VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. Our subject this week is the election of two thousand eight. (MUSIC) VOICE TWO: Barack Obama in Chicago on Friday at his first meeting with reporters as president-elect A

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IN THE NEWS - McCain Can Launch National Campaign; Democrats Still Stuck John McCain secures the Republican nomination. New life in Clinton campaign intensifies issue of re-votes in Florida and Michigan. Transcript of radio broadcast: 08 March 2008

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IN THE NEWS - 'Private Failings': The Rise, and Sudden Fall, of Eliot Spitzer New York's governor built his political life on fighting corruption. He resigns after being identified as a client of a prostitution business. Transcript of radio broadcas

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the two major presidential candidates gave new details of their plans to help Americans deal with the economic crisis. On Monday, Democrat Barack Obama offered proposals totaling sixty bil

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Sarah Palin and Joe Biden during the vice presidential debate on Thursday night Americans are a month from elections on November fourth. This week the vice presidential candidates of the two major parties

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Should Hillary Clinton Be Worried? On the surface, the news is not good for Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator. Her popularity as a presidential candidate is dropping in opinion polls. At the same time, her competition is

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AS IT IS 2016-06-15 Push for Gun Control After Orlando Shooting The day after 49 people were killed at a nightclub in Orlando, U.S. President Barack Obama called on the nation to make it harder for people who might be a threat to get guns -- just as

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AS IT IS 2015-11-09 Most US Presidential Candidates Oppose TPP 大多数美国总统候选人反对TPP More candidates running for president oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal (TPP) than support it. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham

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Asian-American Voters Abandon Republicans 亚裔选民抛弃共和党人 Anh Joseph Cao felt uneasy when his Republican colleagues made comments about immigrants. Cao was a Republican congressman from 2009 to 2011 in a Democratic district of Louisian

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What Did They Say? Idioms for Political Campaigns The presidential campaign is now in full swing in the United States. In full swing is just one of many expressions speakers of American English use that may be difficult for speakers of other language

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THE Republican majority in the House of Representatives called its budget proposal The path to prosperity: A blueprint for American renewal. Whether it would live up to that billing we will never know, as Democratic opposition in the Senate will prev

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Hello, I'm Melissa Long here at the CNN Center in Atlanta. It is Wednesday, December 3rd. Here's a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The United Auto Workers official says the union has agreed to restart contract talks with the D

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Good morning from the CNN Center in Atlanta. I'm Reggie Aqui. Thanks for checking in. Here's what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The U. S economy officially now in a recession, and stock markets worldwide are suffering the consequences. Asian exchange

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Good afternoon, from the CNN Center in Atlanta. I'm Cory Kessler. It's Monday, Oct 20th. Here's what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the economy needs another shot in the arm in the form of a new stimulus pack

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Good evening, sir. 晚上好,先生 Uh, Stephanie tells me there was a hair on your plate. 斯蒂芬妮说您的餐盘里有根头发 No. 没有 There wasn't any hair. 没有头发 Leon, right? That's your name? 你叫里昂对吧 Yes. 是的 Steph

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THIS IS AMERICA - Democrats Plan a Busy First 100 Hours When They Take Control of Congress in January By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, November 13, 2006 Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special E

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has won elections but finished just short of an absolute majority, official results show. Mrs Merkel earlier urged her party to celebrate a super result after exit polls suggested she was set to wi

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泰国反政府示威者占领外交部 BANGKOK, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of anti-government protesters occupied the compound of the foreign ministry in the Thai capital of Bangkok on Monday. Led by the Network of Students and People for Reform o

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U.S. President Barack Obama says his role in this year's election to pick his replacement is to remind Americans that the presidency is a serious job. 美国总统奥巴马说,他在今年总统大选中的作用就是提醒美国民众,担任总统

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Helmut Schmidt, the former West German chancellor who steered his country through the world economic crisis and cold war tension of the 1970s and early 1980s has died at the age of 96. 前西德总理、在上世纪70年代至80年代初带领国家挺

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