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1.Officials say Monday's tornado that tore through an Oklahoma city suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused 2 billion dollars overall damage. The twister killed 24 people. 2.The IRS official at the center of controvers

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AP 2010-02-15

1. Washington is buried under a heavy blanket of snow. Roads are mostly impassable. President Obama has called the storm Snowmageddon. 2. Despite the blizzard, some people in D.C. did venture outside for a chance to play. Snowballs were flying in nor

Egypt Prepares for Referendum, US Treads Careful Line

Egyptians will vote Saturday in a referendum on changes to the constitution, the first in a series of steps meant to carry out reforms demanded in a popular uprising. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got to see first-hand the continued push fo

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GWEN IFILL: The summer has long been a time of the year when many teens can find temporary work. But those traditions have been upended of late, as NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman reports in the second of two stories on this portion of t

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Powell Defends US Stance on Iraq's WMD

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VOA标准英语2009年-US Space Panel Concludes Billions More Nee

A congressionally appointed panel studying human space flight said this month it will take $3 billion more, per year, for the U.S. to send humans out of low earth orbit in the next decade. Members of the U.S. Human Space Flight Committee testified i

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By Barry Wood Belgrade 19 January 2007 Serbians go the polls for parliamentary elections Sunday. Voters will be choosing candidates from 20 political parties and coalitions who are vying for 250 seats in parliament. VOA's Barry Wood in Belgrade repor

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A congressionally-mandated U.S. commission has released a report warning of a possible nuclear or biological attack somewhere in the world within five years. The report singles out Pakistan as the top security priority for the United States. VOA's D

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By David Gollust Washington 15 March 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she will begin another trip to the Middle East late next week aimed at spurring Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. Rice held talks late Wednesday with visiting Israeli

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 03 April 2006 The Hungarian government announced a state of emergency Monday after rain and melting snow swelled rivers and flooded towns across Central Europe. There were at le