美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-07-21

President Obama's Affordable Care Act goes to the House of Representatives for a new vote Wednesday. The House is voting on the president's plan to delay a key part of the health care reform law for a year. Cleveland kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro i

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-07-22

1. A heated hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday on domestic spying. Members of Congress threatened to curb the government's surveillance authority, saying Congress never intended to allow the National Security Agency to gather and store millions of Ame

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-07-23

1. Detroit has become the largest city in US history to file for bankruptcy. The State-appointed emergency manager has asked a Federal judge for permission to place the city into Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. 2. A top defense official says the Nat

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-20

1. Attorney General Eric Holder will likely face tough questioning today by the House Judiciary Committee. Topics are expected to include the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press and the government's handling of int

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-19

1.Lawmakers are pressing Attorney General Eric Holder about subpoenas of Associated Press phone records. Holder told Congress that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of records. 2.House Speaker John Boehner is asking who's

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-18

1. Attorney General, Eric Holder says he is ordering a justice department investigation into the IRS targeting conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny. The FBI will see if any laws were broken. 2. But Holder says he had no direct role in the justi

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-17

1.President Barack Obama said the Internal Revenue Service should never be perceived as anything less than neutral. Speaking from the White House Monday, Obama said he will not tolerate political bias at the IRS and promised to get to the bottom. But

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-01

1. Vice President Joe Biden tried to console the parents of slain MIT police officer Sean Collier today. Biden was one of thousands of mourners attending Collier's memorial service. Authorities say Collier was shot by the suspects in the Boston Marat

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-03

1.The House of Representatives could vote Friday on a bill to end furloughs for air traffic controllers. The furloughs, which were triggered by budget cuts, are blamed for thousands of flight delays this week. 2.Japan's transportation minister says t

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-04

1. Congress has approved legislation that ends furloughs of air traffic controllers. 2. Government officials say the Boston bombing suspects mother was added to a federal terrorism database about 18 months before the attack. 3. Hundreds of high schoo

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-05

1.President Obama heads to Costa Rica Friday to meet with central American leaders. He'll speak to students in Mexico city before leaving Mexico. 2.A Boston area funeral home has claimed the body of the deceased marathon bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsa

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-06

1. Good news on the job front. Employers in April add 165,000 jobs. The unemployment rate falling to 7.5%. But the Fed says it will keep short-term interest rates low until unemployment falls to 6.5%. 2. The surge in hiring sent stocks higher, climbi

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-07

1. President Barack Obama is wrapping up a trip in Costa Rica by saying the world is becoming very competitive in the 21st century. He spoke at a forum on economic growth and development, pledging to improve US trading relationships with Latin Americ

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-08

1. Israel has deployed two batteries of its Iron Dome rocket defense system to the north of the country after Israeli warplanes struck the Syrian capital. A senior Israeli official says the airstrikes were targeting a shipment of precision guided mis

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-09

1. A funeral director is still trying to find a cemetery to take the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Officials in Cambridge, Massachusetts denied a request to bury the Boston Marathon suspect in a city-owned cemetery. 2. A stretch limo that burst into the

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-10

1.hree women missing for about a decade had been found alive in Cleveland. Three brothers, all in their fifties, are under arrest. 2.US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Moscow Tuesday. He's making the case for Russia to take a tougher stance

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-02

1. New York officials say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to detonate their remaining explosives in Times Square. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told the investigators that he and his brother were planning an attack in New York. 2. The Obama adminis

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-02-02

1.By part of the agreement on the immigration reform, it looks that way in the senate after members of both parties agreed to a sweeping over haul including a pass for the citizenship for about 11 million illegal immigrates. 2.In Brazil, two members

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-02-17

1. He is a national hero in South Africa after competing in last summer's Olympics on high-tech artificial legs. But now, Oscar Pistorius is charged with murdering his girlfriend. Police say there has been trouble before at the track star's home, inc

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-02-16

1. At least 8 people were killed and 38 injured Sunday when a bus carrying Mexican tourists crashed into a pickup truck. Authorities say the driver told them the bus had brake problems. 2.President Barack Obama is seeking support from the public on l