This Wednesday show starts in a U.S. island territory that's about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami, Florida. It's Puerto Rico and the message from its governor to the people living there is be calm and be prepared for aftershocks. The southern part of...
What body of water is located along the border between Israel and Jordan? The Dead Sea, The Sea of Galilee, The Gulf of Aqaba, of the Red Sea. It's the salty Dead Sea that's between Israel and Jordon and it has the lowest elevation on Earth's surface...
Our first topic today concerns American service men and women in the Middle East. Yesterday we told you about the back and forth attacks involving the U.S. and Iran. Those have been carried out over the past few weeks in Iran's western neighbor Iraq....
If you live in a desert, maintaining a supply of fresh water is a challenge. 如果你生活在沙漠中,保持淡水的供应是个挑战。 One answer is desalination, but that needs a source of brine from which to remove the salt 一个答案是海...
前美联储主席保罗沃尔克(3) He was happy, even at the Fed, to wear crumpled suits, live in a students' apartment block and fly coach back to New York and the family at weekends. (His salary had fallen by half when he went from the New York F...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: American democracy can seem messy in a week like this - an impeachment trial looming, six-headed debates, people snapping, sniping and all the costly, time-consuming and chaotic accoutrement of polls, fundraising and campaign ralli...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Here in Washington, our news cup runneth over, which isn't necessarily a good thing. PHILIP RUCKER: You know, it's been such an exhausting three years, I think, for all of us and for all Americans, frankly, because the news i...
NOEL KING, HOST: Three years ago on President Trump's first day in office, millions of people around the world protested. It was the first Women's March. Since then, the organization behind the march has struggled with internal divisions. But the mar...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now the story of some very unusual mice. They are back on Earth after a month on the International Space Station. And what scientists are learning from these animals could eventually help astronauts and other people with disabling...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a day in every woman's life when she hasn't had her period for 12 consecutive months. That day is when she starts menopause. But there are years leading up to that point. For some women, it can take as long as a decade. T...