Well that's a pressure cooker of a day on Capitol Hill as we wait and wonder how this vote for healthcare plays out, the final vote is expected Sunday and Democratic house leaders are trying to convince undeclared members to vote yes. 216 votes are n

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Dana joins us now live from Washington. So, Dana, you know, what is your take here? Is this typical political theater of someone's who's not going to be re-elected? Or is it a true sign of growing rage over the fact that we're spending money that we

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Eugene McCarthy: His Campaign for President in 1968 Forced a President From OfficeBy Shelley Gollust Broadcast: Sunday, May 07, 2006 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO:

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VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was related to an earlier president with same last name, Theodore Roosevelt. Many Americans call Franklin Roosevelt by the first letter of eac

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1. A call from President Barack Obama to the House to quickly approve a taxpack without changes already endorsed by the Senate. Some Democrats are denouncing the deal to extend Bush-era tax cuts to all taxpayers. 2. In Florida, school officials say t

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Senate Democrats are preparing to drop a plan to allow the near elderly to buy coverage in the Medicare program as part of their health bill. NPR's Julie Rovner has more. The so-called Medicare Buy-in would have allowed those age 55 to 64 to buy cove

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The prime minister is to tell the United Nations that he is willing to cut the UK's fleet of Trident missile-carrying submarines from four to three. Gordon Brown will make the offer at a meeting of the UN Security Council on halting the spread of nuc

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Leaders-Britain 社论 Britain's floods 洪水泛滥大不列颠 Canute Cameron 卡梅伦祸从口出 The prime minister's response to the floods has been patchy; but it is wrong to blame him for them 首相治洪引发质疑,归咎于他有失公允

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This week, Republicans will endorse the first US presidential nominee since the second world war to reject Americas globalist consensus. It is hard to see beyond that stark fact. Yet it is only the second most troubling feature of Donald Trumps rise.

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奥巴马签署临时议案结束关门 WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama signed a last-minute deal early Thursday to end the partial government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. Obama signed the bill into law without fur

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Thailands early election results indicate the opposition Pheu Thai party led by Yingluck Shinawatra, and backed by her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has won a majority. Pheu Thai defeated the ruling Democrats of Prime Minister Ab

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I'm Stwerd Mechantach with the BBC News. Hello! A man said to be the next president of the Philippines is considering a wide-spread changes to the country's constitution. As spokesman from Rodrigo Duterte says that as a president, the controversial f

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今天学的词组是favor。Favor有赞成,支持的意思。比如美国国会中期选举之前共和党争取无党派选票失利, Independent voters strongly favor Democrats on Iraq and other major issues. -- 独立选民在伊拉克等主要问

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Small wonder Africa grew poorer between 1980 and 2000. 难怪在1980至2000年期间,非洲变得更穷了。 Now inflation has largely been tamed, most central banks are islands of excellence and many ministers boast of cutting red tape. 现在,通

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Europe Italian politics 欧洲 意大利政治 Will Monti run for prime minister? 蒙蒂会竞选总理吗? How to prevent Silvio Berlusconi from returning to power 如何防止西尔维奥贝卢斯科尼重掌大权 With his restrained smile, laco

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Protests 全球抗议活动 Not quite together 目标不一致 Protests are proliferating across the world. Their aim is not obvious. Nor is how much they matter. 抗议活动正扩散至全世界。这些活动没有明确目标,也没有太大意义

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Lexington 莱克星顿 Mr Castro goes to Washington 卡斯特罗来到华盛顿 A rising Hispanic star ponders how to reconcile Americans with the federal government 一颗冉冉升起拉美裔的新星思考如何协调美国人与联邦政府之间的

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The state of the states 美国国内形势 Republicans in charge 共和党掌权 The GOP has more clout in the states than at any time since the 1920s 自20世纪20年代以来,老大党在美国有更大的权势。 ON ELECTION nights, the results

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Tomorrow, President Obama will return to the first city he visited after becoming president, Elkhart, Indiana. It was one of the worst-hit cities back in 2009, and the president will be delivering a speech to tout what's been accomp

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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: For more analysis of the presidential race, I'm joined now by NewsHour Weekend special correspondent Jeff Greenfield, who joins us from Santa Barbara, California. So, Jeff, given the topsy-turvy nature o

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