1. Authorities in Alabama are attributing the second death in the state to severe weather that hit the Southeast last week. Officials say they found the body of a 22-year old man Sunday morning. Its discovery raised the death toll in the Southeast fr

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The artist Kerry James Marshall has a remarkable history. He was born in Birmingham, Ala., and was a little boy when Martin Luther King Jr. was in jail there. Later, his family moved to Los Angeles not long before the Watts riots.

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: In 2003, an obscure, independent film called The Room opened in movie theaters here in LA. It was intended to be a serious melodrama about friendship, love, betrayal. Instead, it was shockingly bad - a baffling storyline, uncomfor

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Ive been big fan of the baseball for a long, long time. The radar spots Jackie Chan throwing out the first pitch at Dodger Stadium. Tomorrow his Forbidden Kingdom with Jet Li, opens in theaters. Jackie also adds Olympic duty to his already full play

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Britain Could Be on Path to EU Exit Britain's economy relies on trade and financial services. The free flow of goods and services with the European continent has been a boon, but more and more Britons see the European Union as an unwelcome infringeme

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模仿文本: The radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and four other men have arrived in the United States to face terrorism charges. The five were flown out of Britain late last night within hours of the High Court rejecting their final efforts to hal

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David Cameron devotes the spirit of Winster Churchill as he embarks on his European campaign. The Prime Minister was entertaining Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, whose appointment he tried to block last year, to dinner at Cheq

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IN THE NEWS - Questions for Britain After the Riots This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. (SOUND) This week, Britain faced its worst riots since the nineteen eighties. The unrest began in London and spread to other cities, including Manchester,

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US Court: NSA Phone Record Gathering Is Illegal 美国法庭:国家安全局收集电话记录非法 A U.S. appeals court in New York ruled Thursday that the National Security Agency's program to collect phone records of Americans is illegal. The pro

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BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, right, arrive with other BP executives at the White House in Washington, 16 Jun 2010 (file photo) Beleaguered BP boss Tony Hayward has handed over his Gulf of Mexico

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party, at Buckingham Palace, 11 May 2010 Britain has a new Prime Minister and a new government as five days of political deadlock has come to an end. Prime Minister Gor

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The debate spurred a surge in voter registration, especially among young people. Some polls are showing the three parties running even. Jennifer Glasse | London 22 April 2010 Britain's Conservative David Cameron leader (center) speaks during a first

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Disagreements Flare at Euro Summit French President Nicholas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron have clashed at emergency meetings on the euro in Brussels. It comes as Members of Parliament in Britain debate a motion calling for a refer

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Britain on Tuesday announced plans to cut the country's defense budget that include losing thousands of troops and slashing weapons programs. British allies are concerned that the cuts might affect the country's status as a global power. British Prim

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G8 Leaders Meet on Economy, Syria The leaders will meet at this isolated lakeside resort in Northern Ireland. They will have two days of quality time, far from demonstrations like those in London by self-proclaimed anti-capitalists, and far from any

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A multi-million-dollar class action against the Federal Government's suspension of the live cattle export India, to Indonesia in 2011 has been launched in the Federal Court. The then Labour government took the action after Four Corners showed annoyin

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BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Argentina's Foreign Ministry on Sunday condemned what it called the military threats of British Prime Minister David Cameron in relation to Great Britain's illegal occupation of the Malvinas Islands for the past 180 y

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Now to a simply incredible medical story about a woman who lived with a 93-pound tumor. 32-year-old Kayla Hilton weighted 563 pounds and had given up hope. She tried every diet but nothing worked. Her health was deteriorating. But doctors in SouthCre

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Extra fire crews are on standby as the weather heats up again in the southern states. Strong winds and temperatures in the high 30s will create severe fire dangers in parts of Victoria and New South Wales. While no homes are current threatened, resid

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We do not often talk about politics on this podcast, but today is different. Today is a special day. Our Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has been Prime Minister since 1997. But today he will resign. In fact, Tony Blair told us many months ago that he was

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