2007-07-07 US High Court Takes a More Conservative Turn With Bush Appointees
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Legal experts had a lot to discuss this week. President Bush…
2007-06-30 A Recent Study Suggests Most Young Americans Plan to Vote for a Democrat in Next Year’s Presidential Election
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. What do young Americans think about the presidential candidates and social…
2007-06-23 A Two-State Solution for the Mideast Finds Itself With Three Pieces
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. For a week now, Palestinians have had to deal with a…
2007-06-16 WHO Says Environmental Improvements Could Save Millions of Lives
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, the World Health Organization released its first country-by-country look…
2007-06-09 How Six Days in 1967 Changed the Middle East Until This Day
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Forty years ago this week, Israel, fearing a threat of destruction,…
2007-06-02 US Seeks to Increase Pressure on Sudan to End Darfur Violence
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. What exactly is genocide? The word was invented by Raphael Lemkin,…
2007-05-26 Bush Wins on Iraq Bill, but Democrats Promise to Renew Fight
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week in Washington, Congress approved a war spending bill that…
2007-05-19 How Falwell Helped Give the Religious Right Its Voice in American Politics
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Conservative Christians, known in America as the religious right, lost one…
2007-05-12 Sarkozy’s Economic Plan for France May Depend on June Elections for Parliament
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Nicolas Sarkozy will take office Wednesday as president of France. He…
2017-05-05 White House, Congress Try to Negotiate a New Spending Bill for Iraq War
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. White House officials have begun talks with Congress on a war…
2017-04-28 Yeltsin Remembered: Russia’s First Freely Elected Leader, but With a Mixed Record
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Russia buried its former president with full honors in…
2017-04-21 Issues After Killings at Virginia Tech Go Beyond Debate Over Gun Laws
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Friday was a statewide day of mourning in Virginia for the…
2017-04-14 Robinson’s Number Is ‘Unretired’ for a Day to Honor Baseball Hero
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Sunday will mark an important anniversary in American society. Sixty years…
2017-04-07 Presidential Candidates Raise Record Amounts of Money for Campaigns
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The next presidential election in the United States is in November,…
2007-03-31 Arab Leaders Urge Israel to Accept 2002 Plan for Peace and a Palestinian State
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Arab leaders met this week in Riyadh. The Arab League Summit…