hea

美国国家公共电台 NPR An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners. Regulators Could Have Stopped It

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美国国家公共电台 NPR For One City Manager, Climate Becomes A Matter Of Conscience

DAVID GREENE, HOST: City planners can play a role in the effort to slow down climate change. How? Well, for one thing, they can create neighborhoods and transit systems that let people live without cars. For one city manager here in California, thoug

美国国家公共电台 NPR Open Scientific Collaboration May Be Helping North Korea Cheat Nuclear Sanctions

NOEL KING, HOST: North Korea is subject to some of the strictest sanctions on the planet. The Trump administration is depending on that pressure to force North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, but new research shows the North is getting around s

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Jennifer Lopez Fought For Her 'Second Act'

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Later this month, Jennifer Lopez is out with a new movie, the latest entry in her long career. Altogether, J.Lo has been in more than 30 films. She has had top 10 singles. She's been on hit TV shows. She's even launched a top

美国国家公共电台 NPR Aquaman, From Super Friend To Surfer Dude: The Bro-Ification Of A Hero

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Musical 'East Of The River' Examines A Gentrifying Anacostia

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A musical open for one night only in Washington, D.C., that asks, what threatens a great inner city American neighborhood - crime and poverty or organic produce and free-range poultry? (SOUNDBITE OF PLAY, EAST OF THE RIVER) UNIDENT

美国国家公共电台 NPR Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Coffee may be more than just a daily pick-me-up. A new study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine adds to the evidence that coffee drinkers tend to live a little longer. And it doesn't seem to matter if you drink regular or de

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Quiet Rage Of Mazie Hirono

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Senate plans a different sort of summer. Instead of going home this August, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell canceled the recess, says he wants to approve more of President Trump's judicial nominees, who face Democratic

美国国家公共电台 NPR Only 6 People In The World Know The Recipe For Portugal's Famous Tarts

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Dakota Winters isn't a novel set on frozen prairies but in the rarified precincts of maybe the most famous apartment house in New York, the Dakota on the Upper West Side, the place in which luminaries lived and, perhaps the mos

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, we're going to talk about a new film that brings the searing social commentary of James Baldwin to the screen. It's called If Beale Street Could Talk, and it's based on Baldwin's 1974 novel of the same name. It

美国国家公共电台 NPR Alaska Fishermen Hauling A Bigger Catch With Gear They Get To Use For The First Time

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Alaska's halibut and black cod fishermen are in a food fight with killer whales. But some fishermen are now using a new piece of gear that prevents the whales from stealing their catch. From member station KBBI in Homer, Al

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: I do not doubt that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did all they could to try to save the life of Jakelin Caal Maquin, a 7-year-old girl from Guatemala who died in their custody. The little girl and her father were among

美国国家公共电台 NPR Lin-Manuel Miranda On 'Mary Poppins Returns' And Writing His Way Onstage

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Boy Grows Up Fast On The Streets Of Beirut In The Dickensian 'Capernaum'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A little boy takes his parents to court in the new film Capernaum. In Lebanon, that title means chaos, and critic Bob Mondello says that's an accurate description of the world the boy lives in. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Zain is skinny,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Defeated In Court, Education Dept. To Cancel $150 Million Of Student Loan Debt

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Today the U.S. Department of Education is emailing about 15,000 people telling them their student loans are forgiven. And all the loans amount to $150 million. The reason for the forgiveness is in part due to a judge's order. NPR's