The Moral Of The Story Is: Great Kids' Books Don't Always Need Morals 作者:未知 来源:美国国家公共电台 2018-12-09 play stop mute max volume 00:0005:44 repeat (SOUNDBITE OF VINCE GUARALDI TRIO'S SKATING) AILSA CHANG, HOST: The holiday...
Feds Detail What They Call Lies Told By Paul Manafort Since His Guilty Plea AILSA CHANG, HOST: It has been a busy day for the special counsel's Russia investigation. This evening, documents in the case of President Trump's former lawyer and fixer Mic...
Feds Detail What They Call Lies Told By Paul Manafort Since His Guilty Plea 作者:未知 来源:美国国家公共电台 2018-12-09 play stop mute max volume 00:0004:43 repeat AILSA CHANG, HOST: It has been a busy day for the special counsel's R...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump is closing out the week with a flurry of staff appointments - a new U.N. ambassador, a new chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a new attorney general. His choice for that last post? A prominent Republic...
Trump Picks Heather Nauert, Former Fox News Anchor, As U.N. Ambassador MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right, as Ailsa just mentioned, something else the president was talking about today - the woman he is nominating to become the next U.S. ambassador t...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's Friday, which is when we hear StoryCorps. And today, we meet an out-of-the-ordinary Santa. His name is Rick Rosenthal, and he is Jewish - Modern Orthodox, to be precise. Santa Rick Rosenthal came to Stor...
(SOUNDBITE OF VINCE GUARALDI TRIO'S SKATING) MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now, 'tis the gift-giving season, but don't panic. We're here to help because what makes a better gift than a book? And why not try giving poetry this year? We are joined by our po...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The new film If Beale Street Could Talk is the story of two young lovers, Fonny and Tish. Tish finds out she's pregnant, but they can't start their life together as a family because Fonny ends up in prison after being falsely accus...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Miami's annual high-profile art market Art Basel kicks off today. And one of the hottest tickets this year is for a show running in conjunction with the fair. It features 80 works by the artist Banksy. The artist, however, is not h...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: This was another roller coaster day on Wall Street fueled in part by trade tensions between the U.S. and China. The catalyst today - news that a high-ranking Chinese executive was arrested in Canada at the request of U.S. authoriti...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We're getting into the holiday season. And often, this time of year, I think about books. I mean, they're great gift ideas. And also, it's just that time of year when you want to curl up in front of the fireplace with a good book....
(SOUNDBITE OF VINCE GUARALDI TRIO'S SKATING) AILSA CHANG, HOST: OK, we have an important holiday public service announcement. For the next few days, we will be talking to writers about what books they will be giving to friends and family. They've com...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And let's hear about a legal case now that could sort of unexpectedly influence the special counsel's investigation. Today a convict from Alabama is challenging a longstanding Supreme Court precedent that allows the state and fede...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: At some of our nation's top universities, more and more students are coming from an unlikely place - community college. That's because many Ivy League and other elite schools are accepting more transfer students. This is unusual be...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Bing Crosby was one of the most popular figures of the 20th century. His record sales were in the hundreds of millions. His movies were blockbusters. A new biography focuses on Crosby's career in the 1940s when the crooner's star s...