美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-02-06(在线收听

 1. The National Rifle Association and gun control advocates are facing off at a Senate hearing on curbing gun violence. The NRA says it favors enforcing exsisting gun laws. Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' husband will be testifying for gun curbs.

 
2. South Korea has carried out its first successful lauch of a satellite from its own soil. Today's launch comes weeks after North Korea sucessfully launched its own satellite.
 
3. Police in southern Alabama are trying to negotiate with a man who's holding a 6-year-old boy hostage. Authorities say the gunman got on a school bus Tuesday, shot the driver several times, grabbed the child and took off. The bus driver later died.
 
4. Andrew Borakove left Los Angeles and a job as a television comedy writer. Now he may be the world's pre-eminent gong dealer - selling hundreds of gongs, stands and gong-banging mallets a year from his home in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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