STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: House Speaker Paul Ryan stepped into a spare room at the Capitol yesterday. PAUL RYAN: This was - yeah, this is the Board of Education. It's where Rayburn did all that stuff. INSKEEP: The Board of Education - a name applied by

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Three activist groups have sued the government over new guidelines on a U.S. law that protects against sexual violence at colleges and universities. The groups Democracy Forward, the National Womens Law Center, and the National Center for Youth Law b

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Many Incidents of Sexual Assault at US Colleges Go Unreported More than half of college students did not report incidents of sexual assault because they did not think it was serious enough. Others said they were embarrassed or thought nothing would b

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 July 2007 The U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) says it is concerned about the large and growing number of children in Burundi who are victims of sexual violence. UNICEF says few cases are ever prosecuted and is calling for urge

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For months, Congress has promised to overhaul how it handles allegations of sexual misconduct against its own. But for all the energy around the Me Too movement, nothing has changed on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers say they will pass som

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本期内容: The White House said that it would ask Congress for $1.8 billion to combat Zika, to be spent on vaccine research, mosquito control and other efforts. In America, around 50 people recently returned from affected regions have been diagn

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