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发帖数: 4732 | 1 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7343008.html
Owner kills 3 robbers in jewelry store shootout
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Dec. 16, 2010, 9:07PM
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Johnny Hanson Chronicle
Houston police officers on Thursday investigate after the shooting at
Castillo's Jewelry on Canal in the East End.
A jewelry store owner killed three robbers in the East End on Thursday,
police said. Video: Jason Witmer. 12/16/10
MORE ON CHRON.COM
See a map of the scene of the deadly shooting
An East End jewelry st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8042 | 2 Some of the maneuvers seemed at odds with the most startling assertion
by Mr. Jaczko (pronounced YAZZ-koe) that there was little or no water in
the pool storing spent nuclear fuel at the No. 4 reactor, leaving fuel
rods stored there exposed and bleeding radiation into the atmosphere.
His testimony before Congress was the first time the Obama
administration had given its own assessment of the condition of the
plant, apparently mixing information it had received from Japan with
data it had collect... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 481 | 3 Onetime social media darling Digg reportedly sold for a paltry $500,000
By Patrick May and Peter Delevett
Mercury News
Posted: 07/12/2012
In a remarkable Silicon Valley rags-to-riches-to-rags saga, the onetime
social media darling Digg was sold Thursday for a reported $500,000, an
embarrassingly paltry sum given that Internet rock star Kevin Rose's company
had raised a total of $45 million in venture funding and was once valued at
more than four times that amount.
Digg's fall was spectacular i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 4 塔利班的蓝波们在战斗。
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塔利班打下黑鷹，死了七個美國兵
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7 American Troops Die in Afghan Helicopter Crash
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Seven American troops and four Afghans died in a
Black Hawk helicopter crash on Thursday in southern Afghanistan, the NATO
military coalition said. The Taliban claimed their fighters shot down the
aircraft.
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发帖数: 891 | 5 帮贴原文吧，真是好消息：
"On Friday, Sept. 7, Russia announced, that as of today, we will supply
China with all of the crude oil that they need, no matter how much they want
... there is no limit. And Russia will not sell or trade this crude oil to
China using the American dollar."
----全文----
http://www.examiner.com/article/dollar-no-longer-primary-oil-cu
Dollar no longer primary oil currency as China begins to sell oil using Yuan
On Sept. 11, Pastor Lindsey Williams, former minister to the global oil
compa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 259 | 6 看看这个吧:
http://www.examiner.com/article/dollar-no-longer-primary-oil-cu
On Sept. 11, Pastor Lindsey Williams, former minister to the global oil
companies during the building of the Alaskan pipeline, announced the most
significant event to affect the U.S. dollar since its inception as a
currency. For the first time since the 1970's, when Henry Kissenger forged a
trade agreement with the Royal house of Saud to sell oil using only U.S.
dollars, China announced its intention to bypass the dollar for ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2842 | 7 老将们，民主轮们来解释以下美帝这种行为
Leaker's Ties to China Probed
By SIOBHAN HUGHES and SIOBHAN GORMAN
WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers briefed Thursday on the recently revealed NSA
surveillance programs trained their fire on the self-described source of the
leaks, Edward Snowden, suggesting he may be cooperating with the Chinese
government.
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Associated Press
Demonstrators supported Edward Snowden, who leaked top-secret information
about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate G... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 8 Obstacle to Senate vote: Ted Cruz
By: Manu Raju and Burgess Everett
September 26, 2013 04:08 PM EDT
A growing number of Republicans and Democrats want the Senate to finish a
stopgap spending bill Thursday to lessen the chances of a government
shutdown next week.
But there’s a big hurdle in the way: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Several sources in both parties say Cruz refuses to allow the Senate to vote
Thursday, a decision frustrating lawmakers who worry that delaying a vote
will make it impossible ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33185 | 9 Senate reaches deal to end shutdown, avoid default
[Breaking news update 12:20 p.m. ET]
Senate leaders announced on Wednesday that they have reached a deal to end
the government shutdown and avoid a possible U.S. default.
[Original story moved at 11:45 a.m. ET]
Senate leaders on Wednesday worked out a deal to reopen the government and
avoid a potential U.S. default as soon as midnight, sources told CNN's Dana
Bash and Ted Barrett.
Formal announcement of the agreement will come at 12 noon ET on t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8463 | 10 美国和北约群殴俄罗斯
1.
http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/Military/41214611.html
发信人: unceasing (老母鸡和鸡蛋), 信区: Military
标 题: 补丁大帝双拳难敌四手，好汉架不住人多
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Mar 5 18:51:53 2014, 美东)
补丁大帝双拳难敌四手，好汉架不住人多, 要被唾沫星子淹死了
要被唾沫星子淹死了
2.
Big power talks on Ukraine crisis make little progress
Mar 5th 2014 5:47PM
PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 05: US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a
press conference at the US embassy on March 05, 2014 in Paris, France.
Negotiations between US Secretary of State John Kerry and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10330 | 11 Missing Flight Left Data Trail
Jetliner 'Pinged' Satellites With Location, Altitude for Hours After
Disappearance
Communication satellites received intermittent data "pings" from a missing
Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU -4.08% jet, giving the plane's location, speed
and altitude for at least five hours after it disappeared from civilian
radar screens, people briefed on the investigation said Thursday.
The final satellite ping was sent from over water, at what one of these
people called a "normal" cr... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****i
发帖数: 20533 | 12 遣词用语以及文章架构所表示的立场已经明显到一定程度了：
Blasts kill dozens at market in China's restive Xinjiang region
By Jethro Mullen, CNN
updated 5:49 AM EDT, Thu May 22, 2014
Hong Kong (CNN) -- A series of explosions tore through an open-air market in
the capital of the volatile western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Thursday,
killing dozens of people and wounding many more, state media reported.
China's Ministry of Public Security said the attack in the heavily policed
city of Urumqi was "a serious violent terrorist i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 37081 | 13 Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine's prime minister resigned Thursday after
his governing coalition collapsed, plunging the former Soviet state into
political limbo as it struggles to quell a deadly rebellion in the east.
The shock announcement added to an already chaotic situation in the rebel-
controlled east, where international experts are carrying out a complex
investigation into last week's downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that
left 298 dead.
And the gravity of the situation facing ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 26 | 14 看看这个医生怎么反应的
Pa. doctor shoots patient who killed caseworker
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/24/shooting-w
A psychiatric outpatient opened fire Thursday inside a psychiatrist's office
at a hospital near Philadelphia, killing his caseworker and slightly
wounding the doctor, who shot the gunman with his personal firearm,
authorities said.
The suspect, Richard Plotts, of Upper Darby, Pa., was reported in critical
condition after the shooting at 2:20 p.m. in an office at the Mercy W... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6388 | 15 http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Flight-Returns-to-Dulle
据美国ABC新闻报道，当地时间4日美联航从华盛顿飞往北京的UA897航班因儿童监护问
题应FBI的要求返航。
FBI称机上一位母亲非法带其孩子离境。航班起飞后不久随即返回华盛顿杜勒斯机
场。飞机返航后，小孩与父亲重聚，其母亲被拘留。孩子的外祖母也在飞机上，但未被
拘留。
美联航称，该航班应执法部门要求而返航。
Wenjing Liu and her son were traveling aboard United Airlines Flight 897,
which left for Beijing on Thursday afternoon. After the FBI was alerted that
Liu was taking her son out of the U.S. illegally, officials ordered the
plane to return to Dulles about five hours after takeoff.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10034 | 16 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: db2 (postgres), 信区: USANews
标 题: At least 11 people shot dead, including 11-year-old boy, since late Tuesday in Chicago
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 4 00:37:39 2015, 美东)
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-least-11-people-shot-dead-i
At least 11 people have died and 14 others have been wounded in separate
shootings in Chicago since late Tuesday, including the accidental shooting
of an 11-year-old boy, police said.
In the latest fatal shooting, a 39-year-old man was kill... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 18 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: Trump的大实话：密苏里抗议者的要求多招黑人是crazy
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Nov 12 12:43:57 2015, 美东)
Trump also knocked a list of demands from a group of student demonstrators,
including increasing the number of black faculty and staff to 10 percent and
implementing a "racial awareness and inclusion curriculum."
"Did you look at their demands? Their demands are, like, crazy," Trump said
Thursday.
"So it is just disgraceful."
Republican presidential candid... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6388 | 19 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-sh
2 dead, 15 wounded in city shootings
The first reported shooting of 2016 happened five minutes after midnight in
the South Chicago neighborhood。
A 36-year-old man was shot in the chest and died at a hospital. The shooting
happened at 6:40 a.m. in the 1900 block of West Garfield Boulevard in the
city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood
From Thursday afternoon to 8 a.m. Friday, shootings in Chicago left one
person dead and at least 14 pe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15526 | 20 Trump says US may abandon automatic protections for Nato countries
Donald Trump has said that if he is elected president he may abandon a
guarantee of protection to fellow Nato countries.
Speaking to the New York Times, Mr Trump said the US would only come to the
aid of allies if they have "fulfilled their obligations to us".
Members of Nato have all signed a treaty that says they will come to the aid
of any member that is attacked.
Mr Trump will speak on Thursday at the Republican National Conv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 21
Poland and Israel in Tense Talks Over Law Likened to Holocaust Denial
JERUSALEM — Polish and Israeli officials met on Thursday to address the
diplomatic rift that erupted over a new Polish law that makes it a crime to
blame Poland for the Holocaust, a measure that Israeli officials have
likened to Holocaust denial.
The law, adopted last month over the furious objections of Israel and
scholars from around the world, makes it a crime... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5093 | 22 _gen/derivatives/article_1200/crash6n-5-web.jpg
A man and a woman who were killed inside their burning sedan during a fiery
five-car collision near Kennedy Airport were a young couple who had recently
gotten engaged, according to police and a local report published Thursday.
Yisroel Levin, 21, the son of a Brooklyn rabbi, and his fiancé, Elisheva
Basya Kaplan, 20, of Queens, were killed on the Nassau Expressway in
Lawrence on the Queens-Long Island border about 1:45 a.m. Wednesday, a
spokesman f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 23 Mnuchin Says U.S., China in ‘Very Good Conversation’ on Trade
Bloomberg News
May 3, 2018, 8:05 AM PDT Updated on May 3, 2018, 6:03 PM PDT
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the U.S. and China are having a “
very good conversation,” as a second day of negotiations over the two
nations’ trading relationship got under way in Beijing.
很好的会谈”，这是美国财政部长steven 在谈判进入第二天在北京说的。
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer
and White House adviser Peter Navarro, who are als... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 24 核心摘要：
1） 对中兴的调查和制裁在两年前就由欧巴马政府启动并实施，并不是川普本届政府才
搞的。前欧巴马政府官员对于这个违反美国国家法律，并对美国国家安全造成隐患的中
兴处罚很可能被放弃感到不可思议。
2） 国会山庄的两党议员，反对在贸易谈判中用中兴来作为退让条款来换取其它利益。
3） 中国要求美国解除对中兴的制裁，同时愿意放弃前一阵叫嚣的对美国农产品施加的
额外30亿美元的报复性关税。
4） 美国要求中国两年减少贸易逆差2000亿美元， 中国答应购买美国农产品和天然气
等，两年减少1500亿美元，双方缺口仍然有500亿美元的差距。
5） 这次，美国仍然拿出了一个涉及到一些实质问题的清单要中国给出答案。
Trump casts doubt on success of China trade talks
By DOUG PALMER and QUINT FORGEY 05/17/2018 10:47 AM EDT Updated 05/17/2018
05:03 PM EDT
President Donald Trump said Thursday he doubted high-le... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3509 | 25 NIH Investigating Researchers Who May Have Failed to Disclose Foreign
Government Contributions
Multiple institutions may have such conflicts
By Lev Facher, STAT on August 23, 2018
NIH Investigating Researchers Who May Have Failed to Disclose Foreign
Government Contributions
The National Institutes of Health is investigating roughly a half-dozen
research institutions based on suspicions that researchers with federal
grants failed to disclose significant financial contributions from foreign
govern... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17190 | 26 https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-03-26/el-fallo-en-un-primer-lote-de-test-
rapidos-retrasa-los-analisis-masivos.html
我用 google 大神給翻成英文
翻成中文文法差太多了
THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Failure in first batch of rapid tests delays mass analysis
The government returns the evidence that does not serve to reveal contagion
to the Chinese manufacturer. Health claims that it acquired the material
through a Spanish intermediary
6
ELENA G. SEVILLANO
Madrid - MAR 27TH 2020 - 00:30 CET
A health worker takes samples from a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16928 | 27 Tokyo records highest single-day jump in coronavirus infections
From CNN's Junko Ogura and Yoko Wakatsuki
Tokyo recorded its highest single-day jump in coronavirus infections
Thursday, with 47 new cases.
The increase in people testing positive for the virus comes as Tokyo's
governor Yuriko Koike urged citizens to stay at home over the weekend. She
also requested people work from home during weekdays and refrain from
attending and organizing large gatherings until April 12.
On Thursday, Japan's P... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 279 | 28 DOUBLE QUAKE!
Quake 1
Magnitude 7.4 (Preliminary magnitude — update expected within 15 minutes)
Date-Time
* Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 14:32:00 UTC
* Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 11:32:00 PM at epicenter
Location 38.200°N, 142.000°E
Depth 40 km (24.9 miles) set by location program
Region NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Quake 2
Magnitude 7.4
Date-Time
* Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 14:32:41 UTC
* Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 11:32:41 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Loc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 29 Posted on Advocate.com October 19, 2010
Recruiters to Accept Gay Applicants
By Kerry Eleveld
A Pentagon spokeswoman says recruiters have been told they must accept gay
applicants, following a federal court decision striking down the ban on gays
serving openly in the military, the Associated Press is reporting.
As The Advocate reported last Thursday, the Department of Defense issued new
orders via e-mail late Thursday afternoon informing all five branches of
the military that they must comply wi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 30 New Jersey Assembly Panel Advances Gay Marriage Bill
By Julie Bolcer
NEW JERSEY STATE HOUSE (SCOTT MCPHERSON) | ADVOCATE.COM
The New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee approved the marriage equality
bill in a vote Thursday afternoon, promising to escalate the standoff
between Democratic lawmakers and Republican governor Chris Christie, who has
vowed to veto the legislation.
In its first-ever hearing in the Assembly, the Marriage Equality and
Religious Exemption Act bill passed the panel Thursda... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2427 | 31 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/05/marriage-money-floo
President Obama greets supporters upon arriving in Seattle on Thursday.
Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.
The Morning Line
President Obama's change of heart on same-sex marriage is helping him raise
some serious coin.
Since his announcement Wednesday, the president's re-election campaign has
experienced "a major surge in contributions," reports Dan Eggen of the
Washington Post.
From Eggen's story:
Obama campaign officials d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1822 | 32 Aside from the standing exhibits, the show will feature eight evening and
weekend events in the space. A full list of events and artists is included
below.
Thursday, August 9th – Staged reading of the play Waafrika, by Nick Mwaluko
Saturday, August 11th – Opening Reception
Tuesday, August 14th – Staged reading of the play The Marriage Trick, by
Riley Macleod
Thursday, August 16th – Before I Was Queer: An evening of queer memoir
hosted by Kelli Dunham
Tuesday, August 18th – Queer Archives Chat: A... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2293 | 33 http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/lin-jun-laid-to-rest-in-his-favour
CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Thursday, Jul. 26, 2012 7:56AM EDT
Last Updated Thursday, Jul. 26, 2012 9:38PM EDT
The parents of Lin Jun, the Chinese exchange student who was brutally killed
and dismembered, laid their son to rest Thursday in the city that he came
to love.
Lin’s family, friends and perfect strangers said goodbye to the 33-year-old
Concordia University student at Montreal’s Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery
Thursday morning... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3978 | 34 Onetime social media darling Digg reportedly sold for a paltry $500,000
By Patrick May and Peter Delevett
Mercury News
Posted: 07/12/2012
In a remarkable Silicon Valley rags-to-riches-to-rags saga, the onetime
social media darling Digg was sold Thursday for a reported $500,000, an
embarrassingly paltry sum given that Internet rock star Kevin Rose's company
had raised a total of $45 million in venture funding and was once valued at
more than four times that amount.
Digg's fall was spectacular in ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3150 | 35 Senate reaches deal to end shutdown, avoid default
[Breaking news update 12:20 p.m. ET]
Senate leaders announced on Wednesday that they have reached a deal to end
the government shutdown and avoid a possible U.S. default.
[Original story moved at 11:45 a.m. ET]
Senate leaders on Wednesday worked out a deal to reopen the government and
avoid a potential U.S. default as soon as midnight, sources told CNN's Dana
Bash and Ted Barrett.
Formal announcement of the agreement will come at 12 noon ET on t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 GOP Attempts Historic $2.5 Trillion Cut in Federal Spending
Thursday, 20 Jan 2011 02:30 PM
By David A. Patten
Buoyed by their successful vote to repeal healthcare reform, conservative
House Republicans on Thursday rolled out plans for a massive, $2.5 trillion
cut in federal spending over the next 10 years.
The proposal, to be contained in the Spending Reduction Act of 2011, would
reset non-security discretionary spending to 2008 levels, affecting
everything from state stimulus money to federal i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 竞争激烈的威斯康星州法官选举，突然发现一个城市的选票没有输入数据库，目前共和
党候选人选票领先，之前民主党候选人已经宣布胜选
Corrected Brookfield tally puts Prosser ahead after 7,500-vote gain
In one explosive stroke Thursday, the clerk in a Republican stronghold
tilted the tight Supreme Court race in favor of Justice David Prosser by
recovering thousands of untallied votes for the incumbent.
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday that she failed to save
on her computer and then report 14,315 votes in the city of Brookfield,
omitting them enti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 38 By msnbc.com staff and wire service reports
Updated at 3:30 p.m. EST
The U.S. government said Thursday that the man who called himself the
toughest sheriff in America ran an office that has committed wide-ranging
civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial
profiling and heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged
complaints.
The U.S. Justice Department's expert on measuring racial profiling called it
the most egregious case he has seen, the department's ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8211 | 39 Arturo Valejo · Top Commenter
Arabic? Then why not Norwegian?
Reply · 71 ·
· Thursday at 3:54am
David Bennett · Top Commenter
Or Zwahili?
Reply · 18 ·
· Thursday at 6:46am
Robb Nunya · Top Commenter
How many Norwegians fly planes into buildings? It actually makes sense
to know the language of a large number of people who want to do you harm.
Makes it easier to defeat them.
Reply · 41 ·
· Thursday at 6:49am
Arturo Valejo · Top Commenter
I'm pretty sure that... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 54598 | 40 这样下去大家一起受苦
AmEx to Cut 8.5% of Staff
Overhaul to Cost $400 Million in Severance, With Travel Unit Taking Big Hit
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American Express Co. AXP +0.88% set plans to cut 5,400 jobs in its biggest
retrenchment in a decade, as it pares back a travel business that has been
hammered by the rise of Internet-based hotel- and airfare-reservation
service... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 阿尔及利亚政府消息，23个人质死亡，参与劫持人质的全部32个恐怖分子被杀
Algeria: 32 militants killed, with 23 hostages
By PAUL SCHEMM and KARIM KEBIR
Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- In a bloody finale, Algerian special forces stormed
a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff
with Islamist extremists that left at least 23 hostages dead and killed all
32 militants involved, the Algerian government said.
With few details emerging from the remote site in eastern Algeria, it was
unclear whether... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 Germany and Spain Move to Curb Green-Energy Supports .
By WILLIAM BOSTON and JAMES ANGELOS in Berlin and ILAN BRAT in Madrid
More than a decade ago, Germany and Spain created similar laws to
aggressively promote the adoption of renewable energy. The two countries
were again marching in step on Thursday—this time to fix a web of subsidies
and compensations they created for green energy that had the unintended
effect of driving up household electricity bills.
With Spain in the grips of recession, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 Suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan on Thursday shot dead an Indian
woman whose memoir about marrying an Afghan and life under the Islamist
militia was made into a Bollywood movie, officials said.
The killing of Sushmita Banerjee was the latest in a string of attacks on
prominent women in Afghanistan, adding to fears women's rights in a country
where many are barely allowed outside the house will recede even more after
U.S.-led foreign forces fully withdraw in 2014.
The militants arrived ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 WASHINGTON — A rising tide of Democrats has begun voicing support for
easing the deadlines and penalties of the Affordable Care Act, showing the
first cracks in party unity against GOP opposition to the health care law.
The pressure is acute in the Senate where Democrats in conservative or
competitive states are lining up behind proposals to delay Obamacare, citing
problems with the administration's glitch-plagued online rollout.
Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., announced Thursday she supports delaying t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 On Thursday, May 15, Sudanese Christian Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, was
sentenced to death by hanging for the crime of apostasy.
Ibrahim, a physician who graduated from the University of Khartoum Medical
School, refused to renounce her Christian faith. The Islamist Khartoum
regime claims that Ibrahim is a Muslim because her father, who abandoned the
family when she was six years old, was a Muslim. Ibrahim, however, embraced
for herself the faith of her Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother.
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 VA’s Shinseki vows to stay on the job as calls for his ouster continue
By Ed O’Keefe, Published: May 22
Veterans’ Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki vowed Thursday to stay in
office and pledged to address the allegations of health care mismanagement
that have besieged his agency and the Obama administration.
In a brief interview with reporters on Capitol Hill, Shinseki initially
demurred when asked why he thought he should keep his job. When a reporter
noted that he’s been “under the gun” all we... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 Wisconsin Court Upholds Law Curbing Unions' Collective-Bargaining Rights
Ruling Is Likely to End Legal Challenges
By Mark Peters And
Caroline Porter
Updated July 31, 2014 1:08 p.m. ET
MADISON, Wis.—Wisconsin's highest court upheld a law ending most collective
-bargaining rights for government employees in the state, a blow for public-
sector unions that have been stymied in their efforts to reverse the
controversial measure championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 U.S. Overstates Health-Care Enrollees
Incorrect Inclusion of Dental Coverage Enrollees in Medical Insurance
Numbers
By
Louise Radnofsky
Updated Nov. 20, 2014 9:01 p.m. ET
The Obama administration said it recently overstated how many people had
paid-up health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance
exchanges because of the incorrect inclusion of dental coverage sign-ups,
marking an embarrassing disclosure as the health-care markets open for their
second year of operation.
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发帖数: 10729 | 49 Arizona first-in-nation law mandates students pass civic test
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona's high school students will be required to pass
the same civics test that immigrants must pass to gain citizenship, under a
first-in-the-nation bill signed into law on Thursday.
Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey, who had championed the idea in his
state-of-the-state address on Monday, signed the measure only hours after it
sailed through the state House and Senate on Thursday.
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 US West Coast seaports mostly shut down amid labor dispute
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Companies that operate marine terminals in major West
Coast cities said they weren't calling workers to unload ships Thursday that
carry car parts, furniture, clothing, electronics — just about anything
made in Asia and destined for U.S. consumers. Containers of U.S. exports won
't get loaded either.
The partial lockout is the result of an increasingly damaging labor dispute
between dockworkers and their employers.
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