美国国家公共电台 NPR West Virginia House Votes To Impeach All 4 State Supreme Court Justices

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today the West Virginia House of Delegates holds the fate of that state's Supreme Court in its hands. Legislators are deciding whether or not to impeach all four remaining state Supreme Court justices. The allegations - lavish sp

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Guantanamo Guard And His Detainee Reunite

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Sometimes, we can connect surprisingly deeply with someone and then never see them again - a missed connection. In our ongoing series, we're now going to bring you the story of a reconnection first reported by Carol Rosenbe

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Satirical 'Severance,' A Stricken Country Works Itself To Death

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The new novel Severance is about immigration and 21st-century office work and also the apocalypse. The main character, Candace Chen, is a first-generation American whose parents came from China. When a fatal disease wipes out most

美国国家公共电台 NPR From Mills To Manufacturers, Steel Tariffs Produce Winners And Losers

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's time for quarterly earnings reports at many companies. And that gives us a chance to compare President Trump's rhetoric on trade with the reality that American manufacturers are facing. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports. JIM ZARROLI,

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Wasn't Sure If It Was True': John David Washington On The 'BlacKkKlansman' Story

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Finally, today, a new movie from director Spike Lee has a premise that sounds - well, it sounds crazy, impossible to believe. It's 1978, and a black police detective in Colorado Springs, Colo., manages to infiltrate the Ku Klux K

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Gets Mellow

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Motorcyclists from around the world travel to South Dakota this week for the 78th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. As Jim Kent reports, the rally's rowdy reputation is mostly a thing of the past. (SOUNDBITE OF MOTORCYCLE REVVING) JIM KENT

美国国家公共电台 NPR Integrating Sunday Morning Church Service — A Prayer Answered

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Most people go to church with people who look like them. In 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. described Sunday morning as the most segregated hour in Christian America. He called on churches to become more diverse - so far, not a lot of

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ralph Nader On What He Thinks Apple Should Do With Its Excess Billions

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Companies and corporations are in business to make money for themselves, their workers, their stockholders. But can they make too much? Ralph Nader thinks Apple hit that limit earlier this month when it became the first trillion-do

美国国家公共电台 NPR Yosemite Valley To Reopen After Closure Due To Fire and Smoke

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's peak tourist season in Yosemite National Park, but the most popular spot has been quiet for nearly three weeks. In Yosemite Valley, there are no climbers on its cliffs, no people on its trails. Smoke from the nearby Ferguson f

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Line That Held Us': Noir In Appalachia

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: David Joy's new novel begins with a terrible accident. Darl Moody is looking to poach a deer in the woods when he accidentally kills another man, Carol Brewer, who is poaching himself rooting around for ginseng. That shooti

美国国家公共电台 NPR Growers Are Beaming Over The Success Of Lasers To Stave Off Thieving Birds

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Forget about scarecrows. Some farmers are using laser beams to shoot thieving birds from their fields. From the berry fields of Oregon, Tom Banse of the Northwest News Network brings us this report. TOM BANSE: Blueberry and

美国国家公共电台 NPR For Some Facebook Employees, Free Food Is Coming To An End

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: There's a certain stereotype of Silicon Valley tech offices - that they provide endless snacks and meals around the clock. Well, now there's an effort underway to do away with that legendary perk. Menlo Park in California is bann

美国国家公共电台 NPR To Syria And Back: How 2 Women Escaped Their Radicalized Husbands

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Over the years, hundreds of people left the U.S. to go fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Only 14 of them came back. Two of them are women with extraordinary and similar stories. Both say their husbands forced them to

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Oakland, More Data Hasn't Meant Less Racial Disparity During Police Stops

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The police department in Oakland, Calif., has been under federal oversight now for more than 15 years, stemming from a police abuse and racial profiling scandal. In that negotiated settlement, the city agreed to sweeping reforms,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Immigration Debate Shifts To Texas Judge Who Blocked 2015 DACA Expansion

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Today in a federal court in Texas, the debate over the Trump administration's immigration policies shifts from separated families to recipients of DACA. Remember, that's the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals progr

美国国家公共电台 NPR Climate Change Threatens Midwest's Wild Rice, A Staple For Native Americans

NOEL KING, HOST: Climate change is causing more rain in many parts of the U.S., and more rain means more flooding. And that is bad news for one Great Lakes region crop - wild rice. NPR's Rebecca Hersher has the story. REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE: Norther

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Amsterdam, Even The Tourists Say There Are Too Many Tourists

NOEL KING, HOST: Amsterdam is famous for its nightlife, which appeals to adult visitors. But Amsterdam has now become the latest European city, after Barcelona, Dubrovnik and Venice, to crack down on mass tourism. Amsterdam has fewer than a million r

美国国家公共电台 NPR Western Fire Crews Get An Assist From Australia And New Zealand

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, these big wildfires keep raging in Oregon and here in California. In southern Oregon, where temperatures are forecast to break 100 every day through Thursday, the Taylor Creek Fire is the largest of several blazes. And

美国国家公共电台 NPR Germany Bulldozes Old Villages For Coal Despite Lower Emissions Goals

NOEL KING, HOST: Germany has this reputation as a pioneer of clean energy. Angela Merkel was called the climate chancellor when she decided to ditch nuclear power. But the reality in Germany is a lot dirtier. The country is the biggest miner of brown

美国国家公共电台 NPR The New Housing Crisis: Shut Out Of The Market

NOEL KING, HOST: Ten years after the housing market collapsed, a different crisis has emerged. Back then, a decade ago, lots of people were losing their homes. Today people who want to buy or in a lot of cases even just rent are being priced out of t