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1.Officials say Monday's tornado that tore through an Oklahoma city suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused 2 billion dollars overall damage. The twister killed 24 people. 2.The IRS official at the center of controvers
美联社,新闻一分钟,1. Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the US Supreme Court often casting a swing vote on divisive issues says she is retiring. 2. President Bush vows to name O'Connor's successor quickly, no matt
1. The search is still on for a missing man whose wife and children were rescued in a remote section of Oregon yesterday. Officials believe James Kim is still within a 5-mile range of the car that he
1. The body of San Francisco father James Kim has been found in Oregon. He'd been missing since Saturday when he left his family to search for help. Kim's wife and 2 children were rescued Monday after
1. In a new audiotape released Friday, Al-Qaida in Iraq claims that it has mobilize d 12,000 fighters. The group says it welcomes the departure of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and wants the US to
1. Fire gut ted a Missouri home for the elderly and mentally ill Monday morning. At least 10 people died, 24 others were injured. The cause is under investigation. 2. Nine people died in a deadly fire
1. The escaped prisoner wanted for two deaths in Virginia has been captured. Police say William Morva overpower ed a deputy at a hospital, shot and killed a hospital guard and gun ned down a deputy ne
1. Following a wave of school shootings, the White House hosted the conference Tuesday on school safety. President Bush called the recent violence incredibly sad and challenged the nation to become pr
1. Police say they've found the body of a missing University of Vermont student and they've named a suspect in the murder of Michelle Gardner-Quinn whose body was found along a roadside. The 36-year-o
1. After 7 days of deliberation, the jury has sentenced Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison with no possibility of parole, for his role in the September 11th attacks. Moussaoui s
1. The teen who went on a shooting spree inside a high school in Finland apparently chatted online with a Pennsylvania teen before the deadly attack. But an attorney for Dillon Cossey says his client didn't encourage the Finnish shooter. Cossey was a
1. This rescue caught on tape is a result of heavy rain and high winds. Floodwaters now cover much of central Oklahoma. Scenes like this one have been playing out all day as rescue crews search for residents trapped because of the rising water. 2. If
1. At a Southern Indiana coal mine, an accident at an airshaft killed three people. Police say the victims were in a basket used for transportation up and down the 600-foot airshaft. Authorities aren't saying how they died. 2. At a mine in Utah, resc
1.The Iowa judge who threw out the state's ban on gay marriage has issued a stay on his ruling. The gap beween yesterday's ruling and today's stay gave two men a narrow window of opportunity to legally be married. 2.White House Press Secretary Tony S
The search has begun for victims in the Indonesia earthquake, a massive 8. 4 quake hit on Sumatra Island. At least ten people have died. Tsunami warnings line the Indian Ocean. A prosecutor in West Virginia says the woman reportedly tortured for days
A US government official says a new video of Osama bin Laden makes no overt threats against the United States and could have been made this summer. The video includes references to current events in Iraq. That would bolster the videos authenticity wh
Hundreds of people have gathered at a cathedral in Italy where Luciano Pavarottis body has been taken. The tenor was considered one of the best singers of his generation. A funeral has been set for Saturday. Rescue crews are expanding their search fo
A US negotiator says North Korea has agreed to declare and disable all of its nuclear facilities by the end of the year. He says this is a promising start to improving multi-national relations with the communist country, Six-Party Talks scheduled for
1. Rain keeps pelt ing Central and North Texas where evacuations are underway and residents are bracing for more severe weather. The storms are blamed for at least 11 deaths in the past 11 days. 2. The Senate drove a stake through President Bush's pl
1. Five people are dead after an unsuccessful emergency landing in Sanford, Florida, setting two houses on fire. The husband of a top NASCAR official and a company pilot are among the dead. An adult and two children who were in their homes were also