05 March 2010 Their general uniting force is just that they're unhappy right now with the way things are, says one observer. In reaction comes the Coffee Party. A Tax Day protest by Tea Party activists in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 15, 2009. Demonstra...

By VOA 2010-1-22 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Barack Obama has begun his second year in office. The forty-fourth president, and first African-American president, was inaugurated last January twentieth. BARACK OBAMA: Today I s...

By Brianna Blake 2010-1-8 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Yemen is the poorest Arab nation. Poverty can help breed extremism -- al-Qaida is a growing concern for the Yemenis. But the government also faces an armed rebellion in the north a...

By Brianna Blake 2010-1-1 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. At the end of each year, editors and news directors of the Associated Press in the United States vote for the top ten news stories of the year. They named the American economy as t...

By VOA 2009-12-25 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Almost two hundred countries met for two weeks at a United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the end, only five of them reached an agreement: the United State...

By Brianna Blake 2009-12-18 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Think of your family or friends. How well would those relationships work without trust -- or with a broken trust? Tiger Woods considers a difficult shot from deep grass during th...

By Brianna Blake 2009-12-11 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations Climate Change Conference opened this week. Around fifteen thousand delegates and observers from nearly two hundred countries are there...

By June Simms, Jerilyn Watson and Caty Weaver 2009-11-23 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And, I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about efforts against the H1N1 virus, often called swi...

By VOA 2009-11-13 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, was the day Germany signed a cease-fire agreement with the Allies in World War One. Some countries observe November eleventh as Armistice Day or Remem...

By Brianna Blake 2009-11-6 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. People in Afghanistan were supposed to vote again Saturday for president. But earlier this week the Independent Election Commission declared Hamid Karzai the winner of a second te...