美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-05

Thousands of delegates are preparing for tonight's big event in North Carolina, where the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte will be called to order in about an hour. But there was some tension near the site between police and protestors, tw

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-07

Anticipation is building in Charlotte, North Carolina, where President Obama delivers his acceptance speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention. But it won't be happening in a 74,000-seat outdoor stadium, because of chance of thunderstorms.

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-09

The presidential candidates are campaigning for votes in key swing states today. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is in Virginia. He says President Obamas economic plan for the US is an utter failure. With the unemployment level having stu

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-10

President Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney are speaking out this weekend. Mr. Romney is focusing on potential cuts in defense spending. These could happen if President Obama and congressional Republicans cannot reach a new budget deal. As N

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-08

The jobs picture doesn't appear to be much better than it was a month ago, even though the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1%. NPR's Dave Mattingly reports the decline is being attributed to more people giving up their job search. When those witho

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-22

Mitt Romney's campaign says it's making good on its promise to release the GOP candidate's 2011 federal taxes today. The couple's returns were to have been posted online at the top of this hour. The campaign says Romney and his wife Anne paid an effe

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-21

President Obama took his campaign to Florida today where he focused on immigration. In Coral Gables the president defended his stands on the issue. I have never wavered in my support of comprehensive immigration reform. We did put forward a Dream Act

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-19

Mitt Romney's campaign has been buffeted today by a hidden camera video from a May fundraising event. In it, the presidential hopeful says, he does not expect to get the support of about 47% of Americans who he says see themselves as victims and enti

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-18

Tunisia is on edge three days after extremists attacked the American embassy in Tunis. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley is in the Tunisian capital and reports that riot police surrounded a mosque where a firebrand cleric was preaching today. Hundreds of ferve

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-17

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the attack last week on a US consulate in Libya was spontaneous. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that appears at odds with what Libyan officials are saying. Libya's president has told NPR that al-Qaeda was

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-16

Al-Qaeda's franchise in Yemen is cheering the attacks on US embassies and the killing of an American ambassador, the result of Muslim rage over an anti-Islamic film made in California. NPR's John Burnett reports. Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsular, w

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-01

President Obama is promising to all ways [always] look out for America's troops echoing that message today at Fort Bliss, Texas. Two years ago, he visited Bliss, today[that/the day] he announced an end to the US combat role in Iraq while(when) he's p

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-02

What's left of the Hurricane Isaac is moving into the middle west. The storm is expected to bring heavy rain and possibly tornados. Farmers will welcome the rain, the middle west has been suffering from the worst drought in fifty years. Meanwhile, re

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-20

A controversial Justice Department gun-walking operation aimed at Mexican crime cartels, known as Fast and Furious, was misguided and mismanaged, but not at the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder. NPR's Carrie Johnson is at the Justice Departm

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-08-01

American swiming .. Michael Phelps has just reached a major mile-stone, he won a silver in Men's 200 butterfly, which means he ties the record for most Olympic medals, in this race South Africa won gold. Track off another Olympic medal for US say, th

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-08-23

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the economy will keep recovering at a modest pace for the rest of this year with unemployment lingering above 8%. But NPR's Craig Windham reports the CBO is warning the economy will suffer if Congress

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-08-22

The fallout from Missouri Congressman Todd Akin's comments on women and rape are shaping up to be a political standoff between him and the Republican leadership. The GOP is pressuring Akin to drop out of the Senate race against incumbent Democrat Cla

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-08-20

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appeared in public today for the first time in two months. He has been inside Ecuador's embassy in London where he is evading arrest by British authorities who want to send him to Sweden for questioning in two sexual

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-08-19

General Motors said today it is recalling a quarter of a million SUVs in the United State because of problems with the power door lock. As NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports the problem can cause a circuit to short creating a fire hazard. The problem is that

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-08-18

South Africa police are facing a barrage of questions for how they could have allowed a neighbor dispute with striking miners to end in what's widely described now as a bloodbath with at least 34 deaths. Police maintain it was self-defence because th