1、NPR news in Washington, I am Lakshmi Singh.Moments ago Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was met with cheers of support as she prepared to bid farewell to staff of the State Department. Moments after resigning, Clinton choked back tears in her goodbye. She also reminded her team about the enormous
2、diplomatic challenges ahead to counter terrorism, citing the attack on the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey earlier today.“We live in very complex and even dangerous times as we saw again at our embassy in Ankara, where we were attacked and lost one of our Foreign Service nationals and others injured.”C
3、lintons successor is the recently confirmed John Kerry who is expected to be sworn in later today.The state of emergence remains in effect in parts of Egypt amid political turmoil surrounding the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. We have more details from Kimberly Adams in Cairo.Cairo, Port Said, Su
4、ez, all cities that have seen violent clashes since the anniversary of the Egypt revolution last week and where they are calls for more demonstrations today. The Muslim Brotherhood, ultraconservative Salafis, and the secular National Salvation Front among other groups met yesterday to condemn the vi
5、olence that has killed more than 60 people around the country. They say they are working to find ways to halt the violence and the National Salvation Front is demanding the President form a new government. Liberal groups who blame Morsi and the police for the escalation are still headed to streets a
6、nd squares around the country today, saying they wont enter dialogue with the president until the bloodshed stops. For NPR news, I am Kimberly Adams in Cairo.In southeast Alabama, man who neighbors had come to fear still holding a five-year-old boy in his bunker after he alleged shot a school bus dr
7、iver to death Tuesday afternoon. Dan Carson of member station of UBHM reports nerves the frame.Police say the suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes has been known as staying underground bunker for more than a week, raising the possibility the standoff could drag on much longer. The young boys parents told the sta
8、te legislator that they are holding on by a threat. Dykes allowed police to pass the boys medication and crayons in through a PVC ventilation pipe. They say the child has been crying for his parents but they believe he is unharmed. Authorities have released little information on what they are callin
9、g a highly sensitive situation. The funeral for the bus driver Charles Albert Poling Jr. is scheduled for Sunday. Dykes is allegedly shot Poling when he refused to turnover any students. For NPR news, I am Dan Carson in Birmingham.Labor Department says with a mostly ? report on unemployment and find
10、 companies added 157,000 jobs in January, it also says the hiring was much stronger in the final moments in 2012, suggesting the job market settling in improving but the unemployment rate has heated up to 7.9%. This is NPR.The White House is offering a possible opt out for religious employers who ha
11、ve argued they should not be forced to include contraception in their health care coverage because it violates their religious tenets. The administration proposes religious employers give the birth control aspects of coverage to a third party through which women would still be able to obtain contrac
12、eptives at no cost.Prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay Cuba have dropped charges against three suspected terrorism detainees. NPRs Dina Temple-Raston reports that doesnt mean the three will be going home.Back in October, appeals court verse the military commissions conviction of Osama Bin Ladens driver. I
13、t found that his offense providing material support for terrorism was not recognized as war crime. Question after the ruling was how many more detainees at Guantanamo would be affected by that decision. As of this week, we now know that it would affect at least three more. The charges of conspiracy
14、and material support against xx, xx, and xx were dismissed this week. But now they have been added to the 46 or so other detainees who are being held in definitely Guantanamo under the laws of war. Dina Temple-Raston, NPR news.An intense search for victims continues at the headquarters of Mexico state-owned oil company Pemex where an explosion erupted at an office building yesterday. Thirty-two people are confirmed dead; more than 100 people are hurt. Authorities of Mexico City are investigating the cause of the blast.Dow is up 141 points at 14,002.I am Lakshmi Singh. NPR news in Washington.
