AP 2012-07-13(在线收听

 1. President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney are clashing over taxes and outsourcing jobs. Obama is challenging Mitt Romney to join him in permitting tax hikes for rich Americans like them. Meanwhile, Romney has branded the president as an extreme liberal who's trying to raise taxes on business.

 
 
 
2. On the heels of the Supreme Court decision validating the president's health care law, House Republicans are poised for a repeal vote. But that effort is largely symbolic. The measure won't make it through the Democratic-controlled Senate, and even if it did, the president has said he would veto it.
 
 
 
3. The body of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed. That after Swiss researchers detected a lethal substance on some of his belongings. Palestinian authorities, along with the leader's widow, are now asking for an international investigation into his 2004 death.
 
 
 
4. This Florida teen is telling his story to reporters, just one day after an alligator bit off part of his right arm. State wildlife officials say they killed the gator and retrieved the arm. But doctors were not able to reattach it.
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