美国国家公共电台 NPR New York's Met Museum Director Resigns Amid Financial Troubles

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City seemed to be starting this year strong. Tripadvisor called it the number one art museum in the world. Attendance has reached record highs. That happened under the direction of Thoma

美国国家公共电台 NPR Civilians Flee As Iraqi Army Battles Remaining ISIS Fighters In Mosul

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next, we report on the lives of people in a war zone, the city of Mosul, once captured by ISIS, now under attack by Iraqi security forces backed by the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of people still live in that city. And NPR's Alice

美国国家公共电台 NPR Embryo Experiments Reveal Earliest Human Development, But Stir Ethical Debate

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Scientists doing embryo research are facing some sensitive questions over a new generation of scientific experiments, questions like how long should scientists be allowed to keep human embryos alive in their labs to study them? A

美国国家公共电台 NPR Amid Trump Attacks And Snubs, Zucker's CNN Reclaims Newsy Mission

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump likes to attack the mainstream media whenever he sees an opportunity. And his favorite punching bag is CNN. The network was recently shut out of a White House press briefing, and is often labeled by the president

美国国家公共电台 NPR Puerto Ricans Reflect On A Century Of (Limited) Citizenship

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Puerto Rico today is marking an important anniversary. It's been a century since President Woodrow Wilson signed a law granting citizenship to people born on the island, but it's a limited form of citizenship. It puts Puerto Rico

美国国家公共电台 NPR America's 'Complacent Class': How Self-Segregation Is Leading To Stagnation

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: As Americans, we are bound by a collective identity. We see ourselves as independent change makers. We invent things. And we can reinvent ourselves. But that innovation, that desire to keep changing has gone away. That's the cent

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tiny Fossils Could Be Oldest Evidence Of Life On Earth

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have news this morning about the origin of life. The news is about just how hard it is to find that news. NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell reports. RAE ELLEN BICHELL, BYLINE: Things get hairy when you go looking for the earliest forms

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Soaring Stock Market And Your Nest Egg

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The stock market has been booming lately. After the Dow crossed 20,000 for the first time in January, it kept surging. It's been above 21,000 this week. NPR's Chris Arnold looks at what's going on and what it means for your retirem

美国国家公共电台 NPR Big Changes And Major Dilemmas Loom In Next Phase Of ISIS War In Syria

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: U.S. forces are playing a bigger and more direct role in the fighting in Syria. This week they have increased air strikes around the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. American special operations troops have rappelled out of helicopters a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Lawyer Sues Trump, Saying He'd Rather Not

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Since President Trump took office, he's been named as a defendant in more than a hundred lawsuits. Most of them involve immigration or civil rights issues. There is one that stands apart. Here's NPR's Peter Overby. PETER OVERBY,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Muslim Women In India Ask Top Court To Ban Instant Divorce

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's banned in many Muslim countries, but instant divorce persists among India's Muslims. There, men have the power to end a marriage just by uttering a single word which means divorce. Now India's supreme court is heari

美国国家公共电台 NPR Forget F. Scott: In 'Z,' Christina Ricci Tells Zelda Fitzgerald's Story

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Christina Ricci's career in movies began early - really early. She was only 10 when she played the adorably malevolent Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family. She went on to play fascinating, often dark and damaged women.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trendy Hospital Clothing To Make Cancer Patients Dress 'Well' Even When Unwell

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Spending long stretches of time in the hospital can be emotionally draining. There's the loss of basic comforts, the sterile environment, fluorescent lights and indignities, like those open-backed disposable gowns. To tr

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tiny Desk Contestant Diana Gameros: 'How Can I Dissolve Borders?'

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We've been talking to some of the musicians who made an impression on the judges of NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest. This week... DIANA GAMEROS: My name is Diana Gameros. I live in the Bay Area. I am originally from Ciudad

美国国家公共电台 NPR March Madness Vasectomies Encourage Guys To Take One For The Team

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: March Madness, a college basketball tournament, is primetime for marketing to men - trucks, beer, pizza and vasectomies. From KQED in San Francisco, April Dembosky has the story. APRIL DEMBOSKY, BYLINE: About eight years ago, a u

美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet Jenni Konner, The Off-Screen 'Grown-Up' Who Helped Make 'Girls'

(SOUNDBITE OF VALERIE JUNE SONG, JUST IN TIME) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The passage of time weaves through Valerie June's new album, The Order Of Time. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, JUST IN TIME) VALERIE JUNE: (Singing) Take my breath away and you put me down, teach

美国国家公共电台 NPR When Valerie June Writes Music, It Begins With A Voice In Her Head

(SOUNDBITE OF VALERIE JUNE SONG, JUST IN TIME) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The passage of time weaves through Valerie June's new album, The Order Of Time. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, JUST IN TIME) VALERIE JUNE: (Singing) Take my breath away and you put me down, teach

美国国家公共电台 NPR A High School's Lesson For Helping English Language Learners Get To College

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In the United States, about 1 in every 10 students is an English-language learner, and many schools struggle to get these students comfortable with their new language. Getting them ahead and to college is another hurdle. One school

美国国家公共电台 NPR Cancer Is Partly Caused By Bad Luck, Study Finds

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: There are a lot of reasons why people get cancer. Sometimes it's exposure to something toxic like smoke. Sometimes it's just bad genes. New research finds most of the genetic mutations that lead to cancer crop up naturally, and t

美国国家公共电台 NPR GSA Says Trump D.C. Hotel Lease Is Valid, Despite Ban On Elected Officials

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump may have suffered a setback this week with health care reform. But he did score a victory when it comes to his five-star hotel here in Washington, D.C. There had been a controversy over a particular clause in the