Vice President Joe Biden confirms the Justice Department will appeal a US court's decision to drop manslaughter charges against five former Blackwater guards. The contractors were accused of fatally shooting 17 people including women and children in

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

1. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has told a Senate panel that the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia did not put President Barack Obama's security at risk. She added the agents' alleged behavior though is inexcusable. 2. N

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2012(四月)

Less than a week before President Obama delivers his State of the Union address, he is showcasing a new business boosting plan featuring one of Wall Street's biggest stars today, General Electric. Karen DeWitt of New York State Public Radio reports t

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

President Obama is calling this a momentous day for Libya hours after the world learned that ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi was dead. Today, we can definitely say that the Gaddafi regime has come to an end. The last major regime strongholds have fal

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

President Obama meeting with members of his economic team said today that we cannot hang back and hope for the best with unemployment continuing to rise. The president told participants at a White House jobs forum that despite some signs the economy

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(209) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

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发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 北外英语中级听力

The Teacher's Last Shocking Lesson A remarkable woman reasons with her killer - and tapes it She used the miniature tape recorder for a graduate-school course she was taking. The device, though, would

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

Good morning, everyone. I am Catherine Callaway at the CNN center in Atlanta, with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Today on Fort Hood we will observe a day of mourning and remembering in our thoughts and prayers the victims of this incide

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Good morning from the CNN center in Atlanta, I'm Reggie Aqui, thanks for checking in. We are going to do a quick look at the headlines right now. Pirates have seized the cargo ship along with its crew of 20 Americans. A spokesman for the ship's owne

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(102) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2009年(四)月

PHILLIPS: She was only 15 years old. Why would she want to end her life? She said she was being bullied. And her teachers, even her parents, spoke up. But unfortunately that just wasn't enough. Now nine of her classmates stand charged for her suicide

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(四)月

President Obama continues to press Congress aggressively to pass his economic stimulus plan. NPR's Mara Liasson reports. With an increasingly aggressive tone toward his Republican opponents in Congress, President Obama is using every tool in his kit

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(273) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台2月

Israel is taking its first step toward calming worldwide outrage over its recent raid of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Palestinian officials say Israel is easing its embargo, allowing snack foods and other previously banned items, but Hamas, which runs

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

President Obama's latest nominee to the US Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, says she's grateful for what she called the honor of a lifetime. Mr. Obama says he chose Kagan in part because she understands that law is not an intellectual exercise, a thought

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Women and Islam;God-daughters; 文艺;书评;妇女和伊斯兰教;安拉与女人; A biography of two women whose lives have been transformed by militant Islam; 一本关于两个被伊斯兰激进主义改变人生

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

1. A final Federal report on a West Virginia coal mine blast that killed 29 men details 369 safety violations. The report comes the same day as the announcement of a record 210 million dollar settlement by the new owners of the mine where the disaste

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(363) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2011(十二月)

Ivory Coast Readies for Presidential Poll 科特迪瓦即将迎来总统大选 ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST The election campaign is in full-swing in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's biggest city. On Sunday, more than 6 million voters are expected to go to the polls t

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十月)

TWO drug executives walked into a bar. No, this is not the start of a joke. The workers for Roche, a Swiss drugs firm, had been dining with doctors after a medical conference. At the bar, alleged an anonymous complaint in a recent report by a British

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 英语阅读理解

Europe Mafias on the move 欧洲 黑手党正在扩张 Northward creep 罪恶之手伸向北方 In Italy Mafia-organised crime is no longer only a southern phenomenon意大利黑手党犯罪不再局限于南部地区 TERRACINA is a sprawling town so

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

Less than two weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, it seemed the only news from here on out would be political. 特朗普上任不到两周,所有的新闻似乎都来围绕着政治。 The new president and his flurry of executive orders and swif

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BRASILIA, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Explanations provided so far by the United States concerning its alleged spying on Brazilian telephone and Internet communications are not enough, says Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota. Some explanations were offered, b

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻