By Jim Malone Foreign policy and national security issues returned to center stage in the U.S. presidential election campaign Tuesday. The presumed Democratic presidential nominee, Massachusetts Senat

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1. Vice President Dick Cheney breaks a Senate tie and the Republican-controlled body passes a measure, cutting federal deficits by nearly $ 40 billion. 2. A witness testifies Saddam Hussein's regime k

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By Jim Fry Cleveland, Ohio 29 February 2008 Voters in the Midwestern state of Ohio are among those who go to the polls March 4 to vote in U.S. presidential primaries. The Midwest electoral battle is especially fierce among the two remaining Democrati

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106 独立日布什发表讲话赞美自由和人权 On Independence Day, Bush Touts Faith-Based Initiative Paula Wolfson White House 4 Jul 2001 22:59 UTC President Bush spent part of the Independence

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 01 December 2007 An Abu Dhabi-based real estate developer is launching an English-language reality show for the Middle East.As we hear from Mike O'Sullivan in Los Angeles, Sulaiman Al-Fahim, the chief executive of Hydra

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In America, Even States Get Nicknames Every U.S. state has a nickname - sometimes more than one. Many are logical. They just sort of evolved. Of course, Arizona is The Grand Canyon State, and Kentucky, home to the lush horse country where magnificent

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Controversy Surrounds Muslim-American Reality TV Show A new controversy over Islam has arisen in the United States, this time over a reality TV show that profiles Muslim Americans and a home improvement chain's decision to pull its advertising from t

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Recently, we tried one of those word-association games on our colleagues here at VOA. We used the word Indiana and asked for the first thing that came to mind. Farms, one person said. Notre Dame University football, said someone else. Another blurted

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The Senate passed the bill Thursday with the help of two key votes from opposition Republicans. It now heads to the U.S. House of Representatives, which is expected to pass the bill and send it to the president to become law. President Obama says U.S

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Winners at CMA Awards It was a big night for Miranda Lambert at the 48th annual Country Music Association Awards, presented Wednesday night in Nashville, Tennessee. Lambert went into this years Country Music Association Awards race with nine nominati

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US Touts Coalition to Fight Islamic State 美国吹捧联盟, 以此对抗伊斯兰国家 WASHINGTON The Obama administration is expressing confidence in the formation of an international coalition to combat Islamic State radicals who control swaths

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A new kind of farming is taking hold here in Alabama, oyster aquaculture along the Gulf Coast. Some commercial fishermen now harvest oysters. NPR's Debbie Elliott, whom we know, reports. DEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: You drive 8 miles do

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By Zulima Palacio Washington 17 March 2008 The chairman of a key U.S. House subcommittee, along with health advocates,last weekurged that the United States spend more to address basic health needs of children and pregnant mothers in the developing wo

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By Jeff Swicord Dover, New Hampshire 15 November 2007 To New Hampshire Republicans, the state motto Live Free or Die speaks directly to their own political philosophy. They see themselves as the conservative guardians of individual liberty, small go

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By Steve Mort Nairobi/Geneva 14 December 2006 watch Annan in Africa report United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has expressed regret at being unable to bring an end to conflict in Africa. Mr. Annan, who will step down on December 31st, was sp

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More than a million people remain without electrical power and other normal services nearly five days after Hurricane Ike passed over the Houston-Galveston area. Tensions are growing between various government entities over problems in providing need

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