NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2015-09-12（在线收听） |
Congress is holding long anticipated votes on the Iran nuclear deal. The Republican majority arguing the deal leaves the US interest vulnerable is still trying to derail the agreement. Under a law president Obama signed in May, Congress was given 60 days to pass the resolution disapproving the pact the US and five other world powers reached with Iran for sanction relief in exchange for stronger oversight of take Iran's nuclear program. As the UN presses the international community to open their doors to the the heavy influx of refugees and other migrants escaping conflict and poverty in Mid-east,Africa and Asia, the US is announcing plans to step up. NPR's ML reports the Obama administration is pledging to accept more Syrian refugees. This fiscal year, the US is on track to take in about 1500 refugees. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest says the president wants that number to go way up. 'He's informed his team that he would like them to accept at least, make preparations, to accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next fiscal year.'But taking in 10,000 refugees will cost a lot and Congress will have to provide that money because there will be higher costs for background checks and processing which takes about a year for each refugee. And even 10,000 refugees is a tiny fraction of the millions of Syrians displaced and hundreds of thousands of refugees that European countries are accepting. ML, NPR news, the White House. Many migrants have been struggling to leave Hungry rather than being sent to refugee camps run by authorities who are widely viewed as unsympathetic to their plight. CN, a volunteer with an Austrian non-govertment organization cites the deteriorating conditions at a refugee collection point outside the town of R. The situation here is really a big * because a lot of refugees are coming every hour from the border, from Serbia, Hungry, * and here we don't have infrastructure. Noting the rainfall, N says the biggest problem is that there are no big tents where people can rest.
Six police officers charged in connection with the April death of Freddy Grey will be trailed in Baltimore. Their lawyers argued that their clients cannot get a fair trial in the city shake in days of unrest after Grey suffered a fatal spinal injury while he was in police custody . However, the jury presiding over the case disagreed saying that he believes a fair and impartial jury could be found in the city of Baltimore. US stocks were trading higher before the close. The Dow Jones index average was up 76 points at 17330. S&P 500 gaining 10 at 1952, NASDAQ up 39 at 4796. This is NPR news.
Scientists believe the fossil bones discovered two years ago are indeed of an ancient relative of humans. NPR's NF reports the bizarre new species have left researchers scratching their heads. Two years ago, cavers spotted the bones in a South African cave. The cave held the remains of at least fifteen individuals.The odd creatures had small primitive sculls but walked up right and had hands and feet much like modern humans. This new species has been named HM but scientists still aren't sure how long it lived and where to place it in the human family tree. Another mystery is how the bones came to be in a almost inaccessible cave chamber. To get in there, skinny scientists had to squeeze down a long crack in the rock that's just 7.5 inches wide. One possibility is that HM deliberately placed the bodies there in a kind of death-reach wall. Reports describing the find appear in the journal E-life.NF, NPR news.
The national football league kicks off its regular season tonight in prime time. KN, a * where in Boston reports the New England Patriots will raise their fourth super ball banner after an off-season in the headlines. The court back Tom Brady will be under * against the Pittsburgh Steelers but the * commissioner won't be there. This comes after a federal judge wiped away the four game suspension that the commissioner had given Brady for under-inflated footballs in the game before the super ball last season. Stealer fans are hoping that the deflate gate-court fight left Tom Brady in the Patriots unprepared to play.
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