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NOEL KING, HOST: Next we have an exclusive story. The Trump administration is taking aim at a law designed to protect military service members from getting cheated by shady lending practices. NPR has obtained documents that show the White House is pr
People in America - John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902: Famous Explorer of the American West SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program People in America. Every week at this time we tell t
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By Phuong Tran Dakar 23 February 2007 Filmmakers, fans and critics are preparing to attend one of Africa's largest film festivals known as FESPACO. As theaters are shutting down across Africa, the festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso opening this S
By Peter Fedynsky Washington 20 March 2007 U.S. legislators on Tuesday heard first hand the findings of an internal government report, which revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, abused its powers in obtaining personal informatio
By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 27 March 2006 watch Hispanic Business report A new report from the United States Census Bureau shows that between 1997 and 2002, Hispanic-owned businesses grew nearly
US Money Factory Prints Distinctive Dollars American dollars are a popular currency both in the United States and around the world. Ensuring that the bills are distinctive and trustworthy is the job of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, a governmen
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Census Bureau has announced the way that it will count active-duty military and prisoners for the 2020 census. Those policies could add to the official population and thus the power in Congress of areas that host military bas
DAVID GREENE, HOST: A hundred and forty-three million. That is the number of Americans whose personal information may have been exposed in the recent data breach at Equifax. This led to a lawsuit against the company by the state of Massachusetts, an
LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Lulu Garcia-Navarro is off for the holidays. I'm Lauren Frayer. President Trump is celebrating Christmas in Florida, but Washington is still clearly very much on his mind. He took a few mome
DAVID GREENE, HOST: More than a hundred female inmates who were given sentences in federal prison faced a different fate. They were instead held for years in two windowless rooms in a detention center in New York City, and the conditions there have b
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: We're going to head back to the U.S. now for Words You'll Hear. That's where we try to understand stories in the news by parsing words connected to it. Today, the words are Dodd-Frank. That's the 2010 law that gave Wall Street ne
Swiss couple keeps rolling on 23-year round-the-world drive 瑞士夫妇持续廿三年开车环游世界 In 1984, Swiss couple Emil and Liliana Schmid traveled to the United States to get away from the monotony of office work. They became hooked on
By Kari Barber Dakar 30 October 2007 Health workers in Liberia say it has been difficult to battle leprosy in the country and treat those who have it, because of the stigma associated with the disease. It has long been a local belief that the illnes
By Scott Stearns Dakar 09 November 2009 The international law enforcement agency Interpol is cracking down on the sale of stolen luxury cars in Central Africa. Interpol says thousands of luxury cars stolen in Belgium, France, and Japan enter Cameroo
Kyodo News reports that the Japanese government has officially launched the secretariat of the National Security Council, which will focus on coordinating between ministries, gathering information and centralizing strategic decision making. Local rep
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A Trump appointee running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has disbanded a consumer advisory board, and that board helped the bureau identify unfair practices at financial companies. Consumer advocates say they have b
十九大两周大盘点,中国好也为世界发展注入强心剂 Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Suyi. Coming up:The Communist Party of China has wrapped up its 19th national congres