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In Congress, the so called nuclear option doesn't refer to weapons. It refers to a procedure rule in the US Senate. It takes a simple majority, 51 votes. For the Senate to confirm the presidential nominee but it takes 60 votes to hold the confirmatio
In this clip well talk about when friends turn into lovers. Its one of the greatest things because hopefully your lover is your best friend. But there should be some ground rules. If youve come from a part of a friendship, now youve become intimately
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American History: Meeting in Philadelphia to Write a Constitution From VOA Learning English, welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we continue the story of the United States Co
Burma Working to Change Image At the airport in Rangoon this week, supporters waited for Thein Sein, already proclaiming his U.N. visit a success. I came here to welcome Mr. President because I love the speech he gave at U.N. I think I should welcome
Venezuelan Voters to Decide Whether to Continue Chavez Rule As Sunday's election nears, President Chavez has stepped up new government building projects in Caracas that provide jobs and free housing to the poor. By using Venezuela's vast oil resource
President Obama is notifying Congress he plans to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. NPRs Mara Liasson reports the move comes just days after Obamas meeting with his Cuban counterpart. The State Department made the recomme
[Photo: Xinhua] China's top court and prosecutor have jointly issued a judicial interpretation for personal information encroachment. According to the rules, those who illegally obtain, sell or provide 500 pieces of data related to personal credit or
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Scientists doing embryo research are facing some sensitive questions over a new generation of scientific experiments, questions like how long should scientists be allowed to keep human embryos alive in their labs to study them? A
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about questions. So to get us started, here's a question. MICHAEL STEVENS: What if everyone jumped at once... (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RAZ: That is, what if everyo
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Today the U.S. Department of Education is emailing about 15,000 people telling them their student loans are forgiven. And all the loans amount to $150 million. The reason for the forgiveness is in part due to a judge's order. NPR's
By Al Pessin Pentagon 30 October 2007 The U.S. Departments of State and Defense are moving toward a new system to control the activities of security contractors working for the two departments in Iraq. The department secretaries met Tuesday to review
今天我们要学的词是regift。Regift, 意思是把自己收到的没用的礼物拿来转送给别人。最新调查显示,36 % of U.S. adults will regift this year, 美国36%的成年人今年都会把收到的礼物转送给别人。Regifti
By Patricia Nunan Srinagar 12 April 2006 Following nearly six decades of tension and fighting between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, some of the troubled region's leaders are looking for new ways to
By Peta Thornycroft 21 November 2007 Former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith who died in Cape Town late Tuesday brings to an end an era, which haunted citizens of independent Zimbabwe. Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA that Ian Smith, who took his c
By Sarah Simpson Katsina, Nigeria 06 April 2007 Umaru Yar'Adua is the man most likely to become the president of Africa's most populous and oil-rich country, Nigeria. But until he emerged as the ruling party candidate in next month's presidential pol
Majority Democrats and the Bush administration are assessing a ruling Thursday by a federal court judge who said former White House aides do not enjoy absolute immunity from having to appear before Congress in response to a subpoena. VOA's Dan Robin
LOS ANGELES, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The Hunger Games stayed atop the North America box office chart this weekend, garnering 61.1 million U.S. dollars in ticket receipts which successfully helped the latest Lionsgate actioner to fend off a pair of new fi
Among the English, gossip about ones own private doings is reserved for intimates; gossip about the private lives of friends and family is shared with a slightly wider social circle; gossip about the personal affairs of acquaintances, colleagues and
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 17 November 2007 Two leading Pakistani media outlets that had their television broadcasts shut down inside Pakistan have now been forced to end international broadcasts. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that the