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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Fans of ABC's Scandal should have no trouble recognizing this voice. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, SCANDAL) JOE MORTON: (As Rowan Pope) For you, it's always summertime and the living is easy. Daddy's rich and your momma's good-looking.

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Yesterday, we spoke with screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin about his new film Molly's Game. The film tells the story of Molly Bloom, a driven young competitive skier vying for a spot at the Olympics whose athletic career end

美国国家公共电台 NPR After A Year Of Reckoning, Can Hollywood Change?

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Hollywood, where the first major awards ceremony of the season, the Golden Globes, is being held tonight. For weeks now, it's been obvious that the evening will reckon some way or another with one of the major stories of t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Alcohol A Problem? Online Tool Helps Assess Risk And Find Help

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The number of Americans who are drinking - drinking to a point that's harmful or dangerous - is on the rise. That's according to federal survey data in recent years. The increase is notable among older adults and especially notab

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Cracks Widen In Washington State, Government Prepares For A Landslide

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How An Art Museum Is Reaching A More Diverse Audience

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: American museums, their boards, their staffs, the people who visit them are far more white than the American population as a whole. It's a problem that can affect museum's bottom lines, of course. But it also seems to be in

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Report Shows Weather Disasters In 2017 Cost More Than $300 Billion

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Before it got cold this winter, it was warm - very warm. In fact, new data out today shows 2017 was the third-warmest year recorded in the lower 48 states. And it was also a record-breaking year for the cost of weather disasters.

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You can forget what you thought you knew about taxidermy. Oregon artist Christopher Marley transforms poisonous snakes, tropical fish and exotic insects into works of art. Now 400 of his creatures are on display in a major exhibiti

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Red Sky At Noon,' A Western On The Eastern Front

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'People Regret What They Said To Me,' Michael Wolff Tells NPR About Trump Book

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A storm hit Washington this week. Its name is Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump White House, a new book by journalist Michael Wolff. The reporting in the book about the first 200 days of Donald Trump's presidency has set off a seri

美国国家公共电台 NPR How 'Fire And Fury' Could Change The Politics Of The Trump Administration

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Right now, joining me for our Friday politics talk are columnist E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. Hi, both of you. Good to see you. DAVID BROOKS, BYLINE: Hel

美国国家公共电台 NPR White House Pushes Back Against Michael Wolff's 'Fire And Fury'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump is at Camp David for a weekend retreat with Republican congressional leaders and some members of his Cabinet. The goal is to plot out the GOP policy agenda for this year ahead. The White House would also love to tur

美国国家公共电台 NPR Astronaut John Young, Who Flew In Space 6 Times, Dies At 87

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We want to take a moment now to remember John Young, NASA's longest-serving astronaut. His career at NASA was filled with firsts, including being the first to fly in space six times. Young was also 1 of 12 people to walk on the m

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Tenn. Man Recently Discovered The Largest Prime Number Known To Humankind

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Meeting After A Moment Of Musical Connection, 17 Years Later

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Molly Bloom And Aaron Sorkin On The Real Story Behind 'Molly's Game'

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: You don't have to be a movie buff to know Aaron Sorkin. You know him from movies like The Social Network, Steve Jobs and Moneyball and television shows like The West Wing. Over more than two decades of screenwriting, Sorkin has m

美国国家公共电台 NPR Robert Siegel Superfans Say Farewell To 'All Things Considered' Host

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美国国家公共电台 NPR GOP Tax Law Sparks Confusion And Outcry In Blue States As N.Y. Threatens Lawsuit

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Just before the new year, many people in high-tax states scrambled to prepay their state and local taxes. The idea was to pay what they owe for the upcoming year ahead of the new tax law that limits the amount that they could ded