21 May 2010 A woman sweeps in the wreckage near Thai soldiers soon after anti-government protesters were crushed in Bangkok This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Thailand's prime minister is urging national unity after ten weeks of anti-governm...
14 May 2010 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court this week. She would replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the nine-member Court. BARACK OBAMA:I have selected a...
07 May 2010 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Personal photos show Faisal Shahzad smiling. And why not? The young man built a promising life in a new land. He became an American citizen a year ago. He had an American-born wife from a family...
30 April 2010 A photo from last week showing the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico. This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Five years ago this August, Hurricane Katrina struck. Now, America...
23 April 2010 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In recent days, Americans have lost two civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks. Dorothy Height died Tuesday at the age of ninety-eight. She witnessed...
By Brianna Blake 2010-4-9 Photo: AP Butler's Roland Nored is guarded by Duke's Nolan Smith during the NCAA national championship game This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This was a big week in American sports. In college basketball, a small s...
By Brianna Blake 2010-4-2 Russian President Dmitri Medvedev (R) and officials observe a minute of silence for victims of this week's suicide bombings. This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In Russia this week, a series of suicide bombings incre...
26 March 2010 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Earlier this week, President Obama won a major political victory with congressional passage of his health care reform plan. He and congressional Democrats made history with the reform legislat...
By Brianna Blake 2010-3-19 Photo: AP Census chief Rorbert Groves starts the 2010 count in Noorvik, Alaska, in January This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Census forms have been mailed across America. Every ten years since seventeen ninety the...
12 March 2010 No clear winner is expected after parliamentary elections. Building a coalition to form a new government could take months. Ballot boxes from the parliamentary elections in Iraq This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Iraqi official...
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