1. Orange county officials say police have caught 2 inmates who've escaped from a Southern California jail more than a week ago. The missing fugitives Hossein Nayeri and Jonathan Tieu were hiding in a white vein in San Francisco. 2. A massive sinkhol

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13 Nov 2014 Scouts Harvest, McMordie Scout Hall, Belfast Thu, 13 Nov 14 Duration: 7 mins By 1918 - the last year of the war - so many men had left home to fight that farmers faced a struggle to bring in the flax harvest. As a result, the Flax Society

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Words and Their Stories: Fish Expressions Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. 现在是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故节目。 (MUSIC) Americans use many expressions about fish and fishing. For example, if something so

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Officials in southern India say many of the 42 people killed in a bus crash were burned alive. Only the bus driver and half a dozen passengers managed to escape through a window after the vehicle crashed into a roadside barrier and caught on fire. Po

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AS IT IS 2016-10-11 Virginia County Could Play Major Role in Presidential Race 弗吉尼亚县可在总统竞选中发挥重要作用 Virginia is one of the so-called swing or battleground states in the 2016 presidential election. Voters there could

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America's Roadside Attractions: Weird and Worth a Stop 美国路边景点:奇特,但值得逗留 Road trips have been popular with Americans for almost as long as their love of cars. But when gasoline prices are high, people abandon the highway.

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AS IT IS 2015-01-25 Should Schools in US Recognize Muslim Holidays? 美国学校应承认穆斯林假日吗? As religious minorities increase in the United States, some want public schools to close not only on Christmas, but also on their religious h

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Texas County Recovering from Wildfires Bastrop County, in the southern U.S. state of Texas, was hit by the most destructive wildfires in the state's history earlier this year. More than 1,600 homes were wiped out and the state park was decimated. Now

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For many people, when they think of police, they think of officers writing tickets or arresting bad guys. But in suburban Washington, a group of multi-talented police officers is reaching out to their community through music. Students at Thurgood Mar

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Ebola Weakens Liberia Food Security Liberia has been the hardest hit country in West Africas Ebola outbreak with more than three-thousand cases. Fourteen of the countrys fifteen counties have been affected. Some of the first cases in Liberia were rep

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This is Ping Opera, one of the most popular art forms in northern China. It origins trace back to Luan County here in Hebei. The County has been officially named the hometown of Ping Opera. As part of this year's Luan River Cultural Festival, singers

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Anne Muir. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Today Spotlight presents a classic of English literature. It is the st

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The second season of the TV documentary series A bite of China is back with more a bigger audience.Figures show that some 2 million people were used smart phones to trawl the web for food searches at the time when the first episode was aired. More th

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今天我们要学的词是license。 License, 是执照、证书的意思。 A driver's license, 驾驶执照。 A liquor license, 卖酒的执照。美国很多地方钓鱼都需要执照。 I bought a lifetime fishing license for my dad as a retir

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Volunteers, farmers and local government in Pennsylvania community work to clean up waterways. Rosanne Skirble | Lititz, Pennsylvania 30 November 2009 Watch: Skirble report Windows Media Lititz Run prior to restoration with eroded stream banks and fe

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SW China earthquakes claim 80 lives; premier visits quake zone YILIANG, Yunnan, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Eighty people have been confirmed dead as of Saturday noon following multiple earthquakes that struck southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday, loc

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Superior Court judge in Union County has signed a warrant charging Gary Hilton with kidnapping with bodily harm in connection with the disappearance of Miss Emerson. He is being held in a location now in the metro Atlanta area. Agents, GBI agents ar

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Food waste is a growing problem throughout the world; on one hand, we've got so many people starving or living in food insecurity, and on the other hand, in places like Western Europe or the US people are wasting almost 50% of what they eat. It seems

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Several counties and cities in south China have been battered by yet more heavy downpours that started again this week. Among the most heavily hit areas are Leishan County in Guizhou Province, Ninghua County in Fujian, and Lufeng City in Guangdong. T

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Three years ago, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake jolted southwest China's Sichuan province and killed an estimated 69-thousand people. The tremor could be felt as far as Japan and the Philippines. Beichuan County was one of the worst-hit areas, with more

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