美联社新闻一分钟 2008-06-07（在线收听）

1. Oil prices shot up more than ten dollars to a new high, more than 139 dollars a barrel. One analyst said prices could top 150 dollars a barrel by the fourth of July, also rattling traders, rising tensions in the Middle East.

2. Hillary Clinton officially ends her bid for the presidency Saturday at noon. She will thank supporters and endorse Barack Obama at a Washington event. The former first lady is expected to urge Democrats to rally behind Obama, helping him defeat Republican nominee John McCain.
 
3. Survivors of the Chinese earthquake are watching a lake, worried about flooding. Authorities have evacuated more than a quarter million people. And workers are digging a channel to drain the lake. But so far, water levels have not dropped.
 
4. At Newark Airport in New Jersey, 26 animals have arrived from Iraq, befriended by US troops there. This is the latest rescue for Operation Baghdad Pups, a program getting companion animals out of Iraq and Afghanistan and into homes in the US.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. rattle: v.Informal.

To fluster; unnerv

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