AP 2011-07-24

[1]Shuttle Atlantis touchdown the Kennedy Space Center put the final time early this morning. The landing ended NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. The shuttle grand finale comes 50 years to the day after Gus Grissom became the second American in s

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This is AP News Minute. Vice President Mike Pence is in South Korea to lead the US Winter Olympic delegation. North Korea says it's not interested in meeting with him while he's there. North Korea held a massive military parade and rally, one day bef

AP 2011-02-19

1. The big budget battle starts on the Hill today. President Obamas budget chief will testify before a House committee today about the administration's nearly four-trillion-dollar spending plan. Republicans say proposed cuts aren't deep enough. 2．I

AP 2011-04-17

1. Congress is set to vote today on last week's budget deal which last until September. Next, lawmakers will start the budget battle for 2012, which maybe a tougher fight than this fight that almost shut down the government. Republican and White Hous

AP 2010-10-18

1. Aides say President Barack Obama was directly involved in discussions on how to respond to a California judge's ruling that the don't ask, don't tell policy is unconstitutional. The president has long opposed the policy but says he wants Congress

AP 2012-07-21

1. In Alabama, police say they have a suspect in custody accused of firing into a crowded bar near the university of Alabama campus. Nearly a dozen people were wounded. 2. New warnings from Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to Congress in its pursuit of budget

AP 2012-04-07

1. Experts are looking for clues in the debris to determine just how many tornadoes hit the Dallas-Fort Worth region yesterday. The storms damaged hundreds of homes, but there are no reports of fatalities. One tornado may have reached 165 miles an ho

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-03

1.The House of Representatives could vote Friday on a bill to end furloughs for air traffic controllers. The furloughs, which were triggered by budget cuts, are blamed for thousands of flight delays this week. 2.Japan's transportation minister says t

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-10-22

1. President Barack Obama laid out his agenda for the post shutdown Congress today. He wants a budget deal, immigration reform and a farm bill. Republicans already questioned his plans. 2. Meanwhile government employees went back to work this morning

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-09-18

1. Secretary of State John Kerry opened two days of meetings with his Russian counterpart in Geneva Thursday. They hope to settle on the outlines of a plan to secure and destroy Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles and avoid US strikes. 2. In Colorado,

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-01-21

1. The House Representatives is expected to okay a bipartisan budget agreement Wednesday. The Senate could approve the 1.1-trillion-dollars measure in next week. 2. An 11-year-old boy is in critical condition and a 13-year-old girl was in stable cond

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AP 2010-02-08

1. President Barack Obama's budget is getting a frosty reception from Republicans on Capitol Hill. Several say the president's plan features too much new debt. Obama's multi-trillion-dollar budget, aimed at reviving the economy, includes tax cuts for

AP 2011-09-13

Additional evacuation has been ordered as the remanents of tropical storm Lee send the Susquehanna river near record levels. Everyone in the small town in Maryland has been ordered to leave as along with tens of thousands of people in central NY and

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-04

1. Barack Obama says his 86-year-old grandmother has died. Madelyn Dunham who helped raise the Democratic presidential candidate died peacefully Sunday night after a battle with cancer. Obama said he learned of her death Monday morning while campaig

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