VOA标准英语2012--US Representative Giffords Resigns Year After Arizona Shooting

US Representative Giffords Resigns Year After Arizona Shooting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Republican from Virginia, recalled the shooting rampage on January 8 last year, saying the country will never forget those who lost their lives. A lit

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2011-01-028

1. Authorities say charges filed against some 120 alleged organized crime figures came with help from informants recording thousands of conversations. Charges included extortion, drug trafficking and murder. 2. The husband of shot Representative Gabr

AP 2011-03-28

1. In Libya, a French fighter jet apparently brings down one of Moammar Gadhafi's planes on a day when French fighters also struck an airbase deep inside the country. The French foreign minister says military operations here will not last months. 2.

AP 2011-04-28

1. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' husband says she's been cleared to attend his shuttle launch on Friday. Mark Kelly revealed the news in an interview with CBS's Katie Couric. Giffords is recovering at a Huston hospital after a shooting rampage th

AP 2011-11-28

1. The State Department says it's trying to confirm reports that three American students have been released from custody in Egypt. A lawyer for one of the students says a court has ordered them freed. The students were arrested Sunday during a protes

NPR 2011-05-20

One million dollars cash bail has been set for former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. A grand jury in New York has indicted him after a hotel maid accused him of sexual assault. Strauss-Kahn has been jailed since the weekend and asked to be release

VOA标准英语2011-Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, 40, has been shot at a public event on Saturday in her home state. Several others were killed, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl. The director of trauma surgery at the University of Arizona hosp

NPR 2011-01-12

Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is able to breathe on her own, but doctors says theyre keeping her on a breathing tube to protect her airway, and they have cut back her sedation. Giffords is the only one of the 14 survivors of Saturdays shoo

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2011-01-021

1. Doctors say Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is making a remarkable recovery after being shot in the head. Giffords is now breathing on her own, and has been upgraded to serious condition. 2. President Barack Obama is asking Americans to follow hi

AP 2011-05-22

[1]Officials say IMF chief Dominic Strauss-Khan is on suicide watch in his New York jail. He's charged with sexual assaulting a hotel maid. Meanwhile financial leaders are intensifying calls for him to resign. [2]The government says more older Americ

AP 2011-05-20

1. Gabrielle Giffords watched her husband take off on the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Mark Kelly took her wedding ring with him, as well as a note Giffords wrote him. Giffords was wearing Kelly's ring around her neck. 2. Supporters o

AP 2012-06-19

1. Ron Barber, an aid to former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords won a special election to succeed her Tuesday night. Barber who almost lost his life in the shooting spray that wounded Giffords faces Republican Jesse Kelly. 2. Testimony in Jerry Sand

AP 2011-02-04

1. President Obama devoted most of his State of the Union address to the economy. He said creating jobs will require new investments in education, research and infrastructure. The GOP response called for deep federal spending cuts to get the deficit

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2011-01-15

1. Doctors say theyve left a breathing tube in Representative Gabrielle Giffords to protect her airway, but the congresswoman is drawing breaths on her own. She's alert and responding to doctors. The doctors now think Giffords may have been shot in t

AP 2011-06-15

1. The first public photos of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords have come out since she was seriously wounded in last January's mass shooting in Arizona. Pictures were posted on Giffords' Facebook page and show her smiling with shorter, darker hair bu

AP 2012-01-13

1. Iranian state radio reports that an Arizona-born former marine has been sentenced to death in Iran after being convicted of working for the CIA. His parents say he was visiting his grandmother. 2. Gabrielle Giffords took part in a ceremony remembe

AP 2012-02-13

1. President Barack Obama is freeing ten states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind education law. The states must promise to improve the way schools teach and evaluate students. The move is an acknowledgement that t

Suspect in U.S. Arizona shooting rampage appears in court

PHOENIX, the United States, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Jared Loughner, the suspect in Saturday's rampage shooting in Tucson, the U.S. state of Arizona, appeared in court on Monday afternoon to face felony charges. The Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse（

NASA Readies Endeavour for Monday Launch

The U.S. space agency NASA is preparing the space shuttle Endeavour(奋进号) for a Monday launch, its final voyage before retiring and the next-to-last launch for the 30-year space shuttle program. The Endeavour mission was originally supposed to b

Wounded U.S. Congresswoman breathing on her own: doctors

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was seriously wounded in Saturday's shooting incident in Tucson, Arizona, was breathing on her own three days after being shot in the head, doctors said on Tuesday