美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Employees Return To Work, But Fears Of Another Shutdown Loom

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Fifty years ago today, a damaged oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., caused what was then the largest oil spill in the history of the United States. The public reaction helped to shape the modern environmental moveme

美国国家公共电台 NPR What Is Love? Teachers, Share This Prompt With Your Students

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When was the last time a kid in your life said something that just got you in your gut? I bet it wasn't that long ago - a well-placed I love you in the middle of a stressful day, an unsolicited hug when you needed one most. We ar

美国国家公共电台 NPR Be Mine? Nope. SweetHeart Candies Hard To Find This Valentine's Day

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: For more than a century, those little, brightly colored, chalky candy hearts have helped people share their messages of love. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're talking about Sweethearts. This is a candy made by Necco, the New England co

美国国家公共电台 NPR Got Anger? Try Naming It To Tame It

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Suppose you have a stressful day. You get home. You walk in the door and hear this. (SOUNDBITE OF DOG BARKING, BABY SCREECHING) INSKEEP: As you listen to that... (SOUNDBITE OF DOG BARKING, BABY BABBLING) INSKEEP: ...Do you start

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pack Your Bags And Your Books For 6 Literary Journeys With Nancy Pearl

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The librarian Nancy Pearl is with us next. She joins us regularly to give us book recommendations, and she has sent me a stack of books here that is going to take us on a series of journeys to different parts of the world. Hi the

美国国家公共电台 NPR For One Ohio Town, Trump's Trade Policies Bring Uncertainty And Hope

For One Ohio Town, Trump's Trade Policies Bring Uncertainty And Hope STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This story takes us to the shores of Lake Erie - to Ashtabula, Ohio, a port city with access to Canada and beyond through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence S

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Census Bureau Needs To Hire Half A Million Workers For The 2020 Count

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The partial government shutdown is over, so hundreds of thousands of federal workers are heading back to work today. But all throughout the shutdown, one government agency was actually in the midst of a massive recruiting effort.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Polar Vortex Causes Midwest States Of Emergency As Cold Pushes Farther South

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: You know it's cold in Chicago when TV video shows the railroad tracks on fire. Steel rails contract in exceptional cold. So to warm them up, transit workers stretch rope soaked in kerosene along the tracks, and they burn it. The

美国国家公共电台 NPR Chris Christie: There Is No One With More Influence Over Trump Than Jared Kushner

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to look back now to February 2016. Chris Christie, then the governor of New Jersey, had just dropped out of the race for president. It was time to make a decision. Who should he endorse? Well, that February 26, Christ

美国国家公共电台 NPR Police Say 'Empire' Actor Jussie Smollett Attacked In Possible Hate Crime

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In Chicago, the actor Jussie Smollett was assaulted in the early hours of this morning. Chicago police have confirmed that they are treating the attack as a possible hate crime. Smollett is gay and multiracial. He stars in the hit

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Administration Gets An Earful On New Campus Sexual Assault Rules

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And now this - Americans have something to say about proposed rules for investigating campus sexual assault. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos offered the change. She wants to overturn rules from the Obama administration in a way t

美国国家公共电台 NPR This New Program Aims To Train The Growing Freelance Workforce

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: New York City has started a new kind of program aimed at supporting and training and expanding freelance workforce. The Freelancers Hub is what it's called. It offers classes and shared office space, along with tax and legal advi

美国国家公共电台 NPR His Love For Books Reads Like Poetry

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today's StoryCorps is a love letter to the written word. Alagappa Rammohan has amassed thousands of books. Rammohan immigrated from India to the United States in 1962. He came to StoryCorps in Chicago with his daughter. PARU VENK

美国国家公共电台 NPR Troops To Be Deployed To Border To Build And Upgrade 160 Miles Of Fencing

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The government shutdown grinds on over funding for President Trump's border wall. But meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to construct or upgrade border fencing, some 160 miles along the Arizona and

美国国家公共电台 NPR Loss and Renewal: Moving Forward After A Door Closes

SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST: This is HIDDEN BRAIN. I'm Shankar Vedantam. The turn of the year is a time when we set the old aside and welcome the new into our lives. And so today, we bring you a tale of loss and renewal from December 2015. It appeals to m

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Case Of Paul Whelan Draws Parallels To U.S. Journalist's 1986 Arrest In Moscow

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Thirty-three years ago, NPR led its newscast with a headline that draws parallels to today. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: American journalist Nicholas Daniloff could be sentenced to death under Soviet l

美国国家公共电台 NPR CIA Chief Pushes For More Spies Abroad; Surveillance Makes That Harder

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Before she became the director of the CIA, Gina Haspel spent much of her career overseas and undercover. And she wants more CIA officers doing the same. In her one speech as head of the spy agency, she said a top priority is to..

美国国家公共电台 NPR Emergency Medical Responders Confront Racial Bias

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a recent study out of Oregon that shows that race comes into play, even when it means administering lifesaving care. Specifically, this study shows black patients are 40 percent less likely to get pain medication than whi

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Eye To I' Exhibition Celebrates Over A Century Of Self-Portraiture

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: At some point in their lives, many artists spend time painting themselves - self-portraits that express who they are at a particular moment. Washington's National Portrait Gallery is showing over 70 such works. Edward Hopper, at

美国国家公共电台 NPR For A North Korean Defector Turned Journalist, Warming Ties Are Cause For Worry

NOEL KING, HOST: The leaders of North and South Korea met three times in 2018. That was unprecedented. But during all of this diplomacy, people who have actually lived under the North Korean regime, defectors, have urged some caution. From Seoul, NPR