RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Hugh Hefner has died at the age of 91. He created Playboy magazine at his kitchen table in Chicago in the early 1950s. It became not only a brand but it came to symbolize a lifestyle, both glorified and despised, of lavish partie

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 20 June 2006 Illegal immigrants detained by US Border Patrol As debate over immigration continues to heat up, much of the focus so far has been on the existence of millions of illegal immigrants in the United States. The S

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By Gary Thomas Washington 30 May 2006 A sudden eruption of violence in Kabul Monday was sparked by a traffic accident involving a U.S. military vehicle. U.S. officials blame a failure of the truck's brakes for the accident. But, the incident added t

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By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 02 February 2007 watch HDTV Superbowl report America - and a surprisingly large slice of the rest of the world - is about to plunge into Super Bowl Sunday: the annual championship final of the U.S. National Football Le

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By Michael Drudge London 07 March 2006 The population of Europe is aging faster than that of any other continent. In the coming decades, there will be only two workers or fewer for every retiree, putt

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By Jim Malone Washington 03 January 2006 A once powerful Washington lobbyist pleaded guilty to criminal corruption charges Tuesday as part of an agreement to cooperate with federal prosecutors investi

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 28 May 2008 A new turn in a bribery case is threatening to topple Israel's embattled prime minister. The political crisis is overshadowing peace efforts, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Israeli

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 29 May 2008 The noose may be tightening around Israel's embattled prime minister in a corruption scandal, but he is pressing on. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is brushing

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today the West Virginia House of Delegates holds the fate of that state's Supreme Court in its hands. Legislators are deciding whether or not to impeach all four remaining state Supreme Court justices. The allegations - lavish sp

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imposed pay limits on executives of banks and other companies that receive government bailout money to avoid collapse. President Barack Obama listens to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as he delivers remarks about executive compensation, 04 Feb

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