He is the first person to be tried on piracy charges in the United States in more than one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Weed thought General William Henry Harrison, one of the candidates in 1836, might be the man the Whigs needed.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

But the wiring,the cables between the points in the brain, one to another, may be disrupted in some way."

VOA: special.2010.12.21

It has several meanings. One meaning is that a person who never settles down in one place will not be successful.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

The U.N.World Food Program says more than a billion people one in six worldwide do not get enough food to be healthy.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

But the closeness of their friendship might be seen best in a story told by one of Roosevelt's close advisers, Harry Hopkins.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

The winner would be the one who captured a majority of the popular votes in New York state.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

There could be two more. No one knew how long Kentucky and Missouri would remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The speech he gave would be one of his last, as Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe explain this week in our series.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Brown said the southern route was the only one that could be kept open in all seasons.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

"I think we may be looking at one of those almost generational changes in the role of the federal government in US society."

VOA: special.2011.07.15

To test this idea, the team in Cuba offered one hundred dollars to anyone who would agree to be bitten by infected mosquitoes.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

It can be given to children as young as one, which is earlier than vaccines currently used to fight meningitis epidemics in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

Susan Bass says that this year's Earth Day will be a busy one in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.21