AP美联社一分钟新闻(2009-10-24)（在线收听）

1.Attorney General Eric Holder calls the arrest of more than 300 people, the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating in the US. More than 3000 Federal agents and police officers made the arrest in more than a dozen States.

2.President Barack Obama says Americans’ values are offended by excessive paychecks for executives since companies were bailed out by taxpayers. The Treasury Department has ordered seven big companies that haven't paid back last year's government bailouts to cut their top executives’ average compensation in half.

3.Flowers and dozens of Teddy bears have been placed near the Florida home of 7-year-old Somer Thompson. She disappeared on her way home from school Monday. A body believed to be hers is found Wednesday at a trash dump.

4.And El Paso，Texas，has earned a dubious honor. Totalbeauty.com says it’s home to the ugliest men in the America. They base the ranking on the fact that about a third of men there are obese and an equal number get no exercise.