In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

In that event,astronomers were able to observe the icy comet long before it struck the solar system's biggest planet.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

It was free because Congress -- in the Missouri Compromise of Eighteen Twenty -- made slavery illegal in that area.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

In that group, twenty-two percent of the wives earned more than their husbands during the most recent year of the study.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

"Spending a number of hours together in that kind of environment,I think, can only help improve the chances of bipartisan cooperation.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

A United Nations report says water availability in that area is the second lowest in the world, after Africa.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Project organizers hope to re-create wetlands in Picayune Strand and nearby lands by redirecting the flow of water in that area.

VOA: special.2010.09.21

In that year, Congress debated a proposal to create two territories from one large area in the west.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

"In that case," Dupin said, "take out your checkbook and write me a check for fifty thousand francs.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

It is named for a tree with big, beautiful white flowers that grows in that hot, southern state.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

He pointed. Its exactly in that direction. This time the reporter saw a small thing on the edge of the moving horizon.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

"If I felt that I could have been increasingly effective in that job, I suppose I would have continued to do it.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there, When Washington took it across the Delaware.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.16