美国国家公共电台 NPR Exiting Ethics Chief Walter Shaub Calls Trump White House 'A Disappointment'

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This week, the director of the Office of Government Ethics resigned. Walter Shaub Jr., who has tangled with the Trump administration over potential conflicts of interest, said, there isn't more I could accomplish. And he took a j

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'GLOW' Co-Creators Explain Why Wrestling Is Like Greek Theater

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It's time for some '80s. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, GLOW) BETTY GILPIN: (As Liberty Belle) I'd like to call on the power of my three favorite Americans - Ronald Reagan, Larry Bird and Jesus Christ himself. (CHEERING) MCEVERS: This is

美国国家公共电台 NPR Instagrandma Baddiewinkle Says She's 'Always Been A Rebel'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It is a rare and precious moment to talk to a celebrity who hits as many demographic heights as Baddiewinkle. Ms. Winkle is an Instagram influencer with more than 3 million followers. She made a bedazzled nude body suit look positi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Grief Hangs Around At Home In 'A Ghost Story'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The low-budget movie A Ghost Story stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. The film, shot for a hundred thousand dollars, was made quickly and in secret just days after Director David Lowery finished the Disney film Pete's Dragon. C

美国国家公共电台 NPR Mexico And U.S. Team Up To Create Low-Cost Wheelchairs

We hear a lot about political tension between the United States and Mexico, including, of course, controversial deportations and that still unfunded, unbuilt proposed border wall. But examples of binational amity still exist. Reporter Monica Ortiz Ur

美国国家公共电台 NPR Recruiters Use 'Geofencing' To Target Potential Hires Where They Live And Work

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: We're going to hear about something called geofencing. You might know about it. But if you don't, it's wireless technology that tracks mobile devices entering and exiting a specific area. Up to this point, it's mostly been used b

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Transgender Child Faces Growing Up

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We first heard from a Brooklyn youngster named Q Daily a couple of years ago when he was just finishing third grade. That was his first full school year identifying as a boy. Q is transgender. At the time, he described his feeling

美国国家公共电台 NPR Unhappy Anniversary, South Sudan

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Six years ago this week, South Sudan became an independent state. The moment marked the end of decades of fighting between rebels in the predominantly Christian south and their northern Arab rivals in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum

美国国家公共电台 NPR Opioid Prescriptions Falling But Remain Too High, CDC Says

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Doctors have gotten more cautious about prescribing opioids for pain. But too many patients are still getting the addictive drugs so says a new report for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NPR health correspondent R

美国国家公共电台 NPR Calm In Seoul As The North Korea Question Grows More Urgent

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: While the U.S. and China to sort out how to respond to North Korea's test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, little has changed in South Korea. NPR's Elise Hu reports from Seoul that life is more or less going on as normal

美国国家公共电台 NPR Illinois Lawmakers Override Governor, Pass Budget For 1st Time In 2 Years

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: For the first time in two years, the state of Illinois has a budget. Late today, the Illinois House of Representatives overrode the governor's veto of the spending plan that enacts $5 billion in tax increases. We're going to talk

美国国家公共电台 NPR To Prepare For Mars Settlement, Simulated Missions Explore Utah's Desert

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: NASA hopes to send people to Mars sometime in the 2030s. President Trump would like to see that happen even sooner. And at a remote site in the Utah desert, would-be astronauts are already simulating what it would be like to live

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Spider-Man: Homecoming,' Tom Holland's Peter Parker Finally Comes Home

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: There have been five Spider-Man movies already starring two different Spider-Men, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. They've been hugely successful - so no surprise a sixth opens tonight. Critic Bob Mondello says true to the titl

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ethics Office Director Walter Shaub Resigns, Saying Rules Need To Be Tougher

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The head of the federal agency that guides presidents and top officials on ethics rules is resigning. Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub Jr. began dueling with Donald Trump even before Trump became president. They

美国国家公共电台 NPR Warming Climate Is Quieting Kauai's Colorful Forest Birds

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, the native forest birds are in danger. The island has lost more than half of those native species, and it could be an early warning for the other Hawaiian Islands. Gloria Hillard reports. GLORIA

美国国家公共电台 NPR Despite Climate Change Setbacks, Al Gore 'Comes Down On The Side Of Hope'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A new movie shows Al Gore in Greenland. He's visiting a station where scientists measure the ice. And he's watching as much of the ice in Greenland turns into rivers of water flowing away. The movie is called An Inconvenient Sequ

影视歌曲：Jesse McCartney-Because You Live

Staring out at the rain with a heavy heart It's the end of the world in my mind Then your voice pulls me back like a wake up call I've been looking for the answer Somewhere I couldn't see that it was right there But now I know what I didn't know Beca

美国国家公共电台 NPR To Solve Gruesome Desert Mysteries, Scientists Become Body Collectors

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: People are dumping dead bodies in the high desert of western Colorado. But they're scientists not criminal masterminds. NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell takes us to a place for forensic research in Grand Junction, Colo. And a caution over b

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Was Full Of Rage': Author Rebecca Stott On Growing Up In A Christian Cult

A MARTINEZ, HOST: Growing up in an ultra-religious household can be hard to navigate. I was raised in a strict Pentecostal family, and I remember not being able to go trick-or-treating with my friends on Halloween or not having any sign of Santa Clau

美国国家公共电台 NPR Even More Great Albums By Women Outside Of The Top 150

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, CALIFORNIA) JONI MITCHELL: (Singing) Sitting in a park in Paris, France, reading the news. And it sure looks bad. They won't give peace a chance. NOEL KING, HOST: That is the unmistakable voice of Joni Mitchell. That song, Califor