We caught up with Sarah Palin at her home on the western end of Wasilla, the two-storey home she and her husband built five years ago. Its ringed by evergreens and saw-toothed mountain peaks, and even as a parking spot for their seaplane outback. I

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 01 December 2006 A Democratic lawmaker and three-decade veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol has been selected to head the committee in the U.S. House of Representatives overseeing U.S. intelligence activities. VOA's Dan Ro

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By David Gollust Washington 19 May 2006 The United States Friday reaffirmed its desire to close its detention site for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, once legal questions about the detain

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By Brian Padden Washington, DC 15 June 2007 Ambassador Bridge The busiest truck border crossing in North America is the Ambassador Bridge.It connects the U.S. Midwest city of Detroit, Michigan with the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. U.S. Customs

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 22 January 2006 Shaul Mofaz Israel is threatening to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear program. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has hinted that Israel is prepa

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 November 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging nations to do more to combat biological weapons, and to create global safeguards to keep them out of terrorist hands. Kofi Annan at a review conference on Biological

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By Dan Robinson Washington 28 July 2006 A bipartisan congressional panel reports that, while reforms of the U.S. intelligence community approved in 2004 have helped protect against new terrorist attacks, some serious weaknesses remain. Release of th

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By Scott Stearns White House 20 June 2008 A former White House spokesman says Americans have lost trust in U.S. President George Bush, because he is refusing to reveal his administration's involvement in leaking the identity of a previously-covert C

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European leaders agreed to a common platform to combat the global financial crisis that includes oversight of all financial markets and products around the world. The proposed measures were drafted in Berlin in preparation for a key meeting of the w

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U.S. President Barack Obama is urging the Senate to follow the House of Representatives in passing his $800 billion plan to stimulate the economy. The president is calling the proposal good news, after the bad economic news of the past week. Preside

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Global Effects of CIA-Senate Dispute Uncertain 中情局和参议院争议的全球影响 WASHINGTON The recently-exposed dispute between the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA is causing a stir in Washington. Some analysts say, though, i

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 06 January 2007 Critics raising concerns about Indonesia's disaster response system and the safety of the country's rapidly growing budget airline industry following the disappearance of a Boeing 737 on New Year's Day. Chad

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 08 June 2006 U.S. officials have told Congress U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq are being significantly, and expensively, hampered by security concerns. This was among the issues raised as lawmakers grilled administrati

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 14 December 2006 The incoming Speaker of the House of Representatives says Democrats will push for creation of a new bipartisan committee to oversee how money is spent on and by the U.S. intelligence community. VOA's Dan

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 05 December 2006 The incoming Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and other Democrats are ruling out any effort by members of their party to have Congress cut off funds for U.S. military ope

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U.S. taxpayers have spent almost $51 billion on post-war reconstruction in Iraq. The inspector general for Iraq Reconstruction says much of this money was filtered to contractors with little government oversight, leading to massive fraud and little

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U.S. President Barack Obama is ordering changes in the way the federal government does business. The goal is to root out wasteful spending in tough economic times. President Barack Obama (file photo) President Obama has proposed massive increases in

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By Jim Malone Washington 04 December 2006 The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday challenging the right of local school systems in Washington state and Kentucky to carry out voluntary plans that promote racial integration. The high court

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 11 January 2007 As Bush administration and U.S. military officials faced skeptical lawmakers on Capitol Hill, some of the strongest criticisms of the president's military surge in Iraq came from some new members of Congr

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Parents, its time to get the TV out of your kids bedroom. 父母,是时候要离开你的孩子的卧室电视。 About 60 percent of all teenagers bedrooms in the U.S. include a TV set. Now research suggests that the mere presence of that TV in th

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