美国国家公共电台 NPR Red Cross Endorsed Top Official Despite Sexual Misconduct Claims, ProPublica Reports

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have news this morning about the American Red Cross. The charity organization acknowledges it forced out a senior executive amid allegations of sexual harassment and worse in 2012. The dismissed executive was then hired by Sav

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Don't Think A Robot Could Do This': Warehouse Workers Aren't Worried For Their Jobs

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This week, we have been exploring the realities of modern work. A new NPR/Marist poll found a lot of confidence in the future among American workers. A vast majority said they actually don't feel that threatened by the economic fo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Democrats Didn't Cave On Deal To Reopen Government, Sen. Jones Says

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Alabama Senator Doug Jones is in our studios. He's the Democrats who just won a special election in a deep red state. He had hardly arrived here in Washington when disputes over spending and immigration led to a brief government

美国国家公共电台 NPR Remembering North Korea's Audacious Capture of the USS Pueblo

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: This is a story about a standoff between the United States and North Korea. We are not talking about the current tensions over nuclear weapons. This standoff occurred 50 years ago today when North Korean forces attacked the s

美国国家公共电台 NPR Prolific Science Fiction And Fantasy Author Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: One of the towering figures in science fiction has died, although she never really liked being called a sci-fi writer. Ursula K. Le Guin was best known for the Earthsea fantasy books and for her influential gender-bending spa

美国国家公共电台 NPR 25 Years After The Tanks, Tear Gas And Flames, 'Waco' Returns To TV

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Twenty-five years ago, it seemed all eyes were fixed on Waco. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT) WALTER RODGERS: The federal agents came under heavy and sustained fire as they approached a ranch owned by Texas religious

美国国家公共电台 NPR Breaking Down The 2018 Oscar Nominations

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Academy Award nominations were announced today. And if you're looking for an early front-runner, you could do worse than Guillermo del Toro's romantic science fiction fantasy The Shape Of Water. It led the way with 13 nominat

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is There A Ticking Time Bomb Under The Arctic?

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Come with us on a journey inside the Earth. Well, inside a special layer in the Earth. A quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered with what's called permafrost, and for the first time in centuries, the permafrost is beginning

美国国家公共电台 NPR Descending On A Montana Town, Neo-Nazi Trolls Test Where Free Speech Ends

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We're going to hear now what it's like to be trolled by white supremacists and also how hard it is for victims to do anything about it. NPR's Kirk Siegler takes us to Whitefish, Mont. That is where neo-Nazis have aimed what they c

美国国家公共电台 NPR When Dating Felt Like A Job, One Woman Hired A Matchmaker

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we have an update now on a series we have been doing all this month. It is about online dating. And Rachel, I know that's something you know a thing or two about. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Little bit - it's true. I met my husband o

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why TSA Officers Are Rooting For 'Get Out'

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow. There's a good chance the movie Get Out will be the first horror film to be nominated for best picture in nearly 30 years. The Silence Of The Lambs won back in 1992. As NPR's Neda

美国国家公共电台 NPR These Movies Once Had Oscar Buzz But Lost It

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: As we just heard, Get Out is getting lots of attention as a possible Oscar contender this year. The nominations come out tomorrow morning. And missing from the list will be films that at one point were considered Oscar contenders

美国国家公共电台 NPR Part Of Oregon's Funding Plan For Medicaid Goes Before Voters

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When the Affordable Care Act became law, the state of Oregon embraced it. As a result, some 95 percent of Oregonians now have health insurance, one of the highest rates in the nation. That's due in part to Medicaid expansion. Tod

美国国家公共电台 NPR Spotify's Unusual IPO Model Will Test The Company's Strength

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Spotify, the music streaming service, is popular and also unprofitable. And now Spotify is planning a very unconventional initial public offering. Embracing its status as an industry disruptor, Spotify's breaking with convention a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Do So Many Rock Stars Die At 27? Argentine Film Explores One (Insane) Theory

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: If you've seen most of the Oscar nominees and you can't find anything else interesting at your local movie theater, you're not alone. Critic Bob Mondello says Hollywood has always used January as a dumping ground. And today he argu

美国国家公共电台 NPR Activists: Gang Database Disproportionately Targets Young Men Of Color

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Police departments across the U.S. are using electronic databases to store intelligence on gang activity. These databases have been heralded by police as a crime fighting tool. But some activists in Chicago claim they do more harm

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps

Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A diptheria outbreak is worsening in Bangladesh in what's rapidly become the largest refugee camp in the world. The camp is home to some of the hundreds of thousands of Ro

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Judge Seems Sympathetic To Anti-Corruption Case Against President Trump

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Critics of President Trump's business activity are trying again to stop it. The president continues to own his global business long after taking office. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: His critics say that creates massive conflicts of inter

美国国家公共电台 NPR What It Takes To Get Guns Out Of The Wrong Hands

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: After a mass shooting in this country, there are all kinds of questions about how the shooter was able to get a gun. Courts have long prohibited certain people from owning guns, like felons and people with domestic violence convi

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Father, A Husband, An Immigrant: Detained And Facing Deportation

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the year that President Trump has been in office, immigration has defined his political platform from the first day of his campaign to this week's government shutdown. And the numbers show that he has made some dramatic ch