Habitat for Humanity

By Jill Moss Broadcast: July 21, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations estimates that more than one-thousand-million people live in poor housing c

NPR 2012-05-23

Authorities are trying to learn more about the woman who forced US Airways flight bound to North Carolina to divert to an airport in Maine after she displayed what authorities described as suspicious behavior. The aircraft out of Paris, France, lande

CNN 2009-09-23

Good morning, Im Melissa Long here at the CNN center in Atlanta, with a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS on this Tuesday. Investigators are looking for about a dozen more people in connection with a wide ranging terrorism invest

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CNN 2009-09-04

Hey, there I'm Virginia Cha, at CNN center in Atlanta with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Somehow despite 140 thousand acres burned, fire investigators have found the one tree they think where the major Southern California wildfire star

CNN 2009-04-05

Hi, everyone! I'm Asieh Namdar at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. A shooting standoff in Pittsburgh has reportedly turned deadly. WTAE and WPXI-TV report two police officers have died after being s

CNN 2010-07-04

As if our veterans don't have enough to deal with, now an outrageous story from CNN affiliate KSDK. Dental assistants at this St. Louis VA hospital may have been exposed or may have exposed, rather, more than 1800 of our vets to HIV or hepatitis. How

CNN 2011-01-09

All right. Let's travel cross country. First stop, Churchill County, Nevada, where a piece of Americana is no more. Someone cut down the so-called shoe tree along highway 50, just east of Fallon Nevada. The decades old cotton wood tree became known a

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AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-01-04)

It has now been more than a week since the attempted act of terrorism aboard the flight in Detroit on Christmas Day. On Thursday, I received the preliminary findings of the review that I ordered into our terrorist watchlist system and air travel scre

CNN 2008-03-01

Hello, Im Melissa Long here at the CNN Centre in Atlanta with a look at some of the stories that are happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Classes at one Miami area high school have returned to normal after police responded to a peaceful student protest. Sever

CNN 2008-10-23

From the CNN Center, in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin, here is our NOW IN THE NEWS update. It seems as if that 700-billion-dollar rescue plan to prop up banks and other big financial institutions is losing support. A brand new CNN poll shows that forty

俄罗斯说执行联合国对叙利亚军事行动的决议是行不通的

GWEN IFILL: Our lead story tonight: The furious pace of developments surrounding Syria gave way today to the more deliberate tempo of diplomacy. President Obama's call for military action was on hold, as the wait began to see if Syria's patron, Russi

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is verbification. Last week police used a Taser on University of Florida student Andrew Meyer as they struggled to remove him from an auditorium where Senator John Kerry was speaking. The Web has been filled with deba

HSBC Admits US Banking Violations

CAPITOL HILL Global private banking giant HSBC has admitted that lax vigilance made it vulnerable to money laundering by Mexican drug cartels, as well as transactions involving Iran that are banned under U.S. law. HSBC managers pledged to do better i

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CNN 2008-10-14

Glad you with us everyone I'm Catherine Callaway at the CNN center in Atlanta. We take a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. We are following a story out of Magnolia, Texas that we have seen develop throughout till the last hour. It is where a

U.S. researchers discover human lung stem cell

WASHINGTON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at Brigham and Women 's Hospital (BWH), a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have identified(鉴定) a human lung stem cell that is self-renewing and capable of forming and integrating multiple bi

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U.S. President Barack Obama wants to invest $215 million into a new health initiative that would help tailor medical treatment to an individual's genetic make-up. 奥巴马总统提议向美国一项新的基因研究计划投资2亿一千五百万美元