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Homosexual couples in New York are being married for the first time after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law permitting same sex marriage in the state last month. But such marriages, though now legal in New York, remain controversial. 美国纽约州的
VOA双语新闻 2011年7月
The beginning of the expected drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan follows a steady decline in American public support for a war that has gone on for nearly 10 years. 美国已经开始按计划逐步从阿富汗撤军。在此之前，美国公众对
VOA双语新闻 2011年6月
The search for a bargain and the hope for an unrecognized treasure draws hundreds of people to a tiny East Coast town each week. 美国马里兰州克伦普顿镇有一个经营了50年的克伦普顿拍卖场。每个星期都有不少人慕名前去寻
VOA双语新闻 2011年8月
The famine sweeping southern Somalia is posing a painful challenge to humanitarian organizations. Children are dying by the thousands just a few kilometers from warehouses full of emergency food supplies. But the countryside is still a war zone contr
VOA双语新闻 2011年9月
The U.S. and other NATO forces on October 7, 2001 attacked al-Qaida extremists and their Taliban allies in Afghanistan, less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks. That military operation drove the Taliban from power. But the conflict
VOA双语新闻 2011年10月
Some of the most polluted places in the world are ports, resulting in health problems that some experts say can lead not only to respiratory problems, but cancer. 海港往往是世界上污染最严重的地方。专家说，这些污染的情况导致
VOA双语新闻 2011年10月
From communications to entertainment, Apple products have profoundly changed the way people around the world obtain information and use technology. The man that led Apple through its evolution was Steve Jobs. Apple has been so successful in selling i
VOA双语新闻 2011年10月
Niger says it needs help policing more than six million square meters of desert along its border with Libya. Some members of the former government in Tripoli have fled south to Niger, including one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons. 尼日尔官方表示，他
VOA双语新闻 2011年8月
As lawmakers in the United States argue over the nation's debt ceiling and spar over who is responsible for the nation's 9.2 percent unemployment rate, many business owners look on in disbelief. They are uncertain about the state of the economy, and
VOA双语新闻 2011年7月
Several thousand people gathered in Cairos Tahrir Square for another protest after mid-day prayers Friday, but the numbers were nowhere near the million-man march some activists had called for, or the tens of thousands who came out last Friday. 7月1
VOA双语新闻 2011年7月
Young people in a tent city at the center of Cairo's Tahrir Square chanted a song from the 1950s, with words updated to refer to their revolution, saying they want to return Egypt to what they see as its former glory. Tension rose in Egypt Tuesday wi
VOA双语新闻 2011年7月
War's effects are often hardest on children, and the conflict in Libya is proving no exception. In this rebel stronghold, efforts are being made to help children cope. 战争对于孩子来说，从来都是残酷的，眼下利比亚的冲突也不例
VOA双语新闻 2011年7月
A report in Wednesday's New York Times quotes unnamed U.S. intelligence officials as saying Pakistan has arrested five people, including a Pakistani military official, accused of passing information to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency prior to la
VOA双语新闻 2011年6月
Following their first major presidential debate, Republican White House contenders have made it clear they intend to make the 2012 U.S. presidential election a referendum on President Barack Obama's handling of the domestic economy. Political analyst
VOA双语新闻 2011年6月
Matilda Cuomo - wife, mother, teacher and former first lady of New York State - has perhaps had the most far-reaching impact as founder of Mentoring USA, which has trained volunteer mentors for more than 5,000 schoolchildren nationwide. 玛蒂尔达.科
VOA双语新闻 2011年6月
The Senate Armed Services Committee has held a hearing on President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta. Panetta, the current Central Intelligence Agency Director, was warmly received by the panel, but faced
VOA双语新闻 2011年6月
The president began his day by hosting a breakfast at the White House for Gold Star Families - those who have lost loved ones in war. 这一天,总统首先在白宫举行早餐会,宴请那些获得金星奖的家庭，也就是那些在战争中失去
VOA双语新闻 2011年6月
Human rights organizations say tens of thousands of African migrants in Libya have been displaced from their homes and jobs by months of fighting between forces loyal to former leader Moammar Gadhafi and the transitional authority that opposes him. M
VOA双语新闻 2011年8月
Americans on Sunday will mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. New York City is preparing for a day of observances. New York police are imposing massive security for the Sunday ceremony with both Presid
VOA双语新闻 2011年8月
President Barack Obama is proposing several measures his administration says will create millions of jobs and stimulate the sluggish economy. The nation's high unemployment rate has hit minority groups in the United States especially hard. Nearly thr
VOA双语新闻 2011年8月