1. Senate Republicans are vowing to thwart President Barack Obamas executive action on immigration which he will announce tonight in a primetime address. Minority leader, Mitch McConnell says once Republicans are seated as the majority in both Houses

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2014(十一)月

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: It is the town where Mickey Mantle played his first season of professional baseball in 1949, the hometown of one of the first monkeys to be sent into space, Miss Able, 1959. It is Independence, Kan., a town with a rich past and a

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

Get off the road, get off the street,as get off the sidewalks,as emergency deepen.Tonight New York city is shutting down the street at 11 PM.As the city breeae for what could be blazer of storm proportion,of the three feeds of self** predict the blan

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2015年1月

Lets start with whats happening in California, not just the state of .., but something is making much worse---wildfire. The state wildfire season used to run from spring until fall, now its year around with hot dry trees and branch acting like kindli

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2015年9月

Authorities will publish a list of some 40 travel agencies in Guangzhou who operate tours to Hong Kong to help tourists avoid exploitation. Under the agreement, these agencies should not force tourists to shop or resort to other illegal measures to c

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(The) Federal Government is suspending all live cattle exports to Indonesia. Now the Government had already slapped a ban on 12 Indonesian abattoirs after a Four Corners report revealed horrific examples of torture and cruelty. The Government has bee

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A locavore is someone who eats foods produced locally. Locavores usually define local as within one hundred sixty kilometers. This new term grew out of a reaction to the long distances that food no

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Educators in Florida are working to comply with a new state law. It lets state residents challenge textbooks and instructional materials they object to. Science educators fear their demands for an independent hearing will open th

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Future of Odessa, Ukraine's 'Jewel of the Black Sea,' Uncertain LONDON The violence between pro-Kyiv and pro-Russian groups in Odessa last week killed over 40 people and sent shockwaves across Ukraine and beyond. The city founded by Catherine the Gre

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As well as attending yoga classes, some residents here volunteer to take part in service, including helping out with cleaning and cooking.-Hi, ladies. What brought you here? Are you resdients or are you guests? -Yes, I'm a resident here. -How long ha

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2015年

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, we don't know how much time President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will actually spend here in D.C. But when they're here, a whole lot of organizations are going to ask for their time, from the Kennedy Center to the Am

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

After a bloody day of anti-government protests Friday in which say at least 62 people were reported killed, eyewitnesses said Saturday that Syrian tanks and helicopters had entered the southern city of Daraa, where the uprising began six weeks ago. ?

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By Peter Fedynsky Sochi, Russia 11 April 2008 Sochi's winning bid for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games has been a mixed blessing for many of the Russian resort city's residents. The joy of hosting such a prestigious event has been accompanied by rising

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By Cathy Majtenyi Hargeisa, Somaliland 04 March 2008 The people of the African republic of Somaliland voted in 1991 to become an independent nation. They argue that there are enough cultural, political and social differences between them and the peop

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(三月)

A number of wells providing water for Christchurch city were damaged during the September 4th earthquake. Christchurch residents are fortunate. The water that comes out of taps in peoples homes is pure and natural because it comes from under the grou

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Tauranga City Council want to charge adults a fee to borrow books from the public library. The fee would be 50 cents for each book but would increase to 80 cents in three years time. Libraries get most of their money from rates. Everyone who owns a h

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By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 03 April 2007 In February, U.S. and Iraqi troops began new security operations in Baghdad to bring spiraling sectarian violence under control. VOA's Margaret Besheer reports that in one district of the capital, joint U.S.

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Before this helicopter is much-needed medical help for residents in a remote part of Mali, the West African nation has been in turmoil for about seven years since rebels and loosely allied Islamists briefly seized control of the north in 2012. Now, w

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 04 September 2007 Israel's construction of a controversial separation barrier in the occupied West Bank has suffered a legal setback in the nation's highest court. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israe

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(九月)

The flooding in Queensland has now reached Brisbane. Some of the towns north of Brisbane, which had the earlier floods, have become flooded again. This time the Brisbane River has already flooded its banks. Workers in the central city were told not t

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