By Mary Morningstar Washington 19 December 2006 The Country music industry ended the year on a strong note. While overall album sales were down five percent in 2006, Country music sales increased five percent over last year's numbers. Evidence of Co

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By Greg Flakus Mexico City 01 July 2006 In Mexico the noise of the campaigns is now over and voters are preparing to make their final choices for president as well as regional offices on Sunday. Election officials expect to announce preliminary resu

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By Chris Simkins Washington 21 May 2008 Gun violence is on the rise in Washington. Since the first of the year, dozens of people have been murdered and wounded in a rash of shootings. With a population of over half a million people, the nation's cap

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Children Learn to Play Music by Listening in Suzuki Method Five-year-old Hannah Mei Steury started violin lessons two months ago. Her teacher, Stephanie Flack, says Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is the first song children learn to play. Its a very sim

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Lurrie Bell's Dream Comes True With 'The Devil Aint Got No Music' Bells introduction to music came from his father, the late harmonica great Carey Bell. As the son of one of Chicagos most famous musicians, Bell says he never missed an opportunity to

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U.S. President George Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon have restated their nations' shared commitment to combat illegal drug trafficking and preserve bilateral trade ties. President Bush held his last formal meeting with a sitting head of

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Conrad Pope Tells Marilyn Monroe Story Through Music The new film My Week with Marilyn tells the story of a week in the life of the legendary film star Marilyn Monroe, who in the 1950s was in Britain making a film with the iconic actor Laurence Olivi

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JazzAgeMusicRocksBigAppleClub It's been nearly a century since the big band music of the Jazz Age was in full swing, but a nighttime visit to a nightclub in the Big Apple might have you fooled. On a recent Monday night at Sofias, a small nightclub in

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Fans can expect to hear some new names on the Country chart in 2011. The new Country duo Thompson Square is climbing high on the chart with its first big hit, Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not. Oklahoman Keifer Thompson met his Alabama-born wife Shawna at

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US Postal Service Unveils Music Icon Stamp Series The first issue in the Music Icon series honored Lydia Mendoza, a pioneer of Tejano music, the style that comes from the Texas-Mexico border area. Lydia Mendoza was 18 years old when she walked into a

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US Public Split Over NSA Surveillance 美国公众对隐私被监视看法有分歧 一个互联网隐私团体已经要求美国最高法院调查政府 在过去的七年 的监视通话记录。民调显示,美国人在这个问题上有分歧。

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By Kathie Scarrah Washington, DC 05 May 2006 watch Cheney report A top Russian official has refused to comment directly on Russian media reports that have characterized U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney

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The local university blood center had a blood drive today at the Civic Center auditorium. Almost 300 people showed up, but about 50 were turned away for various medical reasons. Fifty others left because the lines were moving so slowly. The event con

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 June 2007 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls the fighting between Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip a natural consequence of years of occupation. The archbishop, who headed a high-level fact-finding mission to the P

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By Jim Malone Waashington 14 December 2006 Puerto Rican widow Digna Nieves cries over coffin of her husband, Army Spc. William Lopez Feliciano during a funeral service (File) While President Bush prepares his new strategy on Iraq, public-opinion pol

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By Doug Levine Washington 01 April 2006 Many of the early pioneers of rock and roll are long gone. But for those still around, the fight to ward off imposters continues. The end may be near for these

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By Catherine Maddux Washington 07 February 2006 From East Africa all the way to the southern most part of the continent, drought has ruined crops, leaving millions of people dependent on international

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By Bill Rodgers Washington 04 July 2007 Vice President Dick Cheney is widely considered to be the most powerful vice president in American history. He was a key architect on the war on terror and the Iraq war and -- according to recent news reports h

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By Andre de Nesnera Washington 12 January 2007 The recent resignation of the archbishop of Warsaw over his collaboration with the communist-era secret police has deeply embarrassed Poland's Roman Catholic Church. VOA Senior Correspondent Andr de Nes

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Country Music Legend Shares 'Long Line of Heartaches' None other than show business legend Dolly Parton once said that there were just three real female singers: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith. The rest of us, she said, are only p

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