Candlelight vigils have become all too familiar images in the United States. The shooting in Thousand Oaks California means reliving a nightmare for Kayla Sanford who survived the mass shooting in Las Vegas Nevada in 2017. 烛光守夜对美国来说已

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In the wake of the Moscow bombings, some global security experts say this kind of violence cannot be permanently stopped. But governments can do more to prevent mass casualties. Our correspondent takes a look at the additional measures governments ca

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Information War Rages Alongside Real One in Ukraine 信息战争肆虐与真正的乌克兰 KYIV The downing of the Malaysian airliner two weeks ago, and allegations that Russians are shelling Ukrainian troops across the border, have moved the inform

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Hong Kong's anti-Occupy Central movement has met the press and announced that over one million signatures have been collected in support of the Hong Kong police. Among the signatures nearly 270 thousand were collected online and 830 thousand gathered

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Grammar Girl here. We've received several requests to address Latin plurals, so today we're going to tackle a tricky one. A listener called with this request: Hi, Grammar Girl. This is Adam from Peoria. I was wondering if you could go over the usage

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 24 December 2006 Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer at the Vatican, 24 Dec 2006 Pope Benedict addressed pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square this Sunday and said that the celebrati

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By Brian Padden Turin, Italy 20 February 2006 watch Security report At the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy there have been no real security problems. But officials there say they remain on a high leve

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Defeated popular-reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is calling for his supporters to remain peaceful during demonstrations to show solidarity with those who were killed in violence during the past several days. In this frame grab t

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Rescuers in central Italy continue to search for possible survivors in the rubble of Monday's earthquake as funerals begin for the victims of the disaster. So far, the death toll is 279, which includes at least 20 children. Local and government auth

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Pope Benedict Leads Last Ash Wednesday Mass A choir sang as the 85-year-old pontiff entered the church, walking on his own, his first public appearance since announcing his resignation earlier this week. Looking somewhat frail in his ceremonial purpl

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When the parishioners at one church in upstate New York gather for worship each week, many of them are armed. The church even advertises its open-carry policy online. From member station WRVO, Payne Horning reports. (SOUNDB

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: James Forman Jr. may change the way you think about the mass incarceration of African-Americans on drug charges. Foreman is a law professor at Yale who used to be a public defender in Washington, D.C. He's also the son of a famou

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Across Pennsylvania, Catholic churches are celebrating Mass this weekend for the first time since a devastating report. In that report, the state attorney general detailed the sexual abuse of minors by hundreds of priests.

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Christopher itagliata. Got a minute? How heavy is the Milky Way in comparison to its neighbor galaxy, Andromeda? Well, depends how you calculate it. In 2006 one group of astronomers figured the Mil

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How heavy is the Milky Way in comparison to its neighbor galaxy, Andromeda? Well, depends how you calculate it. In 2006 one group of astronomers figured the Milky Way was twice as massive as Andromeda. A 2009 estimate evened the score, calculating th

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By Meredith Buel Washington 17 April 2008 Pope Benedict XVI has celebrated an outdoor Mass for more than 45,000 people in Washington, D.C. The pope expressed concerns about problems in modern society and once again addressed the sex scandal that has

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By Margaret Besheer New York 19 April 2008 Pope Benedict told American Catholic clergy and nuns on Saturday that the Church in the United States must work to overcome its divisions, saying this is a time of healing and purification, after the sexual

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王亚平太空授课,演示水膜变水球 China's second female astronaut, Wang Yaping, has delivered the country's first-ever video lecture from space. Speaking to students via live video, Ms Wang used spinning tops, a ball, water and a fellow a

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 15 April 2007 A giant birthday banner is seen in the background as Pope Benedict XVI is driven through the crowd at the end of his birthday Mass at the Vatican, 15 Apr 2007 Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his 80th birthday a

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Remember seesaws? Those things were great. But there was often a problem. Suppose theres a big kid on one side and a smaller kid on the other side. The seesaw just stays in one position: big kid on the ground, smaller kid up in the air. No fun. After

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