NPR 美国国家电台 2014-09-24

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Canadian border agency stop three Afghan officers trying to cross into the country from the US. They disappeared from the US training base on Cape³ Cod⁴ for the weekend. US military officials say they are asking for asylum⁵ in Canada. NPR’s Tom Bowman has more.

The three officers were apprehended⁶ by Canadian authorities as they tried to cross the Rainbow Bridge which connects US and Canada. Canadian officials have no immediate⁷ comment, but two American military officials said Canada was evaluating the asylum request. The three officers, a major and two captains, are among two hundred international officers taking part in a peace keeping exercise at Cape Code Base. Officials say they left a tour in Cape Code mall in Hyannis Saturday. The officers were carefully offended, the official said, posed no threat for they were not carrying weapons, it’s a second incident this month. Two Afghan police officers training at Marine⁸ base in Quantico, Virginia left in a supervised trip to Georgetown. Tom Bowman, NPR News Washington.

 

Security has tightened⁹ the White House after a man climbed the fence made in the front door, the executive mansion¹⁰ at the Friday night. The suspect Omar Gonzalez appeared in court today. A federal judge says he will be held in custody¹¹ at least until October 1st. NPR report it’s not the first time Gonzalez has drawn¹² the attention of the authorities.

A federal prosecutor¹³ says Omar Gonzalez was arrested in July with a sniper rifle and a map marking the White House. In August he was stopped but not arrested near the White House with a hatchet¹⁴ in his way spent. And then Friday he jumped the fence and made all the way to the North Portico¹⁵ door before being stopped. Prosecutors¹⁶ say he had a holding knife in his pocket and more than 800 ammunition¹⁷ in his car. The incident has put shut scrutiny¹⁸ on the secret service. But president Obama says he still has confidence in the service. The president spokesman says the front door will now be locked when it isn’t in use. 

 

Treasury¹⁹ Secretary Jacob Lew Says the government is imposing²⁰ new regulations to curb²¹ so-called tax inversions²². And such practices in which corporations acquire foreign businesses and they switch their citizenship²³ outside of United States to avoid paying US taxes. Lew says the loophole, undercuts businesses that are responsibly and leave the middle class with the bill. He says the new rules which will take effect immediately mean inverting²⁴ will no longer make economic sense.

 

On Wall Street today, the Dow fell at 107 points. Nasdaq lost 52. This is NPR.

 

More apologies in the domestic violence scandal involving Baltimore Ravens²⁵, former running back Ray Rice. Raven’s owner Steve Bisciotti says team official should have pressed earlier to see the video that let the NFL to ban Rice. “I’m sorry that we didn’t push harder to get that tape. It seems to me that we certainly had the leverage²⁶ to say to Ray and his lawyer that we can’t have him play on our team until we saw that last bit of evidence”.  In the news conference today Bisciotti also dismissed accusations²⁷ that Raven’s official pressed the NFL to be lenient²⁸ in punishing Rice.

 

A Disney stage musical, 17 years old, is setting a box office record. NPR net ulopy reports the Lion King is now the most successful title in any entertainment media. The Lion King is the bestselling Broadway musical in history. It has made 7.2 billion dollars’ sales worldwide. That doesn’t count on much T-shirts and posters or profits from spent also video games or TV shows, nor does it count the half billion dollars’ the movie the box office. The stage musical has been played in 21 countries and in 18 different languages. Attendance has gone up every year for the past 5 years. That a usual success partly because the movie access aggrandizing²⁹ for the stage show. And producers have also been verily about adjusting ticket pricing about last minute to ensure all houses.

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