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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now, if you were watching men's singles 50 years ago, you would have seen Arthur Ashe become the only African-American man to win the U.S. Open. Karen Grigsby Bates of our Code Switch team reports on a player who grew much larger

美国国家公共电台 NPR Native Americans Propose Change To Yellowstone Landmark Names

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There is a movement to change the names of two landmarks in Yellowstone National Park, the nation's oldest national park. And that is bringing to light long buried atrocities. Yellowstone Public Radio's Nate Hegyi has this report

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Documentary Swipes Left On Dating Apps

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, this is one of those conversations that's going to be so obvious to some people that they might wonder why we're having it. And here, I'm talking about the 40 million Americans who currently participate in some form of onlin

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Ordinary People' Learn What Happens To Marriage In Midlife

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the book Ordinary People, the latest novel by Diana Evans, two sets of friends - 30-something, black Londoners - navigate friendship and relationships and parenthood during pivotal moments of the early 2000s. Evans borro

美国国家公共电台 NPR Where Are The Most Viruses In An Airport? Hint: It's Probably Not The Toilet

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Switching gears here. OK, so the summer travel season is behind us, but Thanksgiving is going to be here soon enough. So air travelers, listen up. There is new information that could save you from catching a cold on your trip. As

美国国家公共电台 NPR Discreetly Tracking Down Sex Partners To Stop A Surge In STDs

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Over the last five years, the United States has seen a steep increase in sexually transmitted diseases - 2.3 million Americans now have some form of STD. One county in Oregon is asking people diagnosed with the more serious forms t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Shadowed By Scandals, Coach Rick Pitino Pens His 'Story'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Rick Pitino has an amazing record in college basketball. He led three different schools - Providence, Kentucky and Louisville - to the Final Four championship series. He's a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. But Rick Pitino wa

美国国家公共电台 NPR Bobi Wine Is Willing 'To Die Trying' To Win Freedom For Uganda

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Bobi Wine says the people who tortured him in an ambulance last month unscrewed an overhead light bulb to hide the beatings from the press. Bobi Wine is a politician and a pop star in Uganda, where he's been an outspoken critic of

美国国家公共电台 NPR Shedding Swimsuits In A Miss America Reboot

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Burt Reynolds, Swaggering Star Actor, Has Died At 82

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Burt Reynolds has died at the age of 82. He played a man on a hunting trip gone wrong in Deliverance. He played an unstoppable beer smuggler in Smokey And The Bandit. Bob Mondello offers an appreciation. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: The

美国国家公共电台 NPR Keepers Of The Underground: The Hiphop Archive At Harvard

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today we begin a new series with our friends The Kitchen Sisters, producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson - stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians, keepers of the

美国国家公共电台 NPR In The Trump Era, Journalist April Ryan Finds Herself 'Under Fire'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There was a time when journalist April Ryan was just another face in the crowd at the White House press briefing room. She started covering the White House for American Urban Radio Networks more than 20 years ago. And she looks b

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ex-Trump Aide Papadopoulos, 1st Charged In Russia Probe, Sentenced To 14 Days

Ex-Trump Aide Papadopoulos, 1st Charged In Russia Probe, Sentenced To 14 Days ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Today brought a milestone in the Russia investigation. A federal judge in Washington handed down a sentence for George Papadopoulos. He was the first per

美国国家公共电台 NPR Female Breakout 'Captain Marvel' Screenwriter Is Disrupting The Superheroine Trope

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Geneva Robertson-Dworet is one of the rarest things in Hollywood - a female superhero screenwriter. Her resume includes Tomb Raider and the upcoming Captain Marvel. She's a breakout success in a billion-dollar industry that

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Lore Of Bigfoot Lives On At North Carolina Bigfoot Festival

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: People from across the country gathered this weekend in a small North Carolina manufacturing town to celebrate Bigfoot. The first-ever Bigfoot Festival in Marion, N.C., brought everyone out from Sasquatch skeptics to yeti e

美国国家公共电台 NPR In A Break From Recent Precedent, North Korean Anniversary Parade Features No ICBMs

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There are parades, and then there are parades. In Pyongyang today, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, in attendance, they laid on quite a show. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly was there. MARY LOUISE KELLY, BYLINE: This is Kim Il

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Germany, Construction Has Begun On Controversial New Russian Gas Pipeline

In Germany, Construction Has Begun On Controversial New Russian Gas Pipeline RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A new pipeline that will allow Russia to increase its natural gas exports to Europe is ruffling feathers in Europe and in the U.S. President Donald Trum

美国国家公共电台 NPR Food Safety Scares Are Up In 2018. Here's Why You Shouldn't Freak Out

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It seems like we've been hearing a lot about unsafe food these days. Just this year, there have been recalls for romaine lettuce, some varieties of the snack Goldfish and a Taco Bell-brand queso dip. McDonald's stopped selling sa

美国国家公共电台 NPR Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez On Creating A Superhero For Puerto Rico

ROBERT GARCIA, HOST: What's up, everybody? Please - just heads up. There may be some strong language in this episode - ooh (ph). ADRIAN BARTOS, HOST: Some bad words. EDGARDO MIRANDA-RODRIGUEZ: I identified in a funny way with Spiderman because he was

美国国家公共电台 NPR Chicago Police Officer Goes On Trial For Murder Of Black Teen

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Jury selection is beginning today in Chicago in the trial for a white police officer accused of killing the Laquan McDonald, a black 17-year-old. This trial is getting underway just a week after a case in Texas where th