NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2015-12-06

From NPR news in Washington. I'm Jeanine Herbst.The FBI says there are indications that the shooters in the massacre in San Bernardino were radicalized. But director James Comey says there is no evidence that Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook were part

美国国家公共电台 NPR It's Been 25 Years Since The Federal Gas Tax Went Up

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today, we are marking an anniversary. Twenty-five years ago this week was the last time the federal gas tax went up. Today, that tax is still what it was in 1993 - 18.4 cents per gallon. And yet the costs of building and maintaini

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The latest jobs report reveals an unexpected decline in new unemployment claims last week, but economist Hugh Johnson says the better measure on labor trends, the four-week average, tells a different story. The truth is that the jobless claims have b

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NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2015-09-21

Cubans are welcoming Pope Francis to be on island nation. After his plane touched down in Havana he talked to an enthusiastic crowd that gathered at the airport. Cuban president Raul Castro was also on hand to greet him. NPR's SJ travelled with the P

VOA双语新闻 Bush Says Katrina Lessons Learned

President Bush says the federal government has learned lessons from the mixed response to last year's killer hurricane along America's Gulf Coast. 布什总统表示，联邦政府已经从去年横扫美国墨西哥湾沿岸的卡特里娜飓风中得

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Throughout the past week, Americans anxiously watched weather conditions in the Gulf Coast region. The people of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas were well prepared for Hurricane Gustav -- and the coordination

【美国总统电台演说】2006-08-26

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Earlier this week, I had coffee with Rockey Vaccarella in the White House. Rockey is from Saint Bernard Parish in Louisiana, and he and his family lost everything they owned to Hurricane Katrina. Rockey drove to Washingt

Brazil: Water Is an International Problem

A Brazilian official says water restrictions in Brasilia will end by December, when an expanded supply system will be completed. United Nations officials say Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, is one of a growing number of cities with water shortages.

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The environmental and economic disasters caused by the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be fueling efforts in the U.S. Congress to finish work on a stalled energy and climate change bill. Though the House of Representatives passed its v

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Thousands of Haitians in the New York area, reeling from the devastation of last week's earthquake to family back home, found some help Wednesday at a briefing by U.S. immigration officials. They walked, they took the subway, and they came to the Fed

NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2013-12-16

A 17-year-old high school student remains hospitalised in critical condition after another student shot her yesterday at Colorados Arapahoe High School. Arapahoe County Sheriff, Grayson Robinson, says in addition to brandishing a shotgun, the shooter

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Emergency relief efforts are ending in Puerto Rico. Army officials say they are beginning to draw down federal troops. Roads are cleared across the island, many supermarkets and stores have reopened, and work is being done to reb

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: One of the very first moves by the new Republican Congress was to make it easier to transfer ownership of federal public lands in the West over to states. And the state of Wyoming has become a flashpoint in this debate. Lawmakers

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JUDY WOODRUFF: A day after the president's State of the Union address, both Republicans and Democrats predict most of his proposals won't go very far. The gridlock in Washington has left the heavy lifting of government to more local levels, the citie

US Senators Spar Over Key Tax Cut

The White House and congressional Democrats continue to press for a federal-tax-cut extension that would benefit nearly all wage and salary earners, but especially the middle class. Paying for the extension remains a sticking point on Capitol Hill, w

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President Barack Obama says the 2013 fiscal year budget he sent to Congress on Monday will reduce deficit spending in a balanced way by $4 trillion over the next decade and require wealthy Americans to contribute more, while preserving investments to

VOA标准英语2013--License Plate Readers Spur Privacy Concerns

License Plate Readers Spur Privacy Concerns Arlington County Police Detective Mohammed Tabibi is with the auto theft unit. He uses license plate readers, or LPRs, mounted on the hood of his car, to look for stolen vehicles. It has paid dividends. We

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'An Eerie Silence' Where Federal Land Agency Workers Are Furloughed

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