Former New York Mayor Gives $1.8 Billion to Johns Hopkins University Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced he is donating $1.8 billion to his former school, Johns Hopkins University on Sunday. 纽约前市长布隆伯格周日宣布将

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Top 10 Words Looked Up Online in 2004 For years, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has been one of the most popular and authoritative dictionaries of the American language in use -- even when it was just

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Americans Recover Record of Couple's Last Moments Before Asian Tsunami We all know about the power of the Internet to connect people in a community or on opposite ends of the earth. But one family, gr

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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Former Defense Secretary to Lead Boy Scouts 前国防部长领导童子军 WASHINGTON He has served under eight U.S. presidents, including as chief of the Central Intelligence Agency and at the Pentagon. Now, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has

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So here is the challenge, because you have four babies will soon, four babies you have to really know how to multitask which I assume you do know how to do. I am sure you have helper at home. Right? Yeah, but I am think i am pretty good at multitaski

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This is AP News Minute. President Donald Trump has wrapped up his nine-day overseas trip after delivering a speech to US troops in Italy. G-7 leaders at the summit in Sicily have been pressuring Trump to stay in the Paris climate agreement, a decisio

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White House Protester Dies After Longest Vigil 美国反战禁核抗议人士康妮去世在白宫前示威35年 You probably saw Concepcion Picciotto if you visited the White House over the past 35 years or so. She lived in a camp, in Lafayette Park

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在津巴布韦被控拥有色情材料的前美议员有前科 Former U.S. congressman Mel Reynolds has denied charges of possessing pornographic images and videos two days after his arrest at a hotel in Zimbabwe. This is not the first time the cong

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BBC news. Officials in Afghanistan say Taliban gunmen disguised in Afghan army uniforms have killed more than 70 troops in an attack in a military base outside the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif. And an army spokesman says the insurgence has struck

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A father of three sexual abuse victims tried to attack the former Olympic and Michigan State University doctor found guilty of the sex crimes. 三位性虐受害者的父亲想要殴打前奥林匹克队医兼密歇根州立大学校医,该校医被控

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Former US First Lady Barbara Bush Dies at 92 Barbara Bush died Tuesday at her home in Texas. She was 92 years old. Her husband of 73 years, former United States President George H.W. Bush, was with her at the time. Barbara Bush reportedly suffered fr

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Former White House Adviser Says She Taped Inside Secret Situation Room A former adviser to President Donald Trump has released a recording she says she secretly made inside the White Houses high-security Situation Room. The adviser, Omarosa Manigault

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Microsoft: Russian Hackers Targeted US Websites Before Elections Software maker Microsoft says that hackers linked to Russias government tried to launch computer attacks on United States websites. The websites belonged to the U.S. Senate and to some

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美国总统大选前选民情绪 Outside the growing city of Charlotte, North Carolina - host to the 2012 Democratic National Convention - a different section of America watches. Kane Farabaugh looks at how people who live just a few hours west of t

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This week marked the fifth anniversary of the speech President Bush gave on a U.S. aircraft carrier, in which he declared the end of major combat in Iraq. The anniversary came at the end of a difficult month for U.S. forces in Iraq, and caused some r

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Another breaking news story from Friday night involved President Trump's pardon of a man who used to be a sheriff in the state of Arizona. 周五晚上的另一则爆炸性新闻特朗普总统宣布赦免亚利桑那州前警长。 His name is Joe A

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The second-ranking U.S. military commander in Iraq says he expects to keep about 130,000 American troops in the country through the end of this year, when Iraq has a series of elections planned, and then to make a fairly rapid withdrawal of most of t

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London is one of the busiest financial centers of the modern world. And historians have revealed evidence that two thousand years ago, business deals were being struck on exactly the same spot. Archeologists have unearthed the oldest handwritten docu

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Eight pandas that survived China's deadly earthquake went on display at the Beijing Zoo earlier this month, with officials expecting the bears to attract millions of Olympic visitors. After a special welcoming ceremony, a steady stream of mainly Chin

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