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1. President Barack Obama says programs to help struggling homeowners have not worked as he had hoped, so he's calling on Congress to do more. He's detailing a proposal to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages at lower interest rates.

2. After a big win in Florida, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt¹ Romney says he is toughening up for contests to come. And it's still a long road ahead to reach the critical number of delegates he needs to secure the GOP nomination² in August. Up next, Nevada and Maine.

3. Syrian troops are battling army defectors in a string of towns just outside Damascus. The battles are part of last week's offensive that fueled some of the bloodiest³ days of the nearly 11-month-old uprising.

4. And in Washington DC, buds are starting to come out on the district’s famed cherry blossoms. Near record temperatures here and across a swathe of the country, have winter feeling so far, well, more like spring.

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1 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。 Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

2 nomination
n.提名，任命，提名权
参考例句：
John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。 Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

3 bloodiest
adj.血污的( bloody的最高级 )；流血的；屠杀的；残忍的
参考例句：
The Russians were going to suffer their bloodiest defeat of all before Berlin. 俄国人在柏林城下要遭到他们的最惨重的失败。来自辞典例句 It was perhaps the bloodiest hour in the history of warfare. 这也许是战争史上血腥味最浓的1个小时。来自互联网