美国国家公共电台 NPR Disparities Persist In School Discipline, Says Government Watchdog

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Black students and students with disabilities are disproportionately disciplined in America's public schools. That is the conclusion of a sweeping new review by an important government watchdog. And NPR's Cory Turner has more

美国国家公共电台 NPR Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica May Have Obtained Data On As Many As 87M Users

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right. To another story now, a story involving the number 87 million. Facebook says that's the number of people whose information may have been improperly shared with the political data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Th

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Stephon Clark Shooting, Questions Remain About Police Use Of Force

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Video of the death of Stephon Clark in Sacramento has rekindled anger over police shootings of unarmed people. Some are asking whether the protests and media attention of the last few years really made any difference in how p

美国国家公共电台 NPR Utah's 'Free-Range' Parenting Law Protects Parents So Kids Can Roam

KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: In 2015, two children, ages 10 and 6, were walking home alone from a park in Silver Spring, Md. They were picked up by police and held by child protective services. Their parents were charged with neglect. But they were supporter

美国国家公共电台 NPR When MLK Was Killed, He Was In Memphis Fighting For Economic Justice

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to return now to our series on pivotal events from 1968 and a violent confrontation that happened on this day. It set events in motion that led to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn. Collecti

美国国家公共电台 NPR Thanks To A Tweet, Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' Is On The Charts

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning, I'm David Greene. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, DREAMS) FLEETWOOD MAC: (Singing) Thunder only happens when it's raining. GREENE: Thunder only happens when it's raining, or apparently, when Twitter goes crazy over a meme. This

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'You Would Always Have My Back': Brothers With Autism Navigate Life Together

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Today on StoryCorps, we are going to hear from two brothers. Russell Wadsworth is 28. Remmick is 27. They both have autism. As kids, they had trouble with social interactions, and they relied on eac

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Two Sisters' Follows Norwegian Teenagers Who Left Home To Join ISIS FIghters In Syria

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: When ISIS started expanding its hold on Iraq and Syria a few years ago, tens of thousands of foreign fighters went to join the caliphate - and not only fighters. In Norway, two teenage girls decided to leave their family for Syri

美国国家公共电台 NPR Despite So Much Winning, The Right Feels Like It's Losing

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The right holds many of the nation's levers of political power. Republicans control the House of Representatives, the Senate, the White House and a majority of the country's governors' mansions. Conservatives dominate the Supreme C

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pentagon Acknowledges Mistakes As It Briefs Families Of Troops Killed In Niger

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In early October of last year, U.S. troops were ambushed by Islamist extremists while on patrol in Niger. Four Americans and four Nigerian soldiers were killed in the fighting. The Pentagon hasn't said much about what happened that

美国国家公共电台 NPR Kim, Moon Pledge Denuclearization Of Peninsula And End To Korean War

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The leaders of the rival Koreas have agreed to work towards formally ending the Korean War and to seek a nuclear-free peninsula. That agreement came out of a day-long and historic summit between North Korea's Kim Jong Un and South

美国国家公共电台 NPR Official Says Investigation Doesn't Support Allegations Against White House Doctor

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The White House says it has evidence to refute the most serious allegations that have been leveled against Dr. Ronny Jackson. Dr. Jackson is Donald Trump's personal physician in the White House. The president had nominated him to l

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Used To Be A Dreamer': To Change The World, Souad Massi Starts With Herself

SOUAD MASSI: (Singing in Arabic). ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For the past 20 years, Souad Massi has written provocative songs challenging authority and weaving stories. She sings in Arabic, French and Berber, the languages of her native Algeria. In her 20s,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Wikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The 'Fake News' Era

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: How do you tell what's real from what's not on the Internet, especially when paid foreign agents and political operatives are working hard to create believable stories that are complete fiction? This is something Wikipedia co-found

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Push From Activists, Chicago's South Side Gets An Adult Trauma Center

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Next week, the south side of Chicago gets something it hasn't had in decades - a high-level adult trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospital. Trauma centers treat people with the most acute wounds, including gunshot injuri

美国国家公共电台 NPR Poetry Month: What Makes A Haiku A Haiku?

Poetry Month: What Makes A Haiku A Haiku? SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: It's April 1, a day of celebrations - April Fools' Day, Easter Sunday and the first day of Poetry Month. Twitter is now officially open to your submissions to hashtag #nprpoetry. Every y

美国国家公共电台 NPR A 'Ragged School' Gives U.K. Children A Taste Of Dickensian Destitution

A 'Ragged School' Gives U.K. Children A Taste Of Dickensian Destitution SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Charles Dickens made the East End of London infamous. In his time, it was rife with poverty and crime. Today, row houses in the gentrified area cost more th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Failure To Save A Child In Wartime Inspires Wound-Healing Tech

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And experience in a country with enormous numbers of war wounds has led to techniques that heal them more quickly. A Harvard team developed the new technologies. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports the work was inspired by one scientist's

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Florida, Cities Challenge State On Gun Regulation Laws

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A school shooting in Florida prompted a nationwide drive for more gun laws, but cities in Florida are not likely to join in. The state of Florida did impose a waiting period for gun purchases and raised the age for gun sales to 2

美国国家公共电台 NPR You May Live Longer By Severely Restricting Calories, Scientists Say

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you eat less food, can you live longer? Scientists have debated this question for years. Some studies in fish, rats and monkeys suggests that doing so actually can help you live longer. But there have been very few studies in