美国国家公共电台 NPR To Help Others, One Couple Talks About Life With Early-Onset Alzheimer's

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Researchers say as many as 200,000 Americans experience early-onset Alzheimer's disease. They develop dementia-like symptoms in their 40s and 50s. And that can mean struggles with jobs and money or with identity and family. Bella D

美国国家公共电台 NPR Can Home Health Visits Help Keep People Out Of The ER?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When people with simple, non-urgent medical problems go to the emergency room for treatment, it creates all kinds of problems - ERs get overcrowded, treatment is expensive, it's often inefficient. This is a big issue here in Wash

美国国家公共电台 NPR China's Most Popular Mobile Game Charges Into American Market

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Chinese tech giant Tencent is trying to do something that's never been done before - take the biggest online mobile game in China global. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The game is called Kings Of Glory. Tens of millions of Chinese play it e

美国国家公共电台 NPR What's New In 2018? Here's A Brief Tour Of State Laws Now In Effect

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It is, of course, a new year, and that means a bunch of new state laws. You might have heard about some of the headliners like recreational marijuana here in California and minimum wage hikes in several states. There are some tha

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Is Venison On Expensive Plates And Food Pantry Shelves?

AILSA CHANG, HOST: There is a wintertime food that bridges the gap between rich and poor. It's a luxury food that you can also find in surprisingly un-luxurious (ph) places. It's venison, a kind of meat that you can spend a lot of money on or nothing

美国国家公共电台 NPR Reproductive Freedom Lies Just Outside The U.S. Border In 'Red Clocks'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The novel Red Clocks imagines a time in which something called the Personhood Amendment has made abortion and in vitro fertilization a crime in the United States, and Canada returns women who slip across the border to seek one. It'

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Rules May Make Getting And Staying On Medicaid More Difficult

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Trump administration has moved quickly to let states impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients. Kentucky got the green light today. Indiana is likely to get approval soon. Some people consider the work requirement go

美国国家公共电台 NPR President Trump 'Wrong' To Call London Embassy Area An 'Off Location,' Residents Say

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: President Trump has canceled a planned visit to the United Kingdom to open the new U.S. Embassy there. He says it costs too much. He also says the new embassy is in an off location in contrast to London's prestigious Mayfair dist

美国国家公共电台 NPR German Leaders Agree On New Coalition Talks, But Hurdles Remain

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her political allies have crafted a deal that could end a political crisis in her country. For more than three months, the economic and political giant has been without a new government. Merkel

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Uses Bully Pulpit To Support More Services For People Leaving Prisons

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now along with border security, the president made law and order a central focus of his presidential campaign. And yesterday, President Trump said he wants to do more to help people who are leaving prison. NPR justice corresponden

美国国家公共电台 NPR Author Of The Other 'Fire And Fury' Book Says Business Is Booming

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Historian and author Randall Hanson is a lucky man. That's because of the title of one of his books. Here, we'll have him say it for you. RANDALL HANSEN: Fire And Fury: The Allied Bombing Of Germany. SHAPIRO: Fire And Fury - that's

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Deport Them': Arpaio Departs From Trump On DACA Recipients

'Deport Them': Arpaio Departs From Trump On DACA Recipients RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: For more on Arpaio's chances and what the high number of departing members of Congress could mean for the Republican Party, NPR political editor Domenico Montanaro joins

美国国家公共电台 NPR Former White House Social Secretaries On The Value Of 'Treating People Well'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Our next two guests have organized state dinners and congressional picnics. Jeremy Bernard and Lea Berman each served as White House social secretary. He worked for President Obama, she for President George W. Bush. And they've col

美国国家公共电台 NPR Where Author Jacqueline Woodson Would Like To Take Young People's Literature In 2018

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: At the Library of Congress today, Gene Luen Yang officially ended his tenure as national ambassador for young people's literature and handed the baton to Jacqueline Woodson. She is the sixth children's book author to hold the pos

美国国家公共电台 NPR Legendary Voice Actor Alan Bleviss Dies At 76

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now we're going to remember a man who set a standard for movie trailers and commercials. His name was Alan Bleviss. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ALAN BLEVISS: Sex, Lies And Videotape. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) A. BLEVI

美国国家公共电台 NPR Desperate Cities Consider 'Safe Injection' Sites For Opioid Users

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Philadelphia is looking at a new tool to fight opioid addictions - supervised injection sites. That's where people can safely inject heroin or other opioids under medical supervision. It would be the first such site in the U.S.,

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Key Voting-Rights Case, Court Appears Divided Over Ohio's 'Use It Or Lose It' Rule

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK, arguments start today in a big voting rights case before the Supreme Court. The case centers on an Ohio law that is meant to clean out the state's voting registry. The law says if you don't vote in two straight elections, and

美国国家公共电台 NPR Steve Bannon Out At Breitbart News

Steve Bannon Out At Breitbart News KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Breitbart News has announced this afternoon that its larger-than-life chairman is out. Stephen Bannon's departure is directly linked to his blistering assessment of President Trump's intelligenc

美国国家公共电台 NPR This New York Gallery Has An Unusual Age Limit: No Artists Younger Than 60

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Our special correspondent, Susan Stamberg, has been visiting an art gallery in New York. The Carter Burden Gallery is like plenty of other galleries with one important difference, and the difference tells you a lot about age disc

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Let's Turkey Trot': Festive Music About Fowl

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, BALLADE DES GROS DINDONS) UNIDENTIFIED SINGER: (Singing in French). RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: That's an excerpt from a piece that in English translates to Ballad Of The Fat Turkeys. It's by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier. And it