The legendary editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown, has died at the age of 90. Before her success in the magazine world, she heated big in the 1960s with the book Sex and the Single Girl. NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin has this remembranc

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The vice presidential candidates will take center stage tonight in Danville, Kentucky. NPR's senior Washington Editor Ron Elving says Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan will outline different approaches to domestic as well as foreign

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1. A bombshell on Capitol Hill as Florida Congressman Mark Foley announced his sudden resignation in the wake of questions about suggestive e-mails he wrote a former teenage male congressional page. I

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1. An elderly priest is acknowledging that he was naked in saunas with Mark Foley decades ago, but denies having a sexual relationship with the former congressman, calling a report in the Sarasota Her

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1. President Bush told Iraqis today that their future is up to them. On a surprise visit to Baghdad, he met with Iraq's new prime minister. Bush said he was impressed by the prime minister's cabinet.

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IN THE NEWS - Porter Goss Nomination By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, August 14, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. President Bush this week nominated Congressman Po

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By Michael Drudge British Prime Minister Tony Blair's declaration that

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1.New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is giving late-night comedians plenty of material, but in political circles no one is laughing. The State Assembly leader says if Spitzer doesn't resign over a call-girl scandal, he is ready to call for an impeachme

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This is AP news minute. 1. A fire that engulfed a west Philadelphia church has been brought under control and no injury has been reported. Flames were seen shooting from the front door and side windows, as heavy black smoke rose from the century-old

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Attention turned to Washington this week over the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On Thursday, the chief executive officer of BP faced hours of intense questioning at a House of Representatives

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Agriculture Report - African Film Shows Tensions Between Banana Growers, Villagers This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A movie from Cameroon called The Big Banana has come to the United States. It looks at issues with the banana indus

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AS IT IS 2014-07-16 Congress to Focus on US Border Crisis 国会将关注美国边境危机 Congress soon may vote on whether to approve funds requested by President Barack Obama to deal with a rise in immigrants from Central America. President Obama

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AS IT IS 2015-08-06 Landmark US Law Marks 50th Anniversary Fifty years ago, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the ceremony, he called the measure one of the most monumental laws in the entire history of American f

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Congress Debates US Export-Import Bank 国会讨论美国进出口银行 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. 这里是美国之音经济报道。 A policy dispute is taking shape in Washington over a government agency that helps

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Will Death of Fidel Castro Improve Human Rights in Cuba? 菲德尔卡斯特罗的死能改善古巴人权吗? Some Cuban-Americans believe the death of Fidel Castro means human rights abuses in Cuba will end. Jose Sanchez is one of them. We had a bad

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AS IT IS 2015-11-18 US Debates Admitting Syrian Refugees 美国探讨是否继续接纳叙利亚难民 Since the Paris terrorist attacks, a growing number of U.S. lawmakers want to close the door to Syrians. 巴黎发生恐怖袭击之后,越来越多

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AS IT IS 2015-10-22 Benghazi: Witch Hunt or Valid Investigation? 班加西案件调查政治工具还是还原真相 This will not be the first time that Congress asks about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. This is the eighth time Con

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PEPFAR Evolves and Expands PEPFAR, the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, is credited with saving millions of lives in developing countries. The program, which started under President Bush, continues under President Obama. However, despite th

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Some Haitians trying to rebuild their shattered communities are turning to their faith. Many Haitians now worship in the open air after their churches were badly damaged or destroyed by a devastating earthquake nearly three weeks ago. In one Port-au-

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今天我们要学的词是change of heart。 Change of heart, 意思是改变主意。The bride had a last minute change of heart and chose to have a simple ceremony in Las Vegas, 新娘子最后一刻改变主意,选择在拉斯维加斯举办一个

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