President Barack Obama said today with an estimated 3.6 million people losing their jobs since the start of the current recession, there is no time to waste in getting the economic stimulus plan through Congress. President's remarks coming as Senate

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(223) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台2月

Opponents of California's ban on gay marriage are celebrating a federal judge's decision to overturn the law. Mary Bernardo is an attorney with Massachusetts-based Gay Lesbian Advocates Defenders who says the argument against same-sex marriage is wea

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From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. Ten US missionaries in Haiti have been charged with child kidnapping and criminal association. A deputy prosecutor in Haiti announced today that the group is accused of trying to take children illegally

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. President Obama is in New Hampshire to push his economic agenda. Speaking in Nashua last hour, he unveiled his plan to create jobs. And we're gonna start where most new jobs start with small businesses.

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The State Department is warning Americans to be extra careful about traveling to Mexico, the day after three people, two of them US citizens, were gunned down in Ciudad Juarez. NPRs Sonari Glinton has the story. Drug cartel violence, especially along

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At least three people were killed today when a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Insurgents are blamed for dozens of other deaths in the Iraqi cities in the run-up to tomorrow's national elections. Hundreds o

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Syrian activists say the army and defected soldiers are clashing in the north and south of the country. NPRs Peter Kenyon reports observers say more than 60 people have been killed just since Friday. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Righ

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President Obama was on the US-Mexican border today in an effort to create public pressure on Congress to try again to pass an immigration overhaul bill. NPR's Mara Liasson reports. President Obama promised Hispanic voters in 2008 that he would pass a

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House and Senate leaders are working to line up the votes they'll need to pass a budget that funds the rest of the fiscal year. NPR's Audie Cornish reports voting is expected to begin on Thursday. Conservatives in the House from Tea Party favorites M

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Seventy-nine Southwest's planes remain grounded after a hole tore the fuselage open in a plane out of Phoenix Friday. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the issue of metal fatigue is not new to Southwest. The plane damaged Friday was a 15-year-old Boeing

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.Police in Newtown Connecticut are still investigating the crime scenes where 27 people died yesterday. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports the names of the victims have not yet been released. Police Lieutenant P

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Labor groups are on strike in Egypt, further complicating the government's attempts to end a more than two-week-old revolt against long-time President Hosni Mubarak. He is still resisting demands to resign immediately. The US and other allies have ca

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The House Armed Services Committee is overwhelmingly supporting a 624-billion-dollar defense legislation it calls for construction of a mission defense site on the East Coast, and [to] restore ships and planes that were supposed to be retired early.

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1. The House has approved the resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq. In the end, 17 Republicans joined Democrats in favoring the non-binding resolution. 2. Anna Nicole Smith's will lists her longtime companion lawyer Howard K.

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. The United States Senate is now considering my nomination of Judge Sam Alito to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court. As Americans saw in his confirmation hearings, Sam Alito is a man of great character and integ

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THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today we reached a critical milestone in our effort to reform our health care system. After many months of thoughtful deliberation, the fifth and final committee responsible for health care reform has passed a proposal

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今天我们要学的词是hammer out。 To hammer out, 是经过深入讨论后做出决定的意思。全球最大的气候变化国际会议星期一在哥本哈根开幕。World leaders will try to hammer out a new global agreement to cut carbon

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1. President Barack Obama says he wants a safety review of all 104 nuclear reactors in the US in the wake of the disaster in Japan. The president wants to make sure plants can withstand earthquakes and other disruptions. 2. The House votes to end pub

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The American presidential candidates are in the final weekend of campaigning for the elections on Tuesday. Barack Obama's lead has narrowed but most opinion polls still point his way. John McCain shakes ha

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. High food and fuel prices. Housing and credit problems. Job losses. Worries about a recession. No wonder the economy is a top issue for American voters. John McCain speaking about his economic plan in

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