NPR 2010-10-29

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Investigators appear to be contradicting claims by Halliburton that its cement job was no responsible for the BP blowout that led to a historical oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. NPR's Jeff Brady says t

NPR 2010-10-31

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Salih today reportedly announced that at least one woman is under arrest for allegedly sending mailbombs found on cargo planes in Dubai and England. Oliver Holms is in the Yemeni capital Sanaa where he says security is

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You know, I think there is a certain measure of uncertainty that exists here and in the Gulf Coast as well. Uncertainty as to whether New Orleans will really come back to the way it was. And I'm alway

NPR 2011-04-20

Syria is abolishing nearly 50 years of emergency rule that gave the government broad powers to detain anyone considered a threat. This was a key demand for the Syrian opposition. But it may not be enough for President Bashar al-Assad to halt the more

NPR 2011-06-21

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Wal-Mart is hailing the Supreme Courts decision today to block a class-action lawsuit from going forward in its current form. The ruling is a big setback for more than a million women who accused the na

NPR 2008-09-13

Hurricane Ike is continuing to move northwest through the Gulf of Mexico. But already winds are picking up with the storm's outer bands pushing waves over Galveston's 17-foot-high seawall even though the storm is more than 100 miles out at sea. In a

NPR 2011-04-04

Seventy-nine Southwest's planes remain grounded after a hole tore the fuselage open in a plane out of Phoenix Friday. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the issue of metal fatigue is not new to Southwest. The plane damaged Friday was a 15-year-old Boeing

NPR 2011-06-15

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Fierce firefighting efforts are under way in eastern Arizona, where the Wallow Fire is now nearly 470,000 acres, making it the largest in state history. While many people have returned to their homes, A

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1. American evacuees from Lebanon have arrived safely at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Airport officials say the evacuees are getting help, contacting relatives and making further tr

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Thousands Of Fire Evacuees To Spend The Holiday Without Homes STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Many people in Northern California are away from home this holiday week because their homes were destroyed by the Camp Fire. NPR's Elise Hu reports on how some are spe

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Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four. My Geiger counter dosimeter, which measures radiation, was going berserk, and the closer I got, the more frenetic it became, and frantic. My God. I was

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By Mike O'Sullivan San Diego 25 October 2007 Wildfires have driven more than half a million people from their homes in California, and destroyed over 1,500 homes and businesses. Mike O'Sullivan reports from San Diego, California, some evacuees have f

CNN 2008-07-08

Hello, I'm Brooke Baldwin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. And here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Travel trouble for Senator Barack Obama just this afternoon. His plane was diverted to St. Louis after experiencing mechanical problems d

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Rescue workers began a massive relief operation in Vanuatu on Sunday following a devastating cyclone that killed at least eight people, sent thousands into emergency shelters and disrupted communications in the Pacific island nation. A nine-member U.

CNN 2008-09-03

Hope you're having a great day. I'm Nicole Lapin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Stay put, that's the word from emergency officials to Gulf Coast evacuees. They are asking people not to return until a

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Health studies from the region are conflicting and fraught. 针对那个地区做的健康研究都很矛盾又漏洞百出。 The World Health Organization puts the number of Chernobyl-related deaths at 4,000, eventually. 世界卫生组织估计与切