2010-03-20 Policies, Politics and Dollars Rest on US Census
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Census forms have been mailed across America. Every ten years since…
2010-03-13 Counting the Votes in Iraq Only the First Step
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Iraqi officials are still counting votes from Sunday’s elections. More than…
2010-03-06 Tea Party Conservatives Make Their Voices Heard
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Some conservatives in the United States have found a new voice.…
2010-02-27 What Next for Health Care Effort?
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Obama led a meeting of Democratic and Republican…
2010-02-20 Group Says 2009 Was a ‘Bad Year’ for Journalists
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The Committee to Protect Journalists says at least seventy-one members of…
2010-02-13 Yanukovych Is Greeted as Ukraine Winner
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. World leaders have been congratulating Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine’s next president.…
2010-02-06 Top US Military Officer: Let Gays Serve Openly
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Last week President Obama again called for ending a ban against…
2010-01-30 Obama Urges His Party Not to ‘Run for the Hills’
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama gave his first State of the Union speech Wednesday…
2010-01-23 Weighing the First Year of Obama as President
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Barack Obama has begun his second year in office. The…
2010-01-16 A Race Against Time to Get Help to Haitians
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Food. Water. Medicine. Hope. All that and more is urgently needed…
2010-01-09 Attention Turns to Yemen in Anti-Terror Fight
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Yemen is the poorest Arab nation. Poverty can help breed extremism…
2010-01-02 Economy Was Top News Story of 2009
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. At the end of each year, editors and news directors of…
2009-12-26 A Compromise on Climate Change
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Almost two hundred countries met for two weeks at a United…
2009-12-19 Why We Should Care About Trust, and Worry About a Lack of It
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Think of your family or friends. How well would those relationships…
2009-12-12 Aiming for a Deal on Climate Change
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations Climate Change Conference opened this…