Current conductor Lockhart says one of the most exciting - and well-attended - events of every Boston Pops season comes on the evening of July Fourth.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The new initiative was praised by HIV/AIDS activists in South Africa as well as by the head of the United Nations AIDS agency who attended the ceremony.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

Many of the country's most well know public figures attended the funeral.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

The cleric,Anwar al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, once taught at a mosque in Virginia that Hasan attended and is well-known among violent Islamists, according to terrorism expert and author Evan Kohlmann.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10