美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-16

1. The prosecutor in the failed Duke lacrosse rape case says he plans to resign his post. Mike Nifong made the announcement today as he finished testify ing in an ethics hearing examining how he handled the case. 2. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-10

1. A wildfire has burned more than 800 acres in downtown Los Angeles. Animals at the nearby city zoo were moved indoors and dozens of homes were evacuated. 2. There were more evacuations in Missouri where levees have been topped by rising flood wate

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-11

1. After weeks of wildfires, the first tropical storm of the season is welcome news for fire crews in Florida and Georgia. Andrea, the first named storm of the year is spinning off the coast. Fire crews hope rain from the storm will help them battle

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-12

1. On California Santa Catalina Island, firefighters turned back flames threatening the island's main city. About 3,800 people have been evacuated. Wildfire worries are easing with the favorable forecast and the arrival of fire trucks and tankers. 2

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-13

1. While firefighters on California's Catalina Island wrapping up their efforts to put out the 4,000-acre blaze, others are battling a wildfire in Georgia and north Florida that's torched more than 280 square miles. 2. In the middle of the country,

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-14

1. An al-Qaeda front group is claming it captured the three American soldiers missing since a predawn attack on a patrol yesterday. The Islamic State in Iraq posted the claim on this website, but is offering no evidence to back it up. The attack hap

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-15

1. The Coast Guard says all passengers have been evacuated from the Empress of the North cruise ship which ran aground off Alaska's coast this morning. 2. Parents are outraged after staffs at one Tennessee elementary school staged a gun attack on st

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-16

1. Rev. Jerry Falwell has died. He was found unconscious in his office at Liberty University in Virginia. The television evangelist became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He also founded Liberty and served as its president. Jerry Falwe

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-17

1. Firefighters are using water and bulldozers to battle a forest fire in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. It's believed that the blaze was sparked from a military jet dropped a flare on a nearby bombing range. 2. Britain's Prince Harry will not be sent w

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-18

1. The search has intensified for three missing US soldiers feared captured by al-Qaeda in Iraq. Military officials are offering a $200,000 reward for information on the GI's whereabouts. 2. Rain has reduced the 22 square mile wildfire near a bombin

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-19

1. Rejection at the White House. Congressional Democrats don't get their way on a stripped-down spending bill for the war in Iraq. One provision even gave President Bush the right to not comply with the wartime table. 2. An arrest in the attack of t

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-20

1. President Bush uses his weekly radio address to praise Senators from both parties for reaching a deal overhauling immigration policy. Debate on the measure begins Monday, but already some are denouncing it as amnesty. 2. British Prime Minister To

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-21

1. A gunman in Idaho killed two people including a police officer before police found the shooter dead himself. The gunman started shooting at a courthouse in Moscow, Idaho late Saturday. Two others were also wounded. 2. Seven U.S. soldiers and an i

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-09

1. An FBI informant secretly recorded conversations of six Islamic militants from Yugoslavia and the Middle East who talked about killing in the name of Allah, planning an attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey to kill as many soldiers as possible. 2. Ano

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-07-15

1. North Korea is saying it has shut down a nuclear reactor. That announcement comes hours after oil aid arrived there. A UN inspection team is headed to the reactor to confirm the news. The shutdown would be the first step toward denuclearization in

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-07-17

1. A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Japan today, killing at least eight and injuring hundreds. The quake started a fire at one of the world's most powerful nuclear power plants, sending radioactive water into the Sea of Japan. 2. A judge in Los Ange

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-07-18

1. Senate Democrats are planning to pull a rare all-nighter , as they try to convince President Bush and Senate Republicans to change course in Iraq and bring troops home this fall. Michigan Democrat Carl Levin says Iraqi leaders need to start leadin

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-07-19

1.Senate majority leader Harry Reid is not giving up. He wants to pass defense authorization bill that includes a deadline for dealing with Iraq. The Senate blocked an attempt by Democrats to pass a bill that would have ordered troops withdrawal in I

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-07-20

1. The AP has obtained this video showing yesterday's underground steam pipe explosion as it happened. The blast in midtown Manhattan killed one person and sent debris and dust flying. 2. A federal judge is dismissing Valerie Plame's lawsuit against

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-07-21

1. President Bush's issued an executive order prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment of terror suspects. The White House isn't saying whether the C.I.A has a detention in the interrogation program, but says if it does, it must adhere to the new guid