Weekly Address: President Obama Calls for Compromise and Explains his Priorities on Taxes 每周电视讲话:奥巴马总统呼吁各方妥协,并解释他在想优先解决的税收问题 WASHINGTON As Congress prepares to focus on taxes when it ret

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At the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the United States refused to participate in the debate session devoted to human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories. 在联合国人权理事会第34次会议上,美国

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AS IT IS 2016-10-02 Meltwater Lakes in Antarctica Show Signs of Trouble 南极洲或因融水湖增多而不断瓦解 Antarctica is home to the largest ice mass on Earth. The continent sits on 14 million square kilometers of rock. About 98 percent of

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, Senate leaders introduced revised legislation on comprehensive immigration reform. I thank leaders from both parties for their bipartisan effort to fix our immigration system so it can meet the needs of our Na

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. As we approach graduation season, many American students are looking forward to beginning college in the fall. This new chapter of life is a time of great expectation but can also be a time of anxiety. And that anxiety i

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Grizzly bears once roamed much of the United States. But two centuries of hunting and habitat loss have devastated their numbers. Today, less than 1,200 live in the Lower 48. If there is a last remaining stronghold for the North American Grizzly, it

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Life on the Tundra Tundra is the name given to the low, marshy plains of Europe, Siberia, and North America that border on the Arctic Ocean. In Alaska, the vast, cold region known as the

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RAY SUAREZ: The death toll of polio vaccine workers killed in a string of attacks in Pakistan climbed again today. One victim died from wounds sustained in a shooting on Wednesday. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News narrates this report on the

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A woman is standing at a bus stop at noon. A van pulls up. A young man hops out of the van, grabs the womans purse, gets back into the van, and it drives off. An elderly man is standing on the sidewalk in front of his home at 10:30 p.m. He is admirin

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1. Amid tensions over North Korean nuclear tests, the U.S. dispatched a top-of-the-line guided missile destroyer to Japan. The USS Mustin is equipped with sensitive missile-tracking radar . The warshi

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1. Osama bin Laden’s top deputy is calling President Bush a butcher in a new videotape airing on Al-Jazeera. It’s the first video from Ayman al-Zawahri since a US air strike in Pakistan missed him

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Benedict Cumberbatch says he tries to stay clear of fan theories and online conspiracies about Sherlock. 本尼迪克特.康伯巴奇表示他努力不让粉丝对《神探夏洛克》的揣测和网上的阴谋论影响自己。 Ahead of the fourth

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Also: Reduction in snow hurts Switzerland's winter-sports industry. Transcript of radio broadcast: 07 July 2008 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Hot weather has returne

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Iraqis elected a new parliament in March. There was no clear winner. And five months later there is still no agreement on a coalition government. On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council called on

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AS IT IS 2016-08-06 How Safe are U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Turkey? 美国存放土耳其的核武是否安全 Military and political experts are warning the United States against storing nuclear weapons in Turkey. Those experts say the recent attempt t

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US Woman Fights to Save Cheetahs Since ancient times, people have regarded cheetahs with awe for their beauty, grace and unique ability to reach speeds of up to 110 kilometers per hour. But today, the species - which once ranged across Africa, India

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Detainees at Australia's controversial offshore immigration center on Christmas Island are now being housed in tents after a flood of new arrivals overwhelmed the facility's capacity. More than 50 boatloads of suspected asylum seekers have now been i

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1. The Navy has permanently removed a senior officer from command of an aircraft carrier over raunchy comedy videos he made and showed to the crew. The Navy says Captain Owen Honors showed extremely poor judgment in the videos. 2. House Speaker Nancy

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Some members of Congress reacted Monday to the news that the U.S. military death toll in Iraq has reached 4,000, with majority Democrats mixing messages of respect for the sacrifices of the military, with more criticism of President Bush. 美国国会一

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There are several kinds of odor preventing and odor destroying treatments for textiles. For the most part, they work by killing or inhibiting the bacteria and fungi that cause odors. For example, these socks contain Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, or

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