KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Every president makes at least one controversial pardon. But Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is different. It came just seven months into the Trump presidency, and it was announced late Friday night on

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文本: S: You're not going to do it. So the killers can be called off, then there's a recall code or a word or a number. I don't have to die if I've got you. M: Oh! You think you can make me stop the order? You think you can make me do that? S:

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In January, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team, or HFNT, a group of experienced international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, organized crime, and money laundering prosecuto

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The state Supreme Court upholding, Proposition 8, but still allowing those 18,000 same sex marriages to remain valid. Joining us on the phone right now is Jessica Garrison, a Los Angeles Times reporter. Jessica, if some of our viewers are just joinin

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He helped change racial separation laws in America. Transcript of radio broadcast: 26 July 2008 VOICE ONE: This is Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And this is Doug Johnson with People in America in VOA Special English. Every week we tell about a person who w

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Mubarak Trial Carries Many Uncertainties for Nervous Egypt Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to go on trial August 3 on corruption and murder charges related to his 30-year tenure and the crackdown on protesters during the revoluti

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A big night tonight as Washington gets ready for an even bigger day tomorrow, as many as 800,000 people expected. Tomorrow morning, President Obama will make the journey from the White House to this end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Up here to Capitol Hill

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by the US justice department. Yesterday it said it was launching an investigation of the Chicargo Illinois police department. The announcement came days of protest in the city and release a video from Oct of last year.That's when 37 year-old Jason ,

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now a court decision in a case that pits president Trump's Justice Department against a web hosting company whose services were used by anti-Trump activists. The company DreamHost challenged the U.S. government over what it saw a

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: How far you'd go to help a friend is one of those classic existential dilemmas. And that question is at the heart of a new film called Crown Heights, which is out this weekend. As NPR's Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi reports, the film tell

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When sexual assault is reported to law enforcement, a majority of cases never make it to trial. But student victims have another option. They can report it to their universities under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gend

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Syria's president, Bashar Assad, and his regime seem poised to stay in power as they retake more and more of the country after seven years of bloody civil war. This will make it hard to hold the regime or its commanders accountabl

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AZUZ: A trial is going on right now that's closely being watched by companies and legal experts around America. ATT is trying to buy Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, for more than $85 billion. Today, ATT is a large wireless company and satelli

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Every public in the American state of West Virginia has been closed for the past three days while teachers and other school employees are on strike. Theyre calling for higher wages and better health care benefits. 在过去的三天里,美国西弗吉

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【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料,致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高,致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。 精听建议: 先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍,争

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 07 February 2008 Lawmakers pressed the U.S. attorney general on Thursday for more specifics about the legal justifications used by the Bush administration in authorizing the past use of the extreme interrogation technique

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By Catherine Maddux Washingron 10 April 2006 Maxwell Fornah, and Musa Vandi, who are both war amputees, battle for the ball in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, April, 1, 2006 The arrest of former Lib

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US Drug-Sentencing Policy Shake-up Sparks Debate 美国药品量刑政策引发争论 WASHINGTON Attorney General Eric Holder's recent announcement that the Justice Department will no longer pursue mandatory minimum sentences for certain non-violent

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By Scott Stearns White House 14 November 2007 President Bush says America's new top law enforcement official will bring clear purpose and resolve to the Justice Department. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush attended the ce

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 08 September 2007 Poland's parliament has voted to hold early elections following high level corruption allegations. Stefan Bos reports for VOA from Budapest that more political turbulence is expected ahead of the October 21 vo

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