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SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Lillian Barnes and Harold Holland got married in 1955. They had five kids together, but after a dozen years, they divorced. Both Barnes and Holland remarried and spent decades apart. After both their spouses passed away in 2015, t

美国国家公共电台 NPR When Robots Milk Cows, Farm Families Taste Freedom

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: On a growing number of dairy farms, people don't decide when the cows need to be milked. The cows do. That's because farmers have called in robots to do the milking - day or night. And for some families - the ones that run small d

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Bucket Brigade' Volunteers Still Digging California Homes Out After Mudslides

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In Southern California, many homeowners are still digging out of the mud more than two months after a deadly 30-square-mile debris flow slammed into their homes. But as Stephanie O'Neill reports from Montecito, each weekend, hundr

美国国家公共电台 NPR Barry Levinson's 'Paterno' Examines A Coach's Passion, And His Complicity

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Joe Paterno's fall from grace was swift, sudden and completely unexpected. In November 2011, the Penn State coach set the record for the most wins in the history of Division 1 college football. Then less than two weeks later, it a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Conservative California Cities Revolt Against State's Anti-Trump Policies

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This week, the city of Escondido north of San Diego became the latest in Southern California to pass a resolution condemning California's sanctuary law. That law aims to protect some immigrants in the country illegally by limitin

美国国家公共电台 NPR Meg Wolitzer's 'Female Persuasion' Honors The Women Who Helped Her On Her Way

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The very first page of Meg Wolitzer's new book describes a chance meeting between two women. One is very young, 18, a freshman on a college campus where the other, who's in her 60s, a famous feminist, has come to give a talk.

美国国家公共电台 NPR What We Mean When We Talk About 'Suburban Women Voters'

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In any political season, you'll hear some reference to suburban women. In the past, they've been called soccer moms and security moms, among other things. And it's all code for a similar voting bloc. This year, with many key House

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Border Crossings Tick Up, Migrants Bring Children, Take More Dangerous Routes

As Border Crossings Tick Up, Migrants Bring Children, Take More Dangerous Routes AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The number of immigrants illegally crossing the southern border plummeted when Donald Trump took office, but the number is again on the rise. In res

美国国家公共电台 NPR Former National Guard Chief On What A 2006 Border Deployment Tells Us Today

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump has started filling in the details about his plan to send the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump says he would like to see 2,000 to 4,000 Guard troops sent to back up the U.S. Border Patrol. Now,

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Concerned' Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl

DAVID GREENE, HOST: White evangelicals helped fuel Donald Trump's run to the White House, but now there are increasing concerns among some evangelical leaders about sex scandal allegations swirling around the president. They are worried that they cou

美国国家公共电台 NPR Parkland Students Bring Campaign To Town Halls

DAVID GREENE, HOST: As part of their campaign against gun violence, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have been pushing members of Congress to hold town halls. Last night, some of the Parkland students brought their Never Again movem

美国国家公共电台 NPR Immigration Judge Says Quota Will Cripple Already Overburdened System

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Immigration courts are so overwhelmed that their backlog is approaching 700,000 unresolved cases. Unlike other courts, immigration judges report to the attorney general, and Jeff Sessions wants to impose quotas on them to tackle

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pregnant And Detained

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Immigration authorities have detained more than 500 pregnant women since December. That's when the Trump administration ended a practice of releasing most pregnant women while their immigration cases are pending. The move, made p

美国国家公共电台 NPR On Broadway, They Wear Pink: 'Mean Girls' Is Now A Musical

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Little pop quiz here. What movie comes to mind if I say, is butter a carb or she doesn't even go here? Or there's this classic. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, MEAN GIRLS) LACEY CHABERT: (As Gretchen Wieners) That is so fetch. RACHEL MCADAMS:

美国国家公共电台 NPR College Waitlists Often Waste Would-Be Students' Time

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's April, which means the college-bound students of the class of 2022 are hearing yes or no from the schools they've applied to. Increasingly, though, they're getting a maybe. That's because more and more colleges are putting s

美国国家公共电台 NPR Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg On Data Privacy Fail: 'We Were Way Too Idealistic'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Sheryl Sandberg, one of the top executives of Facebook, says she had to come to grips with the reality - a building full of social media users in Moscow linked to the Russian government spread election disinformation in the Unite

美国国家公共电台 NPR South Korea's Ex-President Sentenced To 24 Years For Corruption

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: South Korea's former president may be spending the rest of her life in jail. A Seoul court handed down a 24-year sentence to Park Geun-hye on more than a dozen abuse of power and bribery charges. That happened just hours ago. Thi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hog Farmers Worry They'll Be Further Squeezed By China's Pork Tariffs

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, we still don't know if the tariff threats being lobbed back and forth by the U.S. and China will become a full-blown trade war, but farmers in the Midwest are already feeling effects from these early skirmishes. Earlier

美国国家公共电台 NPR Former USA Taekwondo Coach Banned From The Sport For Sexual Misconduct

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today, the U.S. Center for SafeSport banned a former Olympic taekwondo coach from the sport. The organization found Jean Lopez guilty of sexual misconduct against athletes. In some cases, those athletes were minors. Reporter Alex

美国国家公共电台 NPR Surgeon General Urges More Americans To Carry Opioid Antidote

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The opioid crisis continues to ravage many communities in the U.S., so much so that the U.S. surgeon general says Americans should be as prepared to handle an opioids overdose as they would be to administer CPR. Today, the surgeo