Amazon Not Commenting on Second Headquarters People in several American cities are wondering: where will the company Amazon build its new second headquarters? 美国几个城市的人们都想知道:亚马逊公司会在哪里建立第二个新总部

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This is Whats Trending Today. Earthquakes are not uncommon in southern California. Citizens there know how to react and respond if the ground starts shaking. On Wednesday night, many of them received an email from the U.S. Geological Survey that warn

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Mexican authorities released video on Thursday of a Texas teenager who used an aflluenza defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident. The video shows Ethan Couch being taken to the Mexico City airport to fly back to the United States. Couch arrived b

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The price of Brazilian Arabica coffee has just surged by 94 percent on the New York futures market. What's behind the rise? Well, its the result of bad weather in Brazil. That country's coffee harvest accounts for more than one third of the world's o

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SCIENCE REPORT – March 21, 2002: Color of the Universe By George Grow This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. What is the color of the universe? Astronomers had not answered this question un

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Worlds Richest Lose $100 Billion in Week of Stock Drops U.S. stocks suffered their worst losses in years last week. Among the biggest losers were the worlds top billionaires. 美国股市上周遭遇了近年来最严重的大跌。全球最富有的亿

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AS IT IS 2014-08-13 Cambodia Wants China's Help to Stop Sex Trafficking An increasing number of Cambodian women are finding their way into sham Chinese marriages. Many are becoming victims of human trafficking -- for the purpose of forced labor or se

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British Prime Minister David Cameron declared was more likely than not that a bomb broke down a Metrojet plane tackled with Russia xx. The radical Islamic State Group has claimed responsibility for the crash, but Russian and Egyptian officials have r

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week -- new developments in two stories we reported on last year. In August, a federal judge tried to stop what the Bush administration calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A presidential order le

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What Is the Relationship Between Age and Happiness? From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. Are people less happy or more happy the older they get? If you answered more happy, then you were right, based on a study in

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Everyday Grammar: Mastering Reported Speech We often need to tell others what someone else said . There are two ways to do this. One is to say the same words and use quotation marks . That is direct speech . The other method is to summarize , or tell

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AS IT IS 2016-01-06 Young, Male Migrants Suspected in New Year's Assaults 年轻男性移民涉嫌袭击德国新年庆祝活动 German authorities said Tuesday that young women were sexually harassed and robbed by hundreds of young men on New Years

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The players were reported missing following a regional football tournament on Kenyan soil. Alan Boswell | Nairobi 18 December 2009 Twelve players from Eritrea's national football team have sought asylum in Kenya through the United Nations refugee age

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HEALTH REPORT - Blood Transfusion Blamed for Second 'Mad Cow' Infection in Humans By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. B

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Florence Wanjiku lived that life for 10 years with her husband, an alcoholic. She describes one drunken night. He went to the kitchen, grabbed the wooden spoon, came with it, started beating me up the way you beat a little child, using a stick or som

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By Noel King Kigali 25 October 2007 U.N. officials in Congo say dissident Congolese General Laurent Nkunda has failed to make good on his pledge to send 500 of his troops for integration into Congo's regular army. Noel King has more in this report fr

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今天我们要学的词是alert。 Alert, 警戒,警报。 The National Weather Service put the area under a tornado alert until 7 o'clock tonight, 国家气象局对本地发布龙卷风警告,晚上七点钟解除。 The police sent out a crim

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BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Infectious diseases claimed 1,669 lives on the Chinese mainland in July, with AIDS contributing to 70 percent of the deaths, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said Tuesday. A total of 5,552 AIDS cases, which is categorized as a

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This is AP News Minute. 1. Two firefighters were killed and two were injured when a burning building collapsed in Kansas City. Authority say the firefighters who died rescued two people and an investigation is ongoing. 2. Actor Randy Quaid and his wi

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Total foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose to a new high in June, indicating strong international demand for U.S. government debt amid the simmering eurozone debt crisis, the U.S. Treasury Department repor

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