AP 2010-08-31（在线收听）

From the steps of Lincoln Memorial, conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck told the tens of thousands of people gather for his rally that the US has too long wandered in darkness. Speaker Sarah Palin praised patriots to audience for knowing never to retreat. The two champions of the tea party movement spoke from the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech 47 years ago.

Not far from the Lincoln Memorial gathering, civil right leaders held a rival rally, marching more than 3 miles from a high school to the side of a planned Martin Luther King Memorial near the Tidal Basin.

Paris Hilton was arrested on the Las Vegas trip Friday night on drug charges. The authority said a police officer allegedly found a small amount of cocaine from her purse.

A Venezuelan politician is holding an unusual raffle to raise campaign cash. The grand prize: breast implants. For a little under 6 dollars a ticket, donor was given the chance to win the pricy operation free of charge. Breast enlargement is widely popular in Venezuelan.