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Some police officers attending the funeral of Wenjian Liu, turned their backs on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio while he gave a eulogy¹ Sunday. Leaders of the police union say de Blasio hasn’t been supportive enough of police. Liu was killed along with his partner officer Rafael Ramos on December 20th.

Three more bodies have been pulled from the Java (mistaken as Hava) Sea as weather continues to hamper² the search and rescue efforts for victims of Air-Asia flight 8501. So far the remains³ of 34 of 162 people aboard the flight have been recovered.

President Barack Obama is back in Washington after spending two weeks with his family in Hawaii. Obama’spublic schedule picks back up Tuesday when he meets with the Mexican president.The same day a Republican-run Congress will convene⁴.

And Stuart Scott, the longtime“Sports Center” anchor and ESPN personality died Sunday at the age of 49. Scott had fought cancer since a diagnosis⁵ in late 2007. He is survived by his parents, two children, three siblings⁶ and his girlfriend.

Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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1 eulogy
n.颂词；颂扬
参考例句：
He needs no eulogy from me or from any other man. 他不需要我或者任何一个人来称颂。 Mr.Garth gave a long eulogy about their achievements in the research.加思先生对他们的研究成果大大地颂扬了一番。

2 hamper
vt.妨碍，束缚，限制；n.(有盖的)大篮子
参考例句：
There are some apples in a picnic hamper.在野餐用的大篮子里有许多苹果。 The emergence of such problems seriously hamper the development of enterprises.这些问题的出现严重阻碍了企业的发展。

3 remains
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
参考例句：
He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。 The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

4 convene
v.集合，召集，召唤，聚集，集合
参考例句：
The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。 Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月，高级官员在伦敦会齐。

5 diagnosis
n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断
参考例句：
His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。 The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。

6 siblings
n.兄弟，姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )
参考例句：
A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。来自《简明英汉词典》 She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。来自时文部分

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2015-1-7