From NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Speer.Republicans from Capitol Hill to the campaign trail are harshly criticizing the president for his address about the San Bernardino terror attack. Donald Trump says he's calling for total and complete shutdo

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A 23-year-old Australian soldier has been killed in Afghanistan's Helmand province. The Chief of the Defence Force Angus Houston confirmed the death this morning. He says the combat engineer who was shot by insurgents was a superb young man. It's the

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This is AP News Minute. Drug maker giants Pfizer and Allergan are joining in the biggest buyout of the year a $160 billion merger deal. The deal is the biggest ever merge in health care, creating the worlds largest drug company. Police have arrested

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The temporary cease-fire agreed to by Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip is holding for a second day. Representatives from both sides are in Cairo, meeting separately with Egyptians mediators, who are trying to negotiate a lasting truce. At

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In the 1970s, researchers unearthing an ancient synagogue at Ein Gedi, near the Dead Sea, discovered the structures Holy Arkthe container in which early Jews would have stored the Bible as they prayed. The site was home to a large Jewish community fr

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 27 June 2007 Egyptian authorities say they have identified the mummy belonging to ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, Queen Hatshepsut. Her remains were long believed to have been lost. VOA correspondent Challiss

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 A ten-billion-dollar deal aims to create the world's largest exchange company. The plan would combine the operators of the New York Stock Exchange and

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1. The official death toll from the typhoon in the Philippine is nearly 1800 and authorities say it could rise considerably. An AP reporter in the devastated city of Tacloban saw dozens of bodies and no evidence organized aid delivery. 2. The Justice

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Picasso, Other Greats Created 'Wearable Art' Artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder and Robert Rauschenberg left behind works of art which are instantly recognizable: Picasso, whose portraits of his lovers merge profile and full face in a di

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Vermont's Long Trail is the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the country. It follows the spine of the Green Mountains more than 400 kilometers from one end of the northeastern state to the other and inspired the much longer Appalachian Trail, whi

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, here's something that will come as no surprise to anyone who drives to work. Maybe you're driving to work right now. Commuting times are just getting longer and longer. The Census Bureau says the average commute takes 2

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滴滴和Uber中国合并了。今天分享几个英语说法,聊聊这件影响我们每天出行的大事。 关键词: 首先,搞清Uber发音 Uber发wu的音,不是you的音。 它是个德语词,意思是超级好、极致的。 不过这

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Good morning everyone. The world's two biggest bear makers are said to merge in one of the largest takeover deals in the world. South African brewer SAB Millers has accepted a 145 billion dollar takeover offer from Belgium's Anheuser-Busch. SAB Mille

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By Sonja Pace Southern Lebanon 30 September 2009 Two states side by side, two homelands for two peoples - those are the broadly accepted tenets for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a cornerstone for peace in the Middle East. Many hurdl

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With the success of online bookstores, many traditional bookstore chains have, in recent years, either declared bankruptcy or cut back their business activities. This has made many people wonder whether physical 'bricks and mortar' bookstores will so

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By Mona Ghuneim New York 07 September 2007 As the sixth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attack approaches, construction of a memorial and museum at the site of the former World Trade Center has been underway for more than a year. The N

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India on High Alert after Bombs Kill More than 60 自发生爆炸事件死亡60多人以来,印度高度警备 Shopkeepers in the Paharganj market sift through broken glass and debris littering the

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By Elizabeth Lee Washington 16 October 2009 Man is transported to hospital room The U.S. Senate Finance Committee has approved a sweeping health care reform bill aimed at lowering insurance costs and expanding coverage to more Americans. In the comm

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Fruit processing company SPC Ardmona is facing an uncertain future after Federal cabinet knocks back its request for financial assistance. The company was asking for 25 million dollars to help restructure its operations. Thousands of jobs in the Vict

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Three finance companies are planning to merge to become a bank. At the moment, there is no name for this bank. The three finance companies are the Canterbury Building Society, Southern Cross Building Society and Marac finance which is owned by Pyne G

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