The U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has criticized the State Department for its management of nearly $3 billion in contracts and grants in Iraq. In two reports, auditors cited weak and ineffective State Department oversight of...
Taylor Swift could do no wrong in 2009. Not only did the young Pennsylvania native have the year's best-selling album with Fearless, she also earned Artist Of The Year plaudits from Billboard magazine. Her public standing was further bolstered in Sep...
Related Links National Portrait Gallery If you look beyond the myth, you come to understand that people from many different places, different backgrounds, different fields of endeavor and ambitions converge to recreate the American West. - Frank Good...
It was exactly one month ago that American Christian activist Robert Park made his illegal crossing into North Korea. His fate still remains all but completely unknown to his friends and family. A close associate of Robert Park says more than 2,000 p...
U.S. President Barack Obama appears to be at a political turning point as he prepares to deliver the annual State of the Union Address on Wednesday before a Joint Session of Congress and a national television audience. The recent Republican victory i...
U.S. President Barack Obama is shifting his economic focus to the middle class. His State of the Union address Wednesday will detail a series of initiatives to help middle-income families. President Obama spent his first year in office trying to prev...
Part of a rodeo clown's job is deadly serious Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 25 January 2010 In small towns across the American West, a favorite form of entertainment is the rodeo. It's a show and competition in which modern-day cowboys ride bucking...
The California city's history of quakes keeps worry just below the surface Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 25 January 2010 You had better believe that the people of San Francisco are taking careful note of the cataclysmic Haitian earthquake and its af...
After more than a week of reporting on the earthquake from Port-au-Prince, a team of VOA journalists traveled south of the capital to see how people in other parts of Haiti are surviving. Jeff Swicord reports along the road to Jacmel, a beach town so...
Coastal town of Carrefour, 15 km west of capital, has received little assistance from foreign aid groups or the government Barry Newhouse | Carrefour, Haiti 25 January 2010 A family in the destroyed town of Carrefour, Haiti sits amid the charred rubb...
Two weeks after Haiti's earthquake, the international community is beginning to focus on long-term aid for the devastated nation. International donors are meeting in Montreal, Monday. A United Nations agency is calling on international donors to focu...
Opposition supporters in Ivory Coast plan to demonstrate Tuesday outside state-run television facilities. They say the broadcaster is giving preferential coverage to President Laurent Gbagbo and his ruling party before much-delayed presidential elect...
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency says Gaza is in a state of physical and psychological collapse. The Israeli blockade of Gaza has been going on for 30 months. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which cares for one million Palestinian refugees in Gaza,...
Malawi is scheduled to take over the rotating African Union presidency from Libya at an AU summit next week. But, delegates gathering for pre-summit sessions are expecting the unexpected from the outgoing president, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Lib...
In his monthly news conference, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown outlined what he hopes can be achieved in the two one-day international gatherings on Afghanistan and Yemen that will be held this week in London. Mr. Brown says the London Afghan co...
