This is AP News Minute.

President Barack Obama says programs to help struggling homeowners have not worked as he had hoped, so he's calling on Congress to do more. He is detailing a proposal to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages at lower interest rate.

After a big win in Florida, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney says he is toughening up for contest to come. And it's still a long road ahead to reach the critical number of delegates he need to secure the GOP nomination in August, of next, Nevada in May.

Syrian troops are battling army defectors in a string of towns just outside Damascus. The battles are part of last week defensive that fuel some of the bloodiest days of the nearly 11-month-old uprising.

And in Washington DC buds are starting to come out on the districts famed cheery blossoms. Near-record temperatures here and across a swath of the country have winter feeling so far, well, more than threat.

Reid Foley, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

點擊進(jìn)入?yún)⑴cAP一分鐘時事>>>

聲明：音視頻均來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)鏈接，僅供學(xué)習(xí)使用。本網(wǎng)站自身不存儲、控制、修改被鏈接的內(nèi)容。"滬江英語"高度重視知識產(chǎn)權(quán)保護(hù)。當(dāng)如發(fā)現(xiàn)本網(wǎng)站發(fā)布的信息包含有侵犯其著作權(quán)的鏈接內(nèi)容時，請聯(lián)系我們，我們將依法采取措施移除相關(guān)內(nèi)容或屏蔽相關(guān)鏈接。