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By Dan Robinson Washington 26 July 2007 FBI Director Robert Mueller has urged the U.S. Congress not to weaken a key legal tool that law enforcement authorities have been using since September 11, 2001 in their efforts to prevent new terrorist attacks
By Michael Bowman Washington 29 September 2009 NATO's new secretary-general says the alliance remains committed to the fight in Afghanistan, despite greater violence in the country and a rising death toll among U.S. and NATO troops. Anders Fogh Rasm
A nine-year-old boy defended his sister from her angry ex-boyfriend yesterday. Woody Harrelson, 24, who had a house key, had hidden in the closet of the Shatner familys home waiting for his ex-girlfriend Ethel, 23, to return. He attacked Ethel with a
By Greg Flakus Houston 27 April 2006 Senators, from left, Debbie Stabenow, Richard Durbin and Maria Cantwell discuss rising gasoline prices at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 26,
By Deborah Tate Washington 10 February 2006 A former federal disaster chief says he warned President Bush and other administration officials about Hurricane Katrina before the storm struck the Gulf Co
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 19 December 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has used his farewell news conference to defend his stewardship of the world body. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports Mr. Annan is promising to s
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 27 July 2006 U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton defended his record before a Senate panel Thursday, with just months left before his recess appointment to the world body expires. President Bush wants Bolto
By Scott Stearns White House 28 September 2006 President Bush says U.S. troops fighting terrorists in Iraq are making Americans safer at home. Opposition Democrats say a U.S. intelligence review concludes that the war in Iraq is building support for
By Gary Thomas Washington 24 September 2007 Iran's president got a frosty reception during a rare public appearance at an American university Monday. As VOA correspondent Gary Thomas reports, the less-than-warm welcome came from an unexpected quarter
Russia's U.N. envoy has defended his government's decision to recognize two breakaway Georgian provinces, saying Tbilisi's attack on South Ossetia earlier this month canceled existing U.N. resolutions that assure Georgia's territorial integrity and
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has defended his handling of the $700 billion financial bailout package. Paulson spoke Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and Mike O'Sullivan reports, he called for ca
Obama Defends Secret Surveillance Programs Obama put forward his defense of the secret surveillance programs when asked by a reporter during a health care event in California. My assessment and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terro
By Phil Mercer Sydney 02 October 2007 Australian refugee groups have criticized tests that require people to answer questions about the nation's history and culture to qualify to become a citizen. Critics believe the new measures will discriminate ag
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Department of Homeland Security is defending the Trump administration's tough stance on immigration. Kirstjen Nielsen says her agency is simply enforcing laws already on the books, and she is responding to critics who say
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Trump administration lawyers are defending their new rules on how campuses should handle cases of sexual assault. Survivors advocates have filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the guidance that replaced Obama-era rules now discrim
Top U.S. financial officials say the markets could have been thrown into chaos if the government had not taken strong action to rescue a big investment bank that was falling into bankruptcy. But critics say the move put billions of dollars at risk, a
By Scott Stearns White House 14 June 2006 President Bush says he understands that the continuing detention of suspected terrorists at a U.S. military base in Cuba is hurting America's image abroad, but he says it is necessary to protect the nation.
By Paula Wolfson White House 16 March 2008 The Bush administration is defending its handling of the U.S. economy at a time of growing public unease. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports during a series of interviews on American television Treasury Secretary H
By Paula Wolfson Sao Paulo, Brazil 09 March 2007 President Bush says his administration has not ignored Latin America, and says his tour of the region was not designed to counter the anti-American rhetoric of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. VOA White House
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has defended her experience and taken a tough stance on national security issues in a much-anticipated interview. The Alaskan governor was a virtual unknown on the national stage when picked by Repu