By Jim Malone Washington 28 September 2007 The U.S. Supreme Court opens its annual term Monday, October 1 and will consider a number of legal challenges to the power of the president and the power of Congress. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone ha

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1. Attorney General, Eric Holder says he is ordering a justice department investigation into the IRS targeting conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny. The FBI will see if any laws were broken. 2. But Holder says he had no direct role in the justi

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Education Report - Calling attention to the words and letters may lead to better readers 教育报道 - 注意单词和字母可能会使儿童的阅读能力更好 From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English. 这里是美

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Alzheimer's Disease By Paul Sisco Washington 15 May 2008 The World Health Organization estimates about 18 million people around the globe suffer from Alzheimer's Disease, a degenerative disease in which brain cells whither away and die. Wednesday May

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 September 2009 A U.N. fact-finding mission accuses both Israel and Hamas militants of committing war crimes during the three-week war in Gaza that began in late 2008. The report, which has just been submitted to the U.N. Hu

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Sierra Leone has convicted 15 men of trying to smuggle nearly 700 kilograms of cocaine through the country's airport. Justice Nicolas Browne Marke found all 15 men guilty of conspiracy to import a prohibited drug without lawful authority. Two Colomb

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An elderly victim holds a poster and waits for the verdict in the premises of Bhopal court in Bhopal, India, 07 Jun 2010 The Indian government is looking at the need for tougher laws to deal with industrial disasters, amid outrage in India about puni

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Rapes, Retribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo Five years after officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo passed stricter laws against sexual violence, there are more criminal prosecutions - including prosecutions of soldiers. The central

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Some NFL players who took a knee during the national anthem to call attention to police violence and racism are now working off the football field in the political arena. Last night in Massachusetts, three New England Patriot

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Jury selection is beginning today in Chicago in the trial for a white police officer accused of killing the Laquan McDonald, a black 17-year-old. This trial is getting underway just a week after a case in Texas where th

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Helena: Id ask how you got in here, but the Starling City Vigilante [,vidʒi'lnti] comes and goes as he pleases, doesn't he? Oliver: how did you know? Helena: I saw you fight. And I saw your eyes. That island changed you in ways that only someone lik

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今天我们要学的词是pro bono。 Pro bono, 是无偿服务的意思。美国移民律师协会宣布,将为面临移民困境的军队家属免费提供法律服务, The American Immigration Lawyers Association will provide pro bono legal ass

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今天我们要学的词是discrimination。 Discrimination, 歧视。大家都知道, racial discrimination, 是种族歧视; gender discrimination, 是性别歧视,不过,歧视不仅局限于此,比如说,还有age discrimination年龄歧

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 18 October 2007 On the third anniversary of an army crackdown that killed more than 70 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, families of the victims fear their court case is being blocked by powerful politicians. The army

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Natural Gas, Environmental Regulations Hurt US Coal Regions 天然气的使用伤害了美国煤炭产区的利益 洛根,西弗吉尼亚州许多发电厂在美国使用的是天然气代替煤发电,减少二氧化碳的排放量。虽然这可能是

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And that is the beginning of the prophetic career of Muhammad. The months to come would bring more revelations, powerful words of a lyrical quality, more beautiful than the most exquisite Arabic poetry. Above all, Muhammad was to bear one message to

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By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 17 July 2007 INTERPOL is working with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to step up efforts to capture the remaining 18 genocide fugitives. As Arjun Kohli reports for VOA from Nairobi, Rwandan officials say 13 years

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By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 06 September 2007 Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday [September 4th] upheld death sentences for Ali Hassan al-Majid, the man known as Chemical Ali, and two other lieutenants o

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The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. President Barack Obama welcomed the 68 to 31 vote, which came after three days of debate on Sotomayor's judicial recor

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JERUSALEM, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to clinch a deal with the nationalist Jewish Home party late Wednesday night, securing a new ruling coalition with a tiny majority in the 120-member parliament. At a j

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