美国国家公共电台 NPR Spotify's Unusual IPO Model Will Test The Company's Strength

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Spotify, the music streaming service, is popular and also unprofitable. And now Spotify is planning a very unconventional initial public offering. Embracing its status as an industry disruptor, Spotify's breaking with convention a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Do So Many Rock Stars Die At 27? Argentine Film Explores One (Insane) Theory

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: If you've seen most of the Oscar nominees and you can't find anything else interesting at your local movie theater, you're not alone. Critic Bob Mondello says Hollywood has always used January as a dumping ground. And today he argu

美国国家公共电台 NPR Activists: Gang Database Disproportionately Targets Young Men Of Color

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Police departments across the U.S. are using electronic databases to store intelligence on gang activity. These databases have been heralded by police as a crime fighting tool. But some activists in Chicago claim they do more harm

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps

Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A diptheria outbreak is worsening in Bangladesh in what's rapidly become the largest refugee camp in the world. The camp is home to some of the hundreds of thousands of Ro

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Judge Seems Sympathetic To Anti-Corruption Case Against President Trump

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Critics of President Trump's business activity are trying again to stop it. The president continues to own his global business long after taking office. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: His critics say that creates massive conflicts of inter

美国国家公共电台 NPR What It Takes To Get Guns Out Of The Wrong Hands

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: After a mass shooting in this country, there are all kinds of questions about how the shooter was able to get a gun. Courts have long prohibited certain people from owning guns, like felons and people with domestic violence convi

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Father, A Husband, An Immigrant: Detained And Facing Deportation

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the year that President Trump has been in office, immigration has defined his political platform from the first day of his campaign to this week's government shutdown. And the numbers show that he has made some dramatic ch

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fire Rips Through South Korean Hospital, Killing Dozens Of Patients

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: News this morning out of South Korea. A fire broke out in a hospital emergency room there and killed at least three dozen people. NPR's Elise Hu has more. ELISE HU, BYLINE: So far, investigators don't know what started the flames

美国国家公共电台 NPR School Shootings Are Sad, But No Longer Surprising

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Bailey Holt and Preston Cope were murdered in their high school this week. They were both 15 years old. But has the news of students being murdered in their school lost the power to shock and sober us? Sixteen students, all between

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'It's Up To All Of Us': Parents Of Young Gymnasts Respond To Nassar Abuse Scandal

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The fallout continues over the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal. USA Gymnastics said on Friday that its entire board of directors will resign. More than 150 women have testified that Nassar, former doctor of the U.S. gymnastics team,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Honeybees Help Farmers, But They Don't Help The Environment

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We've heard a lot in recent years about the struggles of honeybees, how their numbers are down. So environmentalists have rallied to their aid - even helping people to set up their own beehives. But this bothers a lot of ecologists

美国国家公共电台 NPR Yellowstone Bison Release Launches Criminal Investigation

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Send an alert. Missing - dozens of bison. Last seen together, two holding pens at Yellowstone National Park. Authorities say the animals escaped when someone used bolt cutters to open up a fence. As Yellowstone Public Radio's Nate

美国国家公共电台 NPR After The Vinyl Revival, The Vinyl-Playing Jukebox Is Back

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There's no better way to hear your favorite done-me-wrong song then on scratchy vinyl coming out of an old jukebox. Those classic Seeburgs and Wurlitzers have mostly vanished from bars and restaurants. But there's one guy who makes

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Puzzled Teen Seeks Answers And Finds Crosswords In 'Down And Across'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Scott Ferdowsi is 16 years old, hasn't figured out what he wants to do with his life. That worries his Iranian-American parents who believe their son lacks drive - grit - and doesn't take advantage of the opportunities they work so

美国国家公共电台 NPR Same-Sex Couples Sue U.S. Government For Kids' Citizenship

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Two married same-sex couples are suing the U.S. State Department. Each couple has twins, and in each case, the government granted one twin citizenship and denied the other. The couples say it is clear discrimination that would not

美国国家公共电台 NPR Will Work For No Benefits: The Challenges Of Being In The New Contract Workforce

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All this week we're taking a look at the growing significance of freelance work in our economy. Some 32 million Americans now rely on freelance or contract work for their primary income. That's according to an NPR/Marist Poll rel

美国国家公共电台 NPR My Grandmother Was Italian. Why Aren't My Genes Italian?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Chances are you have seen an ad for a test to find out about your ancestry. Maybe you got a kit for Christmas, and now you're waiting for your results. So what do you need to know when you open these results? Health editor Gisele

美国国家公共电台 NPR Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reflects On The #MeToo Movement: 'It's About Time'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Sundance Film Festival has in some ways become a forum for more than film. This year, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was there promoting a documentary that she's appearing in. But when she spoke to NPR's Nina Toten

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Criminal Cabal'? FBI Fears Political Attacks May Imperil Work Of Field Agents

DAVID GREENE, HOST: So the FBI is this nation's top law enforcement agency. But it has come under attack from President Trump and his allies. And that has current and former FBI officials worrying about the toll this might take on the bureau's abilit

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Refugees Who Don't Want To Go Home ... Yet

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. It seemed like an encouraging moment in one of the world's worst refugee crises. As we've been reporting for months, the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, were driven out of their home country Myanmar. The U.N. and the U.S.