By Steve Mort Miami, Florida 13 August 2007 Acting Cuban President Raul Castro is promising to introduce changes on the island a year after taking power. Castro's older brother Fidel turns 81 today and has not appeared in public since having emergen...
By Melinda Smith Washington 10 August 2007 The lives of thousands of Iraqis and U.S. soldiers are changed forever when they lose arms or legs in roadside bomb attacks in Iraq. When they return home, the wounded American military personnel are often f...
On Fridays, we bring you StoryCorps. Ordinary people ask each other questions and their conversations add up to an oral history of America. You almost never get a bad story when you ask: how did you two meet. That's where the story begins for Catheri...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 05 July 2007 The Bush administration is seeking to update a law governing U.S. foreign intelligence surveillance. But members of the Democratic majority in Congress are signaling they may be reluctant to approve the propo...
By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 05 July 2007 An American man who traveled internationally with tuberculosis - despite instructions not to - has a new diagnosis and is not as sick as government doctors initially said he was. As VOA's Carol Pearson r...
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 01 May 2007 President Bush and European Union leaders have agreed to work together on the issue of climate change. In a wide-ranging meeting Monday, the leaders also agreed to continue pressuring Iran to give up its nu...
By Scott Stearns Washington 11 January 2007 U.S. President George Bush is sending more troops to Iraq as part of what he says will be a new way forward. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns looks at the president's changing approach to the co...
By Michael Bowman 14 December 2006 Latin America has seen 12 presidential contests in the last 13 months. Despite the installation of five new leaders, many analysts argue 2006 was more a year of continuity than change in the region. VOA's Michael B...
Five You cant change a childs behavior by using force! 你不能用武力改变一个小孩的行为! 1 Introduction In America, children are well protected by law. If parents beat or kick their kids and the police know that, the bruises on the kids can cause the...
By Scott Stearns White House 15 September 2006 President Bush is facing stiff opposition from key members of his own party over rules governing the interrogation of suspected terrorists and the way terror trials can be conducted. Mr. Bush says propo...