A trial is going on right now that's closely being watched by companies and legal experts around America. ATT is trying to buy Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, for more than $85 billion.Today, ATT is a large wireless company and satellite TV d

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And then they said they didn't like the way I looked. This was in 1976, when your boss could call you in and say, I don't like the way you looked. Now that would be called a lawsuit, but back then they could just say, I don't like the way you look. W

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The New Laundry Bruno Pirelli proudly took a lease on premises for his new laundry last week. It had required a big leap of faith to get this project completed. A rival had leaked Brunos plans to the press. This had led to noisy demonstrations by op

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The United States says all eligible young children separated from their families have been reunited with their parents. The families were separated as a result of the countrys zero-tolerance immigration policy. As of Thursday morning, 57 children und

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Rights Group Challenges US Security Policy on Airline Passenger Lists Jim Malone A leading U.S. civil liberties group has filed a legal challenge to a program that seeks to bar people with suspected l

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1. Hurricane Wilma's outer edge batters beaches in Cancun Mexico as tourists are ordered to leave and thousands are evacuated from Honduras to the Florida Keys. 2. Texas congressman Tom DeLay turns hi

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US Frees British Prisoners from Guantanamo The last four Britons held at the U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released and have returned home, where they are in police c

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By Mike O'Sullivan Las Vegas 19 January 2008 Voters in the Western state of Nevada are taking part in party caucuses Saturday to help choose the nominees for U.S. president. Mike O'Sullivan has a preview from Las Vegas on the first-in-the-West presid

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On Friday afternoon a judge sentenced lawyer Mickey Mantle to 24 hours in jail for contempt. Mantle had just won a lawsuit against a man who had struck Mantles client. The client had accidentally spilled a diet soda onto the defendants new sneakers,

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Secretary of State John Kerry began talks with his Russian counterpart in Geneva today, saying the world is watching to see if two major powers can work together to rid Syria of chemical weapons. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports Kerry is testing how ser

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: In the fight over how we treat our environment, farms can be a battleground. NPR's Dan Charles reports here on how regulations meant to protect land and water are being challenged by farmers. DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: Environmentalist

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you follow news stories about famous men behaving horribly then you've surely seen Gloria Allred. Long before the Me Too movement caught fire, Gloria Allred was talking about these issues, filing lawsuits and holding press con

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: We're going to revisit a community hit hard by Hurricane Harvey. Crosby, Texas, is home to a chemical plant owned by the company Arkema. After that plant lost power in the storm, trailers of unstable chemicals caught fire and

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The National Football League has been hit hard by controversial headlines recently, but TV ratings on game day haven't suffered yet. Yesterday, after the action finished on the field, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration launche

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By Jessica Golloher Moscow 02 November 2009 Joseph Stalin's grandson has sued a prominent Russian newspaper for libel, claiming Novaya Gazeta is tarnishing the former Soviet leader's good name. The news comes on the heels of a United Nation's commit

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今天我们要学的词组是dismiss。 Dismiss有解散的意思, 比如学校因为暴风雪而提前一个小时放学了,School was dismissed one hour early due to a snow storm. Dismiss在法律上是驳回,不予受理的意思。 美国联

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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has sued two vendors for selling counterfeit goods, weeks after being blacklisted by a US industry watchdog. 在被美国行业监管部门列入黑名单数周后,中国电商巨头阿里巴巴起诉两家商铺销售

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The top U.S. housing official, who is under criminal investigation, has announced he is resigning. 美国负责住房事务的最高官员宣布辞职。与此同时,他正在接受司法调查。 Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Ja

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Sports scientist Steven Dank has launched a ten-millon-dollar lawsuit against the media. His lawyers say they'll be seeking damages for defamation and loss of income. Dank had worked for Essendon which is one of the AFL clubs being investigated for t

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Topic 1-Suicide among rural seniors Chinas elderly who live in the countryside are more prone to ending their lives as opposed to city folks in the same age group. What went wrong? Topic 2-Man Sues Blogger for Insulting Henan People A resident of Hen

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