NPR 2009-12-29

The Obama administration is promising a review of the airport security procedures after the Christmas day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight. A Nigerian man suspected of trying to detonate explosives on the plane bound for Detroit has bee

NPR 2009-12-25

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Senate has approved the most sweeping change to the nations health care system in decades. On a party-line vote of 60-39, this morning Senate Democrats pushed through President Obamas plan to provid

NPR 2009-12-01

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. The health overhaul bill now being debated in the Senate will boost average premiums for people who buy their own coverage. Thats according to a new report but theyll get more for their money. NPR's Julie

NPR 2010-05-23

The mothers of three young Americans in prison in Iran are back in the US, but they arrived this afternoon at New York's JFK Airport without their children who've been charged with espionage. Nora Shourd, the mother of one of the Americans recounts t

NPR 2011-01-22

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

CNN 2009-11-11

Good morning from the CNN Center here in Atlanta, Im Melissa Long with a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS on this Tuesday, November 10th. We have an update on the developing story at Pine Plains, New York. At Stissing Mountain Hi

NPR 2010-07-11

Engineers using undersea robots have removed the containment cap on BP's gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The next step is to replace the cap with one that fits better. That will allow all of the oil to be funneled to tankers on the surface. B

西班牙官员否认腐败指控

MADRID, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Two former senior officials of Spain's ruling People's Party denied on Tuesday any wrong-doing in their testimony to a court concerning the accusations levelled against them in the ongoing corruption scandal. Former PP Tre

AP 2011-06-05

1. President Barack Obama spent part of his day talking with House republicans. The meeting at the White House did not bridge partisan divides, but officials say it was still beneficial to sit down and talk in a non-confrontational environment. 2. Of

美国有线新闻 CNN 2016-7-13

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Unrest continues in Egypt

CAIRO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's nationwide anti-government protests(抗议) continued for the third consecutive day on Thursday with protestors calling for a one-million-march after Friday prayers. Safwat el-Sherif, Secretary General of Egypt's ru

调查:更多美国人选择签订婚前协议

Americans are taking a cautious（谨慎的小心的） approach to marriage and are seeking more prenuptial agreements before walking down the aisle. And it is not just the wealthy and famous who are looking to safeguard（捍卫） their assets whe

伊斯兰国宣称要占领拉马迪

The Islamic State group on Sunday claimed to have seized the Iraqi provincial capital of Ramadi, giving the militants their largest victory this year after days of intense clashes. In Washington, the Pentagon refused to confirm the IS statement, sayi

Moscow fears for adopted Russian boy in U.S.

MOSCOW, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russia was seriously alarmed by the fate of an adopted Russian child in the United States to whom Russian consulate workers were being denied access, a high-ranking diplomat said Wednesday. We are seriously concerned with

Somali fury at 'al-Qaeda killing'

Somali Islamists will avenge the raid in which a top al-Qaeda suspect was reportedly killed in Somalia, an al-Shabab commander has told the BBC. Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan is believed to have been killed in a US military helicopter(直升机) r

前塞族官员被判22年监禁

THE HAGUE, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, two former high ranked Bosnian Serb officials, were sentenced to 22 years imprisonment by the trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal on Wednesday. Stanisic and Zupljani

A Tale of Two Fathers

Our parents divorced when Karen was a toddler, and a few years later we were blessed with the best of a complicated world - a father and a stepfather. The situation wound up a bit confusing later on down the road. Especially when it was time for Kare

Death toll rises to 5 in construction platform collapse

NANJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Three more workers died in hospital, bringing the death toll to five in platform collapse at a construction site in east China's Jiangsu Province. By 11 p.m., four others injured were still receiving treatment, and among

【英语语言学习】担忧未来

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A Virginia state senator named Creigh Deeds was brutally assaulted by his son last week. The attack put the elder Deeds into the hospital and it left his son, Austin, dead after shooting himself. Just a day before, a judge issued

Draft amendment to Criminal Procedure Law ready for vote

BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A draft amendment to China's Criminal Procedure Law is ready for vote after minor revisions were made, deputies to the country's top legislature said on Saturday. The draft was submitted Thursday to the ongoing 5th sessi