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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Trump administration has been openly hostile to climate science, pulling out of the Paris Agreement to cut greenhouse gases, cutting funding for climate research, scrubbing the term climate change from federal websites. Well,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Special Counsel Says Paul Manafort 'Breached' Plea Deal, Lied to FBI

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is already in jail, may be in prison longer than planned. Last September, Manafort pled guilty to two reduced federal charges and agreed to cooperate with the special c

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: And those are sounds from the city of Seoul this morning, celebration in the streets following a historic ruling in South Korea that has ousted that nation's president from office. The highest court in the country upheld a vote by

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美国国家公共电台 NPR As North Korea Tensions Rise, U.S. Army Trains Soldiers To Fight In Tunnels

DAVID GREENE, HOST: North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, and President Trump have been trading threats and personal insults. It's even gotten to who has the bigger nuclear button. Now, the U.S. secretaries of state and defense insist that despite that,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ohio Gov. John Kasich On America's Division And Rising Above 'Self-Absorption'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Ohio's governor, John Kasich, is back on the national stage this week. He's out with a new memoir about his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The book is called Two Paths: America Divided Or United. I spoke with

美国国家公共电台 NPR Donald Trump's Attorney And Fixer Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty To 8 Federal Counts

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This morning we are looking at the cases of two Trump associates, both declared guilty of multiple crimes in two different courtrooms in two different states at around the same time yesterday afternoon. One was Trump's former camp

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ayanna Pressley's Upset Victory Shows Power Of Women Of Color In Democratic Politics

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Congressman Michael Capuano, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has been in office for nearly two decades. He's pretty popular at home, and yet he could not win his primary race yesterday. Ayanna Pressley beat him. It was yet another

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