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Schoolchildren Design Cities of the Future 学生设计未来的城市 WASHINGTON What will the cities of the future look like? 华盛顿-将来的城市看起来像什么? That was the challenge addressed by 40,000 middle school students from 1,35
By Ron Corben Bangkok 30 April 2007 Scientists and other experts from 120 countries are meeting in Thailand this week to discuss ways to respond to climate change. The same group warned earlier this year that global warming poses a major threat to ma
The Senate Finance Committee has approved President Obama's nominee to be Treasury Secretary paving the way for his confirmation by the full Senate. President Obama is hoping for a quick confirmation of his top financial adviser, so that his adminis
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 22 March 2007 A U.S. Senate committee has followed the lead of its counterpart in the House of Representatives and authorized subpoenas to compel White House aides to testify in public and under oath about the dismissals
By Lisa Bryant Paris 12 November 2007 The international climate change panel that won this year's Nobel peace prize is holding a meeting in the Spanish city of Valencia this week to draft a key report on global warming. Environmentalists hope the doc
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
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 27 June 2007 A U.S. Senate panel has issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney's office, the Justice Department and the National Security Council for documents relating to a controversial wiretapping
By Cindy Saine Capitol Hill 22 September 2009 Senators Joseph Lieberman (r) and Susan Collins prior to start of committee's hearing on Weapons of Mass Destruction Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2009, on Capitol Hill, 22 Sep 2009 Two U.S. senator
Climate Change Panel Says Expect More Extreme Weather Extreme weather cut a swath across the world in 2011. For Bill Wing, it began a year ago on New Years Day as he surveyed the damage from a tornado that touched down in Cincinnati, Arkansas. It sou
The Senate Judiciary Committee has held a hearing on what to do with detainees at Guantanamo Bay when U.S. President Barack Obama closes the prison next January. Republican members of the committee argued the detainees should be tried in military co
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States. The largely party line 13 to 6 vote sends the nomination of Sotomayor, who would be the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Co
US Intelligence Reforms Debated Ahead of Obama Speech CAPITOL HILL U.S. intelligence reforms to be unveiled by President Barack Obama will be informed, at least in part, by a panel of legal scholars and spy experts that submitted recommendations to t
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The dream of gene therapy took a big step forward today. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee unanimously endorsed the first gene therapy for an inherited disorder. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein is with us now f
By Ron Corben Bangkok 04 May 2007 A United Nations report on climate change says a reduction in potentially harmful greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved, and is affordable. But the report says that action by governments and individuals must begin
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 13 April 2007 Protests against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's suspension of the country's chief justice are continuing, despite the detention Thursday of about 200 lawyers and other critics of the suspension. VOA's
By Al Pessin Pentagon 01 December 2006 The commander of coalition forces in northern Iraq says the reported conclusions of the high-level Iraq Study Group in Washington reflect what his troops are already doing, and also reflect the goals already se
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 03 May 2007 Leading environmental experts who are meeting in Bangkok this week are hammering out details of a report on ways to fight climate change. Several leading US scientists say the report, to be released Friday,
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 07 September 2006 A key Senate panel has postponed a vote on the nomination of John Bolton for a full- term appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The unexpected development came as the Senate Foreign Rela
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 March 2008 In Sri Lanka, an international panel invited to monitor the investigation of human rights abuses has quit. Another human rights group has also attacked the government for its rights record, calling it one of
By Lisa Ferdinando Washington 05 November 2009 Senator Carl Levin The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Thursday tackled the problems posed by shell companies, or companies with hidden ownership. The panel heard