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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Our colleague Julie McCarthy has spent years now ranging across India, and we get to follow along. India is a world of its own - the largest democracy, second only to China in population. And also, Julie found a remarkable source

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: About 10 years ago, a recent college graduate named Francisco Cantu told his mother what seemed like good news. He got a job. FRANCISCO CANTU: I think she was terrified when I decided to join the Border Patrol. And I think she wa

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美国国家公共电台 NPR House Passes Funding Extension After Trump Says 'I'd Love To See A Shutdown'

AILSA CHANG, HOST: We are once again days away from a potential government shutdown. Now on Capitol Hill, Republicans and Democrats say they think they can strike a deal to avoid that scenario. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MITCH MCCONNELL: I'm o

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Police in the U.S. have been using facial recognition software for years, usually after a suspect is caught on camera during a crime. Now real-time facial recognition is on the horizon. In China, authorities are touting a new

美国国家公共电台 NPR Taking The 'Journey' Through Alzheimer's Together

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Now we check in on the Greenes. Pansy is one of the 5.7 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease. She and her husband Winston call her illness part of their journey together. We first met the Greenes in 2013 when they talked abou

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Reboots are all over television right now from Roseanne to Will And Grace. But updating a show that's aimed at children and teenagers often means reworking the friendship between female characters. NPR's Neda Ulaby has more. NEDA U

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ranchers Sour On Trump Administration Over Proposal To Bring Back Grizzly Bears

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Grizzly bears may be on their way back to rural Washington state. The Trump administration is thinking about reintroducing the predators just south of the Canadian border and about 100 miles north of Seattle. And rural farmers an

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Sen. McCain's Absence Looms Over Senate

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Republican Senator John McCain has not stepped foot in the Capitol this year. His brain cancer treatment and related health problems have kept him back home in Arizona. NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis reports McCa

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: As Venezuela gets ready to hold its presidential election next Saturday, Nicolas Maduro, the country's authoritarian president, predicts he'll win another six-year term despite chronic food shortages, hyperinflation, widespread une

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Can A Cocktail Of Vitamins And Steroids Cure A Major Killer In Hospitals?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR has learned that hospitals in Michigan and New York this week started testing an experimental treatment that could tackle one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. More than 700 Americans die every day from sepsis. This

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Employees Face Cuts To Retirement Benefits And Pay Freezes

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Federal employees can be forgiven for feeling whiplashed by the Trump administration. The president has proclaimed this to be Public Service Recognition Week, acknowledging the nation's civil servants for, quote, their hard w

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Climb Every Mountain, Rocky Mountain High, Night On Bald Mountain - music and mountains have long been linked in the public imagination. Critic Bob Mondello says a documentary called Mountain finds a new sort of purity in the con

美国国家公共电台 NPR John Kelly On Trump, The Russia Investigation And Separating Immigrant Families

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: General John Kelly is at the center of what is arguably the most turbulent presidential administration in modern times. A decorated four-star Marine Corps general with four decades in the service, he serves as chief of staff in t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Homeland Security Secretary Defends Separating Families Who Cross Border Illegally

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Department of Homeland Security is defending the Trump administration's tough stance on immigration. Kirstjen Nielsen says her agency is simply enforcing laws already on the books, and she is responding to critics who say

美国国家公共电台 NPR Actress Jessie Buckley On Her Character's Dark Role In 'Beast'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The new movie Beast is a psychological thriller set on a quaint island in the English Channel called Jersey. Twenty-seven-year-old Moll lives a quiet, stifling life with her controlling mother. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, BEAST) JESSIE B

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. U.S. combat veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress or depression often turn to Vet Centers. These are clinics run by the federal government. Now some of the counselors at those centers say they are dealing with str