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A number of suspicious packages caused alarm and evacuations Wednesday and a major government effort to find out who's responsible. The people they were addressed to included former U.S. President Barak Obama, 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee1 Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Eric Holder2, former CIA Director John Brennan and California Democratic Representative Maxine Waters. The package labeled for former CIA Director Brennan was sent to CNN at New York City's Time Warner Center.
That led to the evacuation of CNN's New York Bureau. Several of the packages had the same return address, the Florida Office of Democratic U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz. That return address was also on a package delivered to the home of George Soros earlier this week. He's a billionaire investor3 and major donor4 to the Democratic party. Officials do not suspect that Congressman5 Wasserman Schultz sent the packages. Devices found inside several of the packages appeared to be pipe bombs. That's according to an FBI counterterrorism agent in New York. Law enforcement officials say it looks like they were made in the same way.
All of them were intercepted6 before any of the people they were addressed to could open them. No one was hurt. In the past, President Donald Trump7 has criticized several of the people the packages were addressed to. But on Wednesday he said that threats or acts of political violence had no place in America. New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio called the mailings an act of terror and the FBI is asking anyone who might have information on those responsible to contact them.
Next this Thursday, we've reported on the rising tensions between Russia and the allies of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which the U.S. is part of. The Commander of the U.S. Naval8 Forces in Europe says one thing that concerns him w?hen it comes to Russia is submarine warfare9. Why?
For one thing, he says six of the Russian subs operating in the Black Sea or the eastern Mediterranean10 Sea have a type of missile that could reach any of the capitals of Europe. That's likely to be on the minds of other NATO commanders as they begin their largest military exercise since 2002. It's called Operation Trident Juncture11. It launches Thursday in Norway and the region around it.
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n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者 | |
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n.持有者,占有者;(台,架等)支持物 | |
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n.投资者,投资人 | |
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n.捐献者;赠送人;(组织、器官等的)供体 | |
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n.(美)国会议员 | |
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6 intercepted | |
拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 ); 截住; 截击; 拦阻 | |
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n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭 | |
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adj.海军的,军舰的,船的 | |
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n.战争(状态);斗争;冲突 | |
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adj.地中海的;地中海沿岸的 | |
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11 juncture | |
n.时刻,关键时刻,紧要关头 | |
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