CAPITOL HILL The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Barack Obamas pick for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, after a bruising nomination battle that saw widespread Republican opposition to the former Republican senator by a vote of 58 to 41. Hagel wil

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The political campaigns of U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have sharpened their attacks against each other with heated discussions on taxes. Romney's decision to limit disclosures about his personal wealth to his 201

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1. President Barack Obama is hoping Republicans and Democrats can reach an agreement on budget cuts. He'll meet with House Speaker John Boehner later this morning. Lawmakers are working on a stopgap spending measure, but senior government workers hav

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1. As BP crews get ready to test a plan to plug the top of its busted oil well, a company spokesman says engineers are still trying to figure out exactly how to use a pair of relief wells they're constructing. The wells were once seen as the only sur

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1. President Barack Obama says he's ready to work with the GOP, and he wants to start with taxes and spending. The president called Tuesday's election a shellacking for Democrats. The president says he hopes to learn from the setback just as other pr

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After watching Republican candidates spar in two rounds of debates, Democrats looking to become the next U.S. president got their turn Tuesday night at their first debate of the 2016 election campaign in Las Vegas. As the front-runner in the Democrat

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在距离大选投票日不到两周之际,美国联邦调查局(FBI)投下了震撼弹。据报道,FBI于美国当地时间10月28日重启对于民主党总统候选人希拉里?克林顿邮件门的调查,目前调查还没有进展。而最

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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: To help us analyze the latest political developments surrounding the Trump administration, I'm joined from Santa Barbara, California, by NewsHour Weekend's Jeff Greenfield. Jeff, you know, FOX News made

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Lexington 莱克星顿 Dreamy footsoldiers of the Left 左派步兵,如痴如梦 Some Democrats haven't noticed that the next election is this year, not 2016 一些民主党忽视下一场选举近在今年,而不是2016 ELECTION fever grips the

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Lexington 莱克星顿 The Ebola alarmists 埃博拉恐慌者 Stoking panic will not help America fight Ebola 引发恐慌对美国战胜埃博拉无益 IN THE crowded field of Ebola alarmists, Rand Paul ofKentuckystands out. Before he was a Republic

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Mr Trump is also wilfully divisive. 特朗普还故意制造分裂。 All politicians attack their opponents, but presidents see it as their duty to unite the country after a tragedy. 政客们都攻击对手,但总统本应在悲剧之后将团结国

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What is to be done? 那应该怎么办呢? Just as American politics did not sour overnight, so the route forward is by many small steps, beginning with next week's elections. 正如美国政治不会在一夜之间恶化,前进的道路也需要很

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Conservatives have argued for decades that tax cuts are the key to economic prosperity. And the tax plan presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is pushing would cut taxes for the top 0.1 percent of earners by an average of approximately $1.3 million pe

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Science and technology 科学技术 Post-traumatic stress disorder 创伤后精神紧张性障碍 Battle ready? 士兵,你准备好了吗? It may be possible to vaccinate soldiers against the trauma of war 为士兵接种抗战争创伤疫苗成为

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The US House of Representatives narrowly approved continuing the National Security Agency's secret collection of hundreds of millions of citizens' phone records after a fierce debate pitting privacy rights against the government's efforts to thwart t

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One of the most closely-watched U.S. Supreme Court cases in years began Monday as oral arguments got under way in a legal challenge to President Barack Obamas health care law - the signature achievement of his presidency so far. Analysts say the outc

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Voters in five northeastern US states are casting ballots in primary elections that are expected to extend the leads of the front-runners to be candidates for the presidency. The latest opinion polls put the Republican Donald Trump and Hillary Clinto

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Health reform 医疗改革 Medicare, the opera 医改的闹剧 Another election, another nonsensical fight over the elderly 又一场选举,又一场关于老年人的荒谬斗争 APRIL has been a cheerful month for the Affordable Care Act, better

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Germany's public pensions 德国社会抚恤金 In the wrong direction 方向错误 The government is reversing some of its predecessor's sensible pension reforms 政府正在颠覆之前明智的抚恤金改革政策 AS THE country with the European

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Sweden's government 瑞典政府 That was quick 生命短暂 Stefan Lofven's fall shows the strength of the far-right Sweden Democrats 瑞典首相斯特凡勒文下台,彰显瑞典极右翼民主党实力 IT WAS supposed to be the Swedish Social D

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