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IN THE NEWS - Shooting at Connecticut School has Americans Re-Examining Gun Laws 时事新闻 - 康州校园枪击案使得美国人重新审视枪支法 From VOA Learning English, this is IN THE NEWS in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语
They say that Los Angeles is changing. In the past two weeks, a young woman was shot, and then her body was dropped off on a sidewalk and set on fire. This happened in broad daylight in a nice neighborhood. Another young woman's body was found lying
Lawrence Edward Larry Page is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google Internet search engine. He was co-president of Google until 2001, when he and co-founder Sergey Brin appointed an external CEO. In 2007, PC World magazine said Page was
By Kari Barber Dakar 24 January 2007 Lawmakers in Liberia are being ordered to testify before the Supreme Court about their recent vote to oust controversial House Speaker Edwin Snowe. Earlier in the week, the court reinstated Snowe pending his appea
U.S. lawmakers have been commenting on the situation in Burma as the U.S. Congress advanced legislation to strengthen and renew unilateral U.S. economic sanctions against the Burmese military government. More from VOA's Dan Robinson on Capitol Hill.
Democrats, Republicans Battle Over Voter ID Laws A court battle over the state of Pennsylvania's controversial voter identification law is being seen as a proxy in the battle between Republicans and Democrats. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has asked
Russian Laws Keep Gay Life Behind Closed Doors When gay rights activists recently released a rainbow of balloons from a Saint Petersburg park, the predictable happened. City police herded activists into a waiting bus. Then, black-shirted nationalists
US Shooting Case Puts Spotlight on Controversial Law Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman said he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in self-defense during a confrontation, after calling the police emergency line to report a suspicious person:
Influential Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy has proposed that an independent truth commission be established to investigate alleged abuses of power under the Bush administration. President Barack Obama has reacted cautiously to the suggestion, sayi
U.S. lawmakers expressed outrage in a congressional hearing on Wednesday about tens of millions of dollars in bonuses paid out by the troubled insurance conglomerate, American International Group, or AIG. Testimony by AIG's chief executive Edward Li
Gay Rights Groups Push for Anti-Discrimination Laws George Ramirez and his partner German Roa have lived together for 16 years. Now, they are allowed to marry in Maryland, after voters there endorsed a law legalizing same-sex marriage. We want the op
By Edward Yeranian Cairo 31 October 2009 Iran's top lawmakers and its president have expressed disapproval of the United Nations-backed draft nuclear deal with the West, Saturday, offering varying degrees of criticism. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahma
By Margaret Besheer Washington 03 November 2007 NASA astronauts have successfully repaired a damaged solar wing at the International Space Station. The operation was completed Saturday, after being postponed twice so engineers could further study how
By Phillip Wellman Dakar 12 October 2007 Officials at the United Nations say they would like to review disaster management policy in West Africa, where recent floods have killed hundreds and left hundreds of thousands displaced. They say the floods h
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 16 May 2007 U.S. lawmakers are demanding greater oversight of the U.S.-government funded Al-hurra television for the Middle East, amid continuing controversy over programming carried by the station in late 2006 and early
By Sonja Pace London 28 December 2007 World reaction to the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been a mixture of outrage and concern about the future of her politically volatile country. VOA's S
By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 21 April 2008 As in other developing countries from Egypt to Haiti, soaring inflation has recently emerged as a threat to Cambodia's hard won social stability. While wages have remained low, the prices of rice and other stapl
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 25 February 2008 The U.N. humanitarian chief warns that if Kenya's political crisis is not quickly resolved, the risk of fresh violence, more displacement, and further polarization of society will be high. From U.N.
《爱无厌》(Insatiable)是野人花园乐队(Savage Garden)原主唱戴伦-海斯(Darren Hayes)单飞后的最佳单曲,选自他2003年的专辑《心灵节奏》(Spin)。一首英文情歌,更准确地说,情欲之歌登峰造极的假声,拉丁风情的曲风,四十人的交响乐旋律,烘托着难以自拔、心
Michael: I have some qualms about how were handling these accounts. Leona: What do you mean? Michael: There are strict regulations governing what we can and cannot do, and I think were violating those regulations. Leona: Listen, its a matter of inter