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1. Libyan state media says the country's prime minister has been freed. The government said Ali Zidan had been abducted¹ by armed gunman early Thursday.

2. President Obama hosts top House Republicans at the White House Thursday as they look for ways to end the government shutdown.

3. An Associated Press-GfK poll shows 7% of Americans say that somebody in their household tried to sign up for insurance through health care exchanges. That could mean more than 20 million people. Of those that tried, three-fourths report problems.

4. And a dozen people got stuck for about two hours when their roller coaster stopped in Orlando, Florida. A computer glitch² is blamed for the problem at Universal Studios.

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1 abducted
劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )；使（肢体等）外展
参考例句：
Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。 The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

2 glitch
n.干扰；误操作，小故障
参考例句：
There is a glitch in the computer program somewhere.这个计算机程序中的某个部分有点小问题。 It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine.可能只是一个小故障，重新启动主机就能解决了。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-10-14