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 Thomas Duncan, the Ebola patient being treated at a hospital in Dallas, is now listed in critical condition, according to hospital officials. Health officials were looking at around 50 people while coming in contact with him, closely monitoring 9 of them. Doctor David Lakey is Commissioner¹ of State Services. He says Ebola so far hasn't spread to anyone else. 

"We have no more cases and we're very happy about that the patient that has been identified is in an intensive care unit, getting medical care right now by a very caring and compassionate² team."

But Lakey says its team is making contingency³ plans for possible additional cases of Ebola. 

 

A Federal judge is ordering the Obama administration to unseal video footage of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay being forced fed. NPR's Elizabeth Wen Johnson reports the courses the government failed to provide a basis for denying the Public First Mend by rights of access. 

Jihadist Abu Wa'el Dhiab has been in Guantanamo since 2002. According to record documents, the Syrian citizen has been in a long-term hunger strike and the government began force feeding him last year. When Dhiab sought to make it stop, the government released 28 videos of the procedures to Dhiab's attorney. A number of news outlets⁴, including NPR, suited to have videos made public. But the government refused, citing concerns about national security and the risk to military personnel. But in an opinion issue Friday, US District Judge Gladys Kessler called the government justifications⁵ wiggling and speculative⁶, and ordered that videos be released. Elizabeth Wen Johnson, NPR News. 

 

Ukrainian troops and Pro-Russian separatists are trading fire again in and around the eastern city of Donetsk. Katenson Mogen reports the fighting is intensifying⁷ despite the existence of ceasefire. 

A formal ceasefire has not done much to stage off new rounds of fighting in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, while civilians⁸ are getting caught in crossfire⁹ between Ukrainian troops and Russian separates. The fighting has centered around the region's airport, a strategic prize. According to Ukrainian military, a dozen separatists died in that fight on Friday. But dozens more have been killed and wounded in a greater conflict, including one representative of the international committee of the Red Cross, who was killed by a missile on Thursday. The deadly eruptions¹⁰ continue despite the existence of ceasefire agreement that has been placed in early September. International observers and negotiators are now concerned that ceasefire may not hold. For NPR News, I'm Katenson Mogen in Moscow. 

 

The parents of 26-year-old Peter Kassig pleading for his release from so-called Islamic State militants¹¹. He was kidnapped a year ago in Syria on a humanitarian¹² mission with non-profit he founded. ISIS is threatening to behead him. 

 

It's NPR News in Washington. 

 

A worldwide gathering¹³ of Roman Catholic Bishop¹⁴, known as synod, starts tomorrow at Vatican. The theme is the family, and as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, issues raised and led up to the event could turn the Synod into a showdown over the direction of Pope Francis papacy. 

A head of theme is Vatican issued a questionnaire seeking input¹⁵ from clergy¹⁶ and lay people. The result showed the vast majority of Catholics reject church teaching on sex and contraception as intrusive¹⁷ and irrelevant¹⁸. Now Pope Francis wants to open a frank discussion on all hot button issues. But the public feud¹⁹ has an already broken out of the Pope's favorite the alogen. German Cardinal²⁰ Walter Kasper. For his suggestions, that divorce and remarry Catholics might reserve communion. His most vocal²¹ critics is American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke had the Vatican supreme²² court who accuse Kasper of misunderstanding basic church teaching on the permanence of marriage bond. The two-week Synod is just phase one. The real decision would take a year from now into another Bishop assemble. Sylvia Poggioli, NPR News, Rome. 

 

General Motor is now in its 31st recall. This time involves just over 60,000 vehicles from 3 categories. Today the recall is on Pontiac G8s from 2008 and 2009, and Chevrolet Caprices police cars between 2011 and 2013. GM says the car's ignition key could accidentally get knocked out the "run" position, shutting off the engine and airbags. Another recall covers 10,000 Cadillac CTS-Vs sedans from 2004 through 2007 and 2006 to 2007 model STS-Vs. Company says a fuel pump module²³ electric terminal could overheat. 

 

1 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

2 compassionate   

adj.有同情心的，表示同情的

参考例句：

• She is a compassionate person.她是一个有同情心的人。
• The compassionate judge gave the young offender a light sentence.慈悲的法官从轻判处了那个年轻罪犯。

3 contingency   

n.意外事件，可能性

参考例句：

• We should be prepared for any contingency.我们应该对任何应急情况有所准备。
• A fire in our warehouse was a contingency that we had not expected.库房的一场大火是我们始料未及的。

4 outlets   

n.出口( outlet的名词复数 )；经销店；插座；廉价经销店

参考例句：

• The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 justifications   

正当的理由，辩解的理由( justification的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• If he a vulgar person, she does not have justifications for him. 如果他是个低级趣味的人，她早就不会理他了。
• It depends on their effect on competition and possible justifications. 这则取决于它们对于竞争的影响和可能存在的正当抗辩理由。

6 speculative   

adj.思索性的，暝想性的，推理的

参考例句：

• Much of our information is speculative.我们的许多信息是带推测性的。
• The report is highly speculative and should be ignored.那个报道推测的成分很大，不应理会。

7 intensifying   

v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的现在分词 )；增辉

参考例句：

• The allies are intensifying their air campaign. 联军部队正加大他们的空战强度。 来自辞典例句
• The rest of the European powers were in a state of intensifying congestion. 其余的欧洲强国则处于越来越拥挤的状态。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史

8 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

9 crossfire   

n.被卷进争端

参考例句：

• They say they are caught in the crossfire between the education establishment and the government.他们称自己被卷进了教育机构与政府之间的争端。
• When two industrial giants clash,small companies can get caught in the crossfire.两大工业企业争斗之下，小公司遭受池鱼之殃。

10 eruptions   

n.喷发，爆发( eruption的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There have been several volcanic eruptions this year. 今年火山爆发了好几次。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Over 200 people have been killed by volcanic eruptions. 火山喷发已导致200多人丧生。 来自辞典例句

11 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

12 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

13 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

14 bishop   

n.主教，（国际象棋）象

参考例句：

• He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
• Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。

15 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。

16 clergy   

n.[总称]牧师，神职人员

参考例句：

• I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.我衷心希望，我国有更多的牧师效法这个榜样。
• All the local clergy attended the ceremony.当地所有的牧师出席了仪式。

17 intrusive   

adj.打搅的；侵扰的

参考例句：

• The cameras were not an intrusive presence.那些摄像机的存在并不令人反感。
• Staffs are courteous but never intrusive.员工谦恭有礼却从不让人感到唐突。

18 irrelevant   

adj.不恰当的，无关系的，不相干的

参考例句：

• That is completely irrelevant to the subject under discussion.这跟讨论的主题完全不相关。
• A question about arithmetic is irrelevant in a music lesson.在音乐课上，一个数学的问题是风马牛不相及的。

19 feud   

n.长期不和；世仇；v.长期争斗；世代结仇

参考例句：

• How did he start his feud with his neighbor?他是怎样和邻居开始争吵起来的？
• The two tribes were long at feud with each other.这两个部族长期不和。

20 cardinal   

n.(天主教的)红衣主教；adj.首要的，基本的

参考例句：

• This is a matter of cardinal significance.这是非常重要的事。
• The Cardinal coloured with vexation. 红衣主教感到恼火，脸涨得通红。

21 vocal   

adj.直言不讳的；嗓音的；n.[pl.]声乐节目

参考例句：

• The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
• Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。

22 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

23 module   

n.组件，模块，模件；(航天器的)舱

参考例句：

• The centre module displays traffic guidance information.中央模块显示交通引导信息。
• Two large tanks in the service module held liquid oxygen.服务舱的两个大气瓶中装有液态氧。