ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The last film by documentary giant Albert Maysles is getting a rare screening this week in New York. It's called In Transit. It was finished more than two years ago just before the award-winning director of Grey Gardens and Gimme

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Afghanistan's voters are going to have to wait a bit longer to receive further results of ballot counting from last week's presidential election. Workers count ballots at the Independent Election Commission in Kabul, Afghanistan, 27 Aug 2009 Results

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Senators Rejoin Supreme Court Battle After Recess The partisan tug-of-war over a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy will overshadow Congress when the Senate gets back to work Monday after a two-week recess. The battle simmered last week even as Capitol Hill

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By Adam Freedman Today, a back-to-school special! We take a close look (as it were) at strip searches of students. But first, your daily dose of legalese: This podcast does not create an attorney-client relationship with any listener. In other words,

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休会过后参议员再度展开大法官任命之争 Congress was idle last week, but three senators flew to Washington to meet with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee. 国会在上周处于休会期,但仍有3名参议员前往华盛顿

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By Heda Bayron Bangkok 22 May 2008 Malaysia's ruling party has been thrown into turmoil after former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad abruptly resigned from the United Malays National Organization. Political analysts say the move was aimed at weakenin

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DACA, A Student's Story: 'They Are The Types Of Immigrants You Want In Your Country' MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Recently, we heard from a young immigrant from Mexico - the country from which the vast majority of DACA recipients arrived. Some 79 percent are

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We have another story about the Obama-era government program to shield people from deportation if they came here illegally as children. It's called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or DACA. We've heard a number

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: More than 300,000 people live and work under what is known as Temporary Protected Status. This is status granted to those whose home countries face war or disaster. The Trump administration has been eliminating some of these prote

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump has signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill, but he made a point of saying he wasn't happy about it. And that signature only came after the president set up a reality television-style cliffhanger. NPR White House cor

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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

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The legal battle over the executive order means refugees and local resettlement agencies in the U.S. are facing uncertainty. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang checked in with some refugee groups in Pennsylvania and has this report. HANSI LO WA

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Elmo and Big Bird have lots of experience educating children about all kinds of things from the alphabet to autism. Well, now, Sesame Workshop wants to help millions of refugee children from Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countri

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Representatives from donor nations meeting in Egypt have pledged more than $4.4 billion in new aid to help rebuild the war-torn Gaza Strip after the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas. 在埃及参加捐助国会议的代表筹集了44亿多美元

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In our world of scientific discovery, one mystery endures. The Hoodoo Sea, the Limbo of The Lost, some seeing mysterious forces at work, others the powers of sea and storm. We dive into the deep. It appears to be a large military plane. And unleash s

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在伊朗失踪或遭囚禁的美国人 Just days after Iran and the P5+1 group of nations reached an initial accord which halts progress on Irans nuclear program, the United States called on Iran to help find a U.S. citizen who disappeared in Iran m

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By Challiss McDonough Beirut 07 December 2007 Lebanon's parliament is scheduled to meet Friday to vote on the country's next president, but virtually nobody believes the vote will actually take place. It is likely to be postponed for a seventh time,

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Two weeks after the signing of a power-sharing agreement, Zimbabwe leaders Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai have again failed to agree on the allocation of some key ministries. From Harare, Tendai Maphosa has more for VOA. On his return from the

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The speaker of Iraq's parliament has resigned, paving the way for lawmakers to authorize British and other non-U.S. foreign troops to remain in the country into 2009. 伊拉克议会议长辞职,为议员们授权英国和其它非美国的外国军队

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The partial government shutdown is triggering some anxiety around Paradise, Calif. David you know this town. You walked the streets of Paradise. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Yeah. I mean, this town - Steve, I was there two months ago, and

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