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 President Obama says he's expecting the United States and Europe to impose further economic sanctions against Russia in response that country's on-going interfering¹ in neighboring Ukraine. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the president discusses the Ukrainian crisis with German Chancellor² Angela Merkel today in advance of NATO summit next week. 

President Obama says this week's imagines of Russian forces inside Ukraine makes plain for the world to see how Russia repeatedly violates its neighbor sovereignty. Obama says while Russia's latest military actions may be more overt³ than in the past, it's been clear for months that Russia's responsible for the on-going violence in Ukraine separate region. 

"It is not a home-grown, indigenous⁴ uprising in eastern Ukraine. The separatists are backed, trained, armed, financed by Russia."

Obama says he will discuss additional sanctions at the next week's NATO summit in Europe, but he ruled out any military confrontation⁵ between Russia and the United States. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. 

 

Texas judge ruled today the way the state pays for its schools is unconstitutional because the legislature isn't adequately funded public education. NPR's John Burnett has that story. 

State judge John deeth wants lawmakers in Austin to come back and start over. It's the judge who last year told the legislates⁶ to be violated the constitution when it cut 5.4 billion dollars in education funding while schools were struggling at mandatory⁷ testing requirements. Lawmakers restored 3.7 billion dollars of the cuts, but ditch ruled that's still inadequate⁸ to educate this booming state's 5 million children in public schools. He said with about 650 school districts that challenge this state funding formula which relies on property taxes. The school funding issue is expected to end up before Texas Supreme⁹ Court and to be front and center in the hard-far government race. John Burnett, NPR News, Austin. 

 

The government's revised upward as its estimated second quarter economic growth. The Commerce Department is reporting the growth to domestic products that's the broadest measure of goods and services produced within US borders. expanding at a 4.2% annual rate during three-month ending in June. Mark Feudal¹⁰ , senior economist¹¹ Wallace Fargo security insists both well off the rest of the year. 

"The global view political events do you have the potential of triple @@ a bit. That's if events overseas take turn for the burst, that may cut in consumers' confidence in call consumers to come back on spending."

 

Separately, the government reported the number of people filing first-time jobless claim last week fell by 1,000, underscoring what's been on-going pickup¹² in the labor¹³ market. 

 

Mortgage company Freddie Mac announced today the average interests on its 30 years home loan remain to be 52-week-low this week, averaging just over 4%.  15-year-loan was up just slightly to 3.25%. 

 

On Wall Street, the Dow closed down 42 points. 

 

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A New York city hospital is confirming comedian¹⁴ Joan Rivers was rushed to facility today after apparently¹⁵ going to a cardiac arrest. Spokesman in Mt Sinai hospital gave no detail on the 81-year-old Rivers condition. Rivers was rushed to the hospital after she apparently stopped breathing during a throat surgeon at a nearby clinic. According to New York media reports, fire department of officials received the call just before 10 a.m. from the clinic. Its patient has apparently been in cardiac arrest. 

 

For the Democrats¹⁶ rally today in support of gubernatorial nominee¹⁷ Charlie Crist. Amy Kelly from number station WAMF on Orlando reports they gathered the same way the former Republican won the Democratic primary. 

Florida Democrats who wants fault Crist, the cross the island on the campaign trail are now outstanding at his side. they took turns voice they're support before @@, tight race with Republican governor Rick Scott. 

"With 68 days to win this thing, everybody has got the turnout; everybody has got to be focused; everybody has got to be all in. Cause that's the only way we can beat the 100 million dollar guy."

Scott has a double digit¹⁸ fundraisers @@, and the poll shows the 2 are @@. To win, Crist needs to woo the 25% presents of Democrats to vote for his opponents in this week's primary. For NPR News, I'm Amy Kelly in Orlando. 

 

Lebanon Ohio school bus driver have agreed to resign after he was accused of keeping elemental school students on a bus with the windows rolled off for the punishment. With a published report, the incident allegedly occurred after the driver pull the bus over because the student had been unruly. He allegedly told  them to sit on the bus with the windows close in hot weather. In a separate incident, the bus driver in Cincinnati was charged with drunk driving when 20 students were on her bus. 

 

1 interfering   

adj. 妨碍的 动词interfere的现在分词

参考例句：

• He's an interfering old busybody! 他老爱管闲事！
• I wish my mother would stop interfering and let me make my own decisions. 我希望我母亲不再干预，让我自己拿主意。

2 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

3 overt   

adj.公开的，明显的，公然的

参考例句：

• His opponent's intention is quite overt.他的对手的意图很明显。
• We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.我们应学会同敌人做公开和隐蔽的斗争。

4 indigenous   

adj.土产的，土生土长的，本地的

参考例句：

• Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
• Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。

5 confrontation   

n.对抗，对峙，冲突

参考例句：

• We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
• After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后，他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。

6 legislates   

v.立法，制定法律( legislate的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire. 1833年的今天，英国立法在其帝国内废除奴隶制。 来自互联网
• Legislates the reason mainly has: First, the legal rule custody the deadline not to be unreasonable. 立法上的原因主要有：第一，法律规定的羁押期限不尽合理。 来自互联网

7 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

8 inadequate   

adj.(for,to)不充足的，不适当的

参考例句：

• The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
• She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。

9 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

10 feudal   

adj.封建的，封地的，领地的

参考例句：

• Feudal rulers ruled over the country several thousand years.封建统治者统治这个国家几千年。
• The feudal system lasted for two thousand years in China.封建制度在中国延续了两千年之久。

11 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

12 pickup   

n.拾起，获得

参考例句：

• I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。

13 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

14 comedian   

n.喜剧演员；滑稽演员

参考例句：

• The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
• The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。

15 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

16 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

17 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

18 digit   

n.零到九的阿拉伯数字，手指，脚趾

参考例句：

• Her telephone number differs from mine by one digit.她的电话号码和我的只差一个数字。
• Many animals have five digits.许多动物有5趾。