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Relationship Between Bush and Putin Getting Weaker After their first meeting in 2001, President Bush was convinced Mr. Putin was a man he could trust. President Bush : I looked the man in the eye, I f
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The US Supreme Courts justices are done with a closed-door meeting during which they were expected to cast a preliminary vote on the nation's contentious health care law. But NPR's Nina Totenberg reports however, each of the nine justices leans on th
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Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords remains at the University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona after being shot in the head yesterday. As we hear from NPR's Jeff Brady in Tucson, doctors say Giffords has responded to some simple commands, but she's sti
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AS IT IS 2016-10-11 US Presidential Debate Most-Tweeted Ever 周日美国总统候选人辩论史上最火爆 Sunday's U.S. Presidential debate was the most-tweeted debate in Twitter's ten-year history, the social network said. 社交网络报道，周
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By Ernest Leong Washington 25 July 2007 She is a Persian-American athlete who was both a state and national Tae Kwon Do champion, and one of the top amateur boxers in the world. Now, barely two years after having her second child, Kina Elyassi has se
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1. Tiger Woods has withdrawn from his own golf tournament after citing injuries from a car crash near his Florida home. Woods said in a statement on his website Monday that his injuries won't allow him to play in the Chevron World Challenge. He said
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By the middle of the nineteenth century most learned people thought the Earth was at least a few million years old, perhaps even some tens of millions of years old, but probably not more than that. So it came as a surprise when, in 1859 in On the Ori
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Philippine Political Crisis Continues 菲律宾政治危机仍在继续 Pressure continued to mount Monday for Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to resign over allegations of vote-rigging i
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Negotiations between President Barack Obama and Republican lawmakers appear deadlocked, with Republican leaders sharply criticizing Mr. Obama's approach in talks about slashing U.S. budget deficits and raising the government's borrowing limit. The pr
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The Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party has been reelected for an unprecedented third consecutive term. The party increased its votes securing just over 50% of the ballots cast. But the prime minister fell well short of his goal of a two-th
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U.S. motorists have long had an infatuation with cars and the freedom to travel far and wide on the countrys open highways. But now drivers are getting squeezed by higher prices at the gas pumps. American gas prices are still low compared to those in
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European leaders may hold another crisis summit on the struggling eurozone as early as Friday. The euro currency area is experiencing another grim week - and America's own debt problems only add to the uncertainty. More bleak news for 17-nation euroz
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U.S. President Barack Obama and his political opponents in Congress are moving a bit closer to reaching a compromise over contentious year-end financial issues. No deal appears imminent, but officials say the leader of the Republican-controlled House
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President Barack Obama met with a group of state governors from his Democratic Party on Friday, to discuss ways to boost the U.S. economy and deal with state budget crises(危机). The governors said they did not talk about the ongoing budget furor i
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U.S. labor leaders met with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, calling on him to reject deep cuts in pensions and health care for the elderly as he works to resolve crucial government financial issues by the end of the year. Newly re-elected, Obama i
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Congressional Leaders Optimistic About Fiscal Talks WHITE HOUSE Republican and Democratic congressional leaders voiced optimism after White House talks Friday with President about chances for an agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff facing th
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A major American newspaper says the U.S. is investigating the financial services company that downgraded the U.S. credit rating for its faulty rating of mortgage securities that played a major role in the country's 2008 recession. The New York Times
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The Workers' Party of the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has promised to continue its fight to defend her in the streets and in the senate after the lower house of congress voted for her to be impeached. MPs approved the move by the necessary 2/3
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Lucasfilm's Computer Division 卢卡斯影业的电脑部门 When Jobs was losing his footing at Apple in the summer of 1985, 1985年夏天，乔布斯在苹果公司正处于失势中。 he went for a walk with Alan Kay, who had been at Xerox PARC a
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