Poor US Job Numbers Play Key Factor in Presidential Race The August job numbers mark the 30th month of private-sector job growth, though just barely. Experts say the economy needs to add at least 100,000 new jobs each month just to keep up with popul...
Romney Leads Republican Race as Long Battle Looms With victories in six of the 10 states on Super Tuesday [March 6], Romney is urging supporters to stay the course. And so we will go, day by day, step by step, door by door, heart to heart, said Romne...
Agreement to Resume Iran Nuclear Talks Aims to Prevent Regional Arms Race The agreement to restart talks over Iran's nuclear program includes demands by permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany for concrete and practical steps to re...
Run-Off Election to Decide Senegal Presidential Race In one scene of a 2000 video Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, then a charismatic opposition leader, cast his ballot. His election that year marked a peaceful transition from 40 years of single-...
Harrowing Minnesota Race Tests Endurance Last year, overnight temperatures plummeted to minus 31 degress Celsius. The year before, minus 37. That year, cyclist Jason Buffington saw one of his friends - a fellow racer - who'd stopped. I came up on Cha...
Gi ngrich Victory in South Carolina Leaves Republican Race Open Newt Gingrich's supporters celebrated Saturday night. The candidate targeted President Barack Obama and complimented his Republican rivals. If you look at the four of us, we are proof th...
Elite Sailors Circle Globe in Volvo Ocean Race One of the toughest, most grueling events in sports offers no prize money, only a trophy. Its challenging, thrilling and dangerous. And takes a long time. The Volvo Ocean Race is a marathon sailing event...
Growing Tensions Between Romney, Perry in Republican Race The Midwest state of Iowa has scheduled its presidential caucus vote for January 3, in what amounts to the official start of the process to choose a Republican Party nominee to run against Pre...
Romney's Religion Could be Factor in US Presidential Race In U.S. presidential politics, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has a narrow lead over Georgia businessman Herman Cain in the latest CNN-ORC public opinion poll. Most experts consider...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: The Space Race STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (SOUND: Radio signals from Sputnik) On a cold October day in nineteen fifty-seven, the S...