AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-02（在线收听）

1. The House has voted to rush an additional two billion dollars into the popular but financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car purchase program. House members acted within hours of learning from the transportation secretary that the program was running out of money.

2. Space shuttle Endeavor and its seven astronauts are back on Earth. Endeavor glided through a slightly hazy sky and touched down on Kennedy Space Center's landing strip.

3. Military officials say a long-awaited reassessment of the war against the Taliban may include a request for more US forces in Afghanistan. It's a request that the White House is expected to resist.

4. And in western India, hundreds of infants were dropped from the roof of a Muslim shrine. The parents believe that the religious ritual which ends when the children are caught in a bed sheet ensures good health and prosperity for their offspring.