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President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily suspending entry into the U.S. by nationals of six countries which present terrorism concerns is now being partially implemented. 特朗普的总统令暂时禁止了6个国家的公民进入美国，

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Trump Considers Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship President Donald Trump says he wants to end to the constitutional right of citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-U.S. citizens. Trump made the comments on the television

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Explanation: The U.S. government has three branches (or parts): the executive branch which makes sure that people follow laws, the legislative branch which makes new laws, and the judicial branch which interprets laws (or decides what the laws mean a

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Explanation: The United States government is divided into three branches (or parts), and all three share equal (or the same) amounts of power. The easiest way to understand the divisions (or parts) of American government is to think of the government

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Explanation: Many people know who the president of the United States is, but what does the president do? The president is the person in charge of (or responsible for) the executive branch. The presidents main job is to be the commander-in-chief, whic

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First Ladies in Africa Creating Change for Women Last month, The Washington Post published an opinion piece about reports that the United States government had separated 2,000 children from their parents. The writer was Laura Bush, wife of former U.S

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By Gary Thomas Washington 10 January 2006 Samuel Alito One key issue dominating the hearings on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court is the scope of presidential power. The i

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This is AP News Minute. Senators on Capitol Hill are saying they've reviewed the FBI's report on the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Many Republican Senators are saying there was nothing in the report that

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In May of seventeen eighty-seven, a group of America's early leaders met in Philadelphia. Over a period of four months, they worked on a document that would establ

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American History: Early Leaders Debate the Issue of Presidential Powers From VOA Learning English, welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we continue the story of the United Sta

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Properly vetted refugees can enter the United States, at least today. That's because a judge temporarily blocked President Trump's ban on travel for refugees and people from seven countries. Today, judges from a federal appeals c

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NOEL KING, HOST: Could the president hire and fire civil servants at will? That question is at the heart of a concept that's likely to come up often at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings this fall. NPR's legal affairs corre

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Multinational firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, J.D. Power and WPP, have spent thousands of dollars installing air filtration systems and real-time monitoring devices. These are booming times for the clean air industry. Louie Cheng, Chief Exec

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The International Criminal Court is widely expected to announce that it will open investigations to identify and prosecute the main perpetrators of post-election violence in Kenya. Cathy Majtenyi | Nairobi 15 December 2009 Post-election violence in K

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By Paul Sisco Washington 21 February 2008 With oil prices on the rise, the U.S. wind energy industry grew at record levels in 2007 and an industry group says it expects similar growth this year. In today's searching for solutions report, Paul Sisco l