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(SOUNDBITE OF BLINK-182 SONG, ALL THE SMALL THINGS) ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In 1999, the pop-punk band Blink-182 had a certain reputation. For starters, they named their big album that year Enema Of The State. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, ALL THE SMALL THINGS) BLI
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By Amra Alirejsovic Washington, D.C. 18 July 2007 Italian singer Patrizio Buanne -- who many call the voice of romance -- recently ended his U.S. tour. We caught up with him in Washington, D.C. for his first-ever performance at the Kennedy Center. Fo
On Friday, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are scheduled to hold the first of three debates ahead of November's election. Presidential debates have often played a crucial role in U.S. election campaigns in the past, as we hear f
By Jim Malone Washington 23 May 2006 Former Treasury Secretary and US Senator Lloyd Bentsen (Undated file photo) Former U.S. Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen has died in Texas at the age o
Senator Hillary Clinton will seek to convince her ardent primary supporters to fall in line behind presumptive nominee Barack Obama on the second day of the Democratic National Convention in the western U.S. city of Denver. After an emotional first
By Jim Malone Washington 20 May 2008 Recent public opinion polls show a growing number of Democrats want presidential candidate Barack Obama to choose rival Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate, if he wins the Democratic Party's pres
Afghan Youth Orchestra Prepares to Play US Venues The Afghanistan Youth Orchestra performed for the Afghan community in Alexandria, Virginia, where the venue was intimate, the audience small. But within days, these Afghan musicians will play in two f
Space shuttle Discovery is preparing to launch on a mission to deliver new supplies and science equipment to the International Space Station. Birds fly past space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., 24 Aug 2009 The
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Senators, pretty angry senators, had some tough questions for Equifax yesterday. The heat was really on the CEO who just resigned. As NPR's Chris Arnold reports, Republicans and Democrats alike are upset about the massive hack of
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico almost three weeks ago, it caused much destruction across the island, including the small agricultural sector. By some estimates, 80 percent of crops were destroyed. NPR's Merrit Kennedy repor
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hurricane Maria wiped out Puerto Rico's electrical grid in September. And as we've been reporting, getting the lights back on has been a slow and uneven process. On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, residents face the prospect of
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Puerto Rico is struggling with too much trash. Even before Hurricane Maria hit most of the island's landfills were filled beyond capacity. And the debris and waste from the hurricane have only made the problem worse. NPR's Merrit
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: In StoryCorps this morning, we are looking back 50 years. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was running for president and had just won the California primary when he was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel here in Lo
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are more than 130 vacancies on the U.S. federal courts. And now, President Trump has started to fill some of those jobs. The number is unusually large because in the last years of the Obama administration, Republicans block
Alex Gordon volunteered in the Peace Corps in the early 1990s. He has a box full of keepsakes from the more than two years he spent building a rural school in Paraguay. 亚历克斯戈登1990年早期参加过和平队。作为和平队志愿者,他在
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. 事情不会自己发生,事情都是人做出来的。(美国前总统约翰.肯尼迪John F. Kennedy) 图片1
By Nico Colombant Monrovia 22 February 2008 Teachers and students in Liberia say they want more than textbooks and desks to improve their war-ravaged education system, following new aid pledges by President Bush at the end of his Africa tour this wee
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 01 February 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sparred over health care, immigration and the war in Iraq in a debate in Los Angeles Thursday. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports the last tw
By Dan Robinson Washington 06 February 2008 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says a future Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) negotiated with the Iraqi government will not include a formal arrangement requiring the United States to defend Iraq. VOA's