AP 2011-12-21(在线收听

 1. House Speaker John Boehner says he opposes a Senate-approved bill extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months. He wants congressional bargainers to write a new measure that would last an entire year.

 
 
 
2. Tributes are appearing around Prague today to the dissident playwright who led Czechoslovakia's 1989 Velvet Revolution. Vaclav Havel died today at age 75 in his weekend house in northern Czech Republic.
 
 
 
3. US troops like these national guards have been coming home just in time of Christmas. These families reunited as the last American troops left Iraq early Sunday.
 
 
 
4. And AAA says gas prices will be a Grinch this Christmas. Drivers are paying the highest ever prices for this time of year. The national average is $3.25 a gallon.
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