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NPR 2012-01-27

President Obamas pitching his economic agenda to southwestern voters today, recapping the plan he outlined in his State of the Union address Tuesday. The president says everything his administration has done to build up manufacturing, clean energy an

NPR 2010-04-25

A massive weather system sweeping across the Deep South is spawning tornadoes. Suzette Berry lives just outside Yazoo City, Mississippi where she says a twister tore through Highway 49 and flattened just about everything in its path. Trees downed, I

NPR 2010-06-19

The administrator of the 20-billion-dollar escrow fund being established to help victims of the BP oil spill in the Gulf says he plans to pay legitimate claims quickly. In an interview of NPR's All Things Considered, Ken Feinberg says he hopes to pay

CNN 2008-05-24

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin. Here are the headlines NOW IN THE NEWS. It is one day after the tornadoes in Colorado, where a state of emergency is now in effect after that deadly tornado came roaring through. Thecleanup has just

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CNN 2010-06-07

AZUZ: Around 25 percent of those tornadoes form in an area that's called Tornado Alley. Colorado is part of that, and it's where this tornado showed up on Monday. These pictures are amazing; look at this. Twisters like this one can sometimes do a lot

AP 2012-03-08

1. President Barack Obama is meeting with Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two met for several hours at the White House with Iran's nuclear program being a major discussion point. Netanyahu said Israel is a sovereign nation with the rig

AP 2012-03-06

1. Rescue crews are continuing to find victims of Friday's severe weather. Dozens from Indiana to Georgia were killed. The tornadoes destroyed homes, businesses and tossed around cars and buses. 2. BP has agreed to a 7.8-billion dollar settlement of

AP 2012-03-05

1. The Senate defeats a Republican effort to roll back the president's policy on contraception insurance coverage. The measure would have allowed employers and insurance providers to opt out of health care legislation. 2. The Red Cross says it has pe

AP 2012-04-17

1. A senior house Republican says he doubts that a Secret Service scandal involving prostitutes in Columbia was a one-time incident. 11 Secret Service employees have been placed on administration leave after allegedly partying with prostitutes in adv

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2016-8-21

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美联社新闻一分钟 2008-05-04

1. In the Midwest, it's a data pickup after violent weather marked by tornadoes. In Arkansas, seven people are dead, pushing this year's storm death toll in the state to more than two dozen people. Meteorologists say more than 25 tornadoes may have t

AP 2011-04-05

1. Muammar Gaddafi has issued a defiant statement after two high-profile departures from his regime, and is calling on leaders of countries attacking his forces to resign. The Libyan news agency says Gaddafi accused Western leaders of warning to crea

AP 2012-04-13

1. Police documents say the two men accused of shooting five people in Oklahoma have confessed. Three of the five have died. All the victims are black. Police described the suspects as white. 2. A pair of tornadoes have touched down in Oklahoma. The

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