美国国家公共电台 NPR Sexual Harassment Cases Often Rejected By Courts

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Many powerful men in Washington, including here at NPR, are facing sexual harassment allegations in the court of public opinion. But in actual court, such cases filed by workers against their employers are often dismissed. The way

法律英语：114 What is an Unfit Mother?

By Adam Freedman For todays episode: In honor of Mothers Day last week, we ask: do you have what it takes to be a good Mommy? Legally speaking, that is. But first, your daily dose of legalese: This podcast does not create an attorney-client relations

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Police have arrested a California man for allegedly arranging to sell his 14-year old daughter into marriage in exchange for 16,000 dollars, one hundred cases of beer and several cases of meat. They cant get married in California and she cant consent

CNN 2009-04-27

The World Health Organization is calling it an emergency ofinternational concern Here is the latest. At least 81 deaths in Mexicoare likely linked to the virus. Testing confirms another 20 casesthere. And since yesterday, two more cases in the US ha

CNN 2011-07-08

A police officer and father of two shot to death at the hotel in Memphis last night. Police say the officer Timothy Warren was responding to a report of shots fire at a hotel where responders had already found the body of one victim when shots starte

PBS高端访谈:司法部结束中情局使用酷刑调查

JEFFREY BROWN:The Justice Department has closed the door on bringing any criminal charges in connection with interrogations of terror suspects by the CIA. Margaret Warner has the story. MARGARET WARNER:Late yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder ann

美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2007-10-18

2.A court appearance for Chester Stiles accused of abusing a three-year-old girl an act caught on videotape. During the brief hearing, Stiles only said he can not afford a lawyer. His public defender says he expects Stiles to fight the more than 20 f

VOA标准英语2010年-International Child Abduction a Growin

In many cases, parents abduct their own children when marriages fail and return home where local laws protect them. In some cases the abducted children never see the other parent again. MacKenzie Babb | Washington 21 January 2010 Child abduction is o

2018年CRI China moves on trial reform of IPR cases

Chinese authorities have unveiled new guidelines for improving the procedures surrounding intellectual property rights (IPR) cases. The new document is China's first one specially designed for IPR trials. The reform plan released by the State Council

E. coli infection cases rise sharply in Germany

BERLIN, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Germany's disease control center reported on Wednesday 365 new cases of the fatal enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), which marked a sharp rise since its outbreak in the middle of May. Twenty-five percent of the new cases inv

VOA标准英语2010年-Cases of Domestic Violence Increase in

Florence Wanjiku lived that life for 10 years with her husband, an alcoholic. She describes one drunken night. He went to the kitchen, grabbed the wooden spoon, came with it, started beating me up the way you beat a little child, using a stick or som

Tokyo has first swine flu cases

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CCTV9英语新闻：Some serious school bullying cases in China

School bullying is a major problem worldwide, and China is no exception. This problem has become rampant in recent years in primary and middle schools nationwide. It has been estimated that there have been 43 cases of severe school bullying in this c

每日一词【444】custody：监护

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By Tendai Maphosa London 02 November 2007 Amnesty International urged governments on Friday not to send anyone suspected of crimes during Rwanda's 1994 genocide to be tried in the country, saying it has serious concerns about the justice system. From

Police crackdown resolves 185,000 fake drugs and food cases

BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Police have resolved 185,000 criminal cases during a one-year sweep of counterfeit and substandard food and drugs, the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday. A total of 147,000 underground facilities, which manufac

VOA标准英语2011--Activists Push for Right to Counsel in US Civil Cases

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Venezuela confirms 482 A/H1N1 influenza cases

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2016年CRI Imported Zika Cases in China Rise to Five

The two new cases involve a 38-year-old man and his eight-year-old son from Yiwu City in Zhejiang Province. Xiong Huang with the National Health and Family Planning Commission has an update on all of the patients. Currently, a Zika patient in Jiangxi

CCTV9英语新闻：China concludes 1.42 mln private lending cases in 2015

Head of China's Supreme People's Court, Zhou Qiang, says the country's courts at various levels handled a total of 1.42 million cases involving private lending in 2015. Zhou said while delivering a work report to the third plenary meeting of the NPC