美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-01

1. Legendary investor Warren Buffett is warning shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway that economic turmoil is likely to continue. Turmoil have helped bring a 62% drop in profits at the company last year. 2. President Barack Obama used his weekly m

美联社新闻一分钟 2008-03-16

1. The president's chief economic adviser calls the tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses paid out by AIG outrageous. Larry Summers says these kinds of bonus payments should be a matter of future regulations. AIG has gotten more than 170 billio

美联社新闻一分钟 2008-03-15

1. President Bush says its obvious the economy is going through a tough time. He wants the country to be optimistic about the future with unemployment low, productivity high. On Wall Street, stocks tumbled, the Dow giving up about 195 points. 2. By

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-14

1. A change at the top in New York. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson is taking over for disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer. In a press conference, Paterson said if legislators can pass the budget on time, the state will be back on track. 2. A teenag

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-12

1.As expected, the federal budget deficit is climbing skyward. Its hit 765 billion dollars in just the first five months of the fiscal year and its well on its way to the administrations projection of 1.75 trillion for the whole year. The blame goes

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-11

1. President Barack Obama is announcing a wide-ranging education policy that embraces merit pay for teachers and a longer school day and year. He also wants to end limits on charter schools. 2. Police in Northern Ireland say they have two suspects i

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-10

1.President Barack Obama calls his decision to lift restrictions on funding for stem cell research a difficult and delicate balance. The order Obama signed today aims to increase research into cures for paralysis and other ailments, though he notes

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-09

The pastor of a suburban Saint Louis church dead after a gunman opened fire in the middle of a Sunday service.Police said minister deflected one bone as the Bible before the re-struckened the chest. Two other were slashed as they wrestled the shoote

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-08

1. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says President Barack Obama will head to Turkey in the next month or so to discuss plans to withdraw troops from Iraq. The trip to the Muslim nation would be one of the first foreign visits in Obama's pre

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-06

1. A dozen private boats have taken over in the search off the Florida coast for any sign of two missing NFL players and a friend. The Coast Guard called off its search for the men. But crews gathered Wednesday to retrieve their overturned fishing b

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-05

1.A new survey by the Federal Reserve says the economy has gotten even weaker in the last two months, and the outlook for quick recovery is bleak. Still the Dow made up some ground today taking back some of what it had lost over the past week. 2.Pre

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-04

1.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has been on Capitol Hill, defending the Obama administration's 3.6-trillion-dollar budget. He says the budget and its tax proposals make for very good economic policy. 2. The active search effort for two NFL pla

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-03

1.The Coast Guard says it will continue to search waters off Florida's Gulf Coast for three missing boaters. That's after crews rescued a fourth man. Former University of South Florida football player Nick Schuyler was clinging to an overturned boat

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-02

1. Spring is only weeks away, but it doesn't look like it in eastern parts of the country. Winter storm warnings are up across the South, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. 2. Meanwhile, three tornadoes barreled through east central Alabama, destro

美联社新闻一分钟[2008-03-13]

.New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is giving late-night comedians plenty of material, but in political circles no one is laughing. The State Assembly leader says if Spitzer doesn't resign over a call-girl scandal, he is ready to call for an impeachmen

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-17

1.President Barack Obama and his economic team are taking a cheerier tone on the economy while making about ten billion dollars in federal loans available to struggling small businesses. The White House economic team hopes to build confidence in the

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-18

1. The White House says President Barack Obama is working closely with Congress to find ways to block the bonuses at AIG or recoup that money. Millions have gone to AIG executives despite the fact the insurance giant received billions in federal bai

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-19

1.The Federal Reserve says its opening a new front in its battle to lift the country out of recession. It announced today that it will buy up to 300 billion dollars in long term Treasury securities over the next six months. 2.The head of financially

美联社新闻一分钟 2008-03-20

1. At least nine deaths are being blamed on a storm that's drenching the nations midsection. Hundreds are fleeing their homes and roads are flooded after as much as ten inches of rain fell in some regions. Flood and flash flood warnings are in effec

美联社新闻一分钟 2008-03-21

1.The latest congressional estimates say President Barack Obama's budget will likely generate deficits averaging almost one trillion a year over the next decade. That's a lot worse than the White House had predicted just last month. 2.A huge crowd w