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Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned President Obama today to discuss the situation in Ukraine. NPRs Scott Horsley reports the two leaders still seem to be talking past one another. The hourlong phone call came near the end of Obamas weeklong
By Jim Teeple President Bush visited hurricane-damaged Florida on Wednesday. His trip came one day after the U.S. Congress approved $2 billion in emergency aid to help Floridians recover from the two
Vietnam Vets Reflect on Obama Cabinet Picks Larry Varr stands at the Vietnam War Memorial and reflects on the comrades he left behind. See, theres two of my friends on that wall right there, he said. Those names are just a few among the thousands of
WASHINGTON The Iraqi army, backed by helicopters, advanced on western Mosul and pushed into the area around the al-Nuri mosque on Sunday. Taking the mosque where Islamic State leader gave a much publicized sermon in July of 2014 is a symbolic victory
June 25th 1950 In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South. United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman: Korea is a small county, thous
June 25th 1950 In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South. United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman: Korea is a small county, thous
July 7th, 2005 I just heard the bang. I looked around, the whole top of the bus and the back of it just came off.In London, suicide terrorist bombings strike three underground stations and a double decker bus. The blasts kill 52 victims and 4 bombers
July 9th 1896You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.In Chicago, William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic national convention. The speech clinches the Democratic presidential nomination for Bryan but he lo
As Africas only aerospace and defence expo that combines both a trade exhibition and an air show, the five-day 2018 Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) has started Wednesday in the city of Tshwane, South Africa. Organised by Chinas State Administratio
IN THE NEWS - Investigative Reports on Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, August 28, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. This week, there were
Even as a child, Ed Dwight had a gift for art. But he set that talent aside to focus on careers that included engineer, test pilot, astronaut trainee (the first African American in the program) and entrepreneur. It was as the owner of a large constru
It may have been all eyes on Kate so far. But today William had other ideas. He is at home at the controls of seeking but for the Duke of Cambridge, this was no busman's holiday. This is waterbirding. Flight Lieutenant William Wales has never landed
Military investigators will spend today collecting and analyzing all of these as they attempted to piece together what happened. At the moment, there is very little to go on. The weather of yesterday was good and the jet appeared fine as it took off
1.New York could soon have a new governor. Pressure is mounting on Eliot Spitzer to resign following his alleged role in a prostitution scandal. If that does happen, this man Lieutenant Governor David Peterson would take over . 2.The head of US Cent
1. A change at the top in New York. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson is taking over for disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer. In a press conference, Paterson said if legislators can pass the budget on time, the state will be back on track. 2. A teenag
Training a competent, well-equipped Afghan security force is key to the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan, even with President Obama's decision to commit thousands of more Americans to the fighting. But U.S. military officers in Afghanistan say lang
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Iraqi Arab and Kurdish leaders have made progress in recent weeks toward resolving their differences over power sharing and the status of the city of Kirkuk. Gates met Friday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al
Now: new questions surrounding the deaths of four Green Berets in the Western African nation of Niger and the role of the president as consoler in chief. John Yang has the story. Sending young Americans into harm's way can be the most serious decisio
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has resigned following a sex scandal that rocked the state and stunned political observers across the country. The resignation takes effect next Monday in order to give Lieutenant Governor David Paterson time for an or
North Korea has said that it has for the first time successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. The announcement was made on state television. It came hours after a tremor with a magnitude of 5.1 was detected near a known nuclear test site in the northeast