CNN 2009-02-22

Hello to you, I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

CNN affiliate¹ KGO reports police are close to making an arrest in the Chandra Levy² murder case. Media reports say police are planning to arrest Ingmar Guandigue who was currently an inmate³ in the D.C. prison system. Levy disappeared from her D.C. apartment back in April of 2001, you may remember, her body was found in a park more than a year later. At the time, police questioned Congressman⁴ Gary Condit after he told investigators⁵ he had an affair with Levy. Condit was never named as a suspect.

In Pennsylvania now, police have arrested an 11-year-old boy on murder charges. He's accused of shooting and killing⁶ a woman who was 8-month pregnant. Police have offered no motive⁷ in the case. The 11-year-old has been jailed on charges of criminal homicide and / criminal homicide of an unborn child. The woman's body was found by her 5-year-old daughter.

Federal officials have closed yet another bank, folks. The Silver Falls Bank is the second one in Oregon to fail in a week and the 14th to fail nationwide this year alone. Now customers won't be shut out though. This is good news. Citizens Bank and the FDIC are taking it over.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she will not emphasize the contentious⁸ issue of human rights with China this week instead she's focusing on the issues of climate change, the global economic crisis and security crisis. She's in Asia on her first overseas trip as secretary of state. The L.A. Times quotes Human Rights Watch as saying Clinton's remarks reflect a diplomatic strategy and that the human rights issue has been a dead-end dialogue in the past.

All right, remember the Clintons' cat in the White House named Socks. Well the former president was governor of Arkansas when the stray cat was adopted by his daughter Chelsea. Socks has been living with the former president's secretary since the Clintons left Washington back in 2001. Now late last year, Socks began losing some weight, he was also suffering from cancer. Yesterday, the cat who had his very own online fan club was euthanized.

Those are the headlines this hour, for more on these stories and other news of the day, CNN is your source online, on TV, even when you're on the go.

1 affiliate   

vt.使隶(附)属于；n.附属机构，分公司

参考例句：

• Our New York company has an affiliate in Los Angeles.我们的纽约公司在洛杉矶有一个下属企业。
• What is the difference between affiliate and regular membership?固定会员和附属会员之间的区别是什么？

2 levy   

n.征收税或其他款项，征收额

参考例句：

• They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
• A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。

3 inmate   

n.被收容者；(房屋等的)居住人；住院人

参考例句：

• I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
• The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。

4 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

5 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

7 motive   

n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的

参考例句：

• The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
• He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。

8 contentious   

adj.好辩的，善争吵的

参考例句：

• She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
• Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起，他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。