On July first,LeBron James' contract with Cleveland expired.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Until its patent expired in 2008, it was ranked 20th among the 100 best selling drugs in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

The president reiterated his support for reinstating the expired U.S.ban on assault weapons, but acknowledged Congressional resistance makes that unlikely.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The current treaty expired earlier this month, and senior U.S.and Russian officials say they expect to reach a new accord in early January.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

U.S.and Russian negotiators resumed talks in Geneva this week aimed to wrap up a new nuclear disarmament treaty to replace START, which expired in December.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed in 1991,expired in December, and President Obama set the goal of achieving a new treaty as one of his major priorities.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

U.S.Attorney General Eric Holder has voiced support for reinstating the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, saying it would be beneficial to both the United States and Mexico.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

Neither is digitizing older books whose copyrights have expired.

VOA: standard.2009.12.31

It expired last December. After a year of tough negotiations, Mr.Obama and Mr.Medvedev will sign a treaty to shrink each country's arsenal of strategic deployed nuclear warheads by 25 to 30 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

He expressed reluctance to comment on American domestic affairs, but suggested that a renewal of the now-expired U.S.ban on assault weapons would be helpful in curbing the flow of high-powered armaments to Mexican drug cartels.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

The 32-year-old Saberi, who has worked for National Public Radio and the BBC,was jailed in January,allegedly because her press credentials had expired, before being convicted last month of "spying for the United States" in what many are calling a sham-trial.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06