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Leaders of eight leading world economies are meeting today at Camp David, in the Maryland mountains to discuss the European debt crisis. Michael Froman is president Obama's deputy national security advisor on international economics. He says the lead

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: One of the very first moves by the new Republican Congress was to make it easier to transfer ownership of federal public lands in the West over to states. And the state of Wyoming has become a flashpoint in this debate. Lawmakers

美国国家公共电台 NPR Utah Representative Wants Bears Ears Gone And He Wants Trump To Do It

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Republicans want to eliminate one of the nation's newest national monuments. President Obama created the 1.3 million-acre Bears Ears National Monument in Utah just days before he left office. The land which is near the F

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Far-right pundits are seizing on this week's shooting at a congressional baseball practice as an example of what they say is a rise in the left-wing violence in the U.S. Experts who monitor domestic terrorism had been warning about

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Rural America Faces A Crisis In 'Adequate Housing'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Home prices are skyrocketing in some places that might surprise you, including remote towns in rural America. And the problems facing those places may be especially hard to solve. As part of our series on the new housing crisis, NP

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's May Day. Demonstrators will march in support of workers rights around the world today. Here in the U.S., those marches are expected to draw larger than usual crowds because of President Trump's efforts to crack down on illeg

美国国家公共电台 NPR With National Monuments Under Review, Bears Ears Is Focus Of Fierce Debate

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The new interior secretary is keeping a promise to travel to the rural West and talk to people who are concerned about large national monuments that protect federal public land. Ryan Zinke's first stop is the new Bears Ears Natio

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Houses Themselves Become Fuel For Wildfires

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: This year, California saw the most destructive wildfire season in its history. Take last month's Camp Fire in Northern California, which decimated more than 18,000 structures, many of them homes in the town of Paradise. It's

美国国家公共电台 NPR For Many Fire Evacuees, There's Still No Going Back To Paradise

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now to California, where a massive cleanup is getting underway in and around the town of Paradise, which was nearly wiped out by a deadly wildfire last fall. Disaster response officials say the country has not seen a toxic debris c