AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-11

1. The National Transportation Safety Board says three of nine presumed victims of a helicopter-plane collision over the Hudson River have been recovered. A small plane collided with a New York City sightseeing helicopter carrying Italian tourists a

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-12

1. President Barack Obama predicts Congress will pass his sweeping health care overhaul this fall. Some opponents say an overhaul will result in a government-run system where people are denied care. Obama spoke at a news conference following his sum

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-13

1.Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy has died. Shriver was best-known for founding the Special Olympics. She was 88. 2.One person is dead and dozens others are injured as two powerful earthquakes hit Asia. A 7.6-magnitud

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-14

1.U.S. Marines are staging a major assault on a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan. US, NATO and Afghan troops are working to protect voting sites around this country ahead of next week's presidential election. Taliban militants have vowed to

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-02

1. The House has voted to rush an additional two billion dollars into the popular but financially strapped cash for clunkers car purchase program. House members acted within hours of learning from the transportation secretary that the program was ru

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-03

1. The Navy says the remains of the first American lost in the 1991 Gulf War have been found. Captain Michael Scott Speicher was shot down 18 years ago in a jet over the Iraqi desert. Officials say new information led to the remains at what is belie

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-04

The long quest to figure out what happened to Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher after he was shot down at the start of the first Gulf War has finally been answered. The Pentagon says information from an Iraqi citizen last month led marines to recove

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-05

1. Continental flight 128 was forced to make an emergency landing in Miami after hitting severe turbulence during an overnight flight from Brazil to Texas. At least 26 people on board were injured, four of them seriously. 2. White House Spokesman Ro

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-06

1.Former President Bill Clinton is on a mission to North Korea. He is hoping to secure the release of two jailed American journalists. The White House isnt commenting on the visit for now. Officials say the administration doesn't want to jeopardize

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-07

1. Four people are dead and at least ten others have been wounded in a shooting at a suburban Pittsburg health club. A local police superintendent says the gunman walked right into the room where the shootings occurred as if he knew exactly where he

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-09

1. The Senate is expected to vote today to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, Sotomayor will become the first Hispanic justice, and just the third woman justice. Sotomayor will replace Justice David Souter. 2. A South

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-08

1.Family members say Laura Ling and Euna Lee were kept apart and fed rice with rocks in it during their 5-month detention in North Korea. Ling and Lee returned to the US Wednesday after being granted a pardon. The reporters have been sentenced to a

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-01

1.President Barack Obama is set to sit down with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Massachusetts police Sergeant James Crowley at the White House today. Crowley is white and arrested Gates who is black on a disorderly conduct cha

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-10

1.A pullback in the nation's unemployment rate has President Barack Obama hopeful the recession may be drawing down. But he says the rate may still hit 10% this year. The latest jobless figure - 9.4%. 2.Republican Senator Mel Martinez of Florida is

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-15

1.Firefighters in Northern California continue to battle a wildfire that has forced thousands of residents to evacuate their homes. Early the Thursday authorities issued a mandatory evacuation for the entire population of Bonny Doon, a small communi

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-16

1. A wildfire continues to rage in Northern California and so far firefighters have not been able to contain it. The fire on the Santa Cruz Mountains has forced more than 2,400 people from their homes. Officials say the fire has now grown to more th

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-17

1. Police in Baltimore say Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps was not to blame for a fender-bender he had Thursday night. Phelps will be cited for driving without a license and failure to establish residency in Maryland. Phelps lived in Michigan f

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-18

1.Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall on the Florida Panhandle packing fifteen-mile-per-hour winds. It is now a tropical depression. Meanwhile Bill has become the Atlantic season's first hurricane. 2.Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is hospitalized af

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-19

1. Hurricane Bill is gaining strength in the Atlantic. It is now a Category 2 storm. It's expected to become a major hurricane packing winds over 110 miles per hour over the next couple of days. The hurricane will likely steer clear of Florida which

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-21

1. Fresh violence in Afghanistan today on the eve of the country's presidential elections. Officials say three militants were killed after gunmen took over a bank in Kabul. 2. Hurricane Bill is now an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm powered by