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Video released Saturday to militant¹ websites on the internet appears to show the beheading of captured Japanese Journalist Kenji Goto. Late Friday Japan’s deputy foreign minister said efforts to free Goto were “in a state of deadline”.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late entertainer Whitney Houston, was found unresponsive in a bathtub and taken to a Atlanta area hospital. The incident is under investigation².

Some 275 firefighters were callout early Saturday to battle a 7-alarm fire that struck a warehouse³ in Brooklyn. No reports of any serious injuries but the fire sent smoke billowing across the east river and into Manhattan.

A Champagne⁴ toast is going out to two balloon pilots---Troy Bradley of Albuquerque, NewMexico and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia, who landed their helium filled balloon off the coast of Mexico after a record-setting journey. They began last Sunday in Japan.

Ned Parker, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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1 militant
adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士
参考例句：
Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。 He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

2 investigation
n.调查，调查研究
参考例句：
In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。 He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 warehouse
n.仓库；vt.存入仓库
参考例句：
We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。 The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。

4 champagne
n.香槟酒；微黄色
参考例句：
There were two glasses of champagne on the tray.托盘里有两杯香槟酒。 They sat there swilling champagne.他们坐在那里大喝香槟酒。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2015-2-4