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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Top executives from Facebook and Twitter are here in town today with some important meetings. They're going before House and Senate committees on Capitol Hill, and they will be grilled again about what social media companies coul

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Congressman Michael Capuano, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has been in office for nearly two decades. He's pretty popular at home, and yet he could not win his primary race yesterday. Ayanna Pressley beat him. It was yet another

美国国家公共电台 NPR Viola Davis Brings A New 'Corduroy' Book To Bear

DAVID GREENE, HOST: I'm David Greene in Culver City, Calif., not far from where I met Viola Davis the other day. The actress was working on her ABC show How To Get Away With Murder. It was an insanely busy day of shooting, and yet she found some time

美国国家公共电台 NPR Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings To Focus On 6 Hot-Button Issues

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has begun dramatically. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) AMY KLOBUCHAR: We believe this hearing should be postponed. CHUCK GRASSLEY: I know this is an exciting day for a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Grizzlies Have Recovered, Officials Say; Now Montanans Have To Get Along With Them

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This summer, the Trump administration decided to remove Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears. They spent more than four decades on the threatened list, and now the government says they are safe. The Mon

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Being a victim of child sexual abuse can affect a person's entire life from health and relationships to spirituality. And the loss of income can be enormous. We're going to consider those long-term monetary costs by looking at th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rise Of LGBTQ Candidates Could Usher In A 'Rainbow Wave' In 2018

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美国国家公共电台 NPR To Raise Confident, Independent Kids, Some Parents Are Trying To 'Let Grow'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: There was an age growing up when my mom let me go anywhere on the block by myself so long as I did not cross the street. A bit later, I could ride my bike about as far as I could go. Surely, many kids still grow up that way, but

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Syrian Orphan Alone In Brussels In 'Nowhere Boy'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Nowhere Boy is a young adult novel about Ahmed, a Syrian refugee whose father dies on the journey to Europe. Ahmed and his father were originally trying to get to England, but now, as an orphan alone in Brussels, that dream fades.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Analysts Predict Health Care Marketplace Premiums Will Stabilize In 2019

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, consumers who buy their insurance through the Affordable Care Act markets might be pleasantly surprised about their premium costs come this fall. The price of premiums could actually drop in several states, as NPR's Ali

美国国家公共电台 NPR A High School Reunion Reveals: When Steel Mills Fell Silent, Fates Got Flipped

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: There is a big divide between older Americans who are ready for retirement and those who don't quite have the money. Our colleague Marilyn Geewax retired from her post as an NPR business editor, and then she attended her 45th hig

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Florida gubernatorial election has started out with issues of race at the center. The morning after the primary last week, Republican nominee Ron DeSantis told voters not to monkey up the state by electing his Democratic oppo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Opinion: A Bond Beyond Politics

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Insulin's High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In June of 2017, Nicole Smith-Holt lost her 26-year-old son Alec when he couldn't afford the insulin he needed to treat his diabetes. Since his death, Smith-Holt has been vocal about the rising price of insulin, which has more than

美国国家公共电台 NPR Transgender Killings Spur Calls For Police Reform

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Four transgender women have been shot this year in Jacksonville, Fla. Three of the women died. There's been an outcry over how police have handled the cases. And as Lindsey Kilbride from member station WJCT reports, the sheriff's d

美国国家公共电台 NPR His $109K Heart Attack Bill Is Now Down To $332 After NPR Told His Story

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Drew Calver has had a week. He's the high school teacher who after a heart attack was rushed to St. David's hospital near his home in Austin, Texas. Later he got a bill for more than a hundred thousand dollars. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: T

美国国家公共电台 NPR German Farmers Struck By Drought Fear Further Damage From Climate Change

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Memoir Of An '80s California Childhood — And Being Steve Jobs' Daughter

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The book Small Fry is a memoir of a girl growing up in 1980s California. She's raised by her single mom, a struggling artist. And the two are always moving from place to place, never able to make ends meet. The author says it's a

美国国家公共电台 NPR To Predict Effects Of Global Warming, Scientists Looked Back 20,000 Years

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Climate scientists are struggling to figure out how a warming planet will affect different ecosystems like forests, swamps and grasslands. So researchers looked back at the end of the last ice age to see what might be in store for

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Gross Anatomy' Turns Humor On Taboos About The Female Body

AILSA CHANG, HOST: When writer Mara Altman was 19, attending college at UCLA, she learned something about herself. It happened one night while she was flirting with a server at a Mexican restaurant. His name was Gustavo. She says he said five words s