美国国家公共电台 NPR Dessa Separates Head From Heart, With A Little Help From Science

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The musician Dessa is kind of a science geek. She doesn't use those exact words to describe herself, but it is clear from recent projects that she is fascinated with how the brain works and how the head ends up affecting the hear

美国国家公共电台 NPR Auto Industry Healthy Enough To Withstand Next Downturn, Analysts Say

DAVID GREENE, HOST: 2017 was yet another good year for the auto industry, but this year may not be as strong. Automakers report February sales today, and analysts are predicting sales will remain flat after years of strong growth. But NPR's Sonari Gl

美国国家公共电台 NPR Kentucky Lawmakers Limit Black Lung Claims Reviews Despite Epidemic

KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: We've been covering a surge in black lung cases across Appalachia. That's the disease that destroys the lungs of coal miners like Mackie Branham. MACKIE BRANHAM: I'm in bad shape, man. I mean, I can no longer provide for my famil

美国国家公共电台 NPR 2020 Census Will Ask About Same-Sex Relationships

DAVID GREENE, HOST: So the federal government has revealed the questions for the 2020 census. And for the first time, couples living together will be asked whether they are in a same-sex or opposite-sex relationship. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports on wh

美国国家公共电台 NPR Philadephia's New DA Wants Prosecutors To Talk Cost Of Incarceration While In Court

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Every day, judges around the country decide the fate of criminal defendants by trying to strike the right balance between fairness and public safety. A new progressive district attorney in Philadelphia is asking his prosecutors to

美国国家公共电台 NPR Remembering 1968: LBJ Surprises Nation With Announcement He Won't Seek Re-Election

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson shocked the nation when he announced he would not seek a second term as president. It was a decision that would change the course of the Vietnam War, and it was a moment i

美国国家公共电台 NPR Coming Out As Transgender Strengthened This Teacher's Commitment To His Students

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. The Human Rights Campaign calls it a time to celebrate transgender people around the globe and the courage it takes to live openly and authentically. NPR has been reporting on the challenges

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Denmark's Plan To Rid Country Of 'Ghettos,' Some Immigrants Hear 'Go Home'

AILSA CHANG, HOST: It's hard to believe, but Denmark has ghettos. And yes, that is the word the government uses despite its troubling connotations. They are officially designated areas defined by things like unemployment, crime and especially large n

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind' Returns From Madness

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Barbara K. Lipska got up one morning, as usual, in the spring of 2015, dyed her hair and went jogging in her suburban Virginia neighborhood - all as usual. So why was her husband, Mirek, so alarmed to see her? BARBARA K. LIPSKA: He

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hope Hicks To Resign As White House Communications Director

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump's longest-serving aide is leaving the White House. Hope Hicks has been at Trump's side since before the start of his presidential campaign nearly three years ago. Today she's the White House communications director,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Walmart Joins Dick's Sporting Goods In Tighter Limits On Gun Sales

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the country's major sporting goods chains will no longer sell assault-style firearms or high-capacity magazines. Dick's Sporting Goods will also stop selling guns to consumers under the age of 21. The CEO of the company, E

美国国家公共电台 NPR Should Polling Places Remain Politics-Free? Justices Incredulous At Both Sides

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Every state has a law mandating these buffer zones outside polling places where there can't be any campaigning at all, and these are laws the Supreme Court has long upheld. And today, the court is tackling similar, maybe even stri

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sweet Redemption As Men's Curling Team Brings Olympic Gold Home To Duluth

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The gold medal-winning U.S. men's curling team got a hero's welcome last night in Duluth, Minn. It was sweet redemption for the U.S. team, which finished last and second-to-last in the last two Olympics. Dan Kraker of Minnesota P

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'We Were In That School': Parkland Students Prepare To Return After Shooting

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Students go back to class tomorrow at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. It will have been two weeks since 17 people were killed in a shooting there. Fifteen-year-old Gabe Glassman is a sophomore at the school,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Congress Stalled On Bills To Tighten Gun Background Check System

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The debate in Washington over what to do about mass shootings is following a familiar pattern. Democrats and Republicans both say they want to end gun violence, but they disagree on how to do that. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are ho

美国国家公共电台 NPR West Virginia Teachers To End Strike After Reaching Deal With Governor

AILSA CHANG, HOST: West Virginia teachers are ending their strike which has shut down all the state's public schools since last Thursday. Union leaders met with Governor Jim Justice, and they have settled on higher pay rates. On the line with us now

美国国家公共电台 NPR Report Updates Landmark 1968 Racism Study, Finds More Poverty And Segregation

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Fifty years ago this week, President Johnson's commission on civil disorders released the Kerner Report. This was an attempt to explain why so many of the country's cities erupted in riots. Now many observers say this report can t

美国国家公共电台 NPR What's An Inclusion Rider? Here's The Story Behind Frances McDormand's Closing Words

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In her Oscar acceptance speech last night Frances McDormand, who had just been handed the statue for best actress, asked every female nominee in the room to stand up. (SOUNDBITE OF 90TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS) FRANCES MCDORMAN

美国国家公共电台 NPR Battling Heroin With A Hearse And A Prayer

KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Here's a number that shows just how bad the opioid crisis is in Huntington, W. Va. The rate of babies born there with a drug dependency is 10 times higher than the national average. We're going to meet two people in that communit

美国国家公共电台 NPR Facebook Complaints Are A New Kind Of 911 Call In The Platform's Hometown

KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Menlo Park, Calif., was a sleepy bedroom community until Facebook came to town. One unexpected thing Facebook has brought to Menlo Park is complaints from all over the world about Facebook. As Jake Warga reports, those complaints