美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-20

1. Attorney general Eric Holder has asked the Justice Department to arrange for a federal medical examiner to autopsy the body of Michael Brown, given what Holder says are the extraordinary circumstances of the case. Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old Afr

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-19

1. Authorities say one person was shot and critically injured and 7 people were arrested as police use teargas to oppose a midnight curfew in Ferguson Missouri. Tension has gripped the city since an unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a white p

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-18

1. The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson experienced another night of unrest, with some people throwing Molotov cocktail and other objects and police unleashing tear gas and smoke bombs. 2. United Nations has announced its highest level of emergency for t

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-17

Refugees from Iraq streaming across the border into Syria as the militant group known as the Islamic State threatens more territory. UN officials say at least 12,000 Yazidis are now gathered at the makeshift camp in Syria. A chaotic commute in the Ph

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-01

Secretary of State John Kerry aiming tough words at Russia as the fighting continues along the Ukrinian border. Kerry said Monday Russia has not shown a shred of evidence that it's willing to help end the violence, citing intelligence that Russia is

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-03

In Gaza, 2 separate attacks on Wednesday pushing the Palestinian death toll past 1,300 in the past few weeks. Israeli tank shells slammed into a UN school sheltering Palestinians. 15 people were killed. Israel says its soldiers were targeted first an

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-04

1. Israel said it has called up another 16,000 reservists, allowing it potentially to widen its Gaza offensive against the territory Hamas rulers in 3 weeks old war. The move coincides with stalled diplomatic efforts to end the war which has claimed

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-05

1. US health officials are warning Americans not to travel to 3 African countries hit by an outbreak of Ebola. The World Health Organization reports that the worst recorded outbreak in history has surpassed 700 deaths in western Africa. Officials at

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-06

1. Outraging Gaza over the Israeli bombing of the United Nation's school. 10 people were killed when a bomb hit the structure that were sheltering 3,000 displacing Palestinians, the U.S state department calling the attack disgraceful, saying the scho

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-07

1. A temporary cease fire declared by Israel slowed violence in the Gaza war Monday, with Hamas Rocket fire tapering off, and with Israels ground operations in Gaza winding down, the fighting appears to be easing. 2. The Mayor of Toledo, Ohio has lif

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-08

A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas meant to last at least 3 days and end nearly a month of fighting went into effect in the Gaza Strip. The truce came ahead of talks in Cairo aimed at brokering a deal that would prevent future cross-border violenc

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-09

1. Israel says it withdrew the last of its ground forces from the Gaza as it and Hamas began a temporary cease fire. Both sides halted cross border attacks as the 3-day truce took effect. And both have delegates in Cairo for talks aim at a long-term

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-06-01

President Barack Obama said the United States is finishing the job it started in Afghanistan. The president says he's planning to keep fewer than 10,000 troops in the country after this year but then draw down those forces by the end of 2016. The Sup

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-06-02

1. California lawmakers are calling for tighter gun control following last weeks deadly Santa Barbara shooting. One proposal would create a gun violence restraining order aimed at preventing someone experiencing a mental health crisis from purchasing

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-06-03

1. Police in Los Angeles say the man who rushed Brad Pitt on the red carpet Wednesday night is a Ukraine Journalist with a history of getting too close to celebrities. The suspect, 25-year-old, Vitalii Sediuk was jailed on suspicion of misdemeanour b

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-06-04

1. Republican lawmakers say Congress should be told the deal to swap five high-level Afghan detainees at Guantanamo for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. The White House says Congress wasn't told because they had to act quickly in order to save Bergdahl whose

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-06-05

1. Criticism is mounting over the White House with prisoner exchange with the Taliban for captured army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. Republicans are arguing the swap could harm National Security and encourage more abductions. Five Guantanamo detainees wer

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-06-06

Syrian president Bashar Assad is expected to easily win an election that's widely being denounced as a sham. Thousands of Syrians are lining up in areas controlled by the Syrian government to vote in Syria's first multi-candidate election in more tha

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-06-07

1. For me, personally, I think it is just too soon in this process. I think there are a lot of emotions involved here. I think the family needs some time to heal, and a public event and celebration. For me, personally, knowing Bowe, knowing his famil

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-06-08

Videos provided to the Associated Press show a couple who disappeared in Afghanistan in late 2012 appealing to the U.S. government for help in freeing them from their Taliban captors. The American family of then-pregnant Caitlan Coleman received the