Another international story we've been following concerns the secretive nation of North Korea. It's been a rival of South Korea and the U.S. since fighting stopped in the Korean War in 1953. North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un has spoken out repeatedly

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So just like always, the mortgage brokerconnects the family with a lender and a mortgage making his commission. Thefamily buys a big house. The lender sells the mortgage to the investmentbanker, who turns it into a CDO, and sells slices to the invest

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This is AP News Minute. The explosive new book about President Donald Trump's administration is selling out at bookstores across the US and Europe. Fire and Fury, Michael Wolf's tell-all of the inner workings of the Trump's administration, stood numb

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Online Universities Offer Free Classes to Millions An engineering class at Stanford University is being recorded as an online course. The university is offering 30 to 40 free courses online, and more than 1.5 million students have enrolled. There are

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What had the legs of agator and the jaws of fish? Why the earliest land animals? Because a new studies shows that animals evolved weight-bearing limbs long before they had the chambers to really take advantage of a terrestrial diet. The research is i

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India's military has been sent into the state of Bihar, where an estimated two million people are affected by the flooded Kosi River. At least 40 people are dead and there are fears that the breach will expand in the days ahead, which could wash awa

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Advocacy Group Praises Clinton AIDS Remarks Advocacy groups are praising Secretary of State Hillary Clintons comments that an AIDS-free generation is within reach. Mrs. Clinton spoke Monday at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Mitchell Warren c

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Millions of Americans Vote Before Election Day Nevada has had two weeks of early voting starting on October 20 and ending November 2. Nevada resident Loran Gibson says it was convenient. I know friends that, if they didn't have early voting, they wou

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Why Tobacco Companies Are Spending Millions To Boost A Cigarette Tax play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0002:47repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your F

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Glatsmire's model shows that the magnetic poles swap places spontaneously due to / complex processes within the core. We were used to the idea that a compass points somewhere near the North Pole and hence we can use it for navigation, but there are p

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Weknew from the radar measurements where Golevka was within a few tens of metres.And yet it was actually 12 or 15 kilometres away from where it was predicted tobe without Yarkovsky effect. So these very precise radar observations allowedus to see the

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今天我们要学的词是sway。 Sway, 做为动词,有试图影响别人的意思。Virginias candidates for governor are trying to sway undecided voters, 维吉尼亚州长候选人试图影响仍然左右摇摆的选民。Health care industrie

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Samantha, like many renters, is tired of renting. One reason is that her annual rent goes up like clockwork. Every year her landlord raises the rent five percent. Another reason is her neighbors. New neighbors always seem to be more inconsiderate tha

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Do you have gas? Beginners. What kind of a question is that? Are you talking about my body or my car? Well, actually, I am talking about your car. Gas, or petrol, as it is called in England, is a big subject at the moment. Driving a car has become re

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The president of the Japanese automaker Toyota has apologized for the company's global recall of millions of vehicles due to safety issues. Akio Toyoda is the grandson of Toyota's founder. Toyota's top executive, president and CEO Akio Toyoda, offere

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Lottery fever in US 彩票乐透美国 Millions are trying their luck in seven states 七个州的几百万人准备碰一碰运气 Millions of people in the United States are scrambling for tickets to enter one of the world's biggest-ever lottery dr

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Coldplay 酷玩乐队强势回归新单《Midnight》!在光和影中,Chris Martin 肆意舞动,美丽又迷幻。而那轻柔入耳的音符,让你瞬间迷失在他们的音乐世界里。这就是酷玩,让人爱到彻底! 歌词: In

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A whole new year 全新的一年 But everything's same 一切却依然是老样子 Waste the day 日子就这样浪费 With a list of ways I should change 一张清单上,说好的改变依然没有变 We drive all around this town 开着车在这个

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今天我们要学的词是affect。 Affect, 做为动词,有影响的意思。上星期冰岛火山爆发,产生的火山灰云层造成了欧洲空中交通的瘫痪。 The airspace shutdowns have affected millions of travelers, 空中交通的停

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By Alex Villarreal Washington 13 November 2007 Researchers in the United States estimate women will control 60 percent of the country's wealth by 2010. Now two leading female philanthropists are trying to inspire women to use their growing wealth for

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